Manuscripts Index

U.S. Presidential Agricultural Campaign Literature, 1928-1936 (C0884)
2 oversize volumes

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Equity for Agriculture: An Advertising Campaign for Governor Smith, 1928, prepared by Ferry and Hanly Advertising Company. Newspapers and periodicals, advertisements, pamphlets, and some statistics on the distribution. Agriculture in the 1936 Presidential Election, prepared by Critchfield and Company.

U.S. Presidents Portraits, no date (C0412)
1 oversize folder

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Collotype reproductions of presidential portraits from George Washington to John F. Kennedy.

U.S. Selective Service System, Missouri Records, 1917-1918 (C2681)
8.7 cubic feet (445 folders)

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Lists of persons by county and district selective service boards whose cards were held by those boards. Arranged alphabetically by county.

U.S. Superintendency of Indian Affairs, St. Louis Records, 1807-1855 (C2969)
6 rolls of microfilm

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Correspondence, account books and treaties with various Indian tribes. Much of the material is to and from Indian agents at the area agencies. The bulk of the material is from the period when William Clark was superintendent. Also included are records of the Missouri Fur Company, 1812-1817.

Originals at Kansas State Historical Society.

U.S. Superintendency of Indian Affairs, St. Louis Records, 1824-1851 (C2970)
10 rolls of microfilm

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Papers pertain to surveying of Indian lands, expenses of agencies, establishment of trading posts for the Indians, policy for emigrating Indians west of the Mississippi, depredations by Indians and estimates of costs accrued, negotiations and expenses involved with treaties, transcriptions of various chiefs' speeches and reports on the conflicts between various tribal groups.

U.S. Surveyor-General Surveys, 1834-1862 (C1287)
0.13 cubic feet (1 volume)

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Copy of surveys of St. Louis, St. Charles, Ste. Genevieve, Mine a Breton, New Bourbon, Carondelet, and surrounding territories, copied from plat book in office of secretary of state of Missouri.

U.S. Wage Stabilization Board, 9th Region Minutes, 1951-1953 (C0154)
0.2 cubic feet

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Minutes record regulations under which the board operated; labor-industry cases brought before the board; decisions; and petitions regarding wage rates, holidays, overtime and merit plans.

The Board's region consisted of Kansas, Iowa, Illinois and Missouri.

U.S. Work Projects Administration, Historical Records Survey of Missouri, 1935-1942 (C3551)
302 cubic feet (24,282 folders); also available on 817 rolls of microfilm

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Correspondence, records, and working files. Originally designed to survey and inventory all county government records, the survey finally included inventories of church records, manuscript collections, vital statistics, American imprints, and federal archives. Incorporates records of the Federal Writers Project for Missouri.

U.S. Work Projects Administration, Survey of Federal Records in Missouri, 1935-1937 (C2799)
4.4 cubic feet (395 folders)

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Frank J. Uhlenbrock Collection, 1941-1945 (P0834)
0.4 linear feet

A collection of World War II photographs, most from the Official War Pictures Co, collected by Uhlenbrock, a Marine (March 1943-April 1945, South and Central Pacific). Additionally, color, fold-out postcard depicting Springfield, MO (1938).

Uljee Family Papers, 1884-2007 (S0350)
6 cubic feet, 1322 photographs, 21 audio tapes, 43, audio disks, 44 audio cassettes, 1 object

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The collection contains correspondence, diaries, photographs, musical programs, military papers, vital records, and school papers chronicling the lives of Albert Martin Uljee I, Eleanor Gorges, Albert M. Uljee II, and Eileen Rue who lived in St. Louis. Materials of interest include correspondence to and from Albert M. Uljee II discussing his World War II experience, and materials documenting the musical career of Eleanor Gorges, who performed as a concert pianist under the pseudonym Olga Boris.

Angus Umphraville Letter, 1819 (C1655)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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To Smith Thompson, Washington, D.C., from Philadelphia, PA, Oct. 21, 1819.

