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George Melville Bolling Papers, 1925-1970 (C1330)
1.4 cubic feet

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Papers of George Melville Bolling, professor emeritus of Greek and Sanskrit at Ohio State University. The papers include correspondence with colleagues and family, manuscript drafts, and miscellaneous material.

Anita Lyons Bond Papers, 1964-1995 (S0656)
0.2 cubic foot, 4 folders

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The Anita Lyons Bond papers document her life and career as a civil rights activist, her involvement in Missouri politics, and her presidential appointment to the Missouri Citizens Advisory Committee to the United States Civil Rights Commission. The collection contains correspondence writings, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and pamphlets.

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Angelo Louis Bongino Collection, 1934-1997 (K0878)
1 c.f.

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Research and personal papers of Bongino relating to the Italian community in the Northeast Kansas City, particularly Holy Rosary Church. Includes Bongino's published articles, photographs, and video.

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Book Lovers' Club Records, 1915-2011 (K0901)
2.25 c.f.

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Organizational records of the oldest African American women's club in Kansas City. Includes minutes, yearbooks, meeting programs, photographs, financial records, and other related materials.

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"Books, Newspapers, and Libraries in Pioneer St. Louis (1808-1842)" , 1961 (C3519)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Thesis prepared for Library School of the University of Wisconsin. Gives description of books brought to St. Louis by European-American settlers, and acquisition of materials in early schools and libraries.

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Boone County Black Archives Collection, 1867-2014 (C4057)
0.6 cubic feet (38 folders), 1 video cassette, 4 compact discs, 1 computer disc, 1 DVD

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The Boone County Black Archives Collection is an artificial collection documenting the lives of Blacks living in Boone County, Missouri. The materials include photographs, scrapbooks, correspondence, news clippings, booklets, and other ephemera.

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Boone County, Missouri, Courthouse Architectural Drawings, 1962 (C2359)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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The collection contains design plans for the 1962 expansion of the courthouse, drawn by Marshall and Brown of Kansas City.

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Boone County, Missouri, Photograph Collection, 1890-1964 (P0787)

An artificial collection of photographs of Boone County, Missouri.

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Boone-Tate Family Papers, 1941-1976 (C4205)
1 cubic foot (20 folders)

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The Boone-Tate family papers consist of the research and genealogy of the Boone and Tate families, which ultimately culminated in the publication of the Boone Family Record written by Maude Tate Boone.

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Boonslick Kiwanis Club (Columbia, Mo.) Records, 1920-2010 (CA6318)
4 cubic feet

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Reports, correspondence, minutes, sponsored events, photographs, and miscellaneous material of the Boonslick Kiwanis Club, Columbia, Missouri, a civic service club which operated both locally and internationally. Also included is an oral history interview (with transcription) of Raymond W. Lansford, World War II veteran, a professor of finance at the University of Missouri and former treasurer, world president, and member of the Kiwanis International Board of Directors.

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Booth-Lang Family Papers, 1895-1987 (K0658)
6 c.f.

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Papers and photographs documenting the history of the Lang, Imboden, Fornefett, Booth and related families. Includes genealogical information, certificates of baptism, confirmation, naturalization papers, military records, obituaries, and correspondence. Also family activities and interests, residences, military, and travel.

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Thomas W. Botts Papers, 1912-1981 (C2686)
3.2 cubic feet

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Correspondence, training information, and track meet programs of the University of Missouri track and cross-country coach Thomas W. Botts.

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Virginia M. Botts Collection, 1890-1992 (C4477)
1.6 cubic feet (47 folders, 3 oversize items)

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Materials surrounding the involvement of Boone County genealogist Virginia M. Botts in local historical and preservation efforts as well as postcards, photographs, and genealogical research papers and correspondence.

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Charles E. Boulson Papers, 1928-1990 (R0404)
2.5 cubic feet (55 folders, 2 oversize folders, 3 VHS)

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The Charles E. Boulson Papers contain the personal and professional papers of an electrical engineer in Missouri. Boulson was the general manager of the Sho-Me Power Corporation from 1954 to 1974 and a member of the Board of Directors of Associated Electric Cooperative, Inc. The collection includes correspondence, scrapbooks, professional and historical writings, speeches on rural electrification in Missouri and corporate manuals and annual reports of Sho-Me Power Corporation and Associated Electric Cooperative, Inc.

