Manuscripts Index

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Providence Baptist Church (Madison County, Mo.) Record Book, 1813-1898 (C3021)
1 roll of microfilm

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Record book of Providence Baptist Church. Contains names of newly received members.

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Providence Baptist Church (Washington County, Mo.) Record Book, 1831-1894 (C3023)
1 roll of microfilm

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Records of Providence Baptist Church, Washington County, MO. Contains minutes and lists of members.

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Provident Association Collection, 1880-1944 (K1284)
0.3 c.f.

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The collection includes one copy of a document prepared by R.F. Townley in 1944, regarding the history of the Provident Association.

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Provident Behavioral Health Records, 1848-2002 (S0360)
26 cubic feet, 16 microfilm rolls

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The Provident Behavioral Health Records contain annual reports, meeting minutes, press releases, scrapbooks, presentations, videotapes, relating to mental health and social services in the St. Louis Area. Found in 1860 by James Yeatman, Provident Behavioral Health's mission is mental health services to St. Louis area residents. The collection also contains the records of Provident's predecessor organizations: The Family and Children's Services of Greater St. Louis, the Family Service Society of St. Louis County, and the St. Louis Children's Aid Society.

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Gabriel Prudhomme Estate Abstract, 1831-1858 (K0209)
0.01 c.f.

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Land transactions concerning tract of land located in SE 1/4 sec. 32, T. 50N, R. 33W, of 271 93/100 acres fronting on the Missouri River. Its purchase by the Kansas Town Company formed the original site of Kansas City, MO.

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Pruitt-Igoe Action Program Report, 1972 (S0409)
0.01 cubic foot

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This collection contains a 71-page unpublished report titled Summary and Conclusions of Pruitt-Igoe Action Program Phase I & II. The report, commissioned by Mayor Alfonso Cervantes's committee on the redevelopment of Pruitt-Igoe, proposed the addition of new families at Pruitt-Igoe, partial demolition, rehabilitation of existing units, and construction of parks and shopping centers.

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Leonard Pryor Photograph Collection, no date (P0576)
1 folder

Copy prints of photos of Lake Placid, Missouri, used in a 2000 Review article by Gary Kremer.

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Public Opinion Survey Unit Records, 1960s-1970s (CA4919)
15 cubic feet

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Questionnaires, codebooks, computer data sheets, correspondence, reports, and other files of surveys conducted by the Public Opinion Survey Unit of the Department of Political Science at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

Randolph E. Puchta Interview, 1998 (C2521)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder), 3 audio cassettes, 3 CDs

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Interview with Puchta, a resident of Hermann, MO. Puchta discusses his early life, German ancestry, wine making, local customs and leisure activities, and transportation. Of note are his descriptions of photographs from the Edward Kemper Collection at WHMC-Columbia (Accession No. 4633).

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E.P. Puckett Photographs, 1957-1958, no date (P0646)
7 photographs

Photos of historic house and business buildings in Fayette, MO, ca. 1958

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Barbara Smith Pugh Collection, 1871-1990 (R1531)
1.5 cubic feet (30 folders, 1 oversize item)

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The Barbara Smith Pugh Collection contains photographs and papers created and collected by Barbara Smith Pugh during her life. Photos depict family members from both the Smith and Pugh families. Barbara was an avid genealogist and photographer from Rolla, Missouri.

Pulaski County, Missouri Tax Records, circa 1936-1944 (R1331)
(2 folders)

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These undated books contain data pertaining to land owners in Pulaski County. They were created by William C. White, assessor of Pulaski County, Missouri, between the years 1936-1944.

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Joseph Pulitzer Papers, 1897-1958 (S0060)
163 rolls of microfilm

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Joseph Pulitzer was an editor and newspaper publisher, whose holdings included the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The papers primarily relate to his editorship of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and cover nearly every aspect of the operation and production of the newspaper, including its internal business management and its editorial policies. The collection contains extensive correspondence with family, journalists, and politicians.

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B.G. Pulliam Daybook, 1836-1860 (C4332)
0.2 cubic feet (1 folder)

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The daybook of the B.G. Pulliam Dry Goods store in Middletown, Montgomery County, Missouri, contains names of dry goods store customers and an itemized list of goods purchased and prices paid.

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Puls Family Photograph, 1922 (P0288)
1 photograph

One ink jet copy print of Puls family at Noser Mill Dam in 1922.

