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Daniel Rothwell Papers, 1935-2011 (C4375)
2 cubic feet (64 folders)

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Papers of an aerospace technical illustration supervisor, wildlife and woodland conservationist, hunter, teacher, pilot, UFO researcher, restoration hobbyist, and the manager of Rothwell Ranch Wildlife and Woodland Preserve, Piedmont, Wayne County, Missouri.

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Betty Cook Rottmann Papers, 1970s-2000s (CA5058)
26 cubic feet, 6 audio cassettes

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The papers of a journalist and women's rights activist include correspondence and documents relating primarily to AAUW, Missouri Press Women, the Equal Rights Amendment, University of Missouri Office of Public Information, and women's issues.

Larry Rottmann Collection, 1960s-2000s (CA5858)
122.35 cubic feet, audiovisual material, oversize material

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Compilation of correspondence, subject files, manuscripts, publications, newspaper clippings, teaching material, production material, organizational records, and audio and video recordings related to Vietnam, the Vietnam War and anti-war activity, veterans, and conflict literature.

Rucker Family Papers, 1886-2013 (R1429)
1.5 cubic feet (20 folders)

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The Rucker Family Papers contain correspondence and newspapers relating to family history, significant events, and architecture in Rolla, Missouri's history.

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Rural Sociological Society of America Records, 1919-2010 (CA5646)
39.75 cubic feet, 1 audio cassette, 1 audio disc, 2 video cassettes

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Addition of research project files; committee files; presidential papers; secretarial papers; annual meeting records; publications; audiovisual material; photographs; program and conference materials; administrative records; and miscellaneous material.

Siegfried "Fred" Ruschin Papers, 1920-2008 (K1193)
4 c.f.

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Personal records of Ruschin and his family, particularly relating to applications for restitution for losses in German under the Nazis; writings and other materials relating to Ruschin career as a librarian at Linda Hall Library; his volunteer work; and other interests, research, writing that he did.

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Ruskin Heights Presbyterian Church Records, 1954-2009 (K1169)
21 c.f.

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Organizational records of the Church including general office files, pastor's files including sermons and special services, newsletters, bulletins, photograph albums, publications, architectural drawings, and records of several women's organizations associated with the church.

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Russell Family History Collection, 2004 (R1163)
(2 folders)

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This is a photocopy of a history of the family of Cyrus Russell and Rebecca Pease, complied by John Steele McCormick, circa 1932-1934. It also contains additional material and photographs up to 2004, supplied by the donor and representing the line of descent from Cyrus Russell and Rebecca Pease.

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Ryan Family Papers, circa 1890s-2000 (C2561)
0.2 cubic feet (10 folders)

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Papers of a family from Wright County, Missouri, include photographs as well as correspondence and educational, military, and political material concerning H. Eugene Ryan, a lawyer from Mountain Grove who later moved to Ohio.

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Elaine Baum Ryder Papers, 1908-2006 (K0701)
1 c.f.

National Register of Historic Places forms written by Ryder while a researcher for the Kansas City Landmarks Commission, booklets, books, newspaper clippings and magazines, and photographs.

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Saint David's Welsh Society of Greater Kansas City Records, 1966-2015 (K1201)
2 c.f.

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Organizational records including minutes, newsletters, memorabilia, rosters, photographs and two bound volumes. Also files for the 61st Annual Welsh National Gymanfa Ganu, held in Kansas City, MO.

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Saint Louis Zoo Records, 1910-2014 (S0194)
30 cubic feet

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The Saint Louis Zoo Records document the evolution of Zoo's philosophy from providing entertainment to educating the public and preserving animal species. The collection contains annual reports, meeting minutes, photographs, films, and scrapbooks. Topics of interest include animal acquisitions, as well as birth and deaths, and construction of new zoo buildings.

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Sainte Genevieve Academy Records, 1808-2001 (R1394)
0.3 cubic foot (14 folders)

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The Sainte Genevieve Academy Records consist of photocopied documents pertaining to the founding of and preservation of the Academy, also known as the Old Louisiana Academy in Sainte Genevieve, Missouri. These records include a history of the school, construction records, land records, and records kept by the Foundation for the Restoration of Ste. Genevieve during the preservation of the school.

