Manuscripts Index

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Agnes Hadley Haskell Daybooks, 1909-1946 (C3467)
3.7 cubic feet (92 folders)

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Daybooks of Agnes Lee Hadley Haskell, wife of Governor Herbert S. Hadley, and later wife of Henry J. Haskell, editor of the KANSAS CITY STAR. The daybooks contain records and diary entries noting her social and club engagements and the activities of her children, and various programs, newspaper clippings, receipts, and correspondence. Daybooks for 1909, 1912, and 1922-1946.

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Henry C. and Henry J. Haskell Papers, 1883-1979 (K0096)
1.25 c.f.

The papers of Henry C. Haskell, an editorial writer for the Kansas City Star, includes scripts for four of his plays and a collection of his arts essays. His father, Henry J. Haskell (1874-1952), also an editor for the Kansas City Star, writing s include a boyhood family newspaper and reviews of and correspondence relating to two books written and published by Henry J. There is also an autobiography by Henry J.

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Katharine Wright Haskell Papers, 1922-1928 (K0263)
1 c.f.

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Correspondence from Katharine Wright, sister of Orville and Wilber Wright, to Henry J. Haskell, editor for the Kansas City Star, her future husband. Also are articles, clippings, and photographs and letters to Haskell from other friends.

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Haslag Family Letter, 1848 (C1780)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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A letter, in German, to members of the Haslag family in Osage County, Missouri. Part of the German Heritage Archives.

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Leonard Haslag Photographs, 1959-1961 (P0775)
11 photographs

Photos of historic sites in Osage and Platte Counties, ca. 1959-1961.

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Hassebrock Family Papers, 1943-1946 (S1079)
0.25 cubic foot

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The Hassebrock Family Papers consist of correspondence written by members of the Henry Hassebrock family of Mascoutah, Illinois, during World War II. The correspondents include Henry Hassebrock's sons, Walter, Henry, and Elmer, as well as his son-in-law, Benjamin Keck, and his daughter, Mona Hassebrock Keck. All four men served in the United States Army during World War II.

James B. Hassett Papers, 1845-1867 (K0647)
0.01 c.f.

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Hasett was a farmer located in Jackson County, MO and Fulton County, KY. Includes land records for a farm near Sibley, MO and a certificate concerning value of his buildings and contents burned by 4th Missouri State Cavalry during the Civil War. Also Hassett's will filed in Fulton Co., KY.

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Henry Hatch Letters, 1902-1937 (C3426)
0.12 cubic feet (6 folders)

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Autobiographical letters from [Henry] Hatch to his grandson, Henry Green. Letters contain information about William Henry Hatch, father of the writer, who lived in Maine in the early 1800s, and the business career of the writer in Missouri, Boston, California, Peru, and Australia.

William H. Hatch Papers, 1870-1887 (C0113)
0.2 cubic feet

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Letters to Hatch, a congressman from Hannibal, MO, about political matters. Hatch was responsible for the establishment of the agricultural experiment station at the University of Missouri in 1887.

Also a few letters to his brother George, a lawyer in Hannibal.

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Hatcher-Suggett Family Collection, no date (CA6666)
0.2 cubic feet

Genealogical material of the Judson Noel Hatcher and Rev. James Suggett families of Callaway County, Missouri.

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Allen W. Hatheway Papers, 1915-2013 (R1392)
0.25 cubic foot (11 folders, 3 VHS, 6 DVDs, 2 photographs, 10 lantern slides)

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The Allen Hatheway Papers contain correspondence, videos, and photographs concerning the Carondelet Coke Works in St. Louis, Missouri. The papers include correspondence of Hatheway, John Buchanan, and Erwin Blind, the latter two worked at the coke works. Also included are videos and photographs dealing with the history and workings of the coke works.

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Harley Haton Papers, 1951-1994 (S1095)
40 cubic feet

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The Harley Haton Papers contain correspondence, photographs, obituaries, photocopies of marriages, wills, and birth records, ancestral charts, and cassettes pertaining to Harton's (1922-1989), research on the Ehler, Fischer, Kroeschen, Nolting, and Wittrock families, who immigrated to the United States from Germany in the 19th century. 

Fred M. Hauck Papers, 1942 (R0829)
(1 folder)

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This is typewritten letter from Fred M. Hauck at Fort Lewis, Washington, to Chester Parker at Camp Haan, California. Hauck and Parker were United States Army enlisted men from Dixon in Pulaski County, Missouri.

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Hauenstein and Company Account Book, 1872-1873 (C1116)
0.13 cubic feet (1 volume)

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Accounts of a general merchandise firm.

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Frederick Hauenstein Papers, 1980 (R0085)
0.01 cubic foot (1 folder)

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The Frederick Hauenstein Papers contains a photocopy of Frederick Hauenstein's autobiography. An engineering graduate of the Missouri School of Mines (now Missouri University of Science and Technology), he worked as a surveyor and engineer in the western United States, and was the last president of the Pine Belt Lumber Company in Oklahoma.

