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Enoch H. Crowder Papers, 1884-1942 (C1046)
27 cubic feet (2045 folders, 7 volumes); also available on 51 rolls of microfilm
Correspondence and other papers of judge advocate general who administered Selective Service in World War I, served as ambassador to Cuba, and, after his retirement from public life, advised sugar interests.
Cullimore Family Collection, 1878-2020 (R1090)
10.5 cubic feet (276 of folders, 8 CDs, 2 cassette tapes, 828 photographs, 217 negatives, 1 45 record)
The Cullimore Family Papers contain the personal and family papers for Donald B. and Lee M. Cullimore and their father Donald G. Cullimore. The papers include personal correspondence, diaries, articles, family research and genealogy, photographs, and local history research. a larger portion of the collection is dedicated to genealogical materials for the family of Lee Cullimore and his wife, Marcia Craddock Cullimore’s family.
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Louis Ardie Cumonow Papers, 1961-2005 (K1054)
1 c.f.
Photographs, clippings, certificates, awards and albums of Cumonow, founder of Gateway Sporting Goods Company.
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Conrad J. Curtis Architectural Records Collection, 1950-1992 (K0683)
34 c.f.
Architectural drawings, job files, and business records for an architect who specialized in schools and small business buildings.
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Sandra F. Czarlinsky Papers, 1945-2006 (K1319)
0.25 c.f.
photographs, Center High School yearbook, Temple B'nai Jehudah Sisterhood "Gaslight" publications 1961-1970
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Margaret and Irvin Dagen "History of St. Louis CORE" Collection, 1941-2000 (S0661)
1 cubic foot, 35 folders, 18 cassettes, 9 photographs
This collection was compiled for a book entitled "Victory without Violence: the First Ten Years of the St. Louis Committee of Racial Equality (CORE), 1947-1957" by Mary Kimbrough and Margaret Dagen, published by University of Missouri Press in 2000. Includes in the collection is correspondence, oral history tapes, transcripts, and photographs pertaining to CORE's history, political activities, and service to the community. The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), whose St. Louis chapter was established in 1947, is a pacifist civil rights activist group whose mission is to bring about equality for all people.
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Mary Kathy Dains Photographs, 1868, 1901-1990 (P0300)
3 folders
Photographs of Columbia, MO, the University of Missouri (1978-1986, including extensive coverage of Ellis Library construction in the 1980s), and historic sites and structures across Missouri. Also includes portraits taken or acquired by Dains.
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Paul Daly Papers, 1970-2024 (S0597)
0.3 cubic feet
The Paul Daly papers contain scripts, notes, comic books, and Archon programs documenting Daly's career as a local St. Louis graphic novel artist. His works include Terranauts, Swashbucklers, and Black Diamond.
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Dividend Dames Records, 1981-1994 (K0932)
0.5 c.f.
Organizational records of an investment club including minutes, membership rosters, treasurer's reports, stock reports, some correspondence, attendance records, agendas, and expense records.
Jeannetta Danford Papers, 1946-2016 (K1366)
3 c.f.
Diaries and journals of Jeannetta Danford, 1947-2016
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John C. Danforth Papers, 1968-2016 (C4532)
202.3 cubic feet (4547 folders), 9 oversize volumes, 15 oversize items, 7.82 GB of born digital files, 99 film reels, 17 audio tapes, 162 audio cassettes, 129 video cassettes, 15 video tapes, 403 rolls of microfilm
Papers and office files created and collected by John C. Danforth, Attorney General of Missouri, 1969-1976; U.S. Senator from Missouri, 1976-1995; U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, 2004-2005. Includes legislative files, correspondence, reports, photographs and slides and audiovisual materials.
Daniel Boone Regional Library Board Records, 1983-1990 (C4499)
0.4 cubic feet (7 folders)
A collection of records from the Daniel Boone Regional library Board of Trustees. The records include board meeting minutes and board member contacts. The records also contain budgetary proposals and expenditures. There are several records that list the library’s collections and the demography of the institution. The records also contain presented service goals, objective, and strategies for the library’s future operations.
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Reuben A. Daniel Papers, 1885-1922 (C0300)
0.1 cubic feet (5 folders)
Papers of a hardware dealer and realtor of Audrain and Boone Counties, MO, including deeds, promissory notes, three pieces of currency, and material on Rosebud Reservation, Bonesteel, SD, in 1904.
