Manuscripts Index

Missouri Campaign Spending Reform Records, 1969-1977 (S0056)
3 cubic feet, 122 folders

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The Missouri Campaign Spending Reform Records contains legislative bills, memos, correspondence, and newspaper clippings documenting efforts by Wilhelmina Roberts and Missourians for Honest Elections to reform campaign spending in Missouri from 1969 to 1977.

Missouri Capitol Building Fire Photographs, 1911 (P0994)
7 photographs

Seven photographs of 1911 fire and aftermath

Missouri Capitol Murals Photograph Collection, no date (P1052)

Photographs of the murals in the Missouri State Capitol building. Photos are from unknown sources and photographers; additional photos can be found in the Walker and Massie photographs.

Missouri Capitol Photographs, 1913-1927 (C3757)
43 lantern slides

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Images include elevations, plans, perspective drawings, and photographs of the Capitol in Jefferson City, as well as murals, tapestries, and sculpture commissioned to decorate the building.

Missouri Capitol Dedication Program, 1924 (C0858)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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The program of the dedication of the Missouri Capitol on 6 October 1924 lists the activities and participants for the day, including the parade in the morning, the band concert, and the "dedication exercises proper" in the afternoon.

Missouri Central Railroad Company Articles of Association, 1868 (C1719)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Articles of association of a railroad to run from Laclede to an intersection with the Brunswick and Chillicothe Railroad in Chariton County. Amount of capital, stock, list of directors, and stockholders.

Missouri Central Railroad Company Resolutions, 1869 (C1718)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Resolutions to dissolve the Missouri Central Railroad Company, adopted by the stockholders. Company organized to build a railroad from Boonville to Arrow Rock. Cooper and Saline Counties and Arrow Rock failed to cooperate.

Missouri Century Farm Program Records, 1975-2017 (CA6498)
15 cubic feet

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The records of the Missouri Century Farm Program contain applications, programs, clippings, and miscellaneous material. The program was created in 1975 to celebrate the U.S. Bicentennial. Beginning in 1986, the program was administered by the University of Missouri Extension. The Missouri Farm Bureau became a co-sponsor in 2008.

Missouri Chapter of the American Fisheries Society Records, 1963-2020 (CA6574)
10 cubic feet, 6 computer discs, 1 video cassette, 1 oversize item

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Records of the organization include correspondence, minutes, conference materials, newsletters, reports, manuals, and miscellaneous material.

Missouri Chautauqua Assembly Records, 1886-1896 (C1170)
0.07 cubic feet (1 volume)

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Chartered under the laws of Missouri in 1887 as the Missouri State Sunday School Assembly, the name was changed to Missouri Chautauqua Assembly in 1887.

Missouri Christian Leadership Forum (Columbia, Mo.) Records, 1979-2013 (CA6070)
2 cubic feet

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Conference proceedings, correspondence, policy statements, publicity pamphlets, committee and assorted other business meeting minutes, assorted committee and task force materials, financial records, and miscellaneous papers. Originating in 1981, the Forum included a wide range of Christian denominations in one ecumenical body. The organization dissolved in 2013.

Missouri Church Records, 1811-2023 (C0558)
123.3 cubic feet (1424 folders), 3 computer discs

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The Missouri Church Records consist of newsletters, conference proceedings, reports, directories, journals, and other publications of various religious denominations in Missouri including the Methodist, Baptist, Disciples of Christ (Christian), Presbyterian, and Catholic churches.

Missouri Citizens for Life Collection, 1973-1979 (S0111)
0.01 cubic foot

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The collection contains correspondence, publications, and flyers documenting the organization’s mission to oppose legalized abortion in Missouri.

Missouri Citizens United for Rehabilitation of Errants (CURE) Records, 1990-2021 (S0292)
6 cubic feet

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The Missouri Citizens United for Rehabilitation of Errants (CURE) Records consist of correspondence, newsletters, booklets, and flyers, documenting its efforts to ensure that prisons are reserved only for those individuals that must be incarcerated and that those individuals receive humane treatment.

Missouri Citizens' Action Records, 1977-1980 (S0158)
2 cubic feet, 24 folders

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The bulk of the Missouri Citizens' Action (MCA) records documents the Missouri Public Service Commission's 1978 investigation of Union Electric rate structures in St. Louis but contains material on the investigation of Laclede Gas' rates conducted in 1980 by the Public Service Commission (PSC). The collection includes MCA meeting minutes and notes, public testimony, reports, and exhibits from the PSC proceedings.

Missouri City and County Government Documents Collection, 1941-1994 (C4190)
22 cubic feet

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The records contain annual reports, budget and financial reports, city ordinances, city planning documents, audits, community development reports, and land use documents for various cities, counties, and regions in Missouri.