Bower Family Papers, c. 1865-1974 (C4055)
0.7 cubic feet (12 folders)

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The papers of the Bower family, who settled in Bethel, Missouri, around 1850, consist of correspondence, photographs, and miscellaneous material.

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Edward L. Bowles Papers, 1883-1991 (C4191)
0.19 cubic feet (9 folders)

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Photographs, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous documents concerning Edward Bowles and the history of Westphalia, Missouri.

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Boy Scout Troop #61 Collection, 1917-2001 (K0809)
1 c.f.

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75th Anniversary commemorative book, scrapbooks, publications, printed materials and photographs concerning the sole surviving Jewish sponsored Boy Scout Troop in Kansas City.

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Boy Scouts of America, Ozarks Empire Area Council Collection, 1965 (R1066)
(1 folder)

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This is Volume 2, Number 1 (January 1965) of "Pow Wow", the newsletter of the Ozarks Empire Area council of the Boy Scouts of America. Headquartered at Springfield in Greene County, Missouri, the Council served 225 units in six districts in southwestern and south central Missouri.

Trenton Boyd Collection, 1869-1970 (P0425)
0.17 linear feet

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Postcards and photos of Columbia, MO, New Bloomfield, MO and Cape Girardeau County.

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Pierre A. Boyer Collection, 1942-1992 (C4349)
2.6 cubic feet (125 folders), 3 audio cassettes

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Collected papers of a Missouri storyteller and musician. Includes publicity, performance information, biographical materials, research files, newspaper clippings, flyers, announcements, photographs, and an interview with Boyer on three audiocassettes.

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Boys and Girls Clubs of St. Charles County Records, 1954-2014 (S0258)
7 cubic feet

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The records of the Boys and Girls Clubs of St. Charles County contain bylaws, correspondence, meeting minutes, and newspaper clippings regarding the organization's mission to foster productive citizens by providing youth with educational, recreational, and social activities. Materials of interest include the early Board of Directors meeting minutes (1955-1956), two issues of the Boys’ Club Journal (1956-1957), an in-house newsletter produced by club members, and newspaper clippings chronicling the early history of the organization.

John F. Bradbury, Jr. Postcard Collection, 1889-2022 (R1551)
4 cubic feet (122 folders, 4,432 postcards)

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The John F. Bradbury, Jr. Postcard Collection contains postcards collected by Bradbury, containing images from the Ozarks and Southern Missouri. The postcards consist of real photograph, commercially printed, and illustrated postcards. The images mainly feature Missouri towns, railroads, Route 66, resorts, and rivers.

Bradford Family Papers, 1722-1998 (R0647)
8 cubic feet (160 folders, 9 oversize folders, 2 oversize maps)

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These are papers collected by Dr. Vance A. Bradford while conducting genealogical research on the Bradford family. Included are six boxes of correspondence with and about descendants of Samuel Bradford of Snow Hill, Maryland, and two boxes of papers from the Duncan homestead in southern Phelps County, Missouri.

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Louise Bradford Collection, 1919-1985 (R0468)
28 folders

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This collection includes correspondence, printed material, and ephemera collected by Louise
Bradford (1898-1986), and Eva Ann Bradford (1900-1966), during their careers as teachers in
Missouri schools. Included are letters from former pupils, and printed materials from education and
teachers associations, schools in Berkeley, Rolla, St. James, Salem, and Sullivan, Missouri, and
women's clubs and service organizations in Dent and Phelps counties.

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Lenore K. Bradley Papers, 1966-1982 (K0309)
0.3 c.f.

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Local author and historian Bradley's collected notes, drawings, pamphlets, maps, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and photographs which she intended for a book on the life and work of Louis Curtiss, noted Kansas City architect.