Salute to Veterans Air Show Records, 1990-2019 (C4720)
3.2 cubic feet (111 folders), 1 CD, 6 DVDs, 2.3 GB of digital files

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The records of the organization contain photographs, publications, correspondence, planning materials, and audiovisual material. The Salute to Veterans Air Show held an annual Memorial Day celebration to honor military veterans in Columbia, Missouri, until 2019.

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Patricia and Earl Samel Normandy School District Collection, 1944-2002 (S1146)
Approximately 2 cubic feet

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Papers collected by Patricia and Earl Semel (Normandy High School, class of 1944), including newsletters, photographs, publications, ledgers, and VHS tapes pertaining to the Normandy School District, the Normandy High School Class of 1944 reunions, and the history of Normandy, Missouri.

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Santa Fe Place Historic District Collection, 2004-2005 (K0456)
0.3 c.f.

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The District National Register Nomination Update #2, 2005, including the Santa Fe Place Historic District Design Guidelines and the Memorandum of Agreements relating to the District. Also files on the Lovett Place Apartments Demolition Project.

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Art Santen Collection, 1940-2010 (S0980)
0.4 cubic foot, 579 photographs

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This collection contains songbooks, scorecards, and photographs pertaining to events, individuals, and places connected to Art Santen, a longtime resident of the Skinker Debaliviere neighborhood and noted collector of bottle caps.

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Sapp Family Papers, (CA6707)
0.05 cubic feet (1 folder)

The papers of a Boone County, Missouri, family include a birth registration, marriage certificate, court documents, death certificates, wills, and stock records.

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Sappington Family Genealogical Collection, 1926-2010s (CA6435)
23 cubic feet, 2 audio cassettes, 1 CD, 2 DVDs, 7 oversize items

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The papers in this collection are a genealogical history of the Sappington family who were largely located in central Missouri with likely origins in Maryland, Georgia, and Mississippi.

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Lou Saur Papers, 1967-2015 (S0708)
30 cubic feet

The Lou Saur Papers contain correspondence, master plans, feasibility studies, architectural plans, photographs, slides, and sketchbook drawings documenting Saur's architectural career as co-founder of Hoffmann/Saur Architects.

Elizabeth Gentry Sayad Papers, 1943-2009 (S0476)
12 cubic feet, 1274 photographs, 7 reel-to-reel tapes, 5 videotapes, 1 scrapbook

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The Elizabeth Gentry Sayad Papers consist of newspaper clippings and correspondence, documenting her activities in St. Louis-area cultural events. Topics of interest include A Fair to Remember, Christ Church Cathedral, the Mayor's Task Force on the Humanities and the Arts, the Mississippi River Festival and Tricentennial, the New Music Circle, and the Repertory Theater.

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Scenic Missouri, Inc. Records, 1980s-2000s (CA6243)
6 cubic feet, 5 audio cassettes, 57 computer discs, 47 video cassettes

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Records of a nonprofit organization advocating scenic conservation in Missouri. The group conducted "Save Our Scenery" initiative-petition drives and placed a statewide vote on billboard control on the November 2000 ballot. The measure lost 51 to 49 percent. Contains correspondence, financial records, publicity materials, photographs and slides, and audiovisual materials.

Elenore Schewe Collection, 1920-2002 (C4266)
1.8 cubic feet (39 folders), 3 audio cassettes, 5 oversize items

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The collection of Elenore Schewe contains material of her research into refractory companies in Missouri, including both institutional records of the companies themselves and the personal papers and records of various important figures in the refractory companies. This collection was created as part of Schewe's work assisting in the research for the book Refractories: the Hidden Industry by Corinne Azen Krause.

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Cliff Schiappa Papers, 1977-1983, 2002 (CA6621)
1.1 cubic feet, 399 MB of digital files

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The papers of a photojournalist who graduated from the University of Missouri largely contain photographs, negatives, and clippings from his time as a student attending the university and while working for the Kansas City Times. Also contains material pertaining to a political debate held at Columbia College.

Morris Schlozman Papers, 1953-2004 (K1092)
0.2 c.f.

Schlozman was Business Manager and General Manager of Box Office, an international film trade journal. Includes materials pertaining to Congregation Beth Shalom (commemoration books, memories of Rabbi Gershon Hadas) and a articles and other materials from renowned Jewish scholar Irving Levitas.

