Manuscripts Index

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James Austin Letter, 1846 (C0910)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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To his brother from Mexico, Oct. 23, 1846. Concerning the trip to Mexico and conditions there during the Mexican War.

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Peter E. Austin Papers, 1860-1861 (C1812)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Tickets to Missouri Medical College lectures.

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Peter Austin Letter, 1852 (C1728)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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To Willard P[reble ]Hall, [House of Representatives, Washington, D. C.], from Carrollton, Missouri, March 30, 1852. Hall (1820-1882) was United States Representative from Missouri 1847-1853 and Governor of Missouri, 1864-1865. Austin requests information about admission to the U.S. Navy Medical Department. On April 16 Hall recommended Austin as a gentleman and skillful physician to be interviewed by the Navy's Board of Examiners.

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R.A. Austin Papers, 1846-1897 (C2118)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Autobiography of the Reverend R.A. Austin, a Missouri Methodist minister and circuit rider. The Austin family's migration from Kentucky to Missouri, education, conversion, Civil War, Indians, trip West from Chillicothe, MO, to Montana, activities of Montana circuit ministers. Seven letters from Austin to his wife, 1859-1866.

William W. Austin Letter, 1844 (C0495)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Description of Missouri River flood at Carrollton.

Avalon College Papers, no date (C1745)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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The papers of Avalon College contain histories of Avalon College, Cleiomathean Literary Society, and Philophronean Literary Society, and a list of donors to the Memorial Fund. The college was established at Avalon, Livingston County, MO, 1871-1872, and relocated at Trenton, Grundy County, MO, 1890.

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James H. Avery Letter, 1915 (C2054)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Enclosing picture of their grandfather's house.

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Edward Everett Ayer Reminiscences, 1924 (C2694)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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The collection contains reminiscences of his first trip away from home, and itinerary across the plains to California, and descriptions of people met, work in the mines, enlistment in the army and subsequent service, and the return home in 1864.

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Mary Lou Ayers Photograph Collection, 1957-1958 (P0058)
4 photographs

Photographs of Dolle Mill and the Old Military Road in Bollinger County, MO, ca. 1957-1958.

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Nellie F. Ayres Collection, 1860, 1948 (C2752)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Typescript done by Ayres of a diary of Lavina Priest, written while on a visit to Kentucky in 1860 and a letter to "LOML" from Ayres describing a bus trip to Idaho and Yellowstone Park in June 1948.

B'nai B'rith Women St. Joseph, MO Chapter 276 Records, 1964-1965 (K0899)
2.2 c.f.

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Scrapbook of the activities of the B'nai B'rith Women, Chapter 276, of St. Joseph, MO.

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B'nai B'rith Youth Organization (BBYO) Scrapbooks, 1937-2000 (K0657)
8 c.f.

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BBYO is an international, pluralistic Jewish youth group for high school-age teenagers. Scrapbooks contain paperwork, photographs, and memorabilia related to meetings, programs, and conferences.

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B'Nai Brith Women, Kansas City Chapter #158 Records, 1959-1960 (K1313)
0.2 c.f.

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This collection contains a scrapbook for the B’nai B’rith Women’s organization, Kansas City Chapter, #158. Included are photographs, newspaper clippings, event ephemera, and miscellaneous material detailing the organizations activities for 1959 to 1960.

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H.B. Babb Notebook, 1872-1875 (C0653)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Notes on the cultivation of small fruits, soil, and chemistry. Rolls of elementary school classes in back.

Frank Olin Babcock Papers, 1916-2003 (K0977)
2 c.f.

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Personal papers of former Executive Vice-President of the Associated Plumbing Contractors and Mechanical Contractors of Greater Kansas City. Includes personal papers, photographs and other materials relating to the life, family, and work of Babcock.

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Jean Coover Babcock Papers, 1944-1996 (K0740)
5.5 cubic feet

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Family, personal, and professional materials of Babcock, a ballerina and dance instructor. Family papers include photographs, printed materials, ephemera, and material regarding her father's his job as a railroad engineer. Personal and professional papers include correspondence; photographs; clippings; programs from dance and theatre performances; material documenting her ballet career in Germany and Canada; and administrative and financial records of her Kansas City dance schools.

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Joe Bachant Papers, 1970s-2000s (CA6575)
5.9 cubic feet, 2 audio cassettes, 2 video cassettes, 1 oversize item

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The papers of an environmentalist who worked for the Missouri Department of Conservation for much of his career include correspondence, subject files, speeches, photographs, and material concerning the Missouri Stream Team Program. Bachant was involved in preventing the damming of the Meramec River as well as the creation of the Missouri Stream Team Program.