Purcell Family Photographs, 1903-1951 (SP0044)
0.25 cubic foot (6 folders, 33 photographs)

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The Purcell Family Photographs collection contains photographs of the Purcell family and the Bois D'Arc, Missouri area. The photographs were taken between 1903 and 1951. It includes photographs of the Fairview school, which was a one-room schoolhouse in Pierce City, Missouri, which the Purcell children attended. The Purcell children are portrayed from childhood to adulthood.   

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Thomas D. Purdy Diary, 1870 (C0457)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Notes of a trip from Sullivan County, MO, to Colorado, May 14-July 4, 1870.

Puritan Mining Company Collection, 1911 (R1115)
0.01 cubic foot (1 folder)

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This collection contains certificate number 542, dated April 19, 1911, for five shares of stock in the Puritan Mining Company at Joplin in Jasper County, Missouri. The company was organized in 1909 and failed in 1913. The shares were sold to Olivia Ramed.

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William R. Purnell Papers, 1908-1913 (C2258)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Mock initiation certificate of the Order of the Deep; U.S. Naval Academy graduation diploma; two U.S. Navy commission certificates; and photograph of U.S. ships WYOMING, UTAH, and DELAWARE.

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William Allen Pusey Papers, 1938 (C2779)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Poem of six verses, DE SENECTUTE (without apologies to Cicero or Emmerson), by a Chicago dermatologist; photograph of Pusey.

Putnam County Teacher's Institute (Putnam County, Mo.) Papers, 1871-1880 (C3140)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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The papers of the Putnam County Teacher's Institute contain copies of a contract for the building of a school building at St. John, MO, 1855; blocks 1 and 2, Elson's addition to the town of Unionville, MO, n.d.; and programs of the Putnam County Teachers Institute, 1871, 1873, 1880.

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Putnam County, Missouri Survey and Town Plats, 1844-1866 (C3440)
0.04 cubic feet (2 folders)

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The collection contains negative Photostats of an official survey, by township, of Putnam County, MO, 1844-1854, and plats of thirteen towns in the county showing blocks and street names, 1857-1866.

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John G. Putz Autobiography, 1943 (C2935)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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The collection contains a description of Putz's various occupations and statistics about his 13 children.

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Pyle's International Transcontinental Foot Race Collection, 1928-1929 (R0094)
0.04 cubic foot (2 folders)

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The Pyle's International Transcontinental Foot Race Collection contains photocopies of programs from Charles C. Pyle's first and second annual transcontinental foot races. The 1928 race was from Los Angeles to New York; the 1929 race was from New York to Los Angeles. Through Missouri the runners followed United States Highway 66.

William Pyle Photographs, 1930-1955 (P0026)
181 photographs

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Columbia photographer William Pyle worked in the advertising department of Central Dairy, which was owned by his step-father, Dot Sappington. Central Dairy-related images, including interior and exterior views of the building, children’s field trips, “Central Baby” portraits by Peterson Studios, and photos of the Merchandettes and a sponsored baseball team.

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Q.E.B.H. Portraits, 1900 (P1186)

Photographs of members of Q.E.B.H., a student honor society at the University of Missouri.

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Quality Hill Master Plan, 1954 (K0163)
0.1 c.f.

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A development plan for the Quality Hill area of Kansas City overlooking the Missouri River and containing significant architectural homes and buildings.

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"Quality Hill: The History of a Neighborhood", 1962 (C3518)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Award-winning essay on a residential neighborhood inhabited by Kansas City's wealthiest families in the 1880s. The author describes its decline and rebirth.

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"Quantrill War Veterans Rest in Family Cemetery," B. James George, 1958 (C3385)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Article on the George Family cemetery near Oak Grove, MO, where four members of the George family who served under Quantrill are buried.

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Daisy Middleton Quarles Papers, 1938 (C3201)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Genealogical notes on the Evans and Middleton families of Missouri.

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Quarry Heights Owners' Association (Columbia, Mo.) Records, 1951-1987 (C4157)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Bylaws, correspondence, rules, membership lists, and president's material of Wesley S. Platner, Quarry Heights Owner's Association, Columbia, Missouri, 1960s.

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Queen of the World Hospital Collection, 1951-1965 (K1132)
1 c.f.

Hospital was begun by Catholic Archbishop Edwin V. O'Hara in Kansas City, MO. includes scrapbooks concerning the hospital containing minutes of meetings and the historian's yearly reports.

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John P. Quesenberry Diaries, 1859-1865 (C1210)
0.4 cubic foot (6 folders)

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Civil War diaries and memorandum book of a Confederate soldier from Richmond, Ray County, MO, who joined the army of Sterling Price in December 1861 and spent most of the war in Arkansas. Camp activities, rumors, battles, weather, friends, moving and marching, political opinions and opinions on Confederate officers.

