Manuscripts Index

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Kay Drey Callaway Nuclear Hazards Collection, 1975-1993 (S1029)
106 cubic feet

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Subject files collected by Kay Drey pertaining to nuclear hazards in the United States. 

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Kay Drey Callaway Nuclear Power Plant Collection, 1976-1987 (S1028)
26 cubic feet

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Environmental activist Kay Drey assembled this collection from the newspapers and literature of groups organized to oppose the Calloway Plant; legal documents from challenges to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Union Electric over the plant’s operating license and safety concerns; and the files of Bill Smart, an ironworker fired the plant for going public with complaints about below-standard structural steel work and defective materials used in the plant’s construction.

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Kay Drey Civil Rights Subject Files Collection, 1960-2000 (S0840)
6 cubic foot, 44 folders

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The Kay Drey Civil Rights Subject Files Collection consists of topics on University City public schools, University City Residential Service, racism in St. Louis City, and O.J. Simpson.

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Kay Drey Fort Leonard Wood Collection, 1971-2004 (S1123)
8 cubic feet, 256 folders, 21 books

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This collection contains reports, legal materials, Kay Drey's notes, and photographs pertaining to the Coalition for the Environment's efforts to prevent Fort Leonard Wood, a United States Army base located 130-miles from St. Louis, to move its gas, germ warfare, chemical weapons center and "obscurant" training program, into the Missouri Ozarks. Also included in this collection are books Kay Drey collected on arms control, landmines, germ, chemical, and nuclear warfare and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

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Kay Drey Hematite Addenda, 1945-2011 (S1045)
5 cubic feet, 232 folders

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This collection contains legal materials, reports, and newspaper clippings documenting the hazards posed by dumping nuclear waste in the town of Hematite in Jefferson City, Missouri. Mallinckrodt Chemical Works built a commercial uranium-fuel processing plant in Hematite in 1956 that the company used to produce nuclear fuel rod assemblies for commercial power plants. The plant closed in 2001.

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Kay Drey Mallinckrodt Collection, 1943-2006 (S0826)
64.4 cubic feet

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This collection consists of correspondence, reports, and subject files concerning nuclear technology and radioactive waste sites connected to Mallinckrodt Chemical Works. Mallinckrodt developed a chemical process that led to the first nuclear chain reaction in 1942 and until 1966 processed uranium for nuclear weapons at plants in downtown St. Louis and Weldon Springs. The company dumped radioactive wastes at sites in St. Louis County.

Kay Drey Queeny Park Collection, 1965-1994 (S1030)
6 cubic feet, 226 folders, 118 photographs, 3 audio tapes

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This collection contains meeting minutes, petitions, newsletters, newspaper clippings, notes, and photographs relating to Kay and Leo Drey's campaign to block St. Louis County from developing a recreational complex in Queeny Park and preserving it as open recreational space.

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Kay Drey Subject File Collection, 1971-2012 (S1122)
9 cubic feet, 396 folders, 93 photographs

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The Kay Drey Subject File collections consist of photographs, newspaper clippings, reports, and Kay Drey's notes, reflecting a variety of topics related to the St. Louis area, including the St. Louis Art Museum, the health effects of cell phone towers on the residents of University City, and nuclear waste.

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Kay Drey Toxic Chemicals and Nuclear Waste Collection, 1980-2005 (S0842)
14 cubic feet, 543 folders

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This collection contains reports, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, and Kay Drey's notes on the environmental impacts of chemicals and nuclear waste. Topics of interest include Dioxin, Weldon Springs, and waste disposal.

Leo A. Drey Papers, 1957-1991 (S0531)
19 cubic feet, 616 folders

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Leo A. Drey was an environmental activist and the owner of extensive tracts of Missouri land. Throughout his life, Drey was involved in many conservation projects, including the Natural Streams Act, Ozark National Scenic Riverways, and the Open Space Council. The collection includes correspondence, reports, meeting minutes, maps, legal materials, and newspaper clippings reflecting Drey's interests in environmental issues in Missouri.