Joseph Backlar Letters, 1944-1945 (C2011)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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The collection contains letters written during World War II by an army medical officer stationed in Greenland and Iceland to his son, Byron Backlar, PhM 3/c aboard the U.S.S. SANBORN.

Frank Harold Backstrom Papers, 1923-1984 (K0140)
1 MR

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Scrapbook of clippings, campaign literature, and other memorabilia related to Backstrom's career on the Kansas City City Council during the reform movement of the 1930s-1940s.

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Elijah Backus Diary, 1777 (C0214)
0.08 cubic feet (4 folders)

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Diary kept by a Yale student during 1777. Revolutionary War, rumors of battles, counterfeiters, the housing problem for students, smallpox vaccination, and General Arnold. The last third of the diary is written in Latin.

Bacon & Hyde Company Price List, 1845 (C0221)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Price list of a St. Louis firm selling drugs, paints, dyestuffs, surgical instruments, glassware, spices, and paper.

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Bacon Chapel (Shelby County, Mo.) Account Book, 1870 (C3372)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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The collection contains an account book of money collected by Bacon Chapel church subscription and kept by William O. Lowman. The subscription was for a new building.

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Robert B. Bacon Papers, 1850-1883 (C1903)
0.06 cubic feet (3 folders)

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Tax receipts, notes, bills, miscellaneous receipts, and other business papers, mainly of Robert B. Bacon but also of George E. and Edward G. Chambers and others.

Bacon-Defoe Cemetery Restoration Photographs, 1970, no date (P0929)
24 photographs

Original photos used in publication "Bacon-DeFoe Cemetery Restoration, St. Louis Co., 1970"

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John Baeke, Sr. Banner Collection, 1982 (K1325)
2 c.f.

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The collection consists of two (2) canvas banners, screen printed, approximately 3' x 5', dating from circa 1982. The banners were purchased from the J.C. Nichols Company by John Baeke, Sr., president of the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Club. The club hosted regular Heart of America minimeets, one of which was held on the Country Club Plaza by the Swanson's department store, circa 1982.

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Howard F. Baer Papers, 1960-1998 (S0038)
5 cubic feet

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The Howard F. Baer Papers contain correspondence, photographs, and newspaper clippings documenting his activities as a St. Louis Zoological Sub District Commission member from 1979 to 1984 and his time as a Trustee of the Missouri Botanical Garden from 1937 to 1985. Also included in the collection is Baer's autobiography, "An Ordinary Man."

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Lindsay Bagnall Collection, 1900, 1994-1995 (R1510)
0.5 cubic foot (7 folders, 1 photograph)

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The Lindsay Bagnall Collection contains materials collected by Lindsay Bagnall. The materials include the family Bible with genealogical information of the Brown and Burton
families of Kansas and Missouri, copies of The Good Life, and a photograph of women in a garment factory.

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Bagnell Dam Aerial Photograph, 1933 (P0995)
1 photograph

Aerial photograph of the dam, Lake of the Ozarks and the spillway

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Bailey Family Photographs, no date (P0922)
3 photographs

Photos of Edward and Permelia Bailey. Edward operated Bailey's stage stand on Butterfield Overland Mail Route.

Alfred K. Bailey Autobiography, undated (C0222)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Life of Alfred K. Bailey up to the Civil War. Tells of trek to Illinois from Tennessee. He joined the Union Army. Also material about Joseph A. Howe and his joining the Confederate Army in 1861. His sons held the James boys' horses for five cents worth of candy.

Arthur T. Bailey Scrapbook, 1925-1930 (P0261)
146 photographs

Scrapbook containing photographs taken 1925-1930 while Arthur T. Bailey was a student at the University of Missouri, Columbia. Various images of the university and students.

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David Bailey Land Grant, 1804 (C0535)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Grant of tract of land in Botetourt County, Virginia, to David Bailey by John Page, governor of Virginia.

Elizabeth Bailey Photograph Collection, 1987, no date (P0379)
1 folder

Postcard of Missouri United Methodist Church (Columbia), photographs of Mary K. Dains retirement reception (8-8-1991), Ronald Reagan visit to Columbia (1987), and the Missouri State Archives (1991).

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George Bailey Photograph Collection, 1863 (P0923)

Copy photos of George Bailey and family, 1863.

