Manuscripts Index

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Noah See Papers, 1889-1890 (C2928)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Records of farm hands and their wages.

Thomas Jefferson Jackson See Notebooks, 1892-1896 (C0990)
0.06 cubic feet (3 folders)

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Lecture notes for courses in celestial mechanics taught by See at the University of Chicago.

"Seeing the Light," Arthur E. Holbrook, 1950 (C2135)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Account of photographing "The Light at Hornet," an unidentified light in Newton County, MO, August 11, 1950.

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William J. Seever Memorandum, 1894 (C1741)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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The collection contains field notes of an archaeological trip down the Gasconade River, describing caves in Pulaski County, MO, by a Missouri archaeologist.

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Fred Lee Seevers Papers, 1931-1957 (K0714)
0.19 cubic foot (4 folders, 5 oversize photographs, 3 oversize items)

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The Fred Lee Seevers Papers includes photographs, diplomas, directories, programs, membership cards, and constitution and by-laws relating to the Kansas City College of Veterinary Medicine and veterinary associations in the area.

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Amy Bradfield Sefrit Letters, 1976-1993 (K0876)
0.3 c.f.

Sefrit's letters document the life of a rural Missouri farm family in Atchison County, MO. She writes about the daily life of her family, her husband's work and the activities and development of her children. Also her work as a substitute teacher in the local schools, condition of the crops, weather, and news of other family members.

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Mrs. A.D. Segnin Photograph Collection, 1916 (P0375)
15 photographs

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Photographs of the aftermath of a 1916 tornado in Olean, Miller County, MO.

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Donald A. Seibert Collection, 1834-1851 (C4112)
0.2 cubic feet

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The papers of Donald Seibert contain personal accounts of Col. Seibert's great-great grandfather, a German immigrant who established himself in the St. Louis, Missouri area.

Seidel Family Records, 1865-1928 (CA6678)
21 oversize items

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The records of the Seidel family include sacramental documents, school certificates, and a photograph of Co. D., 138th Division, 1919.

Elizabeth Seifert Papers, 1944 (C0401)
0.1 cubic feet (5 folders)

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Manuscript of DOCTOR WOODWARD'S AMBITION (originally called "The Hospital"), published by Dodd, Mead & Company in 1945. Also notes, clippings, and two letters from the publishers.

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Shirley Kenis Seigle and Sidney M. Seigle Papers, 1950-1987 (K1186)
0.1 c.f.

Seigle was an educator, actress, and playwright who produced various events for Temple B'nai Jehudah Sisterhood Incudes bulletins, education/administration papers, programs, scripts, newspaper clippings, and photographs relating to Seigle's activities at the Temple.

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Robert E. Seiler Papers, 1967-1982 (CA4393)
16 cubic feet

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The papers of a Missouri Supreme Court Judge contain notes and summaries on various cases before the Supreme Court of Missouri, conference materials, and miscellaneous material.

Ernestine Ernst Seiter Papers, 1828-1985 (C4351)
1.75 cubic feet (23 folders), 1 oversize volume, 1 oversize item

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The papers contain a transcription of James and Robert Aull letter books and daybooks from 1828-1851. Also includes an unidentified doctor’s account ledger from Lexington, Missouri, from 1872-1875; scrapbook of Ernestine Ernst Seiter; research on Lexington homes; and miscellaneous material.

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Selective Service Collection, 1940-1941 (K1438)
0.3 cubic feet

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The Selective Service Collection contains correspondence, memoranda, newsletters, and manuals from county and state selective service systems.

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Jesse N. Self Papers, 1860-1863 (R0304)
0.02 cubic foot (1 folder)

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The Jesse N. Self Papers contain photocopies of letters to his family by Jesse N. Self, a schoolteacher at Irondale, Missouri, and captain of Company F, 32nd Missouri Infantry. The collection includes letters from Irondale, 1860, and from camps in Rolla and Benton Barracks in St. Louis, 1861-1862. Capt. Self died of erysipelas at Memphis, Tennessee, on February 25, 1863.

Theodore H. Seligson Architectural Collection, 1950-1995 (K0545)
235 c.f.

Administrative and financial records, correspondence, notes and other documents, and architectural drawings, by Seligson, and prominent Kansas City architect and educator, and his various firms.

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Mary Anne Sell Diaries and Social Calendars, 1941-1944 (S0054)
1 roll microfilm

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The Mary Anne Sell Diaries and Social Calendars consist of microfilmed diaries and social calendars owned by Mary Anne Sell Pernoud, a high school student and St. Louis socialite that attended Villa Duchesne high school during the mid-20th century.

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Selleck Letter, 1849 (C3531)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Letter to Emeline E. Selleck, of Oregon, Missouri, from New Orleans, Louisiana, July 23, 1849. Written to his wife after her departure from New Orleans on the steamboat Ioway. They apparently had moved out of a house prior to her trip to Missouri.