Umphraville submitted descriptions and illustrations of naval weapons and military engines; described his War of 1812 experiences in the West Indies and Puerto Rico; wrote poem, "The Siege of Baltimore;" and desired a clerkship in Washington.

Lyle Welles Underhill Architectural Records, 1909-1939 (K0136)
3.12 c.f.

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Architectural drawings, specifications, contracts, photographs, correspondence, and related memorabilia of Underhill, a woman architect in Kansas City, MO who specialized in school buildings in Iowa, Kansas, and Missouri. However, other types of buildings are also included.

N. Robert Underhill Papers, 1943-1945, 2017 (C4470)
0.4 cubic feet (8 folders), 16.1 MB of digital files (1 docx, 5 jpgs)

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The collection contains love letters written during World War II from N. Robert “Bob” Underhill to Merrilee Ann Meier of St. Louis during their courtship and shortly after their marriage while Bob was serving in the U.S. Navy in Panama and along the northeastern seaboard of the United States. The collection also includes some family correspondence; a memoir based on the love letters by Bob and Merrilee’s daughter, Catherine Underhill Fitzpatrick; transcripts of the letters; and digital photographs.

Underwood & Underwood Studio Photographs, no date (P1078)

Portraits of Missouri author Winston Churchill and Oscar Wells, President of the American Bankers Association.

Arthur Unger Papers, 1943-2004 (C4027)
10.8 cubic feet (756 folders), 58 audio cassettes, 2 audio tapes, 4 audio discs, 5 CDs, 1 video cassette

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Arthur Unger was an entertainment journalist who reviewed movies and television shows for the Christian Science Monitor and Ingenue. He edited several magazines as wide-ranging as Mechanix Illustrated and Datebook and toured with the Beatles. The collection includes recordings, transcripts, and notes from his interviews with celebrities, his writings, Beatles publications, and personal materials.

Alvina Ungerer Papers, 1928-1933 (S0770)
0.1 cubic foot, 1 folder

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The collection contains a series of correspondence belonging to Missouri resident Alvina Ungerer. Letters are arranged chronologically with a date range of 1928-1933. The correspondence includes holiday cards, thank you letters, and notes from family members, with topics relating to loan repayments, inflation, farming, and weather and economic conditions.

Union Cemetery Association Records, 1857-1954 (K0385)
1 c.f.

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The records of Union Cemetery Association contain minutes, financial and legal documents, correspondence, lists of plot owners, a scrapbook of clippings, a stock book, and photographs concerning the cemetery shared by the towns of Kansas City and Westport, Missouri, dated 1857-1954.

Union Cemetery Historical Society Records, 1991-2005 (K1224)
0.25 c.f.

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Bound volumes of "The Epitaph," the Society's newsletter.

Union Electric Company Collection, 1931, no date (P1019)

Photographs of Union Electric operations in Illinois and Iowa. Photograph of Gateway Arch.

Union Hill Baptist Church (Holt's Summit, Mo.) History, 1971 (C3277)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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History of the church from its organization in 1843 to 1971, naming deacons and pastors, giving a history of the church buildings, and describing some of the special meetings of the church.

Union Independent Academy Records, 1856-1859 (R0127)
(1 roll of microfilm)

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The Union Independent Academy Records contains a microfilm copy of meeting minutes of the directors, a list of stockholders, and the constitution of the Union Independent Academy at Laketon (now Lake Spring) in Dent County, Missouri.

Union Literary Society Programs, 1860 (C3412)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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The collection contains programs from the Society’s exhibition on April 6, 1860, and anniversary on July 3, 1860.

Union Pacific Railway Handbill, no date (C0819)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Advertisement for Kansas farmlands in the "Golden Belt."

Union Primitive Baptist Church (Boone County, Mo.) Records, 1887-1984 (C4322)
1.25 cubic feet (35 folders)

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Newsletters, books, and record minute books of the Union Primitive Baptist Church Records.

