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Chuck Berry Project Research Papers, 1958-1984 (S0196)
0.04 cubic feet, 13 folders, 2 microfilm rolls
The Chuck Berry Research Project Collection contains newspaper clippings, research papers, and oral histories chronicling Kenn Thomas and George Lipsitz’s effort to document the life and career of singer and songwriter, Chuck Berry.
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Berry-Stewart Family Collection, 1870-2000 (SP0074)
1 cubic foot (19 folders, 130 photographs)
The Berry-Stewart Family Collection contains materials related to the Berry and Stewart families of Boone and Greene County, Missouri. Items in the collection include marriage certificates, diplomas, correspondence, funeral announcements, and photographs. This collection also contains material related to businesses in Springfield, Missouri.
Beta Phi Mu, Psi Chapter Records, 1971-2001 (C4370)
1 cubic foot (41 folders)
Records of the Psi Chapter of Beta Phi Mu, the International Library and Information Studies Honor Society. The Psi Chapter is located at the University of Missouri School of Library and Information Science. The records include meeting minutes, correspondence, chapter newsletters, membership and mailing lists, treasurers' reports, and accounting information.
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Beta Sigma Phi, Beta Rho Chapter Scrapbook, 1977-1978 (CA6625)
1 oversize volume
The scrapbook of the Independence, Missouri, chapter of an international non-academic sorority contains photographs, programs, cards, original artwork, and miscellaneous ephemera.
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Bethany United Baptist Church, Madison County, Missouri Records, 1829-1992 (R0725)
(1 roll of microfilm)
These are minute books, membership registers, and papers of Bethany United Baptist Church at Roselle in Madison County, Missouri. Records exist from the founding of Bethany Church in 1829 as an arm of Providence Church of Washington County.
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Bethel Association United Baptist Churches of Jesus Christ Records, 1816-1996 (R0598)
4 rolls (72 volumes)
These are the minutes of the annual meetings of the Bethel United Baptist Association of southeaster Missouri, beginning with the organizational meeting in 1816. The Association consists of chruches in Crawford, Iron, Madison, St. Francois , and Wayne counties.
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Bethel Baptist Church Records, 1840-1980 (K0178)
microfiche
Minutes of regular meetings of the Church in Cosby, Andrew County, MO, lists of members, pastors who served the Church, and other information on the activities of the Church.
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Bethel Baptist Church (Boone County, Mo.) Records, 1888-1982 (C1266)
0.1 cubic feet
The records of the Bethel Baptist Church, founded in 1855, include a photocopy of the minute book, membership lists, church histories, and news clippings.
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Bethel Presbyterian Church (Audrain County, Mo.) Records, 1868-1980 (C4650)
0.2 cubic feet (4 folders)
Typed copies of the minutes of church meetings. Includes organization information, membership records, and records of the day-to-day business of the church.
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Bethlehem Baptist Church (Morgan County, Mo.) Records, 1877-1997 (C3701)
2 rolls of microfilm
Records of the Bethlehem Baptist Church, Florence, Morgan County, Missouri, consisting of membership lists, minutes of meetings, association letters, and miscellaneous records.
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Bicentennial Horizons of American Music Records, 1973-1977 (S0397)
2.5 cubic feet, 68 folders, 5 volumes
This collection contains the official records of a national festival of the performing arts, June 14-July 4, 1976, in St. Louis, Missouri, to help commemorate the nation's bicentennial. BHAM was sponsored by the St. Louis Spirit of '76 Bicentennial Committee. Events include music, dance, theatre, multi-media, opera, folk music, jazz, prose, poetry, and film.
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William W. Biddle Papers, 1930s-1971 (CA3960)
30 cubic feet
Correspondence, publications, and miscellaneous files of a professional in community development, active in teaching and in the field. Biddle was long associated with Earlham College.
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Gloria N. Biggs Papers, 1947-1989 (C4077)
0.2 cubic feet (4 folders)
The papers of Gloria N. Biggs, a journalist, editor, and the first woman publisher of a Gannett newspaper, the Melbourne Times in Florida in 1973, contain correspondence and clippings pertaining to her career.
