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Shirley Copaken White Papers, 1937-2007 (K1187)
2 c.f.
White is very active in cultural, philanthropic, and social organizations, including those of Beth Shalom Synagogue and Hadassah. Includes publications; White and Copaken family photographs and printed materials; Beth Shalom Synagogue and Hadassah materials; Paseo High School reunions; the grand opening of the Lewis and Shirley White Theatre at the Jewish Community Campus; Jewish Community Foundation programs; and newspaper and magazine clippings about Sandi White, Rita Blitt, the AT&T Building, and miscellaneous other subjects.
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James R. Whitley Papers, 1940s-2010s (CA6255)
8.5 cubic feet
Papers of a wildlife scientist whose studies focused on water quality in Missouri. Whitley worked for the Missouri Department of Conservation in the water quality branch of the fisheries research section and published many articles, most notably, "Water Plants for Missouri Ponds."
Donald R. Whitman Collection, 1874-2008 (SP0079)
2.5 cubic feet (42 folders, 50 photographs, 4 VHS tapes, 5 oversize items)
The Donald R. Whitman Collection contains the personal papers of Donald Ray Whitman, including correspondence, genealogical records, and photographs. The collection also documents Whitman’s service in the United States Air Force and his work in the Marshall Islands during Operation Ivy in 1952, as well as his career with the National Weather Service in Kansas City, Missouri.
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Whizzo, Ol' Gus and Me Collection, 1940-2003 (K1236)
2 c.f.
Notes, video interviews, and video/film transfers used in the production of a Public Television documentary about Kansas City children's TV programing in the 1940s-1980s.
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Lewis Wickens Collection, 1940s-2000s (CA5371)
20 cubic feet, 17 video cassettes
Published works, videocassettes, and personal papers primarily relating to World War II fliers and prisoners of war.
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Mildred Durr Wilcox Papers, 1859-2010 (CA6640)
1.4 cubic feet
The papers of Mildred Durr Wilcox include correspondence, photographs, business records, family papers, genealogy, legal documents, deeds, and miscellaneous material.
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Robert S. Wiley Collection, 1869-1994 (R0521)
8.5 cubic feet (177 folders, 639 photographs, 25 slides, 2 audio discs, 13 oversize folders)
The Robert S. Wiley Collection consists of legal documents, publications, promotional material, and ephemera related to Missouri, specifically Stone County, and to travel, tourism and recreation in the White River region of Missouri and Arkansas. The collection also contains material largely focused on Missouri State Representative Dewey Short and the Republican Party.
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Rodger A. Wilkin Architectural Records, 1950-2007 (K1159)
12 c.f.
Architectural drawings for building, primarily suburban residences in the Kansas City area, designed by Wilkin.
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Wilkins Family Papers, 1931-2006 (S0273)
0.8 cubic foot
The Wilkins Family Papers contain correspondence, photographs, meeting minutes, programs, hymnals, and recipe books pertaining to the Wilkins family of Webster Groves. The materials in this collection primarily reflect the lives of Mattie Hunt Wilkins and her descendants. Items of interest include the meeting minutes of Order of the Eastern Star, Chapter 4. Mattie Wilkins was the Worthy Matron (WM) of the lodge.
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Sidney L. Willens Collection, 1976-2010 (K1190)
0.5 c.f.
Willens was an attorney specializing in civil liberty issues in Kansas City, MO. includes correspondence, news articles, Jackson County Office of Human Relations and Citizen Complaints Reports, and Willins' writings on the value of humor.
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William Chrisman High School (Independence, Mo.), Class of 1951 Collection, 1946-2018 (CA6155)
0.7 cubic feet
Addition of brochures, newspaper clippings, reunion materials, newsletters, yearbooks, and miscellaneous material.
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William Chrisman High School (Independence, Mo.), Class of 1951 Collection, 1948-2001 (C3979)
0.6 cubic feet (26 folders)
This collection contains material pertaining to the class of 1951 from William Chrisman High School in Independence, Missouri. The bulk of the records come from 1948 to1951 and include such items as yearbooks, photographs, playbills, graduation announcements, and commencement programs.
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William Woods University Records, 1880s-2000s (CA6180)
140.85 cubic feet, 26 oversize volumes, 9 oversize items, 1 audio tape
Academic and administrative records of school established in 1870 in Camden Point, Missouri, and moved to Fulton, Missouri, in 1890. Includes yearbooks, newspapers, newsletters, catalogs, student scrapbooks and photograph albums, and materials of Olympian Helen Stephens.
