Manuscripts Index
Ralph E. Kiene Jr. Architectural Records, 1950-1992 (K1137)
21 c.f.
Architectural drawings of buildings and houses in the greater Kansas City area designed by Kiene and his associates.
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Debbie Kilgore Photograph Collection, 1993-2002 (P0155)
52 photographs
Approximately 52 35mm color negatives and prints showing scenes around Macon, Missouri during the mid 1990s. Additional photo album, assembled by Ken Fryer, DOT district manager, showing the 1993 Missouri River flood in Cole, Carroll, Howard, Saline, and Livingston counties.
Randall F. Kilgore Photograph, no date (P0583)
1 photograph
Stained glass at Missouri United Methodist, Columbia, MO.
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Deanna Killeen Photograph Collection, 1900 (P0239)
2 folders
Three unidentified photos, possibly Greene County area. Winter scenes, picnic, church group and buildings.
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Joseph C. and Charles A. Killian Papers, 1821-1935 (C0124)
0.4 cubic feet (28 folders)
Legal papers and letters of J.C. Killian and his son, Perry County, MO, lawyers. Diary of J.C. Killian describes people of Perryville. Also material on early German immigration.
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Charles Newton Kimball Papers, 1911-1991 (K0055)
44 c.f.
Personal and professional papers of a scientist, civic leader, and president of the Midwest Research Institute encompassing a range of economic and community development activities regionally and nationally.
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Amy Kimmel Collection, no date (P0718)
4 photographs
Copy photos of drawings/paintings of 17th-19th century members of the Kimmel family.
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Cyrus T. Kimmel Diary, 1865-1870 (C1131)
0.2 cubic feet (1 volume)
Primarily 1865 entries during Civil War service, recorded at Ironton, Whitewater, Cape Girardeau, Bloomfield, Brunswick, Bowling Green, and St. Louis, MO, and Millers Station, AR. Scattered entries for 1866-1870. Also invitation to New Year's Union Ball, Brunswick, MO, December 30, 1865, and poem. Kimmel served as an assistant surgeon in the 2nd Missouri State Militia Cavalry.
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Warren Kimsey Papers, 1915-1934 (C3747)
0.1 cubic feet (5 folders)
The papers of Warren Kimsey contain correspondence, stories, press releases, and histories of a Missouri-born short story writer.
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Albert Aven Kinder Papers, 1919-1967, 2012 (CG0005)
0.2 cubic feet
The Albert Aven Kinder Papers contains photographs, yearbook pages, and correspondence between members of the Kinder family. There are 29 photographs of the Kinder family from 1919 to 1967, yearbook pages from The Girardot (Central High School), The Sagamore (Southeast Missouri State University), The Savitar (University of Missouri-Columbia), and correspondence to Sherrill Kinder Wright from Marcia Kinder Geer and Edna Kinder Anderson.
Kathleen Kinderfather Papers, 1920-2020 (S0394)
8 cubic feet
This collection contains correspondence, meeting minutes, newsletters, reel-to-reel tapes, and photographs documenting Kathleen Kinderfather's career as a physical education professor at Harris-Stowe State University and her involvement with the Missouri Association of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (MAHPERD); Phi Delta Pi; and Pi Lambda Theta.
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Kathleen Kinderfather Papers, 1977-1986 (C3833)
0.2 cubic feet (13 folders)
The papers of Kathleen Kinderfather consist of bylaws, correspondence, ephemera, meeting agenda, membership lists, minutes, and press releases. Dr. Kinderfather was involved with the formation and activities of the Governor's Council on Physical Fitness and later the founding of the Missouri Foundation for Health, Fitness and Sport. The papers show the council's development and the development of the Show-Me State Games.
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Kinderpost, Missouri Collection, circa 1910-1982 (R0107)
0.03 cubic foot (3 folders)
The Kinderpost, Missouri Collection contains materials on the post office and community at Kinderpost in Texas County, Missouri. Included are two photographs, an illustrated article by Priscilla Bradford, and a three-page memoir on the postal system in Texas County by Ellery P. Bradford.
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King General Store (Oak Grove, Mo.) Account Book, 1888-1893 (C4313)
0.2 cubic feet (1 folder)
The records of a general store owned by John and Abigail King in Oak Grove, Missouri. The accounts were kept by their son, Herbert King. An index is included.
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King's Daughters, Cecile Taylor Circle Minutes, 1965 (C2283)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
"The Doings of the Daughters," satirical minutes of the Columbia, MO, circle written and submitted by Mrs. John Rogers (Betty) Cockran, October 13, 1965.
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King's Daughters, City Union (Columbia, Mo.) Records, 1966-1985; 1996 (C4676)
0.4 cubic foot (20 folders, 2 video cassettes)
Correspondence, meeting minutes, financial records, promotional material, and other records related to the organization's annual ball and holiday event.
