Manuscripts Index
Tokyo Symposium on Women Papers, 1988 (C4088)
0.4 cubic feet (11 folders)
Papers presented at symposium on women and media; intra-family communication; women and networking; and women, work, and technology.
Toler Family Papers, 1856-1882 (C0949)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Contains four deeds conveying property in Arkansas and Missouri: 1856, Polk County, MO; 1861, Benton County, AR; 1876, Independence County, AR; and 1882, Izard County, AR.
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Toll-German-Kemper Family Papers, c. 1850-1973 (C4244)
3 cubic feet (95 folders)
The papers of the Toll, German, Kemper and related families, of the Kansas City and Jackson County, Missouri, area contain correspondence, genealogical material, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and extensive photographs.
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William Long Tolman Papers, 1852-1919 (R0246)
5 folders
These are papers of the Evans and Tolman families of Farmington, Missouri, mostly of Dr. William
L. Tolman and his wife, Margaret Frances "Fanny" Evans (1840-1921). Included are letters
from relatives in California and Colorado, a file of letters from Civil War veterans seeking invalid
pensions, and a collection of stories concerning the early settlers of St. Francois County.
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Fannie Marie Tolson Papers, 1890s-2005 (C1704)
2.3 cubic feet (63 folders), 3 audio cassettes, 2 video cassettes, 1 DVD
Fannie Marie Tolson was the first African-American educator to teach in the desegregated schools of Fayette, Missouri. Her papers include family correspondence and photographs, memorabilia from Lincoln University, Jefferson City, Missouri, teaching aids, documents concerning St. Paul's Methodist Church in Fayette, and recordings of two interviews conducted with Tolson.
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"Tolstoi, or, Prometheus Befriended," Walter Clare Martin, 1914 (C0687)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Field Prize poem written in June 1914 at the University of Missouri.
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Tom D. Rote Papers, 1968-2004 (C4625)
0.4 cubic feet (5 folders)
Papers of an aeronautical engineer and hot air balloon designer and enthusiast from Boone County, Missouri, include scrapbooks of clippings, correspondence, photographs, designs, and miscellaneous material concerning hot air ballooning. Also included are hot air balloon trading cards.
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Tom's Monkey Jungle Collection, no date (R0764)
(1 folder)
This is a brochure for Tom's Monkey Jungle, a roadside zoo located near Eldon in Miller County, Missouri.
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Henry Tomas Papers, 1950-1985 (S0810)
5 cubic feet, 32 folders, 90 photographs, 43 volumes
The Henry Tomas Papers include correspondence, sheet music, collections of stamps and postcards, and photographs. It also contains a series of newspaper clippings in Lithuanian. Henry Justine Tomas was born in Russia in 1918 and grew up in Lithuania. He worked as a translator for the United States intelligence services. He published Lietusviskasis Pamarys: Pakalnes ir Labguvos apskritys (“The Lithuanian Seashore: with local names and map”) in 1975.
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Marvin E. Tong Collection, 1878-1947 (C0177)
0.9 cubic feet
Bar dockets of Ozark County circuit court; case briefs before courts of appeals in Missouri; minutes of meetings of Missionary Baptists; case briefs before U.S. and Missouri Supreme Courts; pamphlets of Civil War recollections; and memorial addresses on life of Champ Clark.
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Robert W. Tonn Photograph Collection, 1940s (C4665)
0.2 cubic foot (3 folders, 59 photographs, 171 negatives)
Photographs, negatives, and contact sheets of University of Missouri students, events, and campus scenes, 1940s.
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Toole Dramatic Company Program, [1894] (C0813)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Illustrated program and advertisement of J.E. Toole and his “excellent dramatic company,” in Edwin Jerome's comedy, Killarney and the Rhine. Includes dramatic criticisms and reviews. Probably distributed in Carlinville, Illinois.
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Tootle and Armstrong (St. Joseph, Mo.) Memorandum, 1855 (C0505)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Copy of legal instrument authorizing collection of notes for Tootle and Armstrong, a mercantile firm in St. Joseph, by Joseph Murphy.
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Harry King Tootle Photograph Collection, 1876-1918 (P0944)
3 photographs
Photos of Dr. Samuel Spahr Laws and his wife, Ann Marie Broadwell
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Joseph Tornton Receipt, 1842 (C1659)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Receipt of five dollars, payment in full of Tornton's pledge to the University of Missouri.
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Torrey Family Papers, 1863-1913 (C4036)
0.3 cubic feet (12 folders)
The papers of H.R. Torrey and his second wife, Martha Hard Torrey, include bills and receipts, correspondence, postcards, photographs, and cemetery records. The collection also contains material from other family members, including Martha Torrey's brother, William H. Hard.