Betty Lipsitz Bikson Family Papers, 1916-2000 (K0898)
.19 c.f.
Personal papers of Bikson including newspaper clippings, magazines, photographs, certificates, and family history.
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Edna Scotten Billings Papers, 1938-1974 (K0941)
0.5 c.f.
Billings was the organist for Grace and Holy Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Kansas City, MO. Includes recital programs, order of services, various publications, and music scores.
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Bingham Sketches, Inc., Records, 1974-1978 (C4522)
2.15 cubic feet (41 folders, 3 card files)
Records of a 1970s fundraising campaign to purchase 112 George Caleb Bingham drawings from the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association.
Leon Milton Birkhead Papers, 1893-1980 (K0280)
5 c.f.
Papers of Birkhead, popular, progressive figure in religious and civic affairs documenting his professional and public career. Birkhead was pastor of All Souls Unitarian Church in Kansas City from 1917 until 1939 when he resigned to begin the Friends of Democracy, an "anti-propaganda" organization.
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Robert I. Bitner and Esther L. Gottlieb Bitner Family Papers, 1932-2000 (K1292)
0.25 c.f.
The family papers of Robert I. Bitner (1918-1995) and Esther L. Gottlieb Bitner (1918-2012) contain materials relating to the history of their childhood, education, marriage, and children, as well as their religious and community activities in Kansas City, Missouri. Materials documenting Robert Bitner's service in the U.S. Army during World War II are also included.
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Bittersweet Papers, 1973-1983 (R0669)
27 cubic feet (761 folders)
These are papers of "Bittersweet: The Ozark Quarterly," a journal of Ozark culture published by Ellen Gray Massey and her English classes at Lebanon High School. Included are tape recordings, transcripts, and photographs of interviews. Subjects include fiddling, making railroad ties, one-room rural schools, social customs and more, the African-American experince, and handicrafts.
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Black Jack Project Records, 1968-1976 (S1227)
0.5 cubic foot
This collection contains a timeline, research on housing by the Inter-Religious Council, and newspaper articles on Black Jack, Missouri, compiled by the Parkview Heights Corporation.
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Black Jack, Missouri, Housing Controversy Collection, 1973-1976 (S0007)
0.05 cubic foot, 13 folders
The collection contains court documents, memoranda, newspaper clippings, and a University of Missouri-St. Louis student paper regarding the city of Black Jack, Missouri's attempt to prevent the Park View Heights Corporation from building an integrated housing complex within its borders.
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Robert H. Blackburn Papers, 1976-2008 (K1367)
0.1 c.f.
The Robert H. Blackburn Papers contain materials related to Southwest High School in Kansas City, Missouri, materials about Hallmark Cards, and photographs of Kansas City Royals baseball players.
Sue Moshontz Blackman and David Blackman Collection, 1916-1984 (K1208)
2 c.f.
The Blackmans were members of the Beth Shalom Synagogue of Kansas City, MO. Includes Wengrover family photographs, prayer books in Hebrew and English, and other items relating to the Synagogue.
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Blake-Britton Family Papers, 1880s-1980s (CA6581)
0.3 cubic feet
The papers of a family from Cass, Clay, and Jackson Counties, Missouri, include photographs, an autograph album, postcards, correspondence, school papers, clippings, birth and death certificates, and miscellaneous material. Includes the World War II military papers of Harold L. Blake.
Mary Kay Blakely Papers, 1970s-1990s (CA6145)
5 cubic feet
Personal papers of the author, journalist, and professor at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. Includes correspondence, research materials, published magazine and newspaper articles.
William J. Blanton Papers, 1682-1997 (C3829)
2.0 cubic feet (66 folders)
The papers contain Blanton family genealogical research, including correspondence, census records, tax lists, land grants, deeds, and genealogical charts, as well as marriage, birth, and death records.
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Wayne Bledsoe Papers, 1972-2013 (R1355)
0.05 cubic foot (1 folder, 1 DVD)
The Wayne Bledsoe Papers contain materials related to Bledsoe's career in bluegrass. A noted host and program producer of Bluegrass for Saturday Night, KUMR. This collection includes bluegrass festival program booklets from Dixon, Missouri and a DVD containing the KMST radio station 40th anniversary show introduced by Wayne Bledsoe.
