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University of Missouri, Extension Service Records, 1912-1979 (C1042)
234 rolls of microfilm
Annual reports of county and district agents of the Extension Service, 1912-1969, and annual reports of extension activities of UMC, UMKC, Lincoln University, UMR, UMSL and university-wide offices, 1960-1979.
University of Missouri, Legion of Black Collegians Records, 1974-1993 (C4184)
0.4 cubic feet (18 folders)
The records of a Black college student organization consist of conference material, newsletters, guides, pamphlets, newspaper articles, applications, election ballots, questionnaires, flyers, notes, and artifacts.
University of Missouri, Saint Louis Black History Project Collection, 1911-1983 (S0201)
5 cubic feet, 143 folders, 415 photographs, 17 audio tapes, 7 microfilm rolls
This National Historical Publications and Records Commission funded project collected historical source material documenting the African-American experience in St. Louis. The project developed a slide presentation and held three conferences on St. Louis African-American history from 1981 to 1983. The collection includes correspondence, reports, surveys, biographical information, and a slide show.
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University of Missouri-Columbia, Association of Women Students Questionnaire, 1972 (C3314)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Questionnaire regarding age, status in school, sexual/medical needs, and personal concerns.
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University of Missouri-Columbia, Black Studies Program Records, 1961-1992 (C4125)
4.5 cubic feet (220 folders)
The papers of the Black Studies Program at the University of Missouri-Columbia include correspondence, programs, project proposals, articles, clippings, and photographs.
University of Missouri-Columbia, Campbell-Harrison Home Economics Cooperative House Records, 1936-1986 (CA5756)
9 cubic feet, 1 oversize volume, 4 audio cassettes
Scrapbooks containing photographs, newspaper clippings, programs and other materials related to the University of Missouri sorority. Also includes office files, financial records, minutes, audio cassettes, and miscellaneous material.
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University of Missouri-Columbia Campus Ephemera, 1967-1978 (C3628)
0.4 cubic feet (35 folders)
Papers produced by various anti-war, political, religious, student, and community groups for distribution on the UMC campus: newspapers, newsletters, broadsides, petitions, flyers, handbills, pamphlets, posters, circular letters, reprints, programs, announcements, and position papers.
University of Missouri-Columbia, Chancellor's Committee on the Status of Women Papers, 1974-1989 (C4441)
1.0 cubic feet (13 folders)
Completed surveys on job satisfaction at the University of Missouri-Columbia, final report, and salary analysis created by the Chancellor’s Committee on the Status of Women.
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University of Missouri-Columbia Citations, 1969-1970 (C3343)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
The collection contains honorary degree citations presented to Tennessee Williams, Frank Ackerman, and Walter Cronkite.
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University of Missouri-Columbia, Friends of the University of Missouri Library Papers, 1976-1985 (C4320)
0.2 cubic feet (8 folders)
The papers consist of correspondence, minutes, memoranda, financial reports, notes, and clippings of the Friends of the University of Missouri Library.
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University of Missouri-Columbia, Missouri Cultural Heritage Center Records, 1978-1992 (C4053)
15.0 cubic feet (402 folders), 39 audio cassettes, 3 video cassettes, 72 audio tapes
The Missouri Cultural Heritage Center records contain the correspondence, grants, working files, and research materials that support Center projects and publications.
University of Missouri-Columbia, National Education Association Papers, 1970s (CA3987)
0.6 cubic feet
Correspondence, news clippings, printed material, faculty meeting papers, and miscellaneous material concerning the organization.
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University of Missouri-Columbia, Paine Lecture Committee Records, 1976-1978 (C3592)
0.16 cubic feet (8 folders)
The Rufus Monroe Paine and Sophie Hougaard Paine Lectureship in Religion was established by the will of Catherine Paine Middlebush as a memorial to her mother and father. Includes correspondence, programs, annual reports, news releases, and course proposal.
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University of Missouri-Columbia Plat, 1978 (C0935)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Plat of the university showing buildings and streets. Buildings are numbered, but not named.
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University of Missouri-Columbia, Women's History Papers, 1971-1979 (C4548)
0.6 cubic feet (7 folders)
Research papers for women’s history courses taught by John E. Lankford at the University of Missouri.
Univeristy of Missouri-St. Louis Public Policy Library on St. Louis Collection, 1940-1990 (S0999)
4.8 cubic feet
The University of Missouri-St. Louis Public Policy Library on St. Louis Collection consists of studies and reports regarding the formation and growth of Missouri state and local governments, including the St. Louis Metropolitan Area.
