Manuscripts Index
Missouri Federation of Teachers Records, 1957-1985 (S0447)
0.4 cubic foot, 26 folders, 142 photographs
he records of the Missouri Federation of Teachers contain correspondence, newsletters, legal materials, photographs, and the organization's charter. The collection documents various activities on behalf of teachers, including representing teachers in labor disputes with local school districts, lobbying for collective bargaining and improvement in teacher tenure requirements, and developing hiring guidelines for teaching positions created by voluntary desegregation.
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Missouri Federation of Women's Clubs Records, 1917-2023 (CA6745)
1 cubic foot, 1 oversize item
Addition of MFWC records. Includes records from the 4th district and miscellaneous clubs. Items include convention records, certificates, financial records, minutes, and yearbooks. See also C1172.
Missouri Federation of Women's Clubs Records, 1909-1926 (CA6436)
0.4 cubic feet
Addition of yearbooks, programs, and miscellaneous material. See also C1172 and CA6745 preliminary inventory.
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Missouri Federation of Women's Clubs Records, 1896-1933 (C1172)
5 volumes
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Missouri Federation of Women's Clubs, Sixth District Records, 1932-1943 (R1175)
(1 volume)
These are the secretary's minutes of the annual meetings of the Sixth District, Missouri Federation of Women's Clubs. The record book includes minutes of the twenty-ninth through fortieth annual meetings, 1932-1943.
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Missouri Female College Certificate, no date (C2955)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Blank certificate for stock in college.
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Missouri Female College (Boonville, Mo.) Certificate, no date (C0617)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Certificate of stock signed by P.G. Rea, president.
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Missouri Fiber Artists Records, 1978-2018 (CA6512)
4.6 cubic feet, 13 computer discs, 1 DVD, 4.84 GB of digital files
The records of the organization include newsletters, meeting minutes, conference materials, financial records, membership records, slides, photographs, and miscellaneous administrative material.
Missouri Folklore Society Records, 1906-1931, 1971-2016 (C2045)
14.4 cubic feet (649 folders, 1226 photographs, 144 slides), 64.8 MB of digital files (306 jpgs), 357 audio cassettes, 10 audio tapes, 3 audio discs, 32 video cassettes, 4 DVDs, 1 reel 16mm film, 8 oversize items
The records of the Missouri Folklore Society include scattered early materials such as constitutions, programs, and publications. The bulk of the collection consists of organizational materials beginning in 1977 when the Society was reactivated, including correspondence, meeting minutes, publications, photographs, audiovisual materials, clippings, membership lists, and annual meeting materials.
Missouri Folklore Society Records, 1993-2019 (CA6567)
2 cubic feet, 2 CDs, 5 DVDs, 4 oversize items
Addition of annual meeting materials, grant proposals, correspondence, mailing lists, audiovisual material, and miscellaneous material. Also includes material pertaining to the society’s journal.
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Missouri Forest Heritage Center Records, 1994-2007 (R1342)
0.75 cubic foot (13 folders)
The records of the Missouri Forest Heritage Center contain the papers the not-for-profit organization and its goal to create a heritage center that showcased the state's role in the lumber industry, the importance of forests, and to archive items relating to the lumber industry.
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Missouri Forest Heritage Records, 1954-1979 (S1060)
0.01 cubic foot
The Missouri Forest Heritage Records contain correspondence relating to Loe A. Drey's efforts to preserve Missouri forests and the wildlife within them from 1954 to 1999.
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Missouri Forestry Records, 1929-1994 (R1341)
2.25 cubic feet (53 folders)
The records of Missouri Forestry contain materials from the administration of directors George O. White, Osal B. Capps, and Jerry Presley. This includes materials related to Smokey Bear, fire safety, and the promotion of science, practice, and standards of forestry.
Missouri Fox Trotting Horse Breed Association Collection, 1966-1997 (R0726)
(29 volumes)
These are programs for the annual show and celebrations of the Missouri Fox Trotting Horse Breed Association, held at Ava in Douglas County, Missouri. The illustrated booklets include schedules, rules, and many advertisments for horse breeding services and local businesses.
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Missouri General Assembly Portraits, 1871-1991 (P0217)
978 photographs
Portraits of members of the Missouri General Assembly, 1871-1941.
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Missouri Geological Survey Photograph Collection, no date (P1161)
Copy photos of Evans Pottery near Dexter, Missouri, in Stoddard County, and the products manufactured there.