Sellers Family Photographs, no date (P0574)
4 photographs

Photos of the Sellers family and farm near Bolivar, MO, ca. 1900.

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Mary Sellers Photograph Collection, 1918-1925 (P0043)
3 photographs, 1 brochure

Roster of the 34th Training Battery F.A.C.O.T.S. out of Camp Zachery Taylor, Kentucky, 6 October to 28 December 1918. Several panoramic photos

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Sellmeyer Family Collection, no date (CA5526)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

Addition of Sellmeyer family genealogical materials, including materials in German. Correspondence, census records, family tree, photographs, map, and miscellaneous. See also C3062.

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Sellmeyer Family Collection, 1839-1990 (C3062)
1 roll of microfilm

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Deeds, wills, family trees and photographs of three 19th-century immigrant families who settled in Missouri. The Velten and Ebeling families emigrated from Germany and settled in Warren County, while the Swedish Bentleys came to settle in Howard County. Also includes probate and census records, and a "Velten Family Record" narrative.

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Robert Washington Selvidge Papers, 1918-1942 (C3650)
8.5 cubic feet (670 folders)

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Papers of a University of Missouri professor who was chairman of the Department of Industrial Education, served as chairman of the Missouri State Planning Board, 1933-1935, taught vocational war training, wrote many books and articles, and was a proponent and innovator of specific job and information sheets for trade teaching with individual instruction.

Seneca Missouri Scrapbooks, 1898-1992 (SP0029)
1 cubic foot (13 folders)

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The Seneca, Missouri, Scrapbooks were compiled by Virginia Hoare and contain photographs, newspaper clippings, and articles about the history of Seneca, Missouri.          

 

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Senior Leadership of Johnson County, KS Records, 1996-2007 (K1181)
2 c.f.

Organizational records of a steering committee to coordinate a leadership program with Leadership Northeast for seniors in Johnson County. Includes minutes, committee reports, correspondence, scrapbooks, newsletters, photographs, floppy disks, and CDs.

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Ben Senturia Papers, 1968-2015 (S0745)
30 cubic feet

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Ben Senturia has been long active in environmental, antiwar, and political reform efforts. A graduate of Washington University in 1966, Senturia served as a research assistant for Barry Commoner, an early and ardent environmentalist, from 1966 through 1968. Senturia became a predoctoral fellow in the Environmental Field Program at Washington University at this time. Thereafter, he worked as an organizer and campaign consultant for a variety of public interest, nonprofit organizations, chief among them were the St. Louis Coalition for the Environment and the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign. Throughout this time and beyond, Senturia frequently acted as a consultant to numerous nonprofit organizations, assisting them in organizing and directing political or fund-raising campaigns as part of a private business, the Center for Active Citizenship, organized in 1989. The papers contain correspondence, essays, photographs, legislative materials, and reports.

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Daniel Serda Papers, 1976-2011 (K0687)
21 c.f.

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Research materials gathered by Serda, a local historian, city planner, and faculty in the Department of Urban Planning, University of Kansas. Includes Kansas City bibliographic research, the Kansas City Stock Yards, the 1951 Flood, and other topics of his research and writing.

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Sergent Family Letters, 1943-1945 (C4583)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Transcriptions of World War II letters from brothers John Denzil and Dwight W. Sergent, soldiers from Halfway, Missouri, to family members. The letters are written while John served in India and Burma (now Myanmar) and Dwight in North Africa and Italy. Also includes an original letter from Dwight while in officer training at the U.S. Naval Reserves Midshipmen's School in Chicago.

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Peg Serrano Papers, 1977 (S1062)
0.4 cubic foot

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The Peg Serrano Papers contains literature from Univeristy City delegates pertaining to the National Women's Conference in Houston, Texas, held from November 18 to 21, 1977.

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Service Station and Warehouse Employees of St. Louis Pamphlet, 1933 (S0635)
0.01 cubic foot

A pamphlet titled "Our Facts Regarding Disagreement and Strike of Service Station and Warehouse Employees of St. Louis Area," prepared by Gasoline Service Station and Warehouse Employees' Union No. 18362.

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Settle Family Papers, 1857-2008 (CG0026)
1.25 c. f.

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Correspondence and photographs of the Settle, O'Bannon, and Rhodes families of Wayne County, Missouri and Arkansas. Also includes genealogy records, Bible, and report cards for Virgil E. Settle.

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William A. Settle Jr. Papers, c. 1920-1987 (C3896)
2.5 cubic feet (102 folders), 5 rolls of microfilm

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Papers of a University of Tulsa history professor related to his research of the Missouri outlaws Jesse and Frank James, consisting of correspondence, research notes, bibliographies, newspaper clippings, photographs, and ephemera.

Settoon Family Papers, 1838-1896 (C0980)
0.06 cubic feet (3 folders)

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Letters to and from the Settoon family of the Louisiana delta country concerning family and financial matters. The documents relate to property matters, including enslaved people.