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Melvin Bradley Papers, 1855-2003 (C3026)
13.4 cubic feet, 167 audio cassettes, 1 audio tape, 1 video cassette

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This collection covers Bradley's work as a livestock specialist in the Cooperative Extension Office of the University of Missouri from 1968 through the 1990s. The papers consist of research materials, correspondence, clippings, photographs, drafts for books, articles, exhibits, and speeches, and interviews on audio cassette conducted for the Missouri Mule History Project.

Doris Crump Bradshaw Papers, 1930-1962 (C3303)
3.0 cubic feet (162 folders, 2 volumes)

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The civic, professional, and social organization papers of Doris Crump Bradshaw include material pertaining to the League of Women Voters, Missouri Library Association, Fortnightly Club, Columbia Garden Club, and Daughters of the American Revolution. Active in the American Association of University Women, Bradshaw served as state legislative chairman, 1945-1949, and state social studies chairman, 1950-1951.

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William L. and Doris Crump Bradshaw Papers, 1872-1979 (C4268)
1.4 cubic feet (63 folders)

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Correspondence, research material, announcements, photographs and postcards of Doris Crump Bradshaw, and her husband, William L. Bradshaw, a professor in the Department of Political Science and later Dean of the School of Business and Public Administration at the University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri.

William L. Bradshaw Papers, 1912-1973 (C2556)
11.2 cubic feet (724 folders, 2 volumes)

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The papers of William L. Bradshaw contain business and personal papers of Bradshaw, political scientist and dean of the University of Missouri Business School, 1946-1961. Included are papers as a delegate to the Missouri Constitutional Convention, 1943-1944, member of the State Reorganization Commission, 1953-1955, and involvement in other state, local, and professional organizations.

Thomas A. Brady Papers, 1947-1964 (C2273)
1.0 cubic feet (26 folders)

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Papers of University of Missouri administrator Thomas A. Brady, including copies of speeches, programs from speaking engagements, and correspondence regarding such events.

Raymond B. Bragg Papers, 1901-2000 (K0468)
9.4 c.f.

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Bragg was minister of the All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, Kansas City, MO and Executive Director of the American Unitarian Association's Unitarian Service Committee. Includes sermons, aspirations or prayers, printed programs of church sponsored public forums and services, publications, news clippings, minutes, photos, pamphlets, notes, memos, contracts, financial information and correspondence to, from, or mentioning Bragg.

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Hyman Brand Papers, 1891-1965 (K0480)
0.01 c.f.

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Digital photographs relating to Brand, co-owner of Brand and Puritz Coat and Suit company, civic and philanthropic leader, and his family.

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Brandeis University National Women's Committee, Greater Kansas City Chapter Records, 1962-2014 (K0620)
5.95 c.f.

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Organizational records of the chapter dedicated to fundraising and support of the Brandeis University libraries. Includes flyers, invites, brochures, newspaper clippings, newsletters, photographs, photo albums, scrapbooks, and directories.

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Brandt and Grant Family Papers, 1933-2000 (SP0042)
4 cubic feet (74 folders, 208 photographs)

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The Brandt and Grant Family Papers contains 35 diaries written by Lena K. Grant from 1933 to 1976. They document the travels of her family during her husband’s many deployments, to places like the Philippines, Korea, and Crown Point, Indiana. The collection also contains clippings, pamphlets, a baby book, photographs and other mementos from the family’s life.      

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Raymond P. Brandt Papers, 1818-1899; 1917-1981 (C0850)
3.0 cubic feet (124 folders, 1 oversize volume, 5 audio cassettes, 9 oversize items)

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The papers of Raymond Brandt contain correspondence, newspaper articles, interviews, notes, financial accounts, audio cassettes and photographs of a Sedalia, Missouri, man who was a Washington, D.C. correspondent for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch from 1923 to 1967. Brandt wrote on politics, economics, and the Soviet Union, which he visited five times.

Branson Metro Club Collection, 1961 (R1067)
(1 folder)

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This is a souvenir program for the "Third Annual Taneycomo Outdoor Water Show Boat Races" held on Lake Taneycomo at Branson in Taney County, Missouri, on July 2, 1961.

