Manuscripts Index
Clarence Cannon Papers, 1893-1964 (C0892)
2.3 cubic feet (44 folders, 1 volume, 5 card files)
Papers of Cannon, Democratic congressman from Missouri's 9th district, 1923-1964, and of Champ Clark (1850-1921), Democratic congressman from Missouri's 9th district, 1893-1895 and 1897-1921, and Speaker of the House. Papers include correspondence of Cannon and Clark, speeches by Clark, newspaper columns written by Cannon, a constituent card file kept by Cannon, and miscellaneous material.
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W.W. Cannon Diary, 1886 (C0449)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
A daily account of the work done by a Dent County farmer. The entries are written in a memorandum book advertising patent medicine.
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Loman D. and Laura M. Cansler Collection, 1820-2005 (C4018)
10.5 cubic feet (223 folders), 203 audio tapes, 41 audio cassettes, 35 audio discs, 2 video cassettes
The Loman and Laura Cansler Collection represents a lifetime of collecting on Missouri’s folk song and folklore tradition. Cansler recorded and collected folk songs, proverbs, jokes, and home remedies, primarily in Missouri, but also in Kansas and Illinois. In addition to this large body of folk song and folklore material, the collection includes information on Cansler’s early life in Dallas County, Missouri, his WWII service, and his career as a school counselor at the Fayette and North Kansas City High Schools. The collection also includes slides and prints of Laura Cansler’s abstract expressionist artwork.
Canton Journal Photographs, 1978 (P0782)
3 photographs
Photos of the Missouri State Fair, 1978.
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Cantonment Bellefontaine Photographs, 1894 (C0787)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Photographs of remains of officers' quarters and tombstones of Major Russell Dissell, William Sears, and the infant of Zebulon M. Pike.
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Cantwell Aircraft Company (Bucklin, Mo.) Records, 1921-1924 (C3797)
0.08 cubic feet (4 folders)
Records of an aircraft parts distribution firm. Includes correspondence, invoices, price lists, and other materials concerning the purchase and sale of aircraft parts. Also includes publicity material and contracts pertaining to the company's involvement in staging aerobatic demonstrations. Arranged chronologically.
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Harry J. Cantwell Collection, 1898-1900 (R0677)
2 cubic feet (40 folders)
These are papers of an attorney and developer of mineral properties in southeastern Missouri and Oklahoma. Most of the collection concerns title work and exploration of tracts near Irondale and Palmer in Washington County, Missouri.
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Cape Girardeau Academy Collection, 1855 (R1056)
(1 folder)
This is a program of exercises of the First Annual Exhibition of Cape Girardeau Academy, held at Cape Girardeau in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, on June 28, 1855. Included were elocutions and declamations by students, with musical interludes.
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Cape Girardeau Baptist Association Sesquicentennial Collection, 1974 (R0960)
(1 folder)
This is a booklet published to celebrate the sesquicentennial of the Cape Girardeau Baptist Association, which was organized in June 1824. Included are a schedule of the 150th annual meeting of the Association, a historical summary by J. C. Maple, a list of member congregations, and a list of past meeting dates, places, and officers.
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Cape Girardeau Business College Collection, 1920 (R1081)
(1 folder)
This is a booklet promoting the Cape Girardeau Business College, a commerical trade school located at Cape Girardeau County, Missouri.
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Cape Girardeau City Planning Books, 1967-1987 (CG0074)
0.4 c.f.
This collection contains 6 booklets relating to plans for the development of Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
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Cape Girardeau County Society for Crippled Children and Adults, Inc. Records, 1937-1989 (R1413)
1 cubic foot (14 folders, 1 volume)
The Cape Girardeau County Society for Crippled Children and Adults, Inc. Records contain the records for the Cape Girardeau County Society for Crippled Children and Adults, Inc. a location of the National Easter Seal Society originally known as the National Society for Crippled Children.
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Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, Records, 1794-1842 (C3676)
0.2 cubic feet (13 folders), 2 rolls of microfilm
French colonial and territorial records of the Cape Girardeau District and Cape Girardeau County records and court records.
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Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, Tax Lists, 1814-1829 (C3677)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Copies of lists of persons from whom taxes were collected in Cape Girardeau County in 1814 and 1815, and accounts of the public securities and money received for 1827-1829. Nature of claim, water course, original owners, number of arpens, enslaved persons, town lots, houses, improvements, carriages, and valuations are given on tax lists.
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Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, Oaths of Loyalty, 1865-1866 (C1062)
0.02 cubic feet (1 volume)
Abstract of oaths filed in conformity with requirements of 7th section of 2nd article of the new constitution.
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Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, Photograph Collection, 1882-1962 (P1103)
An artificial collection of photographs of Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, the bulk of which is photographs of Cape Girardeau.