Union Regular Predestinarian Baptist Association Records, 1855 (R0287)
0.01 cubic foot (1 folder)

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The Union Association of Regular Predestinarian Baptists Records contain the minutes of the eighth annual meeting of the Union Association, which was composed of Regular Baptist churches in Ozark County, Missouri, and Fulton and Marion counties in Arkansas. The minutes include the constitution, articles of faith, rules of decorum, and membership statistics.

United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 249 Records, 1987-1998 (K1225)
0.25 c.f.

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Newsletters and printed materials from the UAW local in Kansas City, MO.

United Baptist Church, Piedmont, Missouri Collection, no date (R1220)
(1 folder)

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This small booklet contains the church covenant, articles of faith, and rules of decorum for the United Baptist Church of Piedmont in Wayne County, Missouri. A schedule of services is on the outside back cover. The congretation was organized on July 12, 1959.

United Brothers of Friendship and Sisters of the Mysterious Ten Records, 1908-1980 (S0127)
0.01 cubic foot

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This collection contains articles of incorporation and bylaws of a fraternal, benevolent association of African-American men and women in Missouri.

United Confederate Veterans Committee on History Record Book, 1897 (C1277)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Proceedings of a committee formed for "the preparation and publication of a correct history of the part borne by Missourians in the Confederate Army." 

United Confederate Veterans Records, 1903-1922 (C4706)
0.1 cubic foot (1 folder)

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Records of United Confederate Veterans in Missouri that includes reports, resolutions, rosters and correspondence.

United Confederate Veterans Camp No. 662 (Nevada, Mo.) Minute Book, 1908-1927 (C1275)
0.04 cubic feet (2 folders)

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Minutes of meetings and miscellaneous papers.

United Confederate Veterans Camp No. 662 (Nevada, Mo.) Record Book, 1895 (C1276)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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List of members, constitution and bylaws, and minutes of meetings.

United Confederate Veterans, Springfield, Missouri Records, 1903-1919 (R0273)
(1 roll of microfilm)

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The United Confederate Veterans, Springfield, Missouri Records contain a microfilm copy of records of the United Confederate Veterans Campbell Camp No. 488 located in Springfield, Missouri. The records, dating from 1903 to 1919 contain meeting minutes, membership and visitor rosters, and other organizational records.

United Confederate Veterans Springfield, Missouri Records, 1894-1915 (R0060)
(1 roll of microfilm)

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The United Confederate Veterans, Campbell Camp No. 488 Records contains a microfilm copy of a volume with the records of the United Confederate Veterans, Campbell Camp No. 488 in Springfield, Missouri. The volume includes the constitution and bylaws, minutes of meetings, lists of the members, and miscellaneous papers.

United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC), Dixie Chapter #2188 Records, 1949-1989 (K1226)
3 c.f.

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Scrapbooks, bylaws, minutes, reports, publications related to the Dixie Chapter, other Missouri Division Chapters in Kansas City and Clay County, and the United Daughters of the Confederacy national operations.

United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC), Robert E. Lee Chapter Records, 1916-1917, 1935 (K0152)
0.01 c.f. (2 folders)

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Annual yearbook of the Chapter includes constitution and by-laws, membership lists, and lists of officers and committee people.

United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC)-Jefferson Davis Chapter Scrapbook, 1924-1936 (K0020)
1 v

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Chapter historian's scrapbook containing newspaper clippings and magazine articles, program announcements, detailing the activities of a UDC chapter in Kansas City, MO.

United Daughters of the Confederacy and Children of the Confederacy Records, 1921-1954 (C4305)
0.95 cubic feet (3 folders, 7 oversize volumes)

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The records contain meeting minutes of the Richmond Greys Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and scrapbooks of the Charlotte Jones Smith Chapter of the Children of the Confederacy.

United Daughters of the Confederacy Clinton, Missouri Records, 1917 (R0222)
0.1 cubic foot (1 folder)

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The United Daughters of the Confederacy, Clinton, Missouri Records contain a photocopy of a registrar’s book for the Kate K. Salmon Chapter No. 631 from 1917. The volume contains membership records for the chapter located in Clinton, Missouri.

