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John S. Phelps Letter, 1876 (C1975)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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The collection contains a letter to W. Halliburton, Milan, MO, from Springfield, MO, Apr. 20, 1876. The letter comments on work of the constitutional convention and ratification of new constitution, as well as asking for Halliburton's support for Phelp's candidacy for governor and for his opinion of Phelp's prospects. Also included is a negative photostat of the envelope.

John S. Phelps Letter, 1854 (C1626)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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To Jas. C. Dobbin, from Springfield, MO, Sept. 20, 1854.

Phelps recommended the appointment of St. Louisan Antoine R. McNair, Jr., as midshipman in the Navy to Dobbin, secretary of the Navy.

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John S. Phelps Scrapbook, 1876-1937 (C3058)
0.1 cubic feet (1 volume)

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Scrapbook containing newspaper clippings and biographical information about Phelps, governor of Missouri, and his family. Includes some correspondence and photographs of family residences.

John S. Phelps Letters, 1852, 1856 (SP0097)
0.1 cubic foot (2 folders)

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The collection contains two letters written by John S. Phelps during his time as a Missouri Congressman. The first letter is a recommendation of a Naval officer’s appointment as a midshipman. The second letter is in regard to the presidential election of 1856.

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John Smith Phelps Receipt, 1864 (R0562)
0.01 cubic foot (1 folder)

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The John Smith Phelps Receipt is a receipt given by John S. Phelps at Ozark, Christian County, Missouri, to Jesse Jennings, administrator of the estate of George Yocum.

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Phelps, Missouri Store Records, 1884 (R0344)
(1 roll of microfilm)

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The Phelps, Missouri Store Records contain a microfilm copy of a cashbook of an unidentified general store at Phelps, Lawrence County, Missouri. It may have been operated by Lawson & Clements, or by Wiley & Company. There are entries from May 10, 1884, to August 17, 1884.

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William C. Phelps Papers, 1918-2014 (CA6721)
1.8 cubic feet (1 audio tape), 17 oversize items, 3 oversize volumes

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The papers of William C. Phelps, the 40th Lieutenant Governor of Missouri, contain correspondence, programs, newspaper clippings, certificates, campaign materials, and photographs. Also include are three scrapbooks, which contain photographs, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and other miscellaneous materials.

Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha of Missouri Chapter Records, 1971-2011 (CA6280)
0.8 cubic feet

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Phi Beta Kappa is the oldest academic honorary society for general education in the United States. The Alpha of Missouri Chapter was founded in 1901. The records include correspondence, membership lists, speeches, and information about the chapter's history.

Phi Delta Kappa, Gamma Chapter Papers, 1909-1957 (C3362)
7.1 cubic feet (426 folders)

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The papers contain correspondence and financial records including correspondence about the election of and the personal histories of members of the chapter.

Phi Delta Kappa, Gamma Chapter Records, 1913-1965 (C3601)
3.2 cubic feet (189 folders)

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Minutes, business and financial records of the chapter of a national professional fraternity for men in education located at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Includes personal histories, newsletters, correspondence and proceedings of meetings of national councils.

Phi Kappa Psi, Missouri Alpha Chapter Papers, 1869-1959 (C0979)
0.06 cubic feet (3 folders)

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Materials pertaining to a social fraternity at the University of Missouri. Includes a list of members, 1869-1913.

Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity-Epsilon Mu Chapter Records, 1962-1976 (K1125)
0.02 c.f. (2 folders)

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Photocopies of the ""Musician of the Year"" awards given by the Kansas City local fraternal society in music.

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Charles Lincoln Phifer Papers, 1880-1908 (C3527)
0.2 cubic feet (14 folders)

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The papers contain two unpublished novels. The County Editor is autobiographical; The County Judge, or the Osceola Fox is about the repudiation of fraudulent railroad bonds in St. Clair County, Missouri, in the 1860s.

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Philia Club, Lebanon, Missouri Records, 1961-2004 (R1190)
(1 roll of microfilm)

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These are minutes of meetings, a scrapbook, and miscellaneous papers of the Philia Club, a women's club at Lebanon in Laclede county, Missouri.

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Phillips Family Papers, 1853-1942 (C4008)
0.3 cubic feet (13 folders)

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The papers of the Bryan and Phillips families of New Madrid, Missouri, include various wills, deeds, accounts, genealogy, miscellaneous material, and photographs.

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Phillips Family Papers, 1863-1935 (R0169)
0.01 cubic foot (1 folder)

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The Phillips Family Papers contain photocopies of miscellaneous personal papers of the Phillips family of New Madrid County, Missouri. Included are the inventory and sales records of the estate of Shapley R. Phillips and a letter from Robert E. Lee concerning the attendance of Murray Phillips at Washington College in Lexington, Virginia.