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Missouri German Heritage Corridor Oral History Project, 2018 (C4354)
0.4 cubic feet (6 folders), 9CDs
A collaborative project between the State Historical Society of Missouri and the Missouri Humanities Council, this collection emphasizes the past and present influence of German heritage in Missouri, including historic sites, past people, notable conflicts, religious influence, agriculture, music, art, and architecture. The German Heritage Corridor will focus on the counties north and south of the Missouri River, from St. Charles and St. Louis, to Chariton, Saline, and Lafayette. This corridor includes several distinct German communities, including New Melle, Herman, Dutzow, and Westphalia.
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Missouri Governor's Mansion Tour, 1970 (C4242)
1 16mm film
A color film showcasing the Missouri Governor’s Mansion, produced by Southwestern Bell in 1970.
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Missouri Governors Portraits, 1876-1994 (P1091)
Portraits of Missouri Governors
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Missouri Governors' Proclamations, 1892-1898 (C3446)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
The collection contains proclamations of Columbus Day by Governor David R. Francis; Thanksgiving Day and LaFayette Day by Governor Lon Vest Stephens, and calls for relief of flood-damaged Steelville, Missouri. These proclamations bear the seal of the State of Missouri.
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Missouri Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows Records, 1850-2009 (CA6254)
82 cubic feet, 4 oversize volumes, 8 oversize items
Records of the Missouri lodges of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Rebekah Assembly. Included are account books, minutes, annual membership and financial reports, encampments reports, petitions submitted to the state Grand Lodge, and publications about the organizations. The collection also includes records of the Modern Woodmen of America, Brotherhood of American Yeomen, and Theta Rho Girls Club.
Missouri Guerrillas Postcards, 1862-1876 (P1093)
Postcards of Misosuri Guerrillas
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Missouri Heartwood Records, 1965-2000 (C4209)
2.3 cubic feet (104 folders)
Records of an environmental coalition concerned with protecting and restoring the native Ozarks forests. Includes files on lead mining and poisoning, incinerator use, wood chipping, logging, forest planning, and other environmental issues in Missouri.
Missouri Heritage Quilt Project Papers, 1983-1985 (CA6675)
1.0 cubic foot
Records compiled by Bettina Havig concerning the Missouri Heritage Quilt Project. Includes quilt data sheets, correspondence, promotional materials, and quilt slides.
Missouri Historic Church Slide Collection, 1973-1987 (P1006)
455 slides
35mm slides of historic church buildings across Missouri. Includes both original photography and copy slides.
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Missouri Historic Mining Photograph Collection, circa 1880s-1900s (R0620)
0.22 cubic foot (4 folders, 110 photographs)
The Historic Mining Photographs Collection contains images concerning mining industries in Missouri, with an emphasis on the Old Lead Belt of southeastern Missouri, and the Tri-State Mining District centered on Joplin in Jasper County, Missouri. The subjects include surface installations of various mines, mining equipment, mills, and general views of the mining areas.
Missouri Historical and Philosophical Society Papers, 1849 (C1556)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Resolution passed by the Society authorizing the treasurer to draw appropriations from the state auditor of public accounts. Act passed by Missouri General Assembly appropriating $150 for the Society. Treasurer George W. Hough's receipt for a $150 warrant from the auditor of public accounts.
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Missouri Historical Society Union Organizing Drive Records, 1993-1995 (S1093)
0.25 cubic foot
This collection contains meeting minutes, newsletters, memorandum, and correspondence about the unionization movement at the Missouri History Museum (MHS). Of interest is the correspondence, which revealed the divisions within MHS over the attempt to establish a union for employees.
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Missouri History Publications and Notes, no date (C1302)
0.02 cubic feet (1 volume)
Reading notes on publications concerning the history of Missouri. Books and articles reviewed date from the 1840s through the 1890s.
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Missouri History Scrapbook, 1896 (C1416)
0.04 cubic feet (1 volume)
The scrapbook consists of newspaper clippings of miscellaneous early Missouri history and other material.
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Missouri Home Economics Association Records, 1933-2020 (CA6615)
2.2 cubic feet
The records of the organization include annual meeting programs, directories, newsletters, and meeting minutes.
Missouri Honor Medalist Portraits, 1933-1975 (P1209)
Portraits of recipients of the Missouri Honor Medal, awarded by the University of Missouri's School of Journalism for distinguished service in journalism. Represented in this collection are Pauline Frederich, Sylvia Porter, Dorothy Roe Lewis, Katharine Graham, Doris Fleeson, Malvina Lindsay, Mary Margaret McBride, and Daniel Fitzpatrick.