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Branson, Missouri, Lodging Postcards, 1937-1972 (SP0010)
.25 cubic feet (3 folders)

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The Branson, Missouri, Lodging Postcards collection includes postcards and a travel brochure from several motels and lodges that existed in Branson during its emergence as a tourist destination. The collection focuses on the Anchor Travel Village.

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William Coleman Branton Papers, 1943-1985 (K0828)
10 c.f.

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Personal papers of Branton, prominent attorney and civic leader in Kansas City, MO. Includes Photographs, correspondence, records and other papers relating to Branton's military duty, legal practice, banking career, civic activities, and personal life

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Margaret M. Brashear Papers, 1868-1962 (C3393)
6.3 cubic feet, 1 volume

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Correspondence, manuscripts, notes, clippings, student papers, and articles of a professor of English at the University of Missouri. She taught classes on Mark Twain and Missouri literature and wrote several books and articles.

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Richard Samuel Bratman and Joyce Rosenberg Bratman Papers, 1967-1974 (K1146)
0.02 cubic foot (2 folders)

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This collection consists of photocopies of newspaper clippings from the Kansas City Jewish Chronicle covering the Bratt family and their contributions to the Kansas City area Beth Israel Abraham and Voliner (BIAV) congregation and the Jewish community.

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Breckenridge Family Papers, 1750-1960 (C2530)
8.0 cubic feet

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Primarily of genealogical interest, the collection contains genealogical correspondence and information about the Breckenridges (Breckinridges) and related families, documents, pamphlets, letters, deeds, and photos. The papers were compiled by James M. Breckenridge between 1900 and 1950. See f. 1 for detailed inventory of collection.

Clarence Edward Breckenridge Papers, 1897-1960 (C1037)
0.2 cubic feet

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Family correspondence, newspaper clippings and miscellaneous typed notes on Breckenridge genealogy and the Breckenridges' historic role in early American and Missouri history. Related families, Presbyterian Church history. Majority of correspondence between Adella B. Moore, Herman F. Harris, and James M. Breckenridge.

Frank E. Brennan Papers, 1967-1971 (K0516)
8 c.f.

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Personal papers of Brennan, a civic leader and former City Council member of Kansas City, MO.

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Bradford Brett Papers, 1960-1964 (C3319)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Copies of eight letters from Clarence Cannon to Bradford and Helen Brett regarding political views as well as attempting to secure Bradford Brett a job with Yellowstone Park Company; letter to M.R. Holloran about political career. Letter to W.H. Thompson from J. Edgar Hoover.

Basil Brewer Papers, 1911-1965 (C3132)
10 cubic feet, 77 volumes

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Correspondence, editorials, news clippings, pamphlets, photographs, and scrapbooks dealing with Brewer's activities as publisher of the NEW BEDFORD STANDARD-TIMES, his philanthropic work, and his political interests.

Brick Extension Club (Cooper County, Mo.) Records, 1936-1989 (C4528)
0.4 cubic feet (9 folders)

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Yearbooks, record books, newsletters, and other records of the Brick Extension Club, Otterville, Missouri, a member of the Missouri Extension Homemakers Association.

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Helen Brydon Bridges Postcard Collection, 1842-1967 (P0377)
1 folder

Postcards of University of Missouri Columbia, the Missouri State Capitol, St. Louis, Barnes Hospital (St. Louis), Uniontown, and Ellington, MO

"A Brief History of Lincoln Township, Harrison County, Missouri," S.W. Skelton, 1962 (C2123)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Settlement of Lincoln Township, growth of Hatfield, settlers, property owners, outstanding citizens, educational facilities, businesses, churches. Sketches of Hatfield in 1894, 1910, and 1962.

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"A Brief History of the Research Reactor Facilities at the University of Missouri," Huber O. Croft, 1965 (C2608)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Discusses political background and actions of University personnel and committees involved in construction planning. Financial details and construction problems are discussed.

Briggs Family Papers, 1896-1991 (C4374)
2.75 cubic feet (9 folders, 5 volumes)

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The collection contains the papers of the Briggs family of Macon, Missouri, and includes scrapbooks, photograph albums, and newspaper clippings. Members of the family include U.S. Senator Frank P. Briggs and journalist Ruth Briggs Bratek, a graduate of the University of Missouri.

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