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Charles E. Dare Papers, 1964-1993 (R1326)
0.4 cubic foot (14 folders)
These are professional papers and printed matter of a civil engineer and highway transportation specialist. Most of the material concerns traffic patterns, parking studies, and road planning around Rolla, Missouri, including the United States Highway 66 by-pass and the North-South Arterial Road. The collection includes Dare's work, reports of consultants, and publications of Missouri State Highway Department planners.
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Dolly Darigo Papers, 1949-1994 (S0689)
2 cubic feet, 11 photographs
The Dolly Darigo Papers include correspondence, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, brochures, flyers, newsletters, and photographs chronicling the interests of Darigo from 1949 to 1994. Throughout her career, Darigo worked as a bacteriologist for the U.S. Army and later for Missouri Baptist Hospital; naturalist for the Missouri Department of Natural Resources; and collected and identified specimens for the state herbarium in Jefferson City. She was involved in a series of causes, including the United Farm Workers Union, Freedom of Residence, penal reform, and employment for the mentally disabled and to improve race relations.
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Daughters of Colonial Wars, Missouri State Society Records, 1952-1992 (C4581)
0.25 cubic feet (1folder)
The records of the Missouri chapter of the Daughters of Colonial Wars contain amendments to bylaws and budgets, newsletters, copies of newspaper clippings, photographs, programs, a society year book, and miscellaneous material produced by the Society.
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Daughters of Rebekah, Blendville Lodge No. 298, Joplin, Missouri Records, 1986-2001 (R0811)
(1 roll of microfilm)
These are an addition to the records of Daughters of Rebekah Blendville Lodge No. 298 at Joplin in Jasper County, Missouri. The records begin in 1986 and continue to the dissolution of the lodge in 2001. The earlier records of Blendville Lodge No. 298 have been previously microfilmed as WHMC-Rolla collection R0557.
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Daughters of Rebekah, Cuba Lodge No. 739 Records, 1888-1984 (R0968)
(24 volumes, 7 folders)
These are the record books and miscellaneous papers of the Rebekah Lodge in Cuba, Crawford County, Missouri. The Cuba Lodge's collection includes earlier records of Martha Lodge No. 19 at St. James in Phelps county, which consolidated with the lodge at Cuba in 1978.
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Daughters of Rebekah, Damaris Lodge No. 20, Rolla, Missouri Records, 1888-2003 (R0969)
(32 Volumes, 7 folders)
These are the records of Damaris Lodge No. 20 at Rolla in Phelps County, Missouri. They consist of minutes of meetings, membership records, financial records, and miscellaneous papers beginning the with institution of the lodge in 1888 and continuing through 2003.
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Daughters of Rebekah, Joplin Lodge No. 97 Records, 1950-1995 (R0806)
(1 roll of microfilm)
This is an addition to the records of the Daughters of Rebekah Lodge No. 97 in Joplin, Jasper County, Missouri. Included are registers of officers and members, minutes of meetings, and financial records.
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Daughters of Rebekah, Webb City Lodge No. 106 Records, 1961-1992 (R0807)
(1 roll of microfilm)
These are the membership account ledger and minutes of meetings of the Daughters of Rebekah Webb City Lodge No. 106 at Webb City in Japser County, Missouri. The records end in 1992 with the consolidation of the Webb City Lodge with Blendville Lodge No. 298.
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Daughters of Rebekah, Webb City Lodge No. 106 Records, circa 1928-1991 (R0538)
(1 roll of microfilm)
The Daughters of Rebekah, Webb City Lodge No. 106 Records are applications for membership and transfer certificates from the Daughters of Rebekah Lodge No. 106 in Webb City, Jasper County, Missouri, as well as a smaller group of similar documents of the Carl Junction Lodge No. 253 during the 1940s after the two lodges merged.
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Daughters of Rebekah, Zinc Lodge No. 369, Joplin, Missouri Records, 1988-1993 (R0810)
(1 roll of microfilm)
This is a minute book of the Daughters of Rebekah Zinc Lodge No. 369 at Joplin in Jasper County, Missouri. The minutes begin on January 14, 1988 and continue through June 24, 1993, after which Zinc Lodge consolidated with Blendville Lodge at Joplin.