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J.P. Quesenbury Receipt, 1863 (C2448)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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The collection contains a receipt issued to Quesenbury by J.P. Maxey for payment of $15.46 for commissary stores sold to Jackson Cooper, 31 March 1863.

H.D. "Doc" Quigg Papers, 1883-1998 (CA6368)
25.6 cubic feet, 1 audio cassette, 6 oversize items

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The papers of a journalist who spent most of his career at UPI include story files, clippings, article drafts, correspondence, photographs, and miscellaneous personal and professional material. Quigg, a native of Boonville, Missouri, graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism in 1934.

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Martin P. Quigley Papers , 1930-1996 (S0589)
1.2 cubic foot, 70 folders

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This collection contains writings by novelist Martin Quigley; Neurotica Volume 1, Numbers 1 (Spring 1948) 4, (Spring 1949) and Volume 8 (1951); Bound volumes of Midwest Motorist, 1971-1996; interviews with Bing Devine and Bob Costas; and writings by Fran Landesman.

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Quill Club of Kansas City Records, 1920-1980 (K0509)
8 c.f.

Organizational files of a writers club in Kansas City, MO Includes minutes, financial records, scrapbooks, manuscript writings of members and other records.

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Bartholomew Quinn Papers, 1826 (C2304)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Three documents concerning the transfer of title to land in Saline County, MO, from Richard M. Cummins to Bartholomew Quinn.

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Patrick J. Quirk Diary, 1865 (C3943)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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The diary of Patrick J. Quirk relates the details of a trip made in 1865 by railroad and steamboat from Springfield, Massachusetts, to Yankton, South Dakota, on the way to the Montana Territory.

Quitman Select School Papers, 1955 (C2058)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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List of students, correspondence, and reminiscences about school which was held at Quitman, 1882-1887.

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R-9 Community Center Records, 1955-1958 (S0963)
0.04 cubic foot

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This collection contains photographs, videotape, newspaper clippings, and meeting minutes of the R-9 Community Center.

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R.E. Lee Mercantile Company Records, 1881-1941 (C0292)
0.5 cubic feet (2 folders, 14 volumes)

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Receipts from a general store in Doniphan, MO; account books, cash books; day books; inventories; and minute books. This store succeeded Pearce and Lee Mercantile Company.

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R.S. Woolton and Company Articles of Agreement, 1852 (C1652)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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The collection contains Photostats of an agreement between R.S. Woolton and Company and Jesse B. Turley, Taos County, New Mexico Territory. They formed a partnership to drive sheep to California. Topics include financial arrangements, supplies, and sale procedures.

"Rabbi Eppstein's Kansas City Diary, 1880-1883," Howard Sachs, no date (C2625)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Article based on Rabbi Eppstein's diary.

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Abe "Butch" Rabin and Sara Stolov Rabin Papers, 1933-1982 (K1135)
0.1 c.f.

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Family photographs, correspondence and certificates awarded to Butch Rabin, former constable of the Jackson County Courthouse, and community volunteer. Also photographs of Mayor H. Roe Bartle, and Colonel James H. Wood.

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Jerry Rabushka Papers, 1975-2020 (S0299)
11.5 cubic feet

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The Jerry Rabushka Papers contain diaries, scrapbooks, script, program bills, posters and VHS tapes documenting Rabushka's career as a playwright, author, and musician. Materials of interest include scrapbooks and photographs of Rabushka's original plays, including Full Frontal Nudity, Gaywatch, and Woof! The Road Show.

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Rackers Studio Photographs, 1925-1934 (P0859)
0.13 linear feet

Photos by Rackers Studio of Jefferson City, MO, many of which are of Missouri representatives.

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Melvin F. Rader Photograph Collection, 1945 (P1065)

One portrait of Melvin F. Rader. One snapshot by Rader of prisoners of war as Americans took over a concentration camp in Mauthausen, Austria.

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Perry S. Rader Papers, 1928 (C2113)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Correspondence concerning the Missouri state seal and the designer George Frederick Burckhartt's daughter Bettie C. Burckhartt, Bruce Lemmon, W.C. Knaus, and Mary Miller (Mrs. A. Lee) Smiser.

E.K. Radford Receipts, 1904 (C3184)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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The collection contains receipts for coffee and tea shipped from New York to Kansas City by the Commercial Fast Transportation Company.

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