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Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, Stray Cattle Listings, 1820-1843 (C1063)
0.15 cubic feet (2 volumes)
Description of stray cattle with no markings, appraised, valued, signed by justices of the peace, and recorded by deputy clerks for those claiming the cattle.
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Cape Girardeau Macadamized and Plank Road Company Collection, 1852-1858 (R1133)
(1 folder)
These are receipts and certificates issued to members of the Rodney family concerning the Cape Girardeau McAdamized and Plank Road Company in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
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Ruth Capehart Collection, 1831-1904 (R0045)
0.02 cubic foot (2 volumes)
The Ruth Capehart Collection contains two journals collection by Ruth Capehart. The first journal was written by J.W. Henderson regarding his trips from New York to the pottery manufacturing district in England. The second journal was written by Louisa Raff, a young girl living in Orange Grove, Mississippi.
Lucy Capen Postcard Collection, 1906-1932 (P0508)
19 postcards
Postcards of Missouri scenes: Lake of the Ozarks, Boone County, Kansas City, Hardin College, and Lebanon, MO.
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Capital Removal Convention Resolutions, 1869 (C1711)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Resolutions adopted by the Capital Removal Convention, which met in St. Louis, MO, October 20-21, 1869, for the purpose of moving the national capital to the Mississippi Valley.
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George G. Capito Papers, 1900-1960 (K0979)
0.2 c.f.
Photographs, funeral service and obituaries, diplomas, letters of commendation, yearbooks, and newspaper clippings relating to the Capito and Tabolsky families.
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Capitol Brewery Company (Jefferson City, Mo.) Records, no date (CA6144)
0.1 cubic feet, 1 volume
Business ledger of the Capitol Brewery Company of Jefferson City, Missouri, founded in 1898 by the Moerschel family of St. Charles and Jefferson City. Also includes Moerschel family postcards.
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Shirley Capron Photograph Collection, no date (P0661)
10 photographs
Photographs of Swope Park and Kansas City scenes in the late 1800s-early 1900s.
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"Captain William Farley Carter, Model for a Monument," Joseph M. Shockley, no date (C2132)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
The collection contains a biography of Carter (1843-1930) and history of the Confederate cemetery and monument at Springfield, MO.
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Henry Cardell Account, 1851 (C1630)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
State of Missouri in account with Henry Cardell for the funeral expenses of A[lexander] Reid, representative from Lincoln County.
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Carden All International Shrine Circus Collection, 1983 (R1264)
(1 folder)
This is the 1983 Official Program for George Carden's All International Shrine Circus, an operation of Carden International Circus corporation at Willard in Greene County, Missouri.
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Care and Counseling Inc. Records, 1968-2015 (S0504)
21.5 c.f.
The Care and Counseling Inc. Records contain meeting minutes, correspondence, newsletters, reports, and photographs chronicling the organization's mission to provide pastoral counseling to St. Louis-area residents and graduate-level training for clergy in counseling services.
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Alex Carey Collection, 1864-1933 (C0253)
0.15 cubic feet (7 folders)
Includes shares on Gold and Silver Tunnel Company; deed for land in Jackson County; accounts; 1864 constitution of Platte City, MO, I.O.O.F. lodge; notes; obituary of R.T. Carey; tintype; letters to Lucille Carey from friends; 1887 medical book; and letters from a book salesman, 1872.
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Scott Carey Papers, 1917-1961 (C2336)
0.38 cubic feet (18 folders)
The papers of Scott Carey contain correspondence, reports of arrests, affidavits, and photographs pertinent to Carey's work as a private detective and Frisco Lines agent in Scott and Pemiscot Counties. A private detective for more than fifty years, Carey was also a special officer for the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad in the Missouri Bootheel region.
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Jesse Taylor Cargill Letters, 1922-1966 (C4498)
0.1 cubic feet (4 folders)
Collection of letters sent to Jesse Cargill a, University of Missouri educated, political cartoonist that worked from the 1920s to the 1960s. The letters include fan mail from young artists, politicians requesting cartoons, and printing companies requesting works for future issues. A few examples of his works are also included in this collection.
Carl Gentry Photograph Collection, no date (P1206)
Photographs of Carl Gentry, his life and travels.
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Carl H. Chapman Photograph Collection, no date (P1215)
8 photographs
Photographs of and relating to archaeologist Carl Chapman and archaeological work in Missouri.
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Carleton College Collection, 1859-1979 (R0133)
1 roll (6 folders)
These are business papers, correspondence, and printed material of Carleton College (1854-1916) and its alumni association, and newspaper clippings pertaining to the history of the school, located in Farmington, St. Francois County, Missouri.