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Williams Family Papers, circa 1861-2000s (R1308)
(10 folders, 121 photographs)
These are photographs, business papers, genealogical materials, and other items from the Williams, Sturgeon, Watson and allied families of Phelps County, Missouri. Included are papers concerning pyrite mining in Phelps County and a rare view of the village of Beulah around 1906.
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Robert C. Williams Collection, 1963-2005 (S1055)
0.25 cubic foot
The Robert C. Williams Collection contains three spiral-bound news clipping scrapbooks on Martin Luther King, the assassination of JFK, and the 2005 resolution of the 1964 murders of civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner.
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Arthur Eddie Williamson Photograph Collection, 1980-2000 (K0653)
3 c.f.
Photographs taken by Williamson, a professional photographer in the African-American community of Kansas City.
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Jean Gaddy Wilson Papers, 1959-2011 (C3884)
29 cubic feet (733 folders), 288 audio cassettes, 5 video cassettes, 3 audio tapes
Papers of a journalism educator and author, primarily dealing with research on women and minorities in media. Contains her work on, "Taking Stock: Women in the News Media 20 Years Before the 21st Century," including taped interviews and transcripts of media professionals and extensive research data. Also includes correspondence, speeches, publications, teaching and conference materials, and papers pertaining to her early career in journalism, media, and public relations.
Laurel E. Wilson Papers, 1860-2008 (K0594)
1 c.f.
Research files of Wilson, Professor Emerita and former curator of the Missouri Historic Costume and Textile Collection-University of Missouri-Columbia, concerning the history of the Kansas City Garment Industry.
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Suzanne Wilson Papers, 1959-2009 (SP0004)
9 cubic feet (382 folders), 1 oversize
The Suzanne Wilson Papers consist of the fiction, nonfiction, and personal correspondence of free-lance writer Suzanne Wilson (1937- ). The papers cover a variety of topics, but many deal with nature. The bulk of her work was created for Scouting Magazine.
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Yvonne Starks Wilson Papers, 1937-2019 (KA2506)
29 cubic feet
Papers related to the life of Yvonne Wilson.
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Betty Winfield Papers, 1930s-2010s (CA6743)
0.65 cubic feet, 1 oversize item
Addition of multiple publications and manuscripts, research material, photographs, University of Missouri course papers, and research material on the Little Rock Central High School crisis.
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Jeffrey Bruce Winkel and Deborah Gale Winkel Papers, 1910-2005 (K1008)
0.25 c.f.
Family papers including bonds, certificates, genealogical charts, and photographs.
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Women's eNews Records, 2002-2006 (C4590)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder, 11 DVDs, 1 video cassette)
Notes from the conception meeting of the Women's eNews Board. Also includes materials pertaining to the 21st Century Annual Gala, which include videos and a booklet.
Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press Collection, 1961-2013 (C4403)
0.8 cubic feet (27 folders)
Material created and collected by an education and publishing organization working towards media democracy and media justice for women includes publications, campaign and political buttons, and a dissertation on the institute's founder, Donna Allen.
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, St. Louis Chapter Records, 1962-2015 (S0214)
14.5 cubic feet
The records of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, St. Louis Chapter contain correspondence, meeting minutes, membership directories, and newsletters relating to the group’s mission to promote world peace and social justice. Subjects of interest include the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT II), the league’s opposition to the United States’ intervention in Vietnam, and China.
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Women, Men and Media Conference Records, 1980-2000 (C4096)
0.8 cubic feet (51 folders), 22 audio cassettes, 12 video cassettes
The records of an organization which focused on projects monitoring the advancement of women in media and the portrayal of women by the media.
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom Records, 1980s-2020 (CA6671)
1.2 cubic feet, 2 oversize items
The records of the Mid-Missouri Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom contain minutes, promotional material, correspondence, project materials, photographs, a scrapbook, and miscellaneous organizational material.
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Jenny R. Wood Collection, 1957-2006 (C4562)
0.2 cubic feet (4 folders)
Camp Rainbow for Exceptional Children was started in Chillicothe, Missouri, in 1963 by the parents of a mentally challenged daughter so that she and others like her could attend summer camp. Collection includes a camp history, camp buttons and a counselor's handbook, photographs, clippings, program schedules, official incorporation and camp business records, and newsletters. Also included are miscellaneous material on the Missouri Association for Retarded Children.