William Henry Hauenstein Daybook, 1881-1882 (C0289)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Daybook kept by William H. Hauenstein for his general store at Tuscumbia, MO.

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Aida Virginia Haverkamp Photographs, no date (P0736)
2 photographs

Photos of First Presbyterian Church in Troy, MO.

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Alan R. Havig Papers, 1900s-2010s (CA6676)
14.8 cubic feet

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The papers of Alan R. Havig, a local historian and professor, contain research on Walter Williams, the Santa Fe Trail, Old Trail Roads, and Highways. The papers also contain information on authors, playwrights, and plays from the 1900s through the 1910s.

Dr. Marvin Haw Jr. Slide Collection, 1972 (P0355)
10 slides

35mm color slides of buildings in Cooper, Howard, and Iron counties

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Hawkins Family Papers, 1835-1879 (C0332)
0.04 cubic feet (2 folders)

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Miscellaneous letters discuss the Mormon conflict in 1838 and prices, weather, and family news from California and Texas.

William A. Hawkins Papers, 1862-1863 (R1423)
0.1 cubic foot (1 folder)

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The letters of William A. Hawkins document his stay in the Gratiot prison after his capture in Shelby County, Missouri, on September 15, 1862. Hawkins was a lieutenant in Porter's Regiment (1st Northeast Missouri Cavalry). A Confederate, he remained in Gratiot prison until his parole on February 19, 1863.

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Hawkins-Timmons Family Genealogical Collection, no date (CA6073)
1 cubic foot

Consists of genealogical materials pertaining to the Hawkins, Timmons, and related families [Barron, Byrd, Pippin, Patrick, McDaniel, Shuey] of Kentucky, Missouri and Texas. Includes correspondence, census abstracts, engagement and wedding announcements, funeral notices, programs, and obituaries, newspaper clippings, photographs, and family record sheets.

J.E. Hawley Letter, 1855 (C1548)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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To his wife from Columbia, MO, June 10-12, 1855. Hawley, a Massachusetts physician, traveled to Illinois, Missouri, and Kansas to select a town in which to establish a practice. Trip from St. Louis to Columbia, state university, slavery, medicine in Missouri, cost of living, land prices, climate, weather, business matters, and family and friends.

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Charles Martin Hay Papers, 1919-1933 (C0039)
7 cubic feet (453 folders), 1 oversize volume

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Correspondence, legal cases, speeches, clippings, and political material of a St. Louis attorney, politician, prohibitionist, and leader in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Several cases concern prohibition enforcement or lead companies in southeastern Missouri. Hay was three times an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination for U.S. senator.

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Archie Hayden Railroad Photograph, no date (P0169)
1 photograph

Copy print of a Northern Missouri Railroad locomotive.

Jacob J. Hayden Letter, 1868 (C1554)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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From Scotland County, MO, June 7, 1868.

Hayden wrote an army buddy about his return home after the Civil War . His property was claimed by his brother, a Union man. Family news, marriage, birth of children, farming, county fair, crops, and Hayden family genealogy.

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Peyton R. Hayden Law Notebook, 1835-1842 (C0269)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Notes of a Boonville lawyer concerning law cases in Boone, Cole, Cooper, and Howard Counties, MO.

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Bernard Hayes Papers, 1961-1989 (S0480)
0 .4 cubic feet, 16 folders, 105 photographs, 2 audio tapes

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Bernard Hayes pioneered African-American radio in Louisiana, New York, Chicago, and San Francisco before becoming an announcer at KATZ in St. Louis in April 1965. In 1972 and 1977, he helped organize efforts to ensure that local black-owned radio stations retain their black employees and programming. He became the news director of KWMU in March 1982. The collection includes scrapbooks, photographs, an oral history and a cassette and records produced or recorded by Hayes.

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Oscar Haynie Papers, 1847-1865 (C1811)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Personal accounts with various merchants.

Hays Winterbower and Company (Overton, Mo.) Ledger, 1883-1884 (C4286)
1 volume

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The ledger of Hays Winterbower & Co. contains listings of purchases and purchasers at a general store in Cooper County.

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Alden F. Hays Photographs, 1946 (P0211)
5 photographs

Snapshots of the parade for Winston Churchill and Harry S. Truman's visit to Fulton, MO.

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Hazard Dressing Mill Collection, 1896 (R0028)
0.01 cubic foot (1 folder)

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The Hazard Dressing Mill Collection contains a photocopy of a typescript that describes the mill and milling process for lead ores at Mine La Motte.

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Rowland Hazard Papers, 1898 (R0141)
0.01 cubic foot (1 folder)

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The Rowland Hazard Papers contain a photocopy of a pamphlet, “Service in Remembrance of Rowland Hazard.” The pamphlet contains the text of memorial addresses for Rowland Hazard, a financier and industrialist from South Kingston, Rhode Island, who owned the Mine La Motte mining tract in Madison County, Missouri from 1870 to 1897.

