Manuscripts Index

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University of Missouri-Columbia Citations, 1966-1968 (C2549)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Honorary degree citations at June 1966, 1967, and 1968 commencements for Barbara McClintock, B.F. Skinner, Charles Johnston Hitch, Fred V. Heinkel, Warren E. Hearnes, Lester V. Chandler, James A. Finch, Jr., Douglas Ensminger, Ward Barnes, and Harry F. Barr.

University of Missouri-Columbia, College of Education Centennial Proclamation, 1968 (C0313)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Proclamation announcing that 1968 would be the centennial year of the College of Education and explaining that in 1868 Missouri became the first state university to undertake the professional training of teachers by establishing a College of Normal Instruction.

University of Missouri-Columbia Free Speech Controversy Papers, 1969 (C3312)
0.04 cubic feet (2 folders)

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Printed materials concerning 1969 free speech controversy at the University of Missouri-Columbia, as well as supportive role of Lincoln University. Other material on student rights' march, Students for Democratic Society summer workshop and incidents at Lincoln University leading to issuing of temporary restraining order.

University of Missouri-Columbia, Friends of the University of Missouri Library Papers, 1976-1985 (C4320)
0.2 cubic feet (8 folders)

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The papers consist of correspondence, minutes, memoranda, financial reports, notes, and clippings of the Friends of the University of Missouri Library.

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University of Missouri-Columbia, Missouri Cultural Heritage Center Records, 1978-1992 (C4053)
15.0 cubic feet (402 folders), 39 audio cassettes, 3 video cassettes, 72 audio tapes

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The Missouri Cultural Heritage Center records contain the correspondence, grants, working files, and research materials that support Center projects and publications.

University of Missouri-Columbia, Missouri Folk Arts Program Records, 1982-2012 (C4035)
32.0 cubic feet (1000 folders), 2132 audio cassettes, 69 audio tapes, 82 video cassettes, 3 oversize volumes

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The records of the Missouri Folk Arts Program contain documentation of the annual work and various programming administered by the organization. The records include fiscal information, contracts with artists, press clippings and releases, publications, exhibit documentation, correspondence, working files, and files on folk and traditional artists. The records also include photographs, audio, and video that document folk and traditional arts, artists, and events.

University of Missouri-Columbia, National Education Association Papers, 1970s (CA3987)
0.6 cubic feet

Correspondence, news clippings, printed material, faculty meeting papers, and miscellaneous material concerning the organization.

University of Missouri-Columbia, Paine Lecture Committee Records, 1976-1978 (C3592)
0.16 cubic feet (8 folders)

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The Rufus Monroe Paine and Sophie Hougaard Paine Lectureship in Religion was established by the will of Catherine Paine Middlebush as a memorial to her mother and father. Includes correspondence, programs, annual reports, news releases, and course proposal.

University of Missouri-Columbia Plat, 1978 (C0935)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Plat of the university showing buildings and streets. Buildings are numbered, but not named.

University of Missouri-Columbia, Women's History Papers, 1971-1979 (C4548)
0.6 cubic feet (7 folders)

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Research papers for women’s history courses taught by John E. Lankford at the University of Missouri.

University of Missouri-Columbia, Women's Panhellenic Rush Week Papers, 1969 (C3469)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Printouts showing pledging results under 1969 quota, with no quota and with a self- (by sororities) determining quota.

Univeristy of Missouri-St. Louis Public Policy Library on St. Louis Collection, 1940-1990 (S0999)
4.8 cubic feet

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The University of Missouri-St. Louis Public Policy Library on St. Louis Collection consists of studies and reports regarding the formation and growth of Missouri state and local governments, including the St. Louis Metropolitan Area. 

University of Missouri-St. Louis Women's Studies Program Collection, 1949-1988 (S0489)
5 cubic feet, 240 folders

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This collection contains newspapers, magazines, articles, posters, conventions notes, and newsletters from across the United States, focusing on women-oriented issues and feminist-lesbian literature. Publications of interest include several lesbian-feminist publications such as Off Our Backs, Lesbian Connection, DYKE, The Lesbian Tide, and Moonstorm.