Missouri Civil Register, 1820-1865 (C1784)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Lists appointments of U.S. senators, 1820-1864; U.S. representatives, 1820-1864; governors, 1820-1865; secretaries of state, 1820-1864; treasurers, 1820-1864; attorneys general, 1820-1865; Boone County justices of the peace, 1825-1845; supreme court justices, 1822-1864; circuit court judges, 1824-1861; and circuit attorneys, 1844-1851.

Missouri Civil War Documents, 1863-1867 (C2671)
0.2 cubic feet

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The collection contains oaths of loyalty; reports of E. Anson More, quartermaster general of Missouri; and special orders from the adjutant general's office. All concern members of the Missouri Militia from various regiments and companies.

Missouri Civil War Special Orders, 1863-1864 (C3160)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Special order from Office of the Provost Marshal General, Department of the Missouri, paroling Richard B. Keeble, and special order from the Adjutant General's Office, State of Missouri, calling George C. Gaddy's Company, Enrolled Missouri Militia, into active service.

Missouri Coalition for Correctional Justice Records, 1973-1982 (C3911)
1 cubic foot

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Records of an organization that had the purpose of educating the public on prison conditions and promoting programs of education and rehabilitation in cooperation with the Missouri State Division of Corrections. MCCJ was a cooperative effort of many organizations and individuals but, Dr. J. Noel Heermance, professor of English at Lincoln University, Jefferson City, was the director and driving force.

Missouri Coalition For The Environment Records, 1967-2007 (S0421)
256 cubic feet

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The Missouri Coalition for the Environment was incorporated in St. Louis in 1969 as a volunteer citizen's organization whose mission includes education, communication, planning and action on issues involving the environment; notably clean air, energy, open space/land use, solid waste, transportation, and clean water. The records document the founding of the organization, its administration, and the environmental issues it studied, protested, supported, and criticized.

The Missouri Collection, 1771-2024 (C3982)
18.6 cubic feet (850 folders, 892 photographs), 32 oversize items, 9 audio cassettes, 7 audio discs, 9 CDs, 1 computer disc, 1 film, 6 film strips, 9 DVDs, 3 video cassettes, 583 MB of digital files

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The Missouri Collection is an artificial collection combining miscellaneous small acquisitions related to Missouri places, individuals, organizations, and events.

Missouri College and University Print Materials, 1836-1986 (C4281)
12 cubic feet (322 folders), 13 oversize items

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The materials contain pamphlets, catalogs, guides, speeches, programs, yearbooks, periodicals and books produced by Missouri colleges, universities, academies, and other educational institutions.

Missouri Collegiate Oratorical Association Records, 1895-1940 (CA5892)
0.5 cubic feet

Constitutions and by-laws, programs, copies of speeches and miscellaneous records of an organization of colleges in Missouri which held annual oratory competitions.

Missouri Commission on Human Rights Papers, 1958-1968 (C4193)
1 cubic foot (28 folders)

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Conferences, a legal brief, reports, and publications used for research by the Missouri Commission on Human Rights.

Missouri Commission on the Status of Women Papers, 1963-1974 (C3903)
0.8 cubic feet (26 folders)

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Papers and related materials of the Missouri Commission on the Status of Women. The papers include minutes of meetings, meeting agendas, correspondence, annual reports, press releases, newspaper clippings, photographs, federal publications, and miscellaneous material.

Missouri Committee for the New Constitution Papers, 1945 (C2262)
0.04 cubic feet (2 folders)

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The collection contains pamphlets, handbills, broadsides, and form letters issued by opponents and supporters of the proposed constitution, 1945. The material was issued by the Missouri Committee for the New Constitution and the Association Against the Proposed Constitution.

Missouri Community Action Network Records, 1979-2016 (CA6460)
2 cubic feet

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The records of Missouri CAN, a statewide association of community action agencies, allies, and supporters who work to end poverty in Missouri, include newsletters, reports, correspondence, brochures, training materials, new releases, and project material. The organization was originally called Missouri Association for Community Action (MACA).

Missouri Conference on History Records, 1965-2008 (CA5337)
0.2 cubic feet, 2 CDs

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Records of the secretary and treasurer of the conference; annual meeting materials; and newsletters.

Missouri Congress of Parents and Teachers Records, 1899-2013 (CA6595)
14.5 cubic feet, 1 audio cassette, 2 video cassettes, 18 oversize items, 2 oversize volumes

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Addition of records includes executive committee meeting minutes, publications, reports, photographs, scrapbooks, and miscellaneous material.

Missouri Congress of Parents and Teachers Records, 1970-1985 (C4324)
0.4 cubic feet (8 folders)

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The records of the Missouri Congress of Parents and Teachers contain printed material which include the origins of the Congress, bylaws of the organization, study programs, subjects of interest for parents and teachers, and program planning materials.