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Daughters of the American Colonists (DAC), Mary Ball Washington Chapter Records, 1972-2002 (K0920)
1 c.f.
Scrapbooks, State Assembly Proceedings, pressbooks, Missouri State Society membership directories, and newsletters.
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Daughters of the American Colonists Records, 1940s-2021 (CA6353)
5.9 cubic feet
Addition of meeting minutes, reports, scrapbooks, and miscellaneous material.
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Daughters of the American Colonists, Missouri State Society Records, 1923-2002 (K0688)
5 c.f.
Scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings, photographs, programs, brochures, and other miscellaneous ephemera relating to the George Hull, the Osage, the St. Louis, and the Captain John Hall Chapters.
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Daughters of the American Colonists Records, 1907-2009 (C0725)
5.6 cubic feet, 25 oversize volumes, 1 video cassette
The records of a patriotic, historical, and educational organization include documents from the Missouri state organization, individual chapters, and the national society. They consist of by-laws, minutes, programs, newsletters, chapter yearbooks, and scrapbooks.
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Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR)-Elizabeth Benton Chapter Records, 1915-1992 (K0412)
7 c.f., 28 v (MR)
Minutes, financial records, and printed and published material including yearbooks/directories, newsletters/magazines, and scripts. Also biographies and service records of Kansas City soldiers who served in World War I. Scrapbooks have been microfilmed.
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Daughters of the American Revolution, Columbia, Missouri, Chapter Records, 1902-2010 (C4705)
3.0 cubic feet (66 folders) 8 oversize volumes, 20 audio cassette tapes
Meeting minutes, log books, scrapbooks, yearbooks, financial records, and miscellaneous records of the chapter; and directories, bulletins, and programs of the state and national organizations, 1902-2003. Also included are oral history interviews conducted in 2002.
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Daughters of the American Revolution, Mexico (Mo.) Chapter Records, 1904-2000 (C4711)
2.0 cubic feet (30 folders), 2 oversize volumes
Minute books, treasurer’s records, membership records, lineage materials, and chapter yearbooks of the Mexico, Missouri, chapter.
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Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War, Missouri Department Records, 1996-2014 (CA6320)
0.75 cubic feet
Scrapbook of the Missouri Department and material of the Ann Hawkins Gentry Tent #21, Columbia, Missouri.
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Verlee Dauma Collection, 1970s-2000s (CA5857)
33.7 cubic feet
Research material of a Missouri professional genealogist, includes material related to the Chambers and Helmick families, and research guides, reference works, and other genealogical publications.
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William Lusk Davidson Papers, 1854-2005 (C4124)
1 cubic foot
The William Lusk Davidson papers contain records regarding Davidson's education, including primary, military academy, and college, as well as papers regarding his career as a civil engineer with the railroad. There are several records pertaining to Davidson genealogy and business information, as well as papers concerning the John Wilbourn Hobbs and Myrene Houchin Hobbs Civic Award.
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Donald Dwight Davis Papers, 1912-1997 (K0934)
14 c.f.
Personal and business papers of Davis who was president of WHB radio and KMBC-TV. Also included are some papers of his wife, Harriet Treash Davis (1909-1997).
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Ernest A. Davis Papers, 1846-1990 (C2606)
0.3 cubic feet
Personal papers of Davis consisting of letters sent by Davis to his mother Gertrude while he was in the army during World War I. Photographs depict him and his family, and group photographs of Davis's army units. Two volumes of church records document the Providence Baptist Church in Johnson County, Missouri. Other records document the genealogy of Davis's family through newspaper clippings and a photocopy of family records.
George Davis Family Papers, 1856-1997 (S0606)
0.4 cubic foot, 16 folders
The Davis family has resided in Kirkwood, MO, for nine generations. Papers include emancipation and Civil War papers; a letter from Thomas Hart Benton Jr., license and information about the city of Kirkwood, Booker T. Washington School, Olive Chapel AME, Unity Baptist Church, baseball player Al Smith, and the James A. Mitchell family. The papers of the George Davis Family contain photocopies of correspondence, emancipation and Union Army papers, and photographs documenting the lives of this African-American family in Kirkwood, Missouri.
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Ilus Winfield Davis Papers, 1925-1995 (K0375)
200 c.f.