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Phillips Family Photographs, no date (P0952)
1 folder

Photos of Phillips family members

Edward D. Phillips Papers, 1865-1938 (C3091)
0.04 cubic feet (2 folders)

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Teaching certificates, grade reports, and Civil War reminiscences of a prominent Kansas City educator. Newspaper clippings about Phillips, including his obituary. Also a diary.

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Eva Lena Anson Phillips Collection, 1921-1963 (C4651)
0.25 (5 folders)

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Programs and announcements from concerts, recitals, plays, and graduation ceremonies from the 1920s and 1940s. Also includes church newsletters from the 1960s.

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George B. Phillips Papers, 1850 (R0082)
0.01 cubic foot (1 folder)

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The George B. Phillips Papers contain photocopies and typescripts of letters written by George Phillips to his sister, Mary E. Phillips in Cortlandville, New York. The letters describes his life in Fairfax County, Virginia.

John Phillips Letter, 1793 (C0534)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Letter from John Phillips of Boston to Samuel Gray dated November 28, 1793. The letter concerns a deed for land purchased by Jeremiah Clark, Jr.

L. N. Phillips Papers, 1871 (R0863)
(1 folder)

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This is a holograph letter dated March 31, 1871, from L. N. Phillips in Dubuque, Iowa, to D. Lansing in New York, New York. In the letter, Phillips tries to interest Lansing in the St. James and Little Rock Railroad Company and lead mining opportunities in Missouri and Iowa. Included is a hand-drawn map of existing and proposed rail lines.

Nellie H. Phillips Letter, 1889 (C3232)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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The collection contains a letter to Maggie Sampson, Rocheport, MO, from Nellie Phillips, Columbia, MO, Dec. 30, 1889, thanking Miss Sampson for a Christmas gift.

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Perry C. Phillips Papers, 1882-1909 (K0085)
0.23 c.f.

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Photographs and papers including a diary and autograph book concerning the personal life of Phillips, and attorney and president of the Inola Oil and Gas Company of Kansas City, MO for which there are also some records.

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Sidney B. Phillips Papers, 1916-1941 (C4303)
0.5 cubic feet (15 folders)

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The papers contain photographs of the 4th Missouri Infantry Machine Gun Company of the National Guard during their service along the Mexican border in Laredo, Texas, in 1916. Sidney B. Phillips served with the 4th Missouri Infantry from 1916-1918. The papers also include army manuals issued to soldiers in 1913 and 1941.

Sidney B. Phillips Photograph Collection, 1916-1917 (P0512)

Copy photos of the 3rd Missouri Infantry Machine Gun Co. during the Mexican Border Troubles, 1916-1917.

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Vivian E. Phillips Constitutional Convention Papers, 1924-1967 (C2609)
0.8 cubic feet

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Letters, clippings, speeches, journals, reports, and miscellaneous papers of a delegate-at-large to the Missouri constitutional convention, 1943-1944. Pertains to the convention and the work of the Constitutional Convention Study Committee after the adoption of the 1945 Missouri constitution.

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Vivian E. Phillips Constitutional Convention Papers, 1937-1949 (C0025)
3.5 cubic feet (334 folders)

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Correspondence, notes, pamphlets, and newspaper clippings collected by a delegate-at-large to the Missouri constitutional convention of 1943-1944.

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Garrott Philpott Papers, 1825-1913 (R0924)
(1 roll of microfilm)

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These are the papers of Garrott Philpott of Henry County, Virginia, and Cedar County, Missouri, including promissory notes, tax receipts, and business papers. There are also papers from the estates of the related families of Hezekiah Perkinson and William H. clark, and the correspondence and papers of Thomas W. M. Montgomery.

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Phipps Photograph Album, no date (P0563)
1 folder

Cartes des visite and tintype portraits from photo album, of people from Cooper and Moniteau counties.

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Phoebe Jane Ess Foundation Records, 1934-1939 (K0064)
0.3 c.f.

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Reports of Recording Secretary and membership lists, minutes, treasurer's reports, and information on the dispersal of Foundation funds which were among others contributed to the Crippled Children's Fund, the Gold Star Scholarship Fund, the Phoebe Jane Ess Scholarship, and to the purchase of books for the University of Kansas City Library.

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Photo & View Company Photographs, 1875-1934 (P0670)
7 photographs

Photos of Kansas City, MO, architecture, ca. 1902-1903 and 1934.

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Photo View Company Photographs, Kansas City, ca 1932, no date (P0366)
8 photographs

8 photographs depicting Kansas City and its environs in the early 1930s

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Photographs of Harmony Mission and Papinville, Missouri, 1996 (P0291)
9 photographs

snapshots from 1996 of the sites of Harmony Mission and Papinville in Bates County, Missouri

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Arthur Richard Hill Photographs, 1912-1978 (SP0067)
0.4 cubic foot

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The Arthur Richard Hill Photograph collection contains photographs of various Missouri towns including Cassville, Joplin, Neosho, Pineville, Savannah, Seligman, and Springfield.

