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Robert S. Wiley Collection, 1869-1994 (R0521)
8.5 cubic feet (177 folders, 639 photographs, 25 slides, 2 audio discs, 13 oversize folders)
The Robert S. Wiley Collection consists of legal documents, publications, promotional material, and ephemera related to Missouri, specifically Stone County, and to travel, tourism and recreation in the White River region of Missouri and Arkansas. The collection also contains material largely focused on Missouri State Representative Dewey Short and the Republican Party.
Subjects
Carl Withers Papers, 1929-1972, bulk 1939-1942 (SP0081)
2.1 cubic feet
The Carl Withers Papers are field notes, drafts, and correspondence pertaining to Carl Withers' book, Plainville, U.S.A., a social survey of the town of Wheatland, Hickory County, Missouri, and materials for an unpublished follow-up book on Plainville folklore and history.
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Richard Young Research Collection, 2013, 2019-2026 (CG0082)
.4 cubic feet
This collection contains eleven cultural resource survey reports. The first report, Mack's Chapel and the African American Community of Seventy-Six, Missouri documents a now-extinct post-Civil War African American community of formerly enslaved people who once flourished in southeastern Perry County, Mo. Eight of the reports are studies of caves in Ste. Genevieve and Perry Counties. Two reports relate to the built environment: The Martin Buchheit House: A Structural Survey and Historical Analysis (2019) and Our Daily Bread: Frohna and Its Mill (2025). Each report contains textual descriptions of the featured cultural resources, historical analysis, illustrations, photographs, and documentation.
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“Establishment of the Town of Farmington,” by Ann Caroline Tetley, no date (R0490)
(1 roll of microfilm)
The “Establishment of the Town of Farmington” is a compilation done by Ann Caroline Tetley from county records of the land surveys and legal actions which established the town of Farmington in Saint Francois County, Missouri.