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University of Missouri-St. Louis Women's Studies Program Collection, 1949-1988 (S0489)
5 cubic feet, 240 folders
This collection contains newspapers, magazines, articles, posters, conventions notes, and newsletters from across the United States, focusing on women-oriented issues and feminist-lesbian literature. Publications of interest include several lesbian-feminist publications such as Off Our Backs, Lesbian Connection, DYKE, The Lesbian Tide, and Moonstorm.
University Y, YMCA, and YWCA Records, 1900s-1970s (CA2632)
19 cubic feet, 2 oversize volumes
Correspondence, minutes, conference materials, reports, newsletters, financial records, membership lists, photographs, and miscellany.
Upper Mississippi River Basin Commission, Missouri Commissioner's Records, 1973-1982 (S0159)
2 cubic feet, 41 folders
The Upper Missouri River Basin Commission was established by presidential order in March 1972 at the request of the governors of Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois and Missouri to coordinate water resources management for the Upper Mississippi River Basin. The resulting organization of federal and state agencies became known as the Great River Resources Management Study (GREAT). The bulk of the Upper Mississippi River Basin Commission, Missouri Commissioner's Records are from 1980 to 1983, with some correspondence with railroads from 1973. The records primarily document the master plan developed by the Upper Mississippi River Basin Commission in 1981 to respond to needs identified by the GREAT studies and to resolve competing interests in the development of the river system. The records contain public statements, reports (including GREAT I, II, III, 1974-1983), studies, testimony, literature, memorandum, meeting minutes, drafts, and the final version of the commission's master plan.
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Lucile Morris Upton Papers, 1823-1986 (C3869)
1 cubic foot, 25 rolls of microfilm (599 folders, 71 volumes), 1 video cassette
The personal and professional papers of a Springfield, Missouri, journalist and writer consist of newspaper clippings, correspondence, research notes, manuscripts, pamphlets, photographs, and scrapbooks. The papers are especially strong in the history of Springfield and the Ozarks region, and in Ozark folklore.
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Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis Collection, 1938-1982 (S0093)
0.2 cubic foot, 5 folders
The collection consists of annual reports, newsletters, and pamphlets chronicling the Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis’s efforts to provide social services for the St. Louis area’s African American population.
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Uri Seiden and Associates Records, 1950-1988 (K1228)
38 c.f.
Drawings of an engineering/architecture firm in Kansas City, MO.
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US Pilots Association Records, 1978-2007 (S0645)
41 cubic feet
The United States Pilot Association is a national umbrella organization of state pilot associations, member-controlled, with approximately 8000 individual, affiliated, and associate members throughout the United States that promote safety and education in the aviation community. It began after the December 1980 dissolution of the National Pilots Association, a group organized to provide facilities for to promote advances in aeronautics, due to a lack of sufficient funds to serve its membership. USPA's registered office resides in St. Louis, Missouri, and its current records are maintained in Branson, Missouri. The collection includes correspondence, subject files, newsletters, and videotapes.
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US-China Peoples Friendship Association-Midwest Region Records, 1978-2012 (K0608)
10 c.f.
Organizational records including correspondence, newsletters, minutes, membership applications and lists, newspaper clippings, and books and magazines concerning the US and China. Also includes educational motion picture film and video about China and the Far East.
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Kathleen Van Buskirk Papers, c. 1870s-1990s (CA6208)
6 cubic feet, 1 video cassette
Manuscripts and research materials of an author who wrote about the Ozarks. Includes records of the Taneyhills Library Club of Branson, Missouri, and genealogy files on several families.
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Kathleen Van Buskirk Papers, 1845-2003 (SP0096)
7 cubic feet (294 folders, 1 video cassette, 21 audio cassettes, 2,271 photographs, 2,607 negatives, 327 slides)
The Kathleen Van Buskirk Papers contain manuscripts, correspondence, research, genealogy, cemetery records, publications, and photographs from Kathleen Van Buskirk, a journalist and regional historian who spent most of her career writing about the people, culture, and history of the Ozarks and White River Valley.
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Van Horn Tavern Collection, 1829-2013 (C4634)
0.2 cubic feet (7 folders, 1 CD)
The collection contains clippings, photographs, correspondence, an appraisal, and miscellaneous material concerning the Van Horn Tavern in Boone County, Missouri, compiled by Patrick Dougherty. Includes an audio interview with Fergene Goddin Sims, whose family lived in the tavern in the early 1900s.