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Lawrence Dudley Bailey Collection, 1855-1881 (K0125)
1 MR

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Scrapbook of newspaper clippings, correspondence and some personal manuscripts of Lawrence D. Bailey, a Kansas Politian active in Kansas agricultural circles and served as president of the State Agricultural Society. The majority of the clippings relate to the monetary questions of the 1870's.

Stephen Bailey Papers, 1865-1890 (C2611)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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The papers of Stephen Bailey contain a discharge from the Civil War of Stephen D. Bailey, Pierce City, MO, 1865. Also included are miscellaneous papers relating to a veteran's pension, 1890, and information explaining Missouri military organizations.

George Clark Bain Scrapbook, 1858-1859 (C2496)
0.13 cubic feet (1 volume)

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Bain was a commission and forwarding merchant in Lexington, KY. Book of bills of lading, which was used as a scrapbook and contains poems and stories cut from newspapers.

George Grantham Bain Papers, 1891 (C1743)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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The papers of George Grantham Bain contain letters about newspaperman Bain from Charles Ritch Johnson and the Saint Louis GLOBE-DEMOCRAT managing editor, May 8-9, 1891. The papers also include a biographical sketch of Bain with compliments from other journalists about his work.

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Katherine Bain Papers, 1920-1976 (C3706)
0.7 cubic feet (55 folders)

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Papers of a prominent Missouri pediatrician, 1927-1940; administrator, U.S. Children's Bureau, 1940-1972; member of U.S. delegation to the executive board, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) , 1957-1973. Material on maternal and child health care in the Middle East, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas, 1956-1970; and information on U.S. contribution to UNICEF.

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Ray Baird Papers, 1897-1985 (C0749)
0.6 cubic feet

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Papers of a Missouri professional youth work director, 1925-1956; businessman, 1956-1974; and amateur band leader, 1974-1982. Includes personal papers, genealogical materials on the Baird family, diaries, correspondence, poetry, award presentations, photographs, and newspaper clippings.

William E. Baird Record Book, 1857-1872 (C1093)
0.06 cubic feet (1 volume)

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Baird was assignee of H.G. Brunt, Boonville, MO. Book contains his accounts for May-June 1857, and the Cooper County, MO, grand jury records, March Term 1869-October Term 1872.

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Baird-Welsh-Chisholm Family Papers, 1894-1922 (K0655)
0.5 c.f.

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The papers contain various scrapbooks such as photograph albums, baby books, and commemorative books of other events such as deaths and weddings. Also contained are personal papers such as letters and certificates pertaining to the family and family-friends as well as individual photographs of members of the family.

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Ragnhild Bairnsfather Photograph Collection, 1871, 1875 (P0174)
2 photographs

two carte de visites: Ella Hogan and S. O. Ellis

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Henry Baker Farm Record Book, 1862-1883 (C0861)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Farm breeding records, farm sales, purchases, and general account book and farm ledger of Henry Baker, St. Joseph, Missouri. Photographs enclosed.

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Henry Baker Papers, 1889-1949 (C0217)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Correspondence about loans and receipts for loan and account payments.

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J.H.P. Baker Civil War Diary, 1864-1865 (C1449)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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The diary of J.H.P. Baker, dated October 16, 1864-June 17, 1865, discusses the war in Missouri, Price's retreat, the Southern cause, Lee, Johnston, Beauregard, Price, Shelby, Sherman, guerrillas, Lee's surrender, Lincoln's assassination, and Johnson's inauguration. Baker, a doctor with General Shelby, was in charge of a Texas Confederate hospital.

Kenzie Kenneth Baker Scrapbooks, 1882-1934 (C1380)
0.1 cubic feet (2 volumes)

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The collection contains scrapbooks of newspaper clippings on the history of New Madrid; biographical sketches of the first European American settlers to the area and their descendants; and information on historical events, including an account of the earthquake of 1811-1812, and descriptions of Baker’s archaeological discoveries.

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Martha Baker Papers, 1929-1983 (S0308)
1 cubic foot

The Mary Baker Papers contain correspondence, photographs, family trees, family histories, and a marriage certificate pertaining to the Baker, Owens, Smelser, Dieffenbach, Eoff, and Grinstead families.

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Neil A. Baker Papers, 1861-1863 (C2234)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Letters from Neil A. Baker, Confederate soldier, to his wife, Sarah Jane Baker, and his daughter, Emma, Chatham County, NC, November 1861 to February 1863.