Bertha Bless Papers, 1894-1985 (C1740)
4.3 cubic feet (273 folders)
The papers of Bertha Bless consist of correspondence, newspaper clippings, publications, convention materials, and other miscellaneous materials related to her participation in various press organizations, including the Missouri Press Women and the National Federation of Press Women. Bless, along with her husband, B.J. Bless, Jr., published the Weston Chronicle, Weston, Missouri.
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Blind Boone Memorial Foundation, Inc. Papers, 1886-1976 (C3664)
0.4 cubic feet (60 folders)
Included in this collection are some of the compositions of John William "Blind" Boone, a musician and composer of classical and ragtime music. Also included are orchestrations and choral arrangements of Boone's music, correspondence, programs, and posters from a memorial concert in 1961. Correspondence concerning recovery of Boone's piano and posters and tickets from some Boone concerts are also part of the collection.
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Louise Marie Bliss Papers, 1894-1971 (S0008)
2 cubic feet, 7 folders, 33 diaries
The papers of Louis Marie Bliss contain diaries, correspondence, and manuscripts regarding her life as an author and pacifist. Bliss was a member of the Fellowship for Reconciliation and worked for the Civil Liberties Committee. The materials in this collection date from 1894 to 1971.
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Rita Copaken Blitt Papers, 1908-2003 (K1152)
0.5 c.f.
Blitt is an internationally renowned artist and sculptor. Includes exhibits brochures, booklets, and portfolios; newspapers and magazines articles; books, CDs, and VHS tapes relating to her life and art.
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Henry W. Bloch Papers, 1947-2015 (K1343)
4.5 c.f.
Personal papers of Henry W. Bloch, including materials relating to philanthropic activities with UMKC, the Nelson-Atkins Art Museum, and other entities; correspondence, speeches, op-eds, public appearances; news articles and publications; photographs; family correspondence and family history; 90th birthday and retirement celebrations, etc.
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Susan Block Papers, 1970-2005 (S0853)
17 cubic feet
The papers of Susan Block contain correspondence, reports, meeting minutes, and legal materials chronicling Block's career as a St. Louis County Circuit Judge and advocacy for children.
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Robert B. Bloomgarten Architectural Records, 1950-1994 (K0823)
47 c.f.
Architectural drawings, photographs, project files, and other documents relating to Bloomgarten's career as an architect in Kansas City, MO.
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Blue Family Papers, 1818-1973 (R0105)
0.02 cubic foot (2 folders)
The Blue Family Papers contain photocopies of correspondence, legal papers, and miscellaneous papers of John W. Blue and his daughter, Minnie Blue and Anna Lloyd of Farmington, Missouri.
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Thelma Blumberg Photograph Collection, 1940-1980 (S0402)
1 cubic foot, 43 folders, 5850 photographs
This collection contains photographs taken by Thelma Blumberg, a freelance photojournalist, who created a large volume of photographs in the late 1950s and 1960s in a location that came to be known as Gaslight Square. Her photographs documented the neighborhood near the intersection of Olive and Boyle at a time when that area changed from a quiet antique row into one of the country’s most popular entertainment districts. In the 1960s, Blumberg ‘s journalistic photography often appeared in the Sunday Magazine section of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, in the St. Louis Scene Magazine, and St. Louis Magazine.
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Roy Blunt Papers, 1970s-2023 (C4571)
93.0 cubic feet (1,825 folders), 43 audio cassettes, 21 audio tapes, 5 CDs, 33 DVDs, 1 film reel, 217 video cassettes, 112 GB of digital files, 47 oversize items, 2 oversize volumes, 1 external hard drive
The papers of a Republican U.S. Representative and Senator from Southwest Missouri contain constituent mail, press material, press clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, audiovisual material, invitations and scheduling information, personal correspondence, briefing memos, and miscellaneous political materials. Blunt also served as Missouri Secretary of State, 1985-1993.
