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Missouri School Districts Collection, 1917-1980 (S0044)
1.4 cubic feet, 42 folders
The Missouri School Districts Collections is an artificial collection combining small acquisitions pertaining to various school districts in St. Louis and outstate Missouri.
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Missouri School of Religion Papers, 1896-1967 (C2791)
5.8 cubic feet
Correspondence of Deans G.D. Edwards, 1907-1937; Carl Agee, 1930-1949; and Seth Slaughter, 1949-1967. Correspondence of George Wetherell, extension minister, and James Wyker, director of the Rural Church Extension Service. Minutes of board of trustees' and faculty meetings, treasurer's reports, annual reports, and audits.
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Missouri School of Religion Records, 1888-1980s (CA4347)
12.3 cubic feet
Addition of enrollment cards, bulletins, financial statements, trustee meeting minutes, theses and dissertations, lecture notes, bibliographies, reports, publications, and photographs.
Missouri School of Religion Records, 1930-2017 (CA6528)
5.7 cubic feet, 1 oversize item
The records of the Missouri School of Religion contain board meeting materials, newsletters, photographs, promotional material, and miscellaneous material.
Missouri Society for Health and Physical Educators Records, 1937-2010 (S0010)
36 cubic feet
The records contain bylaws, correspondence, meeting minutes, research abstracts, and photographs regarding the Missouri Society for Health and Physical Educators' (MOSHAPE) mission to develop and promote health, leisure, and movement programs.
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Missouri State Museum, Interpretation Program, Oral History Recordings, 1980-2009 (CA6218)
1.2 cubic feet, 410 audio cassettes, 78 video cassettes, 205 DVDs, 3 CDs
Oral history interviews with Missourians regarding historical events on audio cassettes, video cassettes, and DVDs. Also includes transcripts and related material such as photographs, negatives, news clippings, obituaries, correspondence, personal accounts, and ephemera.
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Missouri State Teachers Association Records, 1837-1997 (CA6123)
10.5 cubic feet, 6 oversize volumes
Records and official papers of the Missouri State Teachers Association. In May 1856, teachers met in St. Louis and established the first U.S. professional organization for state educators. The records include newsletters and other publications, historical materials, committee reports, and oversize scrapbooks.
Missouri State Teachers Association Programs, 1883 (C0630)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Programs of meetings of the association, one dated 23 July 1883 and one undated.
Missouri Teachers' Academy Circular, 1896 (C1823)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Brief history of the Missouri Teachers' Academy which was founded in 1886.
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Missouri Teachers' Academy Record Book, 1886-1899 (C1180)
0.06 cubic feet (1 volume)
The record book includes a history of the academy, meeting minutes, and lists of members.
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Missouri Valley Series Papers, 1962-1965 (K0241)
0.05 c.f.
Research papers on the history of the Greater Kansas City area written by graduate students and local historians in response to a prize offered by the Native Sons and Daughters of Greater Kansas City.
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Board of Directors' Announcement, Fredericktown, Missouri, 1905 (C2356)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
The collection contains an announcement issued by the Fredericktown board of directors concerning T.D. Bennick's method of seeking election as county school commissioner.
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Missouri, Glasgow. Board of Education Records, 1875-1917 (C2327)
0.85 cubic feet (8 volumes)
Record books for District 1, Range 17, Township 51, Howard County. Election of directors and minutes of board meetings; textbooks adopted; minutes of annual school meetings; registered voters; teachers' rolls and salaries; school expenses; district clerk's annual enumeration; rules and regulations for students and teachers.
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Missouri School Directors' Oath, 1870s (C3199)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Blank form of oath of allegiance required of school directors.
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Missouri Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb (Fulton, Mo.) Report, 1851 (C2080)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
The collection contains a report on the organization, facilities, regulations, and proper pupils of the asylum at Fulton.
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Missouri 2nd Circuit Court Judgments, 1821-1863 (C1072)
0.2 cubic feet (1 volume)
Information pertaining to cases presented in the court, including the names of the parties involved; date of judgment; nature of action; amounts of debts, damages, and costs; and the manner of satisfaction. Cases are listed alphabetically, and chronologically within, for the most part.
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Missourians for Quality Education Records, 1991 (C4555)
1.0 cubic feet (55 folders, 3 video cassettes, 4 audio cassettes)
The records of an organization established to promote the passage of legislation to increase funding for education in Missouri include correspondence, publicity materials, financial documents, campaign materials, and miscellaneous material on Proposition B.
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Monday Art Club, Poplar Bluff, Missouri Collection, 1911 (R1045)
(1 folder)
This is the annual program booklet for the Monday Art Club, a woman's study club at Poplar Bluff in Butler County, Missouri. The booklet is undated, but 1911 has been written in what appears to be period ink and handwriting on the cover. The president of the club was Mrs. W.M. Barron and the secretary-treasurer was Mrs. E. Bacon.