"Seventy-five Years in the Old and New World," Heinrich Bornstein, 1884 (C1054)
2 oversize volumes

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Translated by William G. Bek from the second edition, Leipzig, 1884. Heinrich Bornstein resided in Germany and Austria, where he was a theatre director and European correspondent for American newspapers. His memoirs were written in 1879-1880, and first appeared in serial form in the Sunday supplement of ILLINOIS STAATSZEITUNG, Chicago, IL.

Severance Book Review Club (Columbia, Mo.) Records, 1931-2000 (C4364)
0.4 cubic feet (9 folders)

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The records of a literary club contain constitutions, minutes, and membership lists of the club.

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Betty Kennedy Sewell Genealogical Collection, 1912-2016 (CG0011)
1.4 cubic feet

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The collection contains genealogical research, including family group sheets, correspondence, clippings, and photographs of the Kennedy, Zook, Sheppard, Priest, Renfroe, Whitley, Gisler, Doughty, and affiliated families.

Charles E. Sexton Papers, 1938-1973 (C4519)
2.0 cubic feet (48 folders)

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Unpublished and published manuscripts, consisting of mostly historical fiction with some non-fiction, by writer and civil engineer Charles E. Sexton.

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Wilhelm and Augustus Seyffert Papers, 1854-1905 (C2888)
0.04 cubic feet (2 folders)

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The papers of Wilhelm and Augustus Seyffert contain a copy book of poems in German (vol. 1), a history of Missouri State Militia, Company E, 13th Cavalry, and an account book of Augustus Seyffert, 1869-1889 (vol. 2).

Robert B. Seymour Military Land Grant, 1853 (C0504)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Grant of 40 acres of land near Fayette, Missouri, by order of Franklin Pierce.

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SFS Architects Records, 1966-1988 (K1341)
2 c.f.

Archtitectural drawings (c. 1966-1988) for projects in the KC, MO, area including National Frontier Trails Visitor Center (1988)

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George Carlisle Shackelford Papers, 1898-1902 (C0433)
0.06 cubic feet (3 folders)

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Papers of a Glasgow, MO, lawyer, the son of Thomas Shackelford, who was proprietor, along with G.H. Bowles of St. Louis, of the Elm Grove Stock and Grain Farm in Maywood, MO. Papers primarily concern the farm.

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John C. Shackelford Family Papers, 1847-1911 (C0404)
0.04 cubic feet (2 folders)

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Clippings, poems of Civil War and Confederacy, and correspondence. Letter from Warrensburg, August 25, 1861, mentions early Civil War events in Missouri.

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Thomas Shackelford Books, 1893-1902 (C2324)
0.49 cubic feet (4 volumes)

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Shackelford was a lawyer, merchant and landowner in Glasgow, MO, and president and a stockholder of the Glasgow Savings Bank.

Two ledgers and two inventory books.

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Thomas Shackelford Papers, 1820-1908 (C0163)
0.6 cubic feet

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Personal and business letters, documents and memoirs of a lawyer and politician of Glasgow, MO. He was a member of the Missouri Convention of 1861 and of the Constitutional Convention of 1875. Includes family letters and letters relating to his legal practice and politics, a few of them pertaining to the Constitutional Convention of 1875.

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Norbert Shacklette Collection, 1891-2023 (R1511)
3 cubic feet (53 folders)

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The Norbert Shacklette Collection contains railroad financial records and correspondence, transportation publications and related labor union communications from South-Central Missouri, and Missouri Democratic Party event programs and memorabilia.

Walter Shafer Diary, 1918-1919 (S1080)
0.25 cubic foot

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The Walter Shafer Diary consists of 58-page typewritten diary entries written by Shafer, describing his experiences as a soldier overseas with the 35th Infantry Division in World War I. The diary entries date from May 2, 1918, through May 13, 1919.

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Shake Rag Cemetery (Macon County, Mo.) Records, 1985 (C0557)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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The records of the Shake Rag Cemetery contain the names and birth and death dates from tombstones located in Shake Rag, also known as Pleasant Hill, Cemetery, in Macon County, Missouri.

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Shakespeare Club (Clinton, Mo.) Minutes, 1892-1911 (C2477)
0.14 cubic feet (3 volumes)

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The collection contains minutes of the meetings of a ladies' cultural improvement club. Members are listed and the lesson for each meeting described.

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Leo Shalinsky and Arlene Shalinsky Papers, 1982-2010 (K1046)
0.09 c.f.

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Includes materials of the Kansas City Jewish Marriage Encounter and the Retired Old Men's Eating Association (R.O.M.E.O) club.

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John Elliott Shamberg Papers, 1923-2001 (K0748)
9 c.f.

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Correspondence between Shamberg, his family and friends, relating his college years, early career, World War II, and after the war. Shamberg was an attorney and personal counsel to Robert B. Docking, governor of Kansas,

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