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Leo Drey Greer Springs Campaign Records, 1987-1998 (S0874)
2 cubic feet, 34 folders, 25 photographs

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The records of the Leo Drey Gree Springs Campaign contain appraisals, legislative materials, correspondence, maps, and photographs regarding Drey's efforts to make Greer Spring a part of the Mark Twain National Forest.

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Andrew Drips Collection, ca. 1824-1916 (K0335)
0.02 c.f.

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Family Bible, a pocket Bible, and photocopies of family records for Drips, who prominent in the western fur trade.

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Drought Relief Campaign Records, 1930-1932 (K0334)
0.3 c.f.

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Reports, correspondence, clippings, and photographs for the Campaign, an activity of the American Red Cross to relieve farmers affected by drought in the 1930s. Among other items and services, the Red Cross provided seed, food, school lunches, and cash.

Dry Fork Church of Primitive Baptists (Lake Spring, Mo.) Records, 1898-1966 (C3053)
1 roll of microfilm

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Membership records and minutes of a Regular Primitive Baptist church founded in August 1898 and dissolved in February 1966. Included are the Articles of Faith and the Rules of Decorum. Membership information relates date and means of entry into the church and birth and death dates. The minutes record business matters, sermon topics, songs, attendance, and officers.

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Dry Fork Regular Baptist Church, Lake Spring, Missouri Records, 1834-1903 (R0406)
1 volume, 1 folder microfilmed

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These are a record book and papers of the Dry Fork Regular Baptist Church in the Lake Spring
community of Dent County, Missouri. The volume includes the rules of decorum, articles of faith,
membership records, and minutes of church business meetings, 1834-1879. The papers include
letters of dismission and church correspondence

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Dry Hill School, Carter County, Missouri Records, 1923-1958 (R0607)
(1 roll of microfilm)

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The Dry Hill School, Carter County, Missouri Records contain microfilm copies of the school records for Dry Hill School in Carter County, Missouri. Included are the record books of the district clerks and teachers' registers from 1923 to 1958.

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John G. Dryden Diary, 1856-1883 (C4104)
0.3 cubic feet

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The John G. Dryden diaries include four volumes between the years 1856 and 1883 that document the life of a farmer and justice of the peace living in Vernon County, Missouri.

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Bettyann Dubansky Papers, 1962-1984 (C4353)
2 cubic feet (103 folders)

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Papers of a faculty member of the University of Missouri School of Social Work and Director of Undergraduate Studies include correspondence, publications, committees, and reports, with the bulk of material dealing with the White House Conference on Handicapped Individuals which was held in Washington, D.C. in 1977, and also material from the Mid-Missouri Regional Conferences.

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Saul Dubinsky Papers, 1959-1978 (S0457)
0.1 cubic foot, 2 folders

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The Saul Dubinsky Papers chronicle his involvement with Downtown St. Louis, Inc., and the City Plan Commission. Other subjects of interest include the Daniel Boone, Mark Twain and Ozark Expressways, Highway 50, and the Lindell-Kingshighway area. Dubinsky was a real estate developer and civic activist. He served as chairman of the City Plan Commission and was instrumental in establishing the Planning Committee of Downtown St. Louis, Inc.

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David Dubowski Papers, 1963 (S1057)
0.25 cubic foot

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Film footage of the Foest Park Highliands fire, taken on July 19, 1963, and the Raltson Purina fire, taken on January 11, 1962.

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Duello Family Farm Ledger, 1909-1949 (S1204)
1 ledger

The Duello Family farm ledger was the property of Thedore William Duello, who owned farmland west of Duello Raod near the intersection of Duello and Orf Roads, in St. Charles County, Missouri. The ledger is a financial record of the various agricultural activities conducted on the farm from 1909 through 1949. 

William Duff Collection, c. 1968-1970 (CA6378)
17 audio tapes

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Audio tapes largely consisting of oral history interviews concerning the last hanging in Texas County and bootlegging. Also includes songs of Nancy Pittman.