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Montgomery County, Missouri, Rural School Records, 1870s-1947 (C4121)
0.5 cubic feet
The records of the Montgomery County Rural Schools largely contain Teacher's Monthly Reports and District Clerk Reports regarding school district number three, township number forty-seven, and range number six. The collection also contains a variety of business records including receipts and teachers' contracts. The teacher and clerk reports date from the 1870s to the 1890s. The miscellaneous personal records are mainly associated with the Tate family.
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Allen Moore III Collection, 1891-1940 (P0742)
4 photographs
Photos of Chillicothe Business College, ca. 1919 and ca. 1940, and postcards of Chillicothe Normal School, ca. 1890-1910.
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Mary Brown Daniel Moore Letter, 1936 (C0619)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
To Ida C. Bates, Columbia, Missouri, from Nashville, Tennessee, Feb. 26, 1936. Description of the experiences of her mother, Elizabeth Brown Daniel at Christian College, Columbia, Missouri, in 1863 and 1864. She also attended Independence Female College and Howard Female College.
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Moothart College Photograph Collection, circa 1910 (R0241)
0.01 cubic foot (1 35mm slide)
The Moothart College Photograph Collection contains a photograph of the football team of Moothart College in Farmington, Missouri. The view has been copied on one 35mm slide.
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Mora School, Benton County, Missouri Records, 1870-1957 (R0254)
(2 rolls of microfilm)
The Mora School, Benton County, Missouri Records contain a microfilm copy of the records of Mora School in northern Benton County, Missouri. Included are the records of the district clerk and attendance records kept by the teachers.
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George Morgan Speech, 1973 (K0980)
0.01 c.f.
Audio tape of a speech made by Morgan a Political Parties Class at Center High School, on political boss Tom Pendergast.
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Wilson C. Morris Papers, no date (CA5205)
0.2 cubic feet
Papers of a physics professor at State Normal School at Warrensburg, MO. Includes a typed manuscript of "Physics in the Secondary Schools" and State Normal School Bulletin of 1915-1916.
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Wilson C. Morris Papers, 1915 (C4646)
0.3 cubic feet (7 folders)
Papers of a physics professor at State Normal School at Warrensburg, MO. Includes a typed manuscript of "Physics in the Secondary Schools" and State Normal School Bulletin of 1915-1916.
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Ruth Morrison Papers, 1924-1953 (R1446)
0.1 cubic foot (2 folders)
The Ruth Morrison Papers is a collection of newspaper clippings documenting the class of 1927 at St. James High School.
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David H. Morrissey Papers, no date (CA5759)
5 cubic feet
Subject files, research materials, and teaching materials related to the Freedom of Information Act, government secrecy, and electronic records of an investigative reporter and professor of journalism.
Motley School, Saint Clair County, Missouri Records, 1926 (R1194)
(1 folder)
This is a souvenir booklet for the 1926 school year at Motley School in Saint Clair County, Missouri. Mabel Hill was the teacher and W. D. Motley was president of the local school board.
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Mound City Commercial College Records, 1872-1873 (S0944)
0.8 cubic foot
This collection contains two ledgers consisting of financial records of the Mound City Commercial College. Thomas A. Rice founded the Mound City Commercial College in 1859 in Boone County, Missouri.
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Mount Gilead School Records, 1854-1859 (K0164)
0.02 c.f. (1 folder)
Photocopies of minutes, tax levies and tax receipts for the Mount Gilead School District in Clay County, Missouri. Also is an "Inventory of Sale of Personal Property of T.M. Gosney, Deceased."
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Mount Pleasant College (Huntsville, Mo.) Papers, 1860-1862 (C0618)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Annual catalogue of Mount Pleasant College, Huntsville, MO, for the year ending, 24 June 1860. Commencement program for 1862.
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Mount Pleasant College (Huntsville, Mo.) Tuition Receipts, 1870-1872 (C2640)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
The collection contains tuition receipts and brief description of the college.
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Mountain Grove Academy Collection, 1889-1896 (R0800)
(1 folder)
This collection includes programs for literary exercises in 1889 and commencement exercises in 1890, 1891, 1894, and 1896, and an undated advertisement card for the Mountain Grove Academy at Mountain Grove in Wright County, Missouri.
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Mountain Grove High School Collection, 1936 (R1076)
(1 folder)
These are programs for a musical entertainment and the Senior Class play performed by students at Mountain Grove High School at Mountain Grove in Wright County, Missouri. Maurice Cater and Maude Williams were the faculty directors.