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Charles Van Ravenswaay Collection, 1820-1971 (C2668)
1.2 cubic feet
Material relating to the Trigg family of Boonville, MO; the papers of Harvey Bunce, Cooper County civic leader and vice-president of the Tebo and Neosho Railroad; and Charles Van Ravenswaay's correspondence and research notes on various families, institutions, historic sites and events in Cooper and Howard Counties, and miscellaneous material related primarily to Boonville, MO.
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Charles Van Ravenswaay Papers, 1841-1990 (C3873)
21.8 cubic feet (1,359 folders), 1 audio cassette
Correspondence, research notes, photographs, and literary manuscripts of historian and author Charles van Ravenswaay, former director of the Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis; Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, Massachusetts; and the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum and Gardens, Wilmington, Delaware.
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- Andrew
- Audrain
- Barton
- Bollinger
- Callaway
- Cape Girardeau
- Chariton
- Clay
- Cole
- Cooper
- Franklin
- Gasconade
- Howard
- Jackson
- Jefferson
- Lafayette
- Lincoln
- Madison
- Marion
- McDonald
- Moniteau
- Montgomery
- Morgan
- New Madrid
- Osage
- Ozark
- Perry
- Platte
- Ralls
- Saint Charles
- Saint Clair
- Saint Francois
- Saint Louis
- Sainte Genevieve
- Saline
- Scotland
- Shelby
- Warren
- Washington
- Wright
Vandeven Family Papers, 1886-1975, 2003 (CG0040)
1.0 cubic feet
The Vandeven Family Papers include photographs, marriage and first communion certificates for members of the Vandeven family of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, as well as ledgers and papers related to the Vandeven Mercantile store.
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Kathryn Brossard Clarke Varnell Oral History, 1922-1992 (S0632)
0.01 cubic foot
This collection contains an oral history of Kathryn Brossard Clarke. She discusses her experiences in St. Louis with her son, John Rodney Clarke.
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Charles Vatterott Dissertation Collection, 1919-1972 (S1004)
3 cubic feet, 75 folders
This collection contains correspondence, articles, oral history interviews, and photographs collected by Cornelia Frances Sexauer for her 2003 thesis, "Catholic Capitalism: Charles Vatterott, Civil Rights and Suburbanization in St. Louis and the Nation 1919-1972." Charles Vatterott was a real estate and civil rights activist, who was instrumental in creating the St. Louis Interracial Justice council in 1944. He also established the Vatterott Foundation in 1948 to improve educational and career advancement opportunities for ethnic and religious minorities.
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Mason Vaugh Papers, 1928-1970 (C3130)
0.9 cubic feet
Papers of the second person to receive a degree in agricultural engineering from the University of Missouri, who for thirty-six years served as a Presbyterian lay missionary in India.
Biographical material, index to publications, correspondence, articles, research materials, and miscellaneous pamphlets.
Joseph Harry Vaughan, Jr. Papers, 1968-1979 (K0581)
1 c.f.
Audio broadcast newscasts made by Vaughan dealing with major news events in the metropolitan Kansas City, and Lawrence, Kansas areas.
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Amy Newell Verseman Papers, 1977-2011 (S0349)
0.8 cubic feet
The Amy Newell Verseman Papers contain correspondence, meeting minutes, photographs, artwork, and posters documenting her involvement with Archon, a St. Louis-area science fiction and fantasy convention. Materials of interest include correspondence from noted Science-fiction authors Robert Bloch and Philip Jose Farmer.
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Margaret Ray Vickery Papers, 1887-1974 (R0366)
1 cubic foot (34 folders, 4 rolls of microfilm)
The Margaret Ray Vickery Papers consist of clippings, correspondence, photographs, and miscellaneous historical research material, most of which pertain to her award-winning weekly column, “Sugar and Spice,” published by the Salem News, 1952-1971. The collection also includes papers of the Vickery and Ray families.
Margaret Vickery Photograph Collection, 1896-1986 (P0610)
12 photographs
Copy photographs of Dent county homes, businesses, and buildings.
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Elaine Viets Papers, 1967-2018 (S1239)
12 cubic feet
The Elaine Viets Papers contains correspondence, copy-edited manuscripts, photographs, books, and newspaper clippings pertaining to her career as a columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1972-1997) and mystery writer of the Francesca Vierling, Dead-End Job, and Josie Marcus, Mystery Shopper series. Materials of interest include correspondence from fans of Viets’s mystery novels wishing her well after her stroke in 2007, as well as photographs from Viets’s book tours and the set of Viets Beat, a KMOV talk show Viets hosted in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Also included in this collection are scrapbooks containing Viets’s columns for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, written between 1972 and 1995. The newspaper clippings are incomplete, however, as they do not contain her St. Louis Post-Dispatch columns written from 1996 to 1997.