Board of Election Commissioners Records, 1974-2002 (S1181)
1.5 cubic foot
The Board of Election Commissioners Records consists of microfiche containing information on St. Louis City voters, including their names, addresses, as well as their ward and precinct. T
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H. Riley Bock Collection, 1853-1970 (CA6725)
0.2 cubic feet
Material collected by H. Riley Boch, of New Madrid, Missouri. The bulk of the items are oversize and concern the city of New Madrid and New Madrid County, Missouri. They include a special car bill, c. 1921; Sheriff commission certificates, 1892-1919; circuit and county court appointment certificates, 1865-1942; land deeds and records, 1853-1857. Also included are certificates and miscellaneous records for members of the Bock family; reproductions and photographs of the New Madrid County Courthouse and jail house, the city of New Madrid, and of H. Riley Bock. Lastly, the collection includes Civil War letters sent to Colonel A. C. Riley, 1862-1864; miscellaneous material collected by Helen Wilson from the University of Missouri, 1936-1938; and personal items of H. Riley Bock.
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Lynn Bock Research Collection, 1856-2000 (CG0062)
4.0 c.f.
This collection contains mostly copied materials and excerpts from published materials, nearly all relating to the creator’s research on the Battle of Island No. 10 and New Madrid, Missouri, in 1862. It also includes two manuscript versions of his book, “Island No. 10: Struggle for the Mississippi Valley” (co-authored with Larry J. Daniel, published in 1996,) and materials related to his efforts to get that book published. There are also folders of correspondence, related to his research, several reissues of newspapers that dealt with the battle for Island No. 10, and some materials related to his research for the article “Constitutional Warfare in Missouri.”
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Bode Family Papers, 1754-2010 (C3999)
7.0 cubic feet (228 folders), 1 audio cassette, 2 audio tapes
The collection contains the personal and professional papers of four generations of the Bode family, many of whom were ministers in the Evangelical Church Society of the West (Evangelischer Kirchen Verein des Westens), now the United Church of Christ. The collection includes correspondence, photographs, sermons, publications, and publicity clippings.
Laurel Boeckman Collection, 1860-2002 (P0238)
1 folder
Large postcard collection showing various tourist areas in Missouri as well as places outside Missouri. Other images include photos of Virginia Mayo, the Boone County Fair, St. Louis, and Columbia images.
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Marie Daerr Boehringer Papers, 1930-1997 (C1221)
4.0 cubic feet (126 folders)
Diaries; correspondence; newspaper clippings; article; poem and story manuscripts; publications; and miscellaneous papers of a Cleveland, Ohio, journalist and poet.
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Chet Boeke Papers, 1978-2000 (S0620)
0.8 cubic foot (30 folders)
The Chet Boeke Papers contain correspondence, newsletters, newspaper clippings, and reports documenting Boeke's service as a police officer for the St. Louis County Police and state representative for St. Louis County in the 82nd district.
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Abe Bograd Oral History Collection, 1977 (K0267)
.1 c.f.
Interviews touching on many aspects of Bograd's life, including recollections of his early years in Russia; his family's immigration; his education; the neighborhoods he lived in; his social life, and the political climate of the city under Pendergast; and his employment with the Kansas City Star.
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Atwell Loomis Bohling, Jr. Papers, 1939-1997 (K0654)
49 c.f.
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Jack Bohm and Liz Viscofsky Bohm Papers, 1950-2006 (K0995)
0.2 c.f.
Family papers including newspaper clippings, event programs, flyers, biographies, and photographs relating to Congregation Beth Shalom Sisterhood.
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Bruce D. Boling Papers, 1920s-2014 (CA6301)
2.4 cubic feet
Personal papers of Bruce D. Boling, Ph.D. Includes photographs, correspondence, certificates and diplomas, and some information regarding his involvement in the El Kahir Shriners in Iowa.
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Boller Brothers Architectural Records, 1910-1982 (K0065)
9.31 c.f.
Architectural drawings and other supporting documents for the Boller Brothers firm who specialized in theater design
George Melville Bolling Papers, 1925-1970 (C1330)
1.4 cubic feet
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.