Mayoral, personal, and professional papers documenting Davis' political, legal, and civic contributions. Davis is considered the most important Kansas City, MO mayor of the 20th century.
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Irvine Woodrow and Nona Myrom Bell Davis Papers, 1929-2010 (C4083)
8 cubic feet (86 folders, 2 boxes)
The papers of Irvine and Nona Bell Davis contain records pertaining to the Davis, Bell, Woolery, Schanz, Cartee, Hildebrand, and Dayton families of mid-Missouri.
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Walter W. Davis Papers, 1948-2007 (K0572)
1 c.f.
Davis was a flight engineer with Trans World Airlines (TWA). Includes newsletters, publications, clippings, handbooks, and reports, and employee agreements, an employee grievance pamphlet, a retirement handbook, and a copy of a legal Motion for Intervention filed by Flight Engineers
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John Lawrence Daw Architectural Records, 1970-1990 (K1340)
28c.f.
Architectural drawings (rolled, flat, other), photographs, public relations materials, project correspondence, administrative records, and personal materials related to the career of this Kansas City, Missouri architect.
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Daybreak Residential Treatment Center Records, 1980-1991 (CA6635)
0.1 cubic feet
Constitution, by-laws, incorporation papers, and minutes of a community-based non-profit founded in 1980 in Columbia, Missouri, to provide residential and other therapeutic services to persons with mental illness.
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Hugh Gordon Deane Jr. Papers, 1936-1998 (K0617)
3 c.f.
Personal papers of journalist, author, and co-founder of the US-China Peoples Friendship Association. Includes correspondence, research notes, publications, conference transcripts, an FBI file on Indusco, manuscripts (published and unpublished), clippings, and a military map drawn by Zhou Enlai.
Nancy J. DeBoer Photograph Collection, 1888-1982 (P0322)
Commercially produced stereographs, depicting Italy, Canada, Switzerland, 1892 World's Fair, early 20th century US Presidents, military leaders, Scenes from the Life of Christ, New York City, WWI, and the American West.
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Denise DeClue Papers, 1960-2017 (C4671)
2.75 cubic feet (69 folders), 2 audio cassettes, 1 compact disc, 2 video cassettes
The papers of a journalist, playwright, and movie and television screenwriter who graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism include news articles, scripts, contracts, lawsuit material, and audiovisual material.
Ed DeField, "Remembrance of World War II", 1996 (R0681)
(1 folder)
The Ed DeField, "Remembrance of World War II" is a photocopy of a memoir of World War II by a native of Mississippi County, Missouri. DeField was a member of the 397th Antiaircraft Battalion. He served in Wales, Normandy, France, Belgium, and Germany, and in the Allied occupation force.
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John T. Delich Collection, 1914-2001 (K0592)
4 c.f.
Architectural drawings, maps, photographs and aerial photos, and job specifications, primarily concerned with the Muehlebach Hotel, the Empire Theater, Gayety Theater, and other buildings in Kansas City, MO area.
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Delta Kappa Gamma, Pi Chapter Records, 1946-2012 (S0765)
7 cubic feet
The collection includes meeting minutes, financial reports, membership reports, photographs, and yearbooks pertaining to the Phi and Zelta chapters of Delta Kappa Gamma, a professional honorary society of women educators dedicated to promoting women in education.
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Delta Kappa Gamma Society International, Delta State, Beta Chapter (Columbia, Mo.) Records, 1930s-2010s (CA6458)
1.3 cubic feet
Records of an honor society for women educators include membership materials, newsletters, yearbooks, a history of the chapter, and miscellaneous material.
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Delta Kappa Gamma Society International, State of Missouri Records, 1938-2020 (CA5157)
11.2 cubic feet, 4 video cassettes, 2 computer discs, 1 DVD
The records of an honorary organization for women teachers include histories, meeting minutes, constitution and bylaws, state convention programs and materials, yearbooks, newsletters, membership materials, chapter materials, scrapbooks, and miscellaneous material.
Delta Kappa Gamma Society International-Chi Chapter of Delta State Records, 1955-1996 (K0692)
2 c.f.
Women educators founded the society to recognize the sustained, successful experience of women educators. Includes minutes, scrapbooks, photographs, directories, newsletters, clippings, conference programs, attendance rolls, and international directories.