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Peggy Duffield Photograph Collection, 1910 (P1020)

Photograph of University of Missouri columns

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Edward Dugal Mining Collection, 1873 (R1173)
(1 folder)

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This is a mining lease dated October 4, 1873, between Edward Dugal and his wife, Melissa Dugal, and B. William Kennedy, Augustus Lotz, and Adolphus Lotz on a tract of land in northeastern Reynolds County, Missouri.

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Dorothy Castle Duggan Diaries, 1930-1939 (K0625)
0.25 c.f.

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Diaries kept by a young women doing high school and her college years at the University of Missouri.

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Betty Cole Dukert Papers, 1951-2014 (CA6372)
23 cubic feet, 4 oversize items

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Papers of a University of Missouri School of Journalism graduate who spent much of her career working for NBC's Meet the Press from 1956-1998. She held several positions at Meet the Press and retired from the show as executive producer.

George W. Dulany Jr. Papers, 1900-1949 (C0310)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Copies of family biographies and letters concerning history of the Dulany family and lumber industry in Hannibal, Missouri, and the Middle West.

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"Duley's Mill," Hugh P. Williamson and Arnold Bedsworth, no date (C2188)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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History and description of Duley's Mill on Big Cedar Creek, Callaway County, MO. Biographical information on the Duley family.

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R.G. Dun Letters, 1871-1874 (C0981)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Correspondence with William James concerning the Meramec Iron Works and other ore deposits in Missouri in which James was buying stock.

The originals are in the files of Dun and Bradstreet, New York.

Mrs. B.L. Dunaway Papers, 1965 (C3098)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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The papers of Mrs. B.L. Dunaway contain a paper about life of Sarah Burton Murphy and a program of service honoring her memory held in Farmington, MO.

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Hugh Dunbar Deed of Emancipation, 1846 (C0513)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Deed of Emancipation for Charlott, an enslaved woman, March 26, 1846. Hugh Dunbar, the enslaver, freed her for $1.00.

Duncan and Lambeth Families Genealogical Collection, 1880s, 1918-2019 (R1494)
4.5 cubic feet (72 folders, 330 photographs)

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The Duncan and Lambeth Families Genealogical Collection contains the genealogical research for the Duncan and Lambeth families of central Missouri. Dr. Betty Jo White and Carolyn Lou Ranft compiled the collection with many contributions from Sharon Kay Beckham, Norma Jean Endersby, Carman Sue Grimes, Robert C. Haefner, Ellen Denise Karr Seevers, Cordell Henry Webb, Dorothy Ann Williams, and Shirley Ann Wyatt, descendants of the Lambeth and Duncan families. Included in the collection are vital records, photographs, correspondence, family lineages, contextual research, family stories, and articles on local history topics.

Duncan School (Shelby County, Mo.) Record Book, 1870-1880 (C2487)
0.04 cubic feet (1 volume)

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Records of Duncan School, including acquisition of land for school and annual enumeration of pupils.

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Duncan Chapel (Shelby County, Mo.) Record Books, 1882-1936 (C2485)
0.2 cubic feet

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The collection contains records of Duncan Chapel, a Methodist Episcopal chapel in Shelby County, Missouri.

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Harold Duncan Photograph Collection, 1890-1940 (P1074)

Photograph of the Joel Haden home near Columbia, Missouri, ca. 1890, with members of the Bright family posed outside. Photograph of the Boone County Trust Company, ca. 1927, with employees and customers in the interior.

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Henry Timberlake Duncan Papers, 1838-1844 (C0304)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Negative photostats of three land grants issued in Vandalia, Illinois, for nearby tracts.

C. Herbert Duncan Papers, 1926-2005 (S0626)
4 cubic feet

The Clyde Herbert Duncan Jr. Papers contains photographs, program booklets, book drafts, and yearbooks, documenting Duncans career as a music educator in the St. Louis Metropolitan area, including his involvement in the creation of the Greater St. Louis Marching Band Festival.