Photos from the Road Collection, 2018-2019 (C4389)

Sean Rost serves as the Oral Historian for the State Historical Society of Missouri and the Missouri Humanities Council. He started this position in January 2018. The images in this collection were taken during Rost's travels throughout the state on oral history projects and on personal time.

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Physicians for Social Responsibility Records, 1977-1993 (S0660)
7 cubic feet, 211 folders, 9 cassette tapes

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Physicians for Social Responsibility is a national non-profit organization of doctors and concerned citizens committed to public education on the medical dangers of nuclear weapons and nuclear war. The organizers created symposium to present lectures on nuclear hazards that included noted authorities such as Robert Jay Lifton, Helen Caldicott, and H. Jack Geiger, as well as such media figures as Carl Sagan and Benjamin Spock. The records include resource kits, newsletters, subject files, and cassette tapes.

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Pi Lambda Theta, Central Missouri Alumnae Chapter Records, 1920s-1990s (CA4973)
7.6 cubic feet, 1 oversize volume, 4 oversize items

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Meeting and executive board minutes, correspondence, reports, membership lists, financial records, scrapbooks, and newsletters of a national scholastic association for women in education.

Pi Lambda Theta, St. Louis Alumnae Chapter Records, 1981 (S0958)
0.8 cubic feet

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This collection contains meeting and executive committee minutes, correspondence, membership directories, and treasurers' reports relating to Pi Lambda Theta's mission to recognize and students who attain academic excellence.

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Joseph Piatchek Papers, 1927-1976 (S0663)
0.4 cubic foot, 10 folders, 110 photographs

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The Joseph Piatchek papers contain correspondence, certificates and newspapers pertaining to St. Louis area unions, including the Textile Workers Union of American (TWUA) and the St. Louis Cordage Mills Company.

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Picher Lead Company Records, 1875-1918 (R0210)
2 cubic feet (2 folders, 6 oversize volumes)

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The Picher Lead Company Records contain correspondence and records books of the Picher Lead Company headquartered at Joplin, Missouri. The collection includes correspondence with shipping agents and commission merchants, ledgers of expense and sales, and smelter records. The records span the period from the founding of the company in 1875 to its merger with the Eagle White Lead Company in 1916.

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Picher, Oklahoma Collection, circa 1975-1995 (R0754)
(3 folders)

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These are photocopies of pamphlets and scrapbooks of newspaper items concerning the development and decline of the lead and zinc mining industry at Picher, Ottawa County, Oklahoma. There is also information on other mining communities in the Tri-State Mining district of Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma.

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John Pickard Affidavit, 1933 (C2142)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Pickard, chairman of the Missouri Capitol Interior Decoration Commission and professor of art and archaeology at the University of Missouri, evaluated George Caleb Bingham's "General Order No. 11," a work of art worth $20,000 for insurance purposes.

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L.A. Pickard Sr. Photograph Collection, 1890-1908 (P0821)

Copy photos of drainage activities in the Little River Drainage District, ca. 1908, and the Dunklin County Courthouse.

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Helen Pickel Collection, no date (CA2946)
0.2 cubic feet

Genealogical charts. Missouri families of Koken, Hennon, Hawkins, Walpole, and related families.

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Frank Piepenbring, Jr. Papers, 1933-2009 (K0585)
5 c.f.

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Personal papers of Kansas City area resident, businessman and World War II veteran. Includes correspondence, publications and printed materials, and World War II military training materials, maps, and photographs.

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Margaret E. Pierce Papers, 1917-1972 (K0328)
0.25 c.f.

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Minutes and membership records of the Cora Lyman Chapter, Past Presidents Assembly of the National Federation of Music Clubs; Curriculum for music classes in the Kansas City, KS Public Schools and the Wichita Public Schools; the Kansas City Musical Club Bulletin; and various programs, directories and other items relating to music in Kansas City area.

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Greg Pierceall Photograph Collection, 1901-1930 (P0766)
5 photographs

Copy photos of Stoutsville, MO, ca. 1901-1930.

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Elmer F. Pierson Papers, 1938-1981 (K0084)
0.5 c.f.

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Photocopied scrapbooks compiled following Pierson's retirement from the Vendo Company, a manufacturer of vending machines. They are items Pierson felt to be of greatest personal interest dealing with Vendo and Pierson philanthropic and civic activities.

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H.H. Pigott Scrapbooks, no date (C2476)
0.28 cubic feet (2 volumes)

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Scrapbooks of newspaper clippings from the 1880s: poems, jokes, stories, and truisms. Vol. 1 is a ledger from a Boonville general store, of which about 25 pages are free of clippings. Vol. 2 seems to be a lawyer's notes on land transferals in the 1860s, mostly without clippings.

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