United Daughters of the Confederacy, Betty Shelby Chapter Records, 1973-1986 (CA6190)
13 oversize volumes

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Scrapbooks of the United Daughters of the Confederacy Chapter #2319, founded in Waverly, Missouri, in 1962.

United Daughters of the Confederacy, Confederate Dames Chapter Records, 1918-1990s (CA2986)
1.4 cubic feet

Records of a chapter in St. Louis consisting of minutes of chapter and board meetings, 1918-1988; state annual convention programs; by-laws, 1980s; membership lists, 1980s-1990s; HISTORY OF THE UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY, 1894-1955; and miscellaneous publications concerning the Civil War.

United Daughters of the Confederacy, John S. Marmaduke Chapter Scrapbook, 1935-1936 (C1431)
0.63 cubic feet (1 volume)

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Newspaper clippings, photographs, and miscellaneous articles depicting Missouri history, Civil War, Robert E. Lee, Confederate veterans, history of Columbia, University of Missouri, Stephens and Christian Colleges, and other miscellaneous topics collected by Mrs. G.F. Troxell, historian of the chapter.

United Daughters of the Confederacy, John S. Marmaduke Chapter Scrapbooks, 1927-1929 (C2996)
2 volumes

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The collection contains newspaper articles regarding events of the Civil War and members and activities of the chapter.

United Daughters of the Confederacy, Missouri Division Collection, 1954 (R1254)
(1 folder)

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This booklet contains the minutes of the 57th annual convention of the Missouri Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, held at Black River Lodge near Lesterville in Reynolds County, Missouri, on September 28-30, 1954. Lucile V. Wallace was president.

United Daughters of the Confederacy, Missouri Division Records , 1898-2019 (CA3031)
2.5 cubic feet

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Addition of convention proceedings, minutes, programs, and miscellaneous chapter material.

United Daughters of the Confederacy, Missouri Division Records, no date (C3188)
9.2 cubic feet; also available on 33 rolls of microfilm

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Records of Missouri Confederate veterans, compiled for the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Missouri Division, by local chapters. Records include four page record forms of biographical and historical data, arranged alphabetically by veteran's names; copies of rosters and muster rolls; and miscellaneous lists and records.

United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers Collection, 1925-1995 (S0756)
0.8 cubic foot, 20 folders

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The United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers (UE) was founded in 1936 as a labor union, and affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) until 1948. As anti-Communist tensions escalated in post-WWII years, Congress passed the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947. The Act required union officers to sign an affidavit disavowing their ties to the Communist Party. Several UE officers refused to sign the affidavit, and, as a result, the CIO expelled the UE from the union and created the International Union of Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers (IUE) in its place. Many of the papers and artifacts contained herein come from the personal collection of Lloyd Austin, a former employee of Emerson Electric in St. Louis. Austin’s collection contains original copies of the Emerson Equalizer, a newsletter published by the Local 1102 UERWCIO during the Emerson Electric sit-in of 1937. The sit-in lasted 53 days and sought to gain recognition from Emerson President Joseph Newman. When the strike finally ended, Newman conceded and agreed to recognize worker’s rights under the Wagner Act of 1935. The remainder of this collection consists of World War II worker propaganda, pro/anti-Communist literature, news clippings pertaining to the Emerson strike, and a second scrapbook by Emerson employee William C. Reidel.

United Evangelical Lutheran Church, Cole Camp, Missouri Collection, 1934-1976 (R0526)
0.01 cubic foot (1 folder)

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The United Evangelical Lutheran Church, Cole Camp, Missouri Collection contains photocopies of the Easter Cantata, church directory, and fiftieth anniversary pro­gram of the United Evangelical Lutheran Church in Cole Camp, Benton County, Mis­souri.

United Garment Workers of America, Local 47 Records, 1898-1915 (K0458)
1 c.f.

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Organizational and membership records (Membership List and Receipt Accounts, and Membership Register) of the labor union. Includes minutes of a few meetings, a day-book of expenses and income, receipts and notes, and a general ledger.