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Herbert E. Duncan Architectural Records, 1929-1992 (K0722)
32.11 c.f.

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Architectural drawings of buildings designed by Herbert Duncan Sr. (1905-1972) and Herbert Jr. (1931- ).

John J. H. Duncan Papers, 1864 (R0655)
0.01 cubic foot (1 folder)

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The John J. H. Duncan Papers contain a Civil War letter sent from Rolla, Phelps County, Missouri, written by John J. H. Duncan of Company C, 145th Illinois Infantry. Written to a cousin, the letter discusses the death of Duncan's father and contains miscellaneous camp news.

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Duncan-Hardin-Jenkins Family Papers, 1821-1860 (C0307)
0.04 cubic feet (2 folders)

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Copies and transcriptions of letters between family members in Missouri and Kentucky relating to family business, crops, neighbors, and romantic interests. Mention of Bonne Femme Academy, Boone County, Missouri. Bible class organized by Mary B. Jenkins Hardin, including list of members.

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Duncan-Lowman Family Papers, 1847-1952 (C0487)
0.4 cubic feet (15 folders)

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Papers of Levin O. Duncan, blacksmith and farmer, and William O. Lowman, tanner and farmer, of Shelby County, MO, and families; correspondence from family and friends in Maryland, Virginia, Missouri, Ohio, Nebraska, and Illinois; ledgers; miscellaneous business receipts; and scrapbook of Shelby County happenings, 1902-1952. Kept by Ida Lowman.

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Herschel E. Dunham Papers, 1945-1946 (R1399)
0.03 cubic foot (3 folders, 25 negatives)

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The Herschel E. Dunham Papers contain photocopies of programs from Japan and the Philippines as well as copies of photographs Herschel Dunham took while serving in the Pacific during World War II.

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Lindley Dunham Photograph Collection, 1915 (P0746)
4 photographs

Photos of Callao, MO, in Macon County.

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Dunklin County High School Collection, 1922 (R0936)
(1 folder)

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This is the official program for the Dunklin County high school meet held at Malden, Missouri, on April 28-29, 1922. Included were competitions in piano, violin, voice, spelling, public speaking, and track and field.

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Dunklin County, Missouri, Marriage Records, 1899-1908 (R1332)
0.01 cubic foot (1 folder)

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The records of Dunklin County, Missouri Marriage Records, 1899-1905 contain a photocopy of the book Records of Marriages, for Dunklin County, recorded by R.M. Harris, Justice of the Peace.

Dunklin Democrat Photograph Collection, 1888-1914 (P0826)

Six copy photos of Dunklin County, ca. 1888-1914.

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Daniel Dunklin Papers, 1815-1877 (C0097)
0.6 cubic feet

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The correspondence, financial, and miscellaneous papers of the fifth governor of Missouri and a leading Missouri Democrat. The correspondence is especially rich in discussion of Missouri elections and of the leading political issues in Missouri and in the United States from 1829 to 1835.

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Dunlap Family Papers, 1897-1965 (C4329)
0.8 cubic feet (20 folders)

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The papers of the Dunlap family contain farm documentation, estate settlements, letters, greeting cards and other materials gathered between the members of the Dunlap family from Breckenridge, and Jefferson City, Missouri.

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Dunlap Family Papers, 1780-2002 (C4004)
1.9 cubic feet (91 folders)

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The papers of the Dunlap family include genealogical records, a Civil War journal, photographs, maps and land surveys, and other research materials compiled to produce histories of the Dunlap and Kofahl families of Licking, Missouri.

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Chuck and Dianne Dunlap Postcard Collection, 1908-1941 (P0028)
13 postcards

Postcards of Missouri cities, including Kansas City parks, streets, and buildings; Missouri Capitol in Jefferson City, bird's-eye view of Sedalia, Cortez Motor Court in Springfield, and St. Louis: Ead's Bridge, Shaw's Garden, and Smith Bros. Cottage and Hotel.

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