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Jay Linn Torrey Scrapbook, 1893-1920 (R0218)
1 cubic foot (1 volume, 1 roll of microfilm)
The Jay Linn Torrey Scrapbook contains materials compiled by Jay Torrey of Howell County, Missouri. A rancher, politician, and Spanish-American War veteran he compiled materials on the Missouri Immigration Society, the State Fruit Experiment Station, the 'Good Roads' movement, relocation of the state capitol, Fruitville Farm, and the proposed village of Torreytown, and the campaign for the United States Senate in 1918.
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"A Tour with Alladin's Lamp," Clair V. Mann, 1944 (C1159)
0.04 cubic feet (1 volume)
A history of the Meramec Iron Works, St. James, MO.
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Tourist Club, Clinton, Missouri Collection, 1924 (R1274)
(1 folder)
This is the annual booklet for 1923-1924 for the Tourist Club, a women's social group in Clinton, Henry County, Missouri. The booklet includes names of officers and members and the program for meetings September 11, 1923 through June 3, 1924.
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W. S. Tower Papers, 1885 (R0879)
(1 folder)
This is a letter of July 1, 1885 from W. S. Tower of Carthage in Jasper County, Missouri, to Thomas W. Gleason in Hartford, Connecticut. It concerns the payment of interest and a possible investment in land.
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J.W. Towl Papers, 1917-1944 (R0475)
5 folders
This collection includes correspondence and business records of J. W. Towl, a businessman at
Potosi in Washington County, Missouri. Included are letters and shipping receipts regarding the
barite industry, mineral lands, and the Southeast Missouri Lead Company, 1918-1939, an inventory
of goods at the Towl store in Potosi, 1928, and receipts for subscriptions to the Missouri War Chest,
Inc., 1944.
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M.W. Townley Photograph Collection, no date (P0779)
2 photographs
Copy photos of Osage County: Townley house, Dr. Townley's office
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Ben Townsend Day Book, 1835 (C2501)
0.23 cubic feet (1 volume)
Day book of accounts of a general store in Arrow Rock, MO, June-November 1835.
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Benjamin F. Townsend Ledger, 1859-1882 (C4535)
0.2 cubic feet (1 oversize volume)
Ledger of an Arrow Rock general store owner, Benjamin F. Townsend, which notes customer information and account balances from 1859-1882.
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G.S. Townsend Letter, 1838 (C2516)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
The collection contains a photostat of a letter to C.A. Harris, Bureau of Indian Affairs, from Cherokee Agency East, Jan. 25, 1838. Townsend describes his journey as attending physician to a band of emigrant Cherokees from Cherokee Agency East to Cherokee Nation West, a distance of 800 miles.
Henry D. Townsend Papers, 1862-1865 (C4141)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
The Civil War letters of Henry D. Townsend, Co. B., 3rd Iowa Cavalry (Union) who fought at Bryce's Crossroads and in Price's Missouri raid, September-November, 1864.
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Joanna Benecke Townsend Family Papers, 1846-2002 (K1222)
9 c.f.
Includes correspondence and postcards, financial records, newspaper clippings, Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) materials, home movies, and Townsend genealogical notes/individual profiles. Also Townsend's personal diaries kept in the later years of her life.
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Robert Townsend Photograph Collection, 1970 (P0356)
Reproduction of a photo of trees and leaves in fall in Missouri
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Albert Tracy Journal, 1861 (C1273)
0.05 cubic feet (1 volume)
Copy of a Civil War journal in the manuscript division of the New York Public Library. It was edited by Roy W. Irwin and published in the MISSOURI HISTORICAL REVIEW, 51 (1956-1957).
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Trade Cards, no date (C2808)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Twenty-one printed, colored trade cards from various Missouri business establishments.
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Moses Trader Papers, 1808 (C2646)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
The papers of Moses Trader contain the diary of Trader, a Methodist circuit preacher in Ohio; and some biographical material.
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E.B. Trail Collection, 1858-1965 (C2071)
4.2 cubic feet (279 folders, 62 volumes)
Correspondence, bills of lading, notes, photographs, clippings, periodicals, scrapbooks, account books, freight books, cabin registers, and portage books of E.B. Trail, collector of the history and memorabilia of steamboating on the Missouri River and its tributaries.
E.B. Trail Photograph Collection, 1845-1963 (P0021)
1.1 cubic feet (513 photographs)
Dr. E. B. Trail, St. Louis was a collector of steamboat images and articles, which he kept in scrapbooks. Includes images of steamboats, rivers, and other boating-related scenes.