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King's Daughters, Margaret Elwang Circle Papers, 1958-1959 (C3261)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
The collection contains three programs listing officers, members, and activities of a Columbia, Missouri, circle.
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King's Daughters, Margaret Elwang Circle Scrapbook, 1959 (C2566)
0.18 cubic feet (1 volume)
The collection contains a scrapbook presented to a Columbia, MO, circle to supplement the program "The Golden Years, 1909-1959."
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King's Daughters. Kate Thompson Circle (Columbia, Mo.) Records, 1894-2006 (C4699)
1.7 cubic feet (40 folders)
Minutes of meetings, 1912-1914, 1922-1923; program, 1919; constitution and by-laws, and miscellaneous pamphlets.
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Eleanor Ann King Papers, 1856-1898 (C1862)
0.04 cubic feet (2 folders)
The papers of Eleanor Ann King contain letters written to Eleanor Ann King after she was arrested as a Confederate Spy, and imprisoned in the Female Prison at St. Louis, MO. The collection also contains photographs of Eleanor Ann, her first and second husbands--J.M. King and William Pennington Ferrell--and her children.
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Elijah King Papers, 1873-1888 (C0351)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Letters written to King in Iowa from Munn and Farwell, land agents in Grant City, MO, giving prices and description of land. Broadside advertising cheap western homes in the Grand and Platte River country of northeast Missouri, and a genealogy of the King, Munn, and Farwell families.
George King Papers, 1778-1924 (C0125)
0.1 cubic feet (5 folders)
The papers of a family from Boone and Callaway Counties, Missouri, contain genealogy, correspondence, legal papers, and a newspaper, The Connecticut Courant, from 1778.
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June K. King Papers, 1890-1898 (C0126)
0.1 cubic feet (5 folders)
Letters and other papers of a livestock dealer in Marshall, MO. Correspondence concerns the sale of cattle and hogs. Several letters of the American Berkshire Association are in the collection.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial March Instructions, 1968 (C2552)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Instruction sheet distributed to participants in memorial march for Dr. King in Columbia, MO.
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Marvin Lee King Photograph Collection, 1975, no date (P0943)
3 photographs
Photos of King and Moore family members
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Roy T. King Photograph Collection, 1885-1957 (P0099)
0.5 linear feet
Photographs of Columbia, primarily 1927-1941 and including the University of Missouri, fraternity and sorority houses, Broadway and downtown, Stephens College, homes, and aerial views. Additional images of Boone County, Rocheport, the Ozarks, and Cooper, Iron and Jackson County buildings, people and miscellaneous places. Many of the photographs in this collection are by Leon Waughtel.
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Thomas C. King Mining Report Collection, circa 1951 (R0179)
0.01 cubic foot (1 folder)
The Thomas C. King Mining Report Collection contains photocopies of drill hole logs, assay reports, and a general mining history of a tract west of Dadeville, Dade County, Missouri. The report was prepared by Thomas C. King prepared the report in connection with a lease of the property by Hugh M. Russell.
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Walter King Speech, 1859 (C0672)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Speech given in the Missouri House of Representatives, 10 December 1859, on "The Difference Between the Northern Democratic Views on Territorial Policy."
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King-Bowin Family Photographs, 1940, no date (P0572)
1 folder
Photos of the King and Bowin families. The Bowin family lived in Greenwood, MO.
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Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses Public Address Notice, 1969 (C3335)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Lists sermon topics for Sunday services and gives brief statements pertaining to them.
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Kingsbury Family Papers, 1903-1983 (C4346)
3.0 cubic feet (78 folders, 2 volumes)
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Lilburn A. Kingsbury Collection, 1816-1983 (C3724)
9.2 cubic feet (528 folders), 16 oversize volumes, 6 card files, 4 rolls of microfilm
The personal papers and collected materials of Lilburn A. Kingsbury of Howard County, Missouri. Kingsbury was an insurance agent, farmer, orchardist, bank clerk, local historian, writer, genealogist, musician, and antique collector.
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Kingsville, Missouri, Massacre Account, 1865 (C3516)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Description by an unknown author of robbing, killing, and burning by guerrillas in the Johnson County town of Kingsville, Missouri, near the close of the Civil War.
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King’s Daughters and Sons, Missouri Branch Records, 1890-1979 (C4254)
2.4 cubic feet (33 folders), 7 oversize items
The records of the King's Daughters and Sons, Missouri Branch, contain scrapbooks of the Missouri branch of the International Order of King's Daughters and Sons. They also include records of the Missouri Branch's retirement home in Mexico, Missouri, including scrapbooks, applications, minute books of meetings for building expansion, and financial records.
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Adah Binford Kinkhorst Photograph Collection, 1950-1958 (P0490)
11 photographs
Photos of Chariton County sites.