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THE UNIVERSITY REVIEW, University of Missouri, 1882 (C2361)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Satiric commencement issue of THE UNIVERSITY REVIEW, 1 June 1882.

University Y, YMCA, and YWCA Records, 1900s-1970s (CA2632)
19 cubic feet, 2 oversize volumes

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Correspondence, minutes, conference materials, reports, newsletters, financial records, membership lists, photographs, and miscellany.

Phoebe Eloise Unterman Papers, 2009 (K1130)
0.05 cubic foot (1 folder)

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This collection contains the children's picture book Through Eva's Eyes written by Phoebe Eloise Unterman, based on the true story of her grandmother Eva's experiences in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II.

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Wilkins Updyke Commission, 1832 (C1569)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Appointment as commissioner to adjust private land claims in Missouri, signed by Edw. Livingston and Andrew Jackson.

Upper Mississippi River Basin Commission, Missouri Commissioner's Records, 1973-1982 (S0159)
2 cubic feet, 41 folders

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The Upper Missouri River Basin Commission was established by presidential order in March 1972 at the request of the governors of Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois and Missouri to coordinate water resources management for the Upper Mississippi River Basin. The resulting organization of federal and state agencies became known as the Great River Resources Management Study (GREAT). The bulk of the Upper Mississippi River Basin Commission, Missouri Commissioner's Records are from 1980 to 1983, with some correspondence with railroads from 1973. The records primarily document the master plan developed by the Upper Mississippi River Basin Commission in 1981 to respond to needs identified by the GREAT studies and to resolve competing interests in the development of the river system. The records contain public statements, reports (including GREAT I, II, III, 1974-1983), studies, testimony, literature, memoranda, meeting minutes, drafts, and the final version of the commission's master plan.

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UPSTREAM Records, 1983 (C4514)
0.4 cubic feet (9 folders)

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The records of the University of Missouri-Columbia organization UPSTREAM-- University People Striving to Recover Excellence and Mirth--including materials surrounding governance, membership, and events.

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Lucile Morris Upton Papers, 1823-1986 (C3869)
1 cubic foot, 25 rolls of microfilm (599 folders, 71 volumes), 1 video cassette

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The personal and professional papers of a Springfield, Missouri, journalist and writer consist of newspaper clippings, correspondence, research notes, manuscripts, pamphlets, photographs, and scrapbooks.  The papers are especially strong in the history of Springfield and the Ozarks region, and in Ozark folklore.

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Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis Collection, 1938-1982 (S0093)
0.2 cubic foot, 5 folders

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The collection consists of annual reports, newsletters, and pamphlets chronicling the Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis’s efforts to provide social services for the St. Louis area’s African American population.

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Uri Seiden and Associates Records, 1950-1988 (K1228)
38 c.f.

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Drawings of an engineering/architecture firm in Kansas City, MO.

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US Pilots Association Records, 1978-2007 (S0645)
41 cubic feet

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The United States Pilot Association is a national umbrella organization of state pilot associations, member-controlled, with approximately 8000 individual, affiliated, and associate members throughout the United States that promote safety and education in the aviation community. It began after the December 1980 dissolution of the National Pilots Association, a group organized to provide facilities for to promote advances in aeronautics, due to a lack of sufficient funds to serve its membership. USPA's registered office resides in St. Louis, Missouri, and its current records are maintained in Branson, Missouri. The collection includes correspondence, subject files, newsletters, and videotapes.

US-China Peoples Friendship Association-Midwest Region Records, 1978-2012 (K0608)
10 c.f.

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Organizational records including correspondence, newsletters, minutes, membership applications and lists, newspaper clippings, and books and magazines concerning the US and China. Also includes educational motion picture film and video about China and the Far East.