Trammel School, Stoddard County, Missouri Collection, 1916 (R0918)
(1 folder)
This is a souvenir booklet presented by the teacher, Lewis M. Layer, to the pupils of Trammel School at La Valle in Stoddard County, Missouri, at the close of the 1915-1916 school year.
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Donald H. Tranin Papers, 1930-2007 (K0694)
7 c.f.
Personal papers of Donald Tranin, his father Earl Tranin (1896-1979), and the Paper Supply Company of Kansas City, MO. Included are political activities, investments in businesses and real estate, and civic activities.
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Dante O. Tranquille Photographs, 1949 (P0148)
104 photographs
This collection consists of 104 images taken by Dante O. Tranquille, a photojournalist who worked at the Utica [New York] Observer-Dispatch in the mid-twentieth century. He visited Missouri in May 1949, likely to attend the Missouri Photo Workshop, and photographed areas in St. Louis, McBaine, and Columbia.
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Trans World Airlines (TWA) Records, 1929-2002 (K0453)
280 c.f.
Records and publications of the Airline including information about flight incidents, personnel, and aircraft.
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Trans World Airlines Photograph, no date (P0312)
TWA airplane taking off; "Color-foto" by TWA - "The Take-off"
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Transportation Studies Collection, 1969-1970 (S1104)
Transportation studies by the East-West Gateway Coordinating Council for the University of Missouri At St. Louis; Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville; Harris Teachers College; and St. Charles, Missouri Public and Parochial schools.
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Frank E. Trask Architectural Records, 1907-1959 (K0711)
11 c.f.
Architectural drawings, photographs, and other documents related to Trask's work as an architect in Kansas City, MO.
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Travel Account of Journey from Indiana to Washington, c. 1850 (C3415)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
The collection contains a copy of an unidentified woman's account of the journey from Indiana to Washington. The copy was made about 1925-1930 and includes a record of the weather, environment, illnesses, encounters with Indians, territory covered each day, lists of provisions, and charges and expenses kept by George Royse.
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Paul Travers Collection, 1926-1957 (S1101)
0.8 cubic foot, 12 folders
The Paul Travers Collection contains scholarly articles written by John Dewey, as well as ephemera from the St. Louis Browns.
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"The Treaties of Portage des Sioux and Some Friends of Mine Who Were There," Wilbur Morse Shankland, 1965 (C2901)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Address before the State Council of the Missouri Society, National Society United States Daughters of 1812, concerns the proceedings of the Council at Portage des Sioux and biographies of dignitaries who attended.
Charles Trefts Papers, 1903-1963 (C3465)
0.2 cubic feet, 4 audio cassettes
Business correspondence, financial papers, photographic salon stickers, prizes, and other items of St. Louis professional photographer Charles Trefts, organizer of the Advertising Slide Company. His photographic collection was presented to the State Historical Society in 1964.
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Charles Trefts Photographs, 1903-1963 (P0034)
3690 photographs
This collection contains images from 1900 to 1963 depicting St. Louis City and County people, public buildings, riverfront scenes, bridges, churches, catastrophes, houses and parks. Trefts photographed many historic events such as the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition; the 1934 World Series; and aviation in St. Louis including the Wright brothers at Kinloch Field in 1908 and Charles Lindbergh's return from Paris in 1927. A number of images focus on Crawford and Iron Counties and the Lake of the Ozarks region in the early 1930s.
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George Wesley Trefts Papers, 1936-1962 (C1422)
0.13 cubic feet (6 folders)
Papers of a photographer and member of he United States 79th Fighter Group stationed in northern Africa and Italy during World War II. Includes correspondence, clippings, and photographs.
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William Maclaren Trenholme Letters, 1931-1963 (C3357)
1.25 cubic feet
Personal letters of William Maclaren Trenholme son of Louise Trenholme Stephens; U.S. naval officer, 1946-1947 and 1951-1953; physicist with General Electric Company, 1948 and 1954-1961; and nuclear physicist with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1961-1963.
Fred Trent Collection, 1960s-1980s (CA5060)
1 folder, 60 audio cassettes
Recordings of Missouri area fiddlers. Includes programs, promotional materials, newspaper clippings, and articles.
Trenton Drug Store (Trenton, Mo.) Records, 1898-1908 (C2962)
6 rolls of microfilm
Daybooks, account and cash books, and ledgers. No information available on the establishment or dissolution of the store.
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Trenton, Missouri, Brochure, 1963 (C3179)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Informational brochure published by the Chamber of Commerce, Trenton, MO, with a map of the town, and a list of churches and other organizations.