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J. Peter Schmitz Papers, 1992-2004 (S1120)
13 cubic feet

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The J. Peter Schmitz Papers contain correspondence, legal research materials, and newspaper clippings relating to Schmitz's career as an environmental lawyer. Subjects of interest include the Open Space Council, the Missouri Pacific Railway, and White Haven, Missouri.

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Ruth B. Schowalter Papers, 1944-2006 (R1488)
0.25 cubic foot (6 folders)

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The papers of Ruth B. Schowalter contain the personal papers of Norma Ruth Baxter Schowalter and genealogical materials related to the Schowalter, Bickey, and Bradford families.

Adolf E. and Rebecca B. Schroeder Collection, 1550, 1800-1804, 1913-2012 (C4483)
19.0 cubic feet (458 folders), 233 audio cassettes, 28 audio discs, 41 audio tapes, 80 video cassettes, 1 CD, 2 rolls microfilm, 1 film, 8 oversize items, 229 MB of digital files

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The papers of Adolf Schroeder, professor of German at the University of Missouri-Columbia, and his wife Rebecca, editor of the Missouri Heritage Readers, including their work with European-American oral histories and Missouri folklore and folk music.

Victor J. Schroeder Papers, 1891-2010 (CA6496)
4.4 cubic feet, 2 oversize items

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The papers of a Methodist minister from Troy, Missouri, contain a transcription of his journals, along with correspondence, photographs, and miscellaneous material. Schroeder served churches in Georgia, Ohio, and Illinois, as well as Warren, Lincoln, St. Charles, and St. Louis Counties, Missouri. The collection also includes family material, including papers concerning his father, John Ernst Schroeder, a chiropractor who served in WWI.

Walter A. Schroeder Papers, 1972-2008 (CA6385)
0.6 cubic feet

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Papers contain material pertaining to Schroeder's work with Missouri place name surveys involving Adolph E. Schroeder and Don Lance, as well as the founding of the Missouri Board of Geographic Names.

John C. Schuder Papers, 1969-2002 (CA6342)
3 cubic feet

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Addition of papers of an officer of the Columbia, Missouri, Chapter of the Fellowship of Reconciliation and member of the Anti-War Moratorium Committee. The papers consist of correspondence, speeches, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous material.

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Eunice Westhusing Schussler Collection, 1944-2017 (C4594)
0.1 cubic feet (3 folders, 9.5 MB of digial files)

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The papers of a resident of Henry County, Missouri, include World War II letters from Eugene "Gene" Sickman and Korean War letters from her brother Clyde "Bud" Westhusing. Also included are family photographs and obituaries.

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Scotland County Genealogical Society Collection, 1841-2021 (CA6609)
2.2 cubic feet, 4 card files

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The collection contains material collected by the Scotland County Genealogical Society including photographs, funeral programs, county history, court records, tax records, marriage licenses, and miscellaneous documents.

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James W. Scott Papers, 1930-2007 (K0554)
4.5 c.f.

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Correspondence, paperwork, political cartoons, various notes and booklets written and/or collected by Scott, reporter, editor, and later vice president of the Kansas City Star Company.

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Janet Scott Papers, 1951-2019 (S0353)
4.8 cubic feet

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The Jan Scott Papers contain correspondence, program booklets, photographs, meeting minutes, newspaper clippings, and cassette tapes documenting Scott’s career as a flutist, educator, and founder of the National Women’s Yellow Pages of Greater St. Louis. Also included in the collection are materials relating to Scott’s involvement with the Women’s Policy Alliance (formerly the Alliance for the Status of Missouri Women), which dedicated itself to developing a proactive women’s policy agenda to empower and improve Missouri women’s lives.

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Quinta Scott Papers, 1919-2010 (S0744)
30 cubic feet

The Quinta Scott Papers contain correspondence, photographs, book drafts, and galley proofs documenting her career as a St. Louis-area photographer and author of numerous Missouri-related books, including the Eads Bridge (1979), Route 66: The Highway and Its People (1989), Along Route 66 (2000), and The Mississippi: A Visual Biography (2010).

Joanie Melton Seale Papers, 1971-2006 (SP0098)
0.4 cubic feet (4 folders)

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The Joanie Melton Seale Papers contain materials related to the Lester E. Cox Medical Center in Springfield, Missouri, collected by registered nurse Joanie Melton Seale. The collection consists of publications, a medical directory, and a calendar celebrating the hospital’s centennial. The collection also includes a program for the 1971 Missouri State Fair.