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Lucy Reed Hazelton Papers, 1946-2003 (S0686)
1 cubic foot, 18 folders, 2 audio tapes

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The papers of Lucy Reed Hazelton document her career as a poet, writer, commercial, and fine artist in Webster Groves, Missouri. The collection includes awards, booklets, correspondence newspaper clippings, poems written by Lucy Reed Hazelton. Also included is an oral history interview with Ms. Hazelton, on two audio cassettes with a transcript.

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Franklin Harvey Head Note, no date (C2767)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Note by Head discussing unknown manuscript. Also a typed copy.

Ben F. Headen Letter, 1853 (C0546)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Typescript copy of a letter to Mr. and Mrs. Winchester Payne, Cass County, Missouri, from Santa Clara, California, Sept. 16, 1853. Dr. Headen tells of crops, prices, local conditions, and family affairs. Reports what some emigrants had told him about their trips to California.

W.P. Headlee Photographs, 1958 (P0703)
2 photographs

Photos of Bloomfield Military Pole Road and Great Mound near New Madrid, ca. 1958.

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Health & Welfare Council of Metropolitan St. Louis Records, 1911-1975 (S0434)
13 cubic feet, 308 folders

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The Health and Welfare Council (HWC) of Metropolitan St. Louis records contain administrative material from the group, including annual reports, board member manuals, descriptive narratives, histories, and agency classification system reports. The collection also includes histories and narratives of many social service and charitable organizations in St. Louis along with statistical information on these organizations. Reports of the social service resources and needs studies of the Council are also included with the records. The bulk of the collection contains reports, studies, and statistical data developed and collected by HWC to provide member agencies with information on health, social service and recreational needs of St. Louis.

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Health Planning Agency of St. Louis Records, 1952-1990 (S0898)
2 cubic feet

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This collection primarily consists of reports on St. Louis area hospitals and medical care.

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Heaney Desegregation Collection, 1891-2004 (S0899)
9 cubic feet

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The Heaney Desegregation Collection contains oral history interviews, newspaper articles, reports, and court files Gerald William Heaney used for his book, "Unending Struggle: The Long Road to an Equal Education in St. Louis."

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Sister Ruth Heaney Papers, 1970s-1990s (CA6138)
2.4 cubic feet

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The papers of Ruth Boylston Heaney, Benedictine sister of Our Lady of Peace Monastery in Columbia, Missouri. Widow of Larry Heaney (founder of the Milwaukee Catholic Worker) and a social activist, Heaney raised her six children on a Catholic Worker farm in Starkenburg, Missouri. She volunteered with the Benedictine sisters and eventually joined the order in 1979. Includes correspondence with prisoners, notebooks, and limited photographs.

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Clarinda and J.G. Hearn Papers, 1869-1872 (C0327)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Concerning payment of taxes on Dolle estate in Gasconade County, MO.

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Betty Cooper Hearnes Speech, 1971 (C3274)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Address at dedication of new bandstand in Fayette, MO, at Central Methodist College.

Warren E. Hearnes Papers, 1964-1972 (C3585)
127 rolls of microfilm

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Papers of Democratic governor of Missouri from 1965 to 1972.

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Warren E. Hearnes Papers, 1950-1972 (C3522)
9.0 cubic feet (686 folders), 9 rolls of microfilm (17 volumes)

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Materials determined by Hearnes, governor of Missouri, 1965-1973, to be his personal papers. Bulk of collection is correspondence regarding campaigns, legislation, and Democratic Party. Material on gubernatorial succession amendment, 1965. Arranged by topic, then chronologically within topic. Scrapbooks are on microfilm.

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Heart of America Genealogical Society (HAGS) Records, 1955-2005 (K0720)
19 c.f.

Organizational records including financial and business related materials, newsletters, minutes, membership directories, scrapbook, correspondence, and query files,incorporation and dissolution papers.

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Heart of America Jewish Historical Society Records, 1990-2005 (K0958)
0.27 c.f.

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Includes audio recording of programs at the society's meetings and oral interviews.(see also K0441 Montague)

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Heart of America Kennel Club Catalogs, 1950-2016 (K1400)
3.17 cubic feet (52 folders)

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The Heart of America Kennel Club Catalogs contain dog show catalogs dated between 1950 through 2016.

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Heart of America Kennel Club Event Documents, 1954-2016 (K1401)
0.7 cubic foot (15 folders)

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The Heart of America Kennel Club Event Documents contain premium lists and judging programs related to the Clubs all-breed dog shows, obedience trials, puppy matches, and combined specialty clubs dated from 1954 to 2016.

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Heart of America Labor Council Collection, 1921-1967 (K0839)
2 c.f.

Miscellaneous historical files including photographs, badges, minutes, and records of various unions in Kansas City.

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