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James Kinley Letter, no date (C2250)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
To his children from Stanford, Lincoln County, KY, n.d.
Concerning his health, family news, and death of family friend. Reports that Wendford Kinley had returned from a trip to Missouri, no details of trip. Awaits letter.
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Kinloch History Committee Records, 1916-1983 (S0151)
0.25 cubic feet, 15 folders
The Kinloch History Committee Records collection documents the effort by the Kinloch History Committee to research the social, political, and economic history of Kinloch, Missouri, before the bulldozing of Kinloch neighborhoods due to the expansion of Lambert Airport in the 1980s. The committee created the manuscript Kinloch: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow to publish the committee's research findings.
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Kinloch Missouri Photograph Collection, 1900-1990 (S0638)
0.25 cubic foot, 4 folders, 155 photographs
The Kinloch Missouri Photograph Collection contains 155 photographs that document the history of Kinloch Park’s African-American community from the 1890s-1940s, and the all-Black City of Kinloch from its incorporation in 1948 to the 1980s. These photographs include students in school settings, housing, politicians, educators, churches, and historical buildings.
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Kinloch School Desegregation Collection, 1972-1989 (S0707)
0.8 cubic foot, 29 folders
On June 7, 1975, the US District Court ordered that school districts in the St. Louis County municipalities of Berkeley, Ferguson-Florissant, and the predominantly African American Kinloch merged into a single district. This decision followed a government lawsuit in 1971, maintaining that the Kinloch schools perpetuated an all-African-American created in 1937. It also followed the 1972 Liddell v. Board of Education of St. Louis court decision on school desegregation. Judge James H. Meredith ordered the merger, which was upheld by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. The collection contains newspaper clippings and reports chronicling the merger.
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Charles R. Kinslow Papers, 1957-2002 (K0586)
12 c.f.
Kinslow was technical expert in aircraft systems and procedures, and former Flight Instructor for Trans World Airlines and Federal Express. Includes flight and maintenance training materials, transparencies, wiring diagrams; also collected materials concerning Braniff, and Air Canada.
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John H. Kinyoun Account Books, 1859-1898 (C3863)
0.16 cubic feet (1 folder, 7 volumes)
Six ledgers, cash book, and miscellaneous receipts, bills, certificates, and advertisements of John Hendricks Kinyoun, a doctor in Centerview, Johnson County, Missouri.
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James M. Kirby Civil War Material, 1862-1896 (C0203)
1 roll of microfilm
Union army muster roll, 1862, Dade County, MO; solicitation by G.A.R. Department of Missouri for membership, 1886; certificate of service in the Union army issued by Adjutant General's office, 1896; and ordnance inventory, 1864.
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Kirby-Ridgway-Lightholder Family Papers, 1845-1996, 2003 (C4404)
2.4 cubic feet (48 folders, 1 volume, 5 artifacts), 14 oversize items
Correspondence, photographs, wills, military records, leases, contracts, and miscellaneous material of the Kirby, Ridgway, Lightholder, and related families. The papers document the lives of a Quaker family from Shelltown, New Jersey, and the life of Col. Ellwood Kirby, who moved westward to Missouri.
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Hazel Adkins Kirkland Papers, 1905-1909 (K0957)
0.2 c.f.
Kirkland attended Liberty Ladies College and was a member of the Eta Upsilon Gamma sorority. Includes sorority ink drawings, a newsletter, and a group photograph.
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J. B. Kirkland Papers, no date (R0354)
0.01 cubic foot (1 folder)
The Jefferson B. Kirkland Papers contains a photocopy of a memoir of service during World War I by a native of Nicholas, Georgia, and member of Company F, 151st Machine Gun Battalion, 42nd United States Infantry Division. Kirkland served in northeastern France, 1917-1918, where he saw action in the Baccarat sector and in the defense of the Champagne front on the Marne River, April-July 1918.
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Kay Kirkman and Roger Stinnett Photograph Collection, 1838-1984 (P0178)
0.75 linear feet
283 photographs collected by Kay Kirkman in preparation for Joplin: A Pictorial History by Kay Kirkman and Roger Stinnett (1981).
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James C. Kirkpatrick Photograph Collection, 1975-1976 (P1077)
Copy photos of Missouri officials
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Irvin R. and Laura Kirkwood Papers, 1911-1914 (K0439)
0.01 c.f.
The papers contain four letters written to Irwin and Laura Kirkwood concerning business and domestic affairs.
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Kirkwood, Missouri Oral History Project, 1995-1997 (C3962)
0.1 cubic feet, 10 audio cassettes
The Kirkwood, Missouri, Oral History Project was an attempt to supplement the book, Kirkwood, Missouri: The Greentree City. A Pictorial History, edited by Barbara J. Byerly and J.B. Lester, which was published in 1994. The interviews were to emphasize events after 1960.