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Woodruff-Stumpff Family Papers, 1901-2022 (S0506)
0.4 cubic feet
The Woodruff-Stumpff family papers contain correspondence, photographs, diplomas, yearbooks, and family tree charts documenting the Woodruff and Stumpff families of St. Louis, Missouri.
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Harriett F. Woods Papers, 1939-2006 (S0051)
60 cubic feet, 384 photographs, 34 scrapbooks, 22 audio cassettees, 81 videos, 3 16mm films
The papers of Harriett Woods contain correspondence, senate bills, transcripts of senate committee hearings, newsletters, press releases, and photographs chronicling her life as a journalist, television producer, Lieutenant Governor, and Missouri State Senator from the 13th district.
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Robert Gail and Margie McDaniel Woods Collection, 1920s-2023 (CA5749)
81.9 cubic feet, 5 oversize volumes, 2 oversize items, 41 audio cassettes, 14 audio tapes, and 6 video cassettes
Family papers, photographs, and genealogical records of Woods, Edwards, Hanna, and related families, and historical and organizational records of various Methodist churches and communities in and around St. Louis.
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Bob Wright Collection, 1934-2003 (CA6551)
0.2 cubic feet, 226 MB of digital files, 1 audio disc, 1 CD
The collection contains material concerning the Broadway musical career of Bob Wright, originally from Columbia, Missouri, largely during the 1940s-1960s.
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Dr. Katie H. Wright Papers, 1970-2000 (S0646)
4.5 cubic feet, 108 folders, 239 photographs, 1 scrapbook
Dr. Katie H. Wright is a well-known historian, writer, educator, and community volunteer in St. Louis, Missouri and East St. Louis, Illinois. She was also a weekly columnist for the St. Louis Argus, a historic Black newspaper. The collection contains Dr. Wright’s correspondence, reports, awards, newspaper clippings, and photographs related to her educational career, accomplishments as historian and writer, and work with the East St. Louis Board of Education, Board of Elections, and Public Library, as well as the Illinois Department of Corrections.
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Young Audiences of St. Louis Records, 1967-2002 (S1024)
33 cubic feet
The Young Audiences of St. Louis Records contain meeting minutes, memos, newsletters, photographs, videos, and newspaper clippings pertaining to music education for K-12 students. Founded in 1957, the Young Audiences of St. Louis's mission is to assist schools with developing and promoting live music and cultural events for students.
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Young Mens Christian Association (YMCA) of Kansas City Records, 1878-2006 (K0332)
80 c.f.
Minutes, newspaper clippings, printed materials, publications, administrative files, reports, surveys, studies, photographs, slides, audio/visual media, memorabilia, and scrapbooks.
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Kenneth Franklin Young Papers, 1936-2005 (K1039)
2.5 c.f.
Young was a radio and television broadcast engineer and cameraman with KCMO radio and KCTV. He also performed in plays with a variety of theater companies. Includes correspondence, negatives, photographs, broadcasting materials, newspaper clippings, memorabilia, scrapbooks, and video.
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YouthBridge Community Foundation Records, 1876-2003 (S0243)
7.5 cubic feet
The YouthBridge Community Foundation Records (formerly the German General Protestant Orphan’s Home and General Protestant Children’s Home) contain meeting minutes, ledgers, and scrapbooks relating to its history as a home for impoverished orphans. Materials of interest include intake record books, documenting the child’s name, birth date, the reasons for their admittance and dismal from the orphanage, as well as the names of their parents. Also included in the collection are photographs depicting the cornerstone laying of YouthBridge’s former campus at 12685 Olive Street Road and an essay on the history of YouthBridge, titled Still Caring: the Evolution of a St. Louis Orphanage, by Glenn J. Sartori. The materials in this collection date from 1877 to 2003.
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Glenn R. Zander Papers, 1991-2019 (K1384)
.4 c.f.
The Glenn R. Zander Papers contain information related to the CFO/Co-chairman of Trans World Airlines (TWA) from 1990 to 1994. Materials in the collection relate to the monetary hardships encountered by TWA, including filing for bankruptcy in 1992.
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Zion United Church of Christ, Lawrence County, Missouri Records, 1880-2001 (R0714)
(1 roll of microfilm)
These are records of the Zion United Church of Christ near Freistatt in Lawrence County, Missouri. Included are minutes of church council meetings, registers of members, officers, pastors, baptisms, confirmations, marriages, deaths, and miscellaneous items. Some of the records are in German. Included is one volume of records from Union United Church of Christ, 1947-1998.