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Florence Wyman Richardson Usher Scrapbooks, 1909-1913 (S0059)
1 microfilm roll

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Florence Wyman Richardson Usher helped found the Equal Suffrage League of St. Louis in 1910. She chaired the League's lecture committee for six years and was a member of the board of governors in 1912. The scrapbooks in this collection document suffrage activities both nationally and in St. Louis. They include news clippings, correspondence, public notices, programs, leaflets, and Usher's annotations.

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USS Schley Oral History Project Records, 1997-1998 (C4068)
0.1 cubic feet (6 folders), 7 audio cassettes, 1 CD, 1 computer disc

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The records of USS Schley Oral History Project contain the audio files and transcripts of interviews with four veterans of the USS Schley. The crew of the USS Schley consisted largely of Missourians. Also included is related documentation on the USS Schley.

Thomas Watt Ustick Papers, 1849-1866 (C0183)
0.3 cubic feet

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Correspondence, bills, receipts and licenses of a St. Louis printer. Summonses and other papers pertaining to a law suit in LaCrosse, WI. Indentures, contracts and miscellaneous papers, and family history.

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William Uzzell Photograph Collection, no date (P1060)

Cabinet cards taken after 1891, five depicting Mormon sites in Salt Lake City, UT and one of the East Front Pavilion in Saltair, UT.

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Robert William Glenroie Vail Letter, 1935 (C2784)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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From Worcester, MA, Aug. 21, 1935. Information in reply to an inquiry [by J. Christian Bay] regarding the first printing of "America."

Valentines, no date (C2900)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Two valentines.

Vallé Family Papers, 1798-1870 (R1378)
(1 folder)

The Vallé Family Papers document the history of multiple generations of the Vallé Family. The collection contains documents in French and English.  Several versions of the will of François and Marianna Vallé, a family tree, untranslated French writings, and an advertisement for St. Vincent’s Young Ladies Academy in Cape Girardeau are included in the collection.

Valle Mining Company Records, 1839-1884 (R1278)
(12 rolls of microfilm)

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These are account books, ledgers, cash books, and other business records of the Valle Mining company at Valles Mines, Missouri. Most of the collection concerns mining on the Valle tract in Jefferson and Saint Francois Counties and related general merchandizing at the company's store. There are various records showing the receipt and shipment of ores, names of individual miners, charges and credits to individual and company accounts, and shipments of mineral to the Carondelet Zinc Works at Carondelet, Missouri, and consignment houses in Saint Louis and New York.

Valley Hotel Register, 1883-1885 (K0171)
1 MR

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Guest register for a hotel in Bolckow, Andrew County, MO. Guests registered by name, city and/or occupation.

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Valuation for people enslaved by William Spradlin, 1849 (C2641)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Valuation of ten people enslaved by William Spradlin, September 29, 1849, and their disposition to various heirs.

Hope Casey Van Brunt Papers, 1830s-1998 (K0252)
2 c.f.

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Correspondence, clippings, manuscripts, printed materials, as well as photographs and memorabilia dealing primarily with the National Old Trails movement in the early 20th century and Van Brunt's activities in marking the Santa Fe Trail for the Kansas City Chapter of the Daughter of the American Revolution (DAR) Also Van Brunt's personal correspondence with her children, family, and friends, and other family memorabilia.

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Van Buren Drug Store Inventory Records, 1960 (R1438)
0.1 cubic foot (1 folder)

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The collection consists of an inventory book of a drug store in Van Buren, Missouri from 1960.

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Kathleen Van Buskirk Papers, 1845-2003 (SP0096)
7 cubic feet (294 folders, 1 video cassette, 21 audio cassettes, 2,271 photographs, 2,607 negatives, 327 slides)

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The Kathleen Van Buskirk Papers contain manuscripts, correspondence, research, genealogy, cemetery records, publications, and photographs from Kathleen Van Buskirk, a journalist and regional historian who spent most of her career writing about the people, culture, and history of the Ozarks and White River Valley.