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Don Secrease Papers, 1971-2020 (S0370)
2.3 cubic foot

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The collection contains St. Louis-area published stripzines, comic books, and original storyboards documenting Don Secrease's career as a comic book artist and publisher. Materials of interest include issues of Swashbucklers, a comic book Secrease published with Rick Burchett and Paul Daly, and ran for four issues from 1980-1982. Also included in the collection are original storyboards Secrease created for Swashbucklers.   

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Senior Leadership of Johnson County, KS Records, 1996-2007 (K1181)
2 c.f.

Organizational records of a steering committee to coordinate a leadership program with Leadership Northeast for seniors in Johnson County. Includes minutes, committee reports, correspondence, scrapbooks, newsletters, photographs, floppy disks, and CDs.

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Ben Senturia Papers, 1968-2015 (S0745)
30 cubic feet

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Ben Senturia has been long active in environmental, antiwar, and political reform efforts. A graduate of Washington University in 1966, Senturia served as a research assistant for Barry Commoner, an early and ardent environmentalist, from 1966 through 1968. Senturia became a predoctoral fellow in the Environmental Field Program at Washington University at this time. Thereafter, he worked as an organizer and campaign consultant for a variety of public interest, nonprofit organizations, chief among them were the St. Louis Coalition for the Environment and the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign. Throughout this time and beyond, Senturia frequently acted as a consultant to numerous nonprofit organizations, assisting them in organizing and directing political or fund-raising campaigns as part of a private business, the Center for Active Citizenship, organized in 1989. The papers contain correspondence, essays, photographs, legislative materials, and reports.

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Daniel Serda Papers, 1976-2011 (K0687)
21 c.f.

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Research materials gathered by Serda, a local historian, city planner, and faculty in the Department of Urban Planning, University of Kansas. Includes Kansas City bibliographic research, the Kansas City Stock Yards, the 1951 Flood, and other topics of his research and writing.

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Settle Family Papers, 1857-2008 (CG0026)
1.25 c. f.

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Correspondence and photographs of the Settle, O'Bannon, and Rhodes families of Wayne County, Missouri and Arkansas. Also includes genealogy records, Bible, and report cards for Virgil E. Settle.

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Severance Book Review Club (Columbia, Mo.) Records, 1931-2000 (C4364)
0.4 cubic feet (9 folders)

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The records of a literary club contain constitutions, minutes, and membership lists of the club.

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Betty Kennedy Sewell Genealogical Collection, 1912-2016 (CG0011)
1.4 cubic feet

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The collection contains genealogical research, including family group sheets, correspondence, clippings, and photographs of the Kennedy, Zook, Sheppard, Priest, Renfroe, Whitley, Gisler, Doughty, and affiliated families.

Norbert Shacklette Collection, 1891-2023 (R1511)
3 cubic feet (53 folders)

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The Norbert Shacklette Collection contains railroad financial records and correspondence, transportation publications and related labor union communications from South-Central Missouri, and Missouri Democratic Party event programs and memorabilia.

Leo Shalinsky and Arlene Shalinsky Papers, 1982-2010 (K1046)
0.09 c.f.

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Includes materials of the Kansas City Jewish Marriage Encounter and the Retired Old Men's Eating Association (R.O.M.E.O) club.

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John Elliott Shamberg Papers, 1923-2001 (K0748)
9 c.f.

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Correspondence between Shamberg, his family and friends, relating his college years, early career, World War II, and after the war. Shamberg was an attorney and personal counsel to Robert B. Docking, governor of Kansas,

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Patsy Dunn Shanberg Papers, 1963-2004 (K0801)
1 c.f.

Scrapbooks, photographs of Brandeis University National Women's Committee (BUNWC) events, family history and religious items. Of particular interest is a wooden, hand carved Tzedakah box, model of Beth Shalom Synagogue.

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Preston T. Sharp Collection, circa 2004 (R1204)
(2 folders)

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These are an annotated Civil War diary and a biography of Preston T. Sharp, a resident of Harrison County, Missouri, and Fall River County, South Dakota, and first lieutenant of Company H, 12th Missouri Cavalry. Edited and compiled by Chuck and Nova Sharp Bolton, the collection includes the story of Sharp's life, and his diary covering the Nashville campaign, December 1864-Januuary 1865, and Powder River Expedition in Wyoming and Montana in 1865.

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