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Missouri Humanities Council Records, 1971-2020 (S0936)
115 cubic feet, 45.4 GB
The Missouri Humanities Council Records contains grant proposals, evaluations, development meeting minutes, program guidelines, reports, and newsletters pertaining to the group’s mission to assist libraries, museums, and other organizations in promoting educational programs focusing on history, law, ethics, philosophy, and anthropology. The majority of the collection contains grant proposals submitted to the Missouri Humanities Council by various organizations in Missouri; the grant proposal files include the proposals, correspondence, and program evaluations. The Missouri Humanities Council was founded in 1971 and is affiliated with the National Endowment for the Humanities. It has offices in Kansas City and St. Louis. The materials in this collection date from 1971 to 2020.
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Missouri Hybrid Corn Company (Fulton, Mo.) Records, 1932-1981 (C2966)
5 cubic feet
The business records of the first hybrid corn company in Missouri include early company histories, scrapbooks, Italian POW labor records, and extensive financial records.
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Missouri Immigration Oral History Project, 2023 (C4649)
0.1 cubic feet (3 folders), 8.79 GBs
Interviews with immigrants to Missouri, their descendants, and people who had interactions or relationships with immigrant communities in Missouri.
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Missouri Infantry Regiment, Phelps's, Quartermaster Records, 1862 (R0272)
(1 roll of microfilm)
The Missouri Infantry Regiment, Phelps’s Quartermaster Records contain a microfilm copy of the accounts kept by Lieutenant Robert B. Owens, quartermaster for the Phelps’s Regiment while stationed at Rolla, Lebanon, and Springfield, Missouri in 1862. The accounts include records of receipt and issue of food, forage, clothing and camp equipage, lists of civilians employed by the army, and notes on wagon trains in quartermaster service.
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Missouri Innovation & Exploration Oral History Project Records, 2018 (C4352)
0.4 cubic feet (17 folders), 32 CDs
The collection consists of interviews with Missourians who have been involved with projects related to innovation and exploration in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The collection includes digitally recorded interviews and transcripts of the interviews.
Missouri Institute for Justice, Inc. Records, 1964-2007 (K0599)
20 c.f.
Records of an organization created to educate citizens and lawyers about the "Missouri Nonpartisan Court Plan", an amendment to the Missouri Constitution approved in 1940. Includes minutes, correspondence, reports, publications, and financial records. Also project files for the Law Student Ordinance Revision Program and film footage for an educational series entitled, "Your Day in Court".
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Missouri Judges Portraits, 1845-1938 (P1085)
Portraits of Missouri judges.
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Missouri Labor Agreements Collection, 1960s-1970s (CA6598)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Labor agreements between local Missouri unions and various industries including meat cutting and butchery, garments, breweries, and automobiles.
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Missouri Land and Live Stock Company and Missouri Land Company of Scotland Papers, 1881-1924 (C0825)
4 rolls of microfilm
Records, reports, and correspondence of companies which had main offices in Edinburgh, Scotland. Their purpose was to obtain land in southwest Missouri to sell or lease.
Originals in Colorado State Archives.
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Missouri Land Records, 1843-1898 (C3680)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Abstract of title to lands in Johnson County, Missouri, 1898; land deeds, Henry and Johnson Counties, Missouri, 1843-1871.
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Missouri League for Nursing Records, 1919-1980s (CA4598)
18.9 cubic feet
The records of a professional organization concerned with nursing and nursing education include minutes, reports, state review board materials, workshop materials, programs and evaluations, convention materials, and miscellaneous material.
Missouri Legacy Radio Program Records, 1980s (CA6268)
0.2 cubic feet, 50 audio cassettes, 16 audio tapes
Audio recordings and related material of a 1980s radio program featuring "profiles of traditional artists representing the diverse cultural heritage of Missouri." The series was produced by Susan Newstead and KOPN-FM, with support of the Missouri Cultural Heritage Center.
Missouri Legislators Portraits, 1880-1996 (P1084)
Portraits of Missouri's United States senators and representatives.
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Missouri Librarians Oral History Collection, 2020-2021 (C4501)
190 GB of digital files (65 mp4s)
The collection contains digital video oral history interviews conducted by Steve W. Campbell, director of the Scenic Regional Library in Union, Missouri, with retired library directors from across the state about their lives and careers.
Missouri Libraries Film Cooperative Records, 1948-1997 (CA6117)
11 cubic feet
Records and other organizational papers of the Missouri Libraries Film Cooperative. A grant to the Missouri State Library in 1948 created the MLFC to develop a statewide film circuit. The Cooperative dissolved in 1996. Includes correspondence, photographs and microfilm, master's thesis, journal articles and other historical materials, and financial records.
Missouri Libraries Network Board Minutes, 1982-1985 (CA6116)
0.4 cubic feet
Meeting minutes of the Missouri Libraries Network Board, 1982-1985.