Kathleen Van Buskirk Papers, c. 1870s-1990s (CA6208)
6 cubic feet, 1 video cassette

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Manuscripts and research materials of an author who wrote about the Ozarks. Includes records of the Taneyhills Library Club of Branson, Missouri, and genealogy files on several families.

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Earl Van Dorn Papers, 1862 (C2456)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Special orders issued by Major General Van Dorn, Headquarters, Army of the West, concerning Confederate forces. March on enemy, rations, artillery, preparedness to fight and orders by officers.

Philip R. Van Frank Papers, 1847-1868 (C1031)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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The papers contain correspondence and legal papers of Philip R. Van Frank, a resident of Murphysboro, Illinois.

Marilyn Van Grevenhof Photograph Collection, 1917 (P1022)

Photograph of Sweeney Automobile School and students in front of building

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Van Horn Tavern Collection, 1829-2013 (C4634)
0.2 cubic feet (7 folders, 1 CD)

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The collection contains clippings, photographs, correspondence, an appraisal, and miscellaneous material concerning the Van Horn Tavern in Boone County, Missouri, compiled by Patrick Dougherty. Includes an audio interview with Fergene Goddin Sims, whose family lived in the tavern in the early 1900s.

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Robert Thompson Van Horn Papers, 1855-1907 (C1032)
0.15 cubic feet (7 folders)

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The papers of Robert Thompson Van Horn contain correspondence and miscellaneous papers of a Kansas City journalist who served as a lieutenant colonel with the 25th Regiment of Missouri Volunteers, as mayor of Kansas City, and as a U.S. congressman.

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Robert Thompson Van Horn Family Papers, 1832-1965 (K0297)
2 c.f.

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Van Horn was a newspaper owner/editor, a mayor of Kansas City, U.S. Congressmen, and civic leader. Includes correspondence, Civil War service records, business and property records, and some artifacts and ephemera. Also contains the papers of Van Horn's granddaughter Adela Cooley Van Horn, who traveled extensively, and kept correspondence, passports, narratives, and photographs, and genealogical records.

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Van Meter Family Papers, 1834-1968 (C3242)
0.18 cubic feet (9 folders)

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Correspondence, financial and legal documents, diaries, and account books of a Saline County, MO, family. The papers deal, for the most part, with the family business, primarily accounts for goods and food sold. There is some material dealing with family matters, including a diary of a trip taken to Montana in 1865 by Abel J. Van Meter.

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George Van Millett Papers, 1865-1956 (K0413)
5 c.f.

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Letters, publications and gallery catalogs, photographs and other materials relating the life and work of Kansas City artist, G.V. Millett.

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Charles Van Ravenswaay Collection, 1820-1971 (C2668)
1.2 cubic feet

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Material relating to the Trigg family of Boonville, MO; the papers of Harvey Bunce, Cooper County civic leader and vice-president of the Tebo and Neosho Railroad; and Charles Van Ravenswaay's correspondence and research notes on various families, institutions, historic sites and events in Cooper and Howard Counties, and miscellaneous material related primarily to Boonville, MO.

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Charles Van Ravenswaay Papers, 1841-1990 (C3873)
21.8 cubic feet, 1 audio cassette

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Correspondence, research notes, photographs, and literary manuscripts of historian and author Charles Van Ravenswaay, former director of the Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis; Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, MA; and the Henry F. duPont Winterthur Museum and Gardens, Wilmington, DE.

Charles van Ravenswaay Photograph Collection, 1814-1975 (P0014)
0.81 cubic feet

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Collected photographs and other visual materials, primarily documenting Boonville, Missouri in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

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Gilbert Van Zandt Papers, 1865-1956 (C4163)
0.4 cubic feet

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The papers of Gilbert Van Zandt contain personal correspondence, biographical information, newspaper clippings and photographs. Van Zandt became notorious as the youngest member of the Union Army.