Missouri Conservation Pioneers Records, 2010-2023 (CA6397)
1.2 cubic feet, 1 computer disc

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Newsletters, emails, correspondence, photographs, and miscellaneous administrative material of an organization for retirees and surviving spouses of the Missouri Department of Conservation, the Conservation Credit Union, and the Conservation Federation of Missouri.

Missouri Constitution, 1820 (C1877)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Constitution of the State of Missouri, pages 1 and 29 only. Original in the archives of the U.S. Senate. Constitution is in the handwriting of William G. Pettus.

Missouri Constitution, 1865 (C2866)
1 oversize item

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German edition, published by Westliche Post, 1865.

Missouri Constitutional Convention Portraits, 1922-1923 (P1086)

Portraits of representatives to Missouri's Constitutional Convention.

Missouri Constitutional Convention Papers, 1941-1945 (C0016)
4 cubic feet (418 folders)

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Correspondence, speeches, radio scripts, and related materials concerning the work of the Missouri Committee for the New Constitution and the Missouri Public Expenditure Survey to promote ratification of the Constitution of 1943-1944.

Missouri Council for Exceptional Children Records, 1940-2001 (CA6084)
6.5 cubic feet

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Records of the state federation of the national professional special education organization. Includes conference and membership materials, awards, brochures, correspondence, strategic plans, minutes, newsletters, proclamations, publications, photographs and slides, treasurer's reports, financial records, and unit resource handbooks.

Missouri Council of Churches Records, 1866-1980s (CA4558)
29 cubic feet, 1 oversize volume

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The records of an organization concerned with legislation and social welfare programs in addition to religious concerns include convention materials, committee files, minutes, publications, correspondence, and miscellaneous material. Includes records of the Missouri Sunday School Association.

Missouri Council of Defense Papers, 1917-1919 (C2797)
13.6 cubic feet

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Correspondence, bulletins, circulars, and posters.

Missouri Council of Defense Records, 1940-1945 (C0011)
42 cubic feet (3,163 folders)

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Records dealing with the organization, and with participation of individual citizens in the organization. Bulletins, letters, budgets, plans, applications, forms, maps, insignias, mailing lists, minutes, newspaper clippings, and other material showing how the Council operated.

Missouri Council on the Arts Records, 1962-1967 (C4292)
0.4 cubic feet (10 folders)

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Correspondence, reports, newspapers, clippings, special studies, projects, meeting minutes on the passage of a National Arts Council Bill and creation of the Missouri Council of the Arts.

Missouri Covered Bridges Photograph Album, 1930s (C4359)
1 oversize volume

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An album of 20 11x14 black and white photographs of Missouri bridges. The album is labeled ""Covered Bridges."" The first 13 images are of covered bridges and the last seven are of a variety of other bridges in Missouri. Most images are captioned with information about the location of the bridge and sometimes dates of operation.

Missouri Defense Warrants, 1864 (C3382)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Defense warrants issued by the State of Missouri for five, ten, twenty and fifty dollars.

Missouri Democratic State Committee Records, 1950-1980s (CA4861)
58.85 cubic feet, 134 oversize items

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The records include correspondence, clippings, photographs, printed material, financial records, platforms, transcripts of proceedings, office files of the organization, and material concerning candidates, state caucus procedure, delegate selection process, and state and national conventions.

Missouri Democratic State Nominating Convention Papers, 1892 (C1762)
0.06 cubic feet (3 folders)

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Third and fourth ballots of vote by counties for presidential electors-at-large; printed list of delegates to convention; rules for nominating speeches, representation, voting, and admittance; minutes of proceedings; reports of committees on credentials, permanent organization, and platform and resolution.

Missouri Department of Agriculture Photographs, 1920-1978 (P0203)
10 photographs

Photos of the Missouri State Fair.

Missouri Department of Conservation Photographs, no date (P1075)

Portraits of Joel M. Vance and Wilbur C. Buford. Exhibition for the Centennial Forests Celebration, recognizing 100 years of forest conservation.

Missouri Department Of Natural Resources Maps, 1934-1998 (S1111)
1 cubic foot

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Maps of Missouri dating from 1934 to 1998.

Missouri Department of Natural Resources Photographs, 1890-1988 (P0136)
1.08 linear feet

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Photographs and postcards of historic sites and buildings in Missouri. Includes photographs of the dedication for the Harry S. Truman birthplace site in Lamar.

Missouri Department of Resources, "The White River Country" Collection, no date (R0324)
0.01 cubic foot (1 folder)

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The Missouri Department of Resources, “The White River Country” Collection contains a map of the White River watershed encompassing all or parts of eleven counties in southern Missouri. Topographic features and recreational sites are shown, as are mills, mines, bridges, fords, schools, and churches.