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Carlinville, Illinois Papers, 1884-1894 (C0661)
0.04 cubic feet (1 folder, 1 volume)
Miscellaneous legal documents, papers, and clippings.
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Avis Dungan Carlson Daybooks, 1923-1943 (S0419)
1 roll microfilm
This collection contains the daybooks of Avis Carlson, writer, covering her daily life from 1923-1943. The daybooks begin in 1923 when she lived in Illinois and end in 1943 when her husband, Harry Carlson, was being transferred around the country in the United States Armed services. Carlson commented on her personal and daily routine but often referred to wider topics such as the Depression, the Dust Bowl in Kansas, international affairs, politics, the League of Women Voters, American Association of University Women, and the YWCA.
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Avis Dungan Carlson Papers, 1940-1979 (S0463)
0.8 cubic foot, 32 folders
The Avis Dungan Carlson Papers contain manuscripts, articles, genealogy, appointment book, and newspaper clippings primarily documenting Carlson's drafting of her two books, Small World…Long Gone: A Family Record of an Era and In the Fullness of Time: The Pleasures and Inconveniences of Growing Old and participation in groups such as the League of Women Voters of Metropolitan St. Louis.
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Roy Carlson Photographs, 1962 (P0823)
3 photographs
Photos of Utz home, Hazelwood, MO.
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William Carmer Post Card Collection, 1900-1920 (S0990)
0.01 cubic foot
This collection contains postcards depicting the Majestic Hotel; the Cheshire Inn; the Sheraton Jefferson; the Jewel Box in Forest Park; Korean War Memorial in Forest Park; and the Streckfus Steamer "President."
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Carnahan Family Oral History Collection, 2001-2002 (SP0050)
0.5 cubic foot (9 folders, 19 cassette tapes)
The Carnahan Family Oral History Collection consists of nineteen cassette tapes featuring interviews with family members of Governor Mel Carnahan. They were interviewed by Alex Primm two to four months following the Governor’s death in a plane crash on October 16, 2000.
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A.S.J. Carnahan Papers, 1944-1961 (C2539)
55.8 cubic feet (5082 folders)
Papers of a Democratic congressman from Missouri's 8th District. Correspondence dealing with agriculture, army, civil defense, district problems, election campaigns, foreign affairs, legislation, and the United Nations.
Jean Carnahan Papers, 2001-2002, 2024 (C4015)
4.0 cubic feet (112 folders), 89 video cassettes, 10 GB of digital files
The papers of Jean Carnahan, U.S. Senator from the state of Missouri from 2001 to 2002, consist of legislative memos, journals, briefings, guest books, miscellaneous senatorial correspondence, photographs, and video cassettes.
Mel Carnahan Papers, 1980-1984 (C4085)
0.4 cubic feet (7 folders), 2 audio tapes, 4 video tapes
The papers of Mel Carnahan contain election materials from his state treasurer's race in 1980 and governor's race in 1984.
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Robert Huston Carnahan Papers, 1861 (R0627)
0.01 cubic foot (1 folder)
The Robert Huston Carnahan Papers contain a letter from Robert H. Carnahan, an officer in the 3rd Illinois Cavalry stationed at Rolla in Phelps County, Missouri. In the letter, dated December 3, 1861, Carnahan commented on winter quarters and camp life.
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Carnegie Cultural Club Records, 1903-1982 (K0143)
4 MR
Minute books, official documents, financial records, scrapbooks, and historical materials for a women's cultural club in St. Joseph, Missouri.
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William J. Carner Viewmaster Collection, no date (P0175)
28 images
Viewmaster reels featuring images of Missouri and the St. Louis Zoo
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B. F. Carney Papers, 1932-2004 (R0180)
0.25 cubic foot (2 folders, 1 cassette tape)
The B.F. Carney Papers contain one of a thousand one dollar promissory notes issued by B.F. Carney at Crane, Missouri. Carney issued the notes to prove a Depression-era theory of money. Also included, are a photocopy of a letter written by Carney's son in 1969 explaining the history of the notes and an audio cassette with transcript containing Ben Carney Jr.'s explanation of the B.F. Carney dollar.
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B.F. Carney Papers, 1933-1937 (C0240)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Composition, "The Ozark Fiddler," and two promissory notes.
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Carpenter Family Papers, 1830-1962 (C3489)
0.4 cubic feet (29 folders)
The papers contain notes, correspondence and genealogical records compiled by Lucy Grant Carpenter Bly while tracing all branches of her family. Most of the early letters are to the Carpenter family of Boone County from relatives in Virginia.
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Carpenter Family Papers, 1796-1851 (C0237)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Israel Grant's will, 1796; Davis Burton's will, 1815; deed for Missouri land, 1830; and trustees' report to Boone County, MO, school board, 1851.