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Hy Vile Family Papers, 1922-1984 (K0560)
8 c.f.
Vile was a civic leader and founder and chairman of the board of Vile-Goller/Fine Arts Printing and Lithographing Co. Personal and professional correspondence of Vile including newspaper columns and manuscripts he wrote; materials related to his various community and civic activities; honors, awards and recognitions received; family history; and travel literature.
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Sue Kross Vile and Joel David Vile Papers, 1970 (K1209)
0.01 c.f.
The Vile family has been prominent leaders in the Kansas City Jewish Community. Includes a Vile family history.
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Village à Robert, Missouri, Plat, 1794 (C1667)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Surveyed by M[onsieur] Bouvet, under the command of Captain F. Dunegan of St. Ferdinand, by order of Zenon Trudeau, lieutenant-governor at St. Louis. Includes names of landholders.
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Village Shalom Collection, 1900-2005 (K1315)
14.5 c.f.
papers and photographs from the first 100 years of this retirement community
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John Diedrich Voerster Collection, 1802-2002 (S1115)
0.5 cubic foot
The John Diedrich Voerster collection includes family tree data for the Voerster family. Also included in this collection is family tree data from the descendants of John Diedrich Voerster (1802-1878), Engelbert Voerster (1842-1908), and John Voerster (1870-1936). The collection also includes forty-six photographs of Voerster family members.
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Harold L. Volkmer Papers, 1960-1996 (C4022)
16 cubic feet
The papers of Harold L. Volkmer, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Missouri's 9th District, include correspondence, bills and resolutions, press releases, hearings, subcommittee briefs and reports, research and studies, pamphlets, newsletters, newspaper clippings, photographs, speeches, and amendments and testimonials. Also included is material on the McClure-Volkmer Bill (also known as the Firearm Owner's Protection Act), the 1993 flood disaster, dioxin contamination, hazardous and radioactive waste material at Weldon Spring, Missouri, and farmer's claims resulting from the Cannon Dam Flood in 1982.
Vorwaerts Workmen's Singing Society Records, 1895-1977 (S0237)
3.2 cubic feet, 79 folders
German immigrants formed Arbeiter Gesangverein "Vorwaertrs" to maintain their musical heritage and to promote working-class interests. Voerwaerts and Damenchor Vorwaerts presented regular concerts and participated in national songfests. Walter Hoops edited the Saenger Zeitung, the national journal from 1967 to 1977. The collection contains protocol books, financial ledgers, correspondence, programs, and issues of the Saenger Zeitung.
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Maurice E. Votaw Papers, 1909-1978 (C3672)
1.2 cubic feet (55 folders)
The papers of a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism primarily pertain to his years as a professor of journalism at St. John’s University, Shanghai, China, and an adviser to the Nationalist Chinese Ministry of Information. Included are transcripts of oral interviews, correspondence, literary productions, minutes, printed materials, maps, lists, photographs, and books. Topics include Votaw’s life; writers, missionaries, political and military leaders, and events in China (1922-1977); U.S. China policy; Chinese and American journalism and newspapers; the Shanghai Short Story Club; and St. John’s University and the University of Missouri School of Journalism.
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Charles van Ravenswaay Photograph Collection, 1814-1975 (P0014)
0.81 cubic feet (17 folders, 3 volumes, 4 oversize photographs, 7 glass plate negatives)
Collected photographs and other visual materials, primarily documenting Boonville, Missouri in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
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Homer Clark Wadsworth Papers, 1949-1982 (K0724)
8 c.f.
Personal and professional correspondence of Wadsworth, civic leader, director of the Kansas City Association of Trusts and Foundations, and president of the Kansas City school board with foundations, trusts, special projects, and universities with which was associated. Also his speeches.
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Herb Waerckle Papers, 1942-2000 (S1008)
1 cubic foot, 6 photographs
The papers of Herb Waerckle contain family histories and a scrapbook pertaining to Waeckerle's career as a journalist for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat and as well as his career in public relations working for the Schnucks and Monsanto.
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Lisa Wagaman Papers, 1974-1992 (S0542)
6.4 cubic feet, 112 folders
The Lisa Wagaman papers contain meeting minutes, publications, buttons, posters, flyers, t-shirts, and newspapers relating to her activism in St. Louis's LGBTQ community. Also included in this collection are early records of the Mid-Continent Life Services, Inc.