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Munday-Henderson Family Papers, 1827-1891, 1946 (C0144)
0.2 cubic feet
Personal letters, business papers, and newspaper clippings pertaining to members of the Munday family. Letters to David P. Henderson about the ministry, the Civil War, and Christian University at Canton, MO, which he founded in 1856.
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"My Father, W.H. Pyle, American Psychologist," Vernus Pyle, 1949 (C0683)
0.08 cubic feet (4 folders)
Biography of William H. Pyle (1875-1946), educator and psychologist, follows his life from 1900 until his death. He taught Educational Psychology at the University of Missouri and at Wayne University, Detroit, MI, and became dean of the graduate school at Wayne University.
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Clara Louise Myers Papers, 1911-1988 (C4012)
57 cubic feet (1419 folders), 2 audio cassettes, 6 audio tapes
The papers of Clara Louise Myers consist mainly of professional material, including course materials for classes she taught at the University of Missouri's School of Social Work. The collection also documents her participation in a variety of professional and community organizations, as well as aspects of her personal life, including her graduate education in social work.
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Elsa Louise Nagel Papers, 1905-1973 (C3910)
0.8 cubic feet
Papers of an associate professor of German, University of Missouri, 1926-1966. Includes correspondence with family, friends, and soldiers during World War I and World War II. Also present are newspaper clippings, photographs, and miscellaneous items related to the Nagel and Meusch families.
Reuben S. Nance Records, 1838-1903 (R0183)
0.02 cubic foot (1 folder)
The Reuben Saunders Nance Papers contains photocopies of a notebook belonging to Reuben S. Nance of Collins, Saint Clair County, Missouri. The notebook includes accounts receivable from mercantile operations, records of school attendance, and personal memoranda.
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Nathaniel Chapman Medical Lectures, 1831-1833 (K0111)
0.3 c.f.
Lecture notes of medical classes taught by Nathaniel Chapman at the Medical Institute of Philadelphia, the first post-graduate medical school in the United States. Such notes were handed down from student to student as textbooks.
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Records associated with the educational desegregation case.
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National Congress of Parents and Teachers, Missouri Branch Papers, 1912-1950 (C3565)
0.1 cubic feet (9 folders)
The papers of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers contain yearbooks, programs, and convention materials of the Missouri branch of an organization formed to promote the welfare of children, home, school, church, and state. The organization is generally called P.T.A.
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National Congress of Parents and Teachers, Rolla Circle Records, 1927-1930 (R0492)
1 volume
This is a minute book of the Rolla chapter of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers.
Within the volume the chapter refers to itself as the "Rolla Parent-Teacher Association" and similar
variants. Included are minutes of meetings from 1 April 1927 through 13 May 1930.
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National History Day in Missouri Records, 1980-2018 (CA5958)
53.3 cubic feet
National History Day in Missouri (NHDMO) is a yearlong history education program, sponsored by The State Historical Society of Missouri, in partnership with the Missouri Humanities Council. The program encourages young people to explore history and teaches them to understand historical issues, ideas, people and events. It is the state affiliate of National History Day. Records include office files and student entries.
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Naturalization Council Metropolitan Area Kansas City Collection, 1938-1986 (K0832)
8 c.f.
The organizational records of the Council includes monthly reports, statements, minutes, educational materials, correspondence, awards, office files, scrapbooks, and photographs related to its activities to assist immigrants to the city.
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"Nature Work In and Out of the Schoolroom," R.R. Rowley, 1904 (C1638)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
The collection contains a paper on entomology read to the Clark County teachers at Kahoka, MO, 28 October 1904.
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Mary Carol Neth Papers, 1927-2004 (C4040)
8.0 cubic feet (251 folders), 15 audio cassettes, 4 card files
The professional papers of Mary C. Neth, created during her research of rural women's history of the Midwest and the history of American tap dance consists of research material, essays, newspaper clippings, photographs, conference materials, professional correspondence, and other papers. The collection also includes various documents related to the activities of the Rural Women's Studies Association, of which Neth was a founding member.
New Directions for News Records, 1970s-2000s (CA5556)
303.2 cubic feet, 38 oversize items (includes approx. 1,710 video cassettes, 725 audio cassettes, 840 computer disks, and 25 audio tapes)
Records of a project of the MU School of Journalism include project and research files; workshop and conference materials; correspondence; surveys; recordings of interviews; promotional materials; and miscellaneous material.
Newburg High School Collection, 1921-1939 (R0629)
0.01 cubic foot (1 folder)
The Newburg High School Collection contains a photograph of the Newburg High School girls’ basketball team from 1921, a program for a theatrical performance at the Lyric Theatre from 1930, and commencement programs from 1935 and 1939.