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Homer Price Rainey Papers, 1919-1952 (C0032)
23.4 cubic feet (1,964 folders), 3 volumes, 77 audio cassettes, 1 audio disc
The personal papers and correspondence of Rainey cover his career as an educator; his directorship of the American Youth Commission; the struggle for academic freedom at the University of Texas; his campaign for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in Texas; and the administration of Stephens College, Columbia, Missouri. The scrapbooks contain news clippings, articles, and family genealogy.
Robert Rankin Papers, 1937-1992 (S0252)
20 cubic feet, 835 folders
The papers of Robert Rankin contain correspondence, articles, meeting minutes, and reports chronicling her career as vice president of the Danforth Foundation, where he focused on issues dealing with spirituality and ministry on college campuses. Subjects of interest include campus ministries, higher education, African Americans, women, and disabilities.
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Charles Orrin Ransford Papers, no date (C3164)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
The papers of Charles Orrin Ransford contain three articles written by Ransford concerning Methodist churches in Wentzville, MO.
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Ray Family Collection, 1900-2002 (R1356)
5 cubic feet (91 folders, 2CDs, 10 oversize volumes)
The Ray Family Papers contains the personal papers of Wilda I. Housden Ray and genealogical information on the Ray and Housden families, photographs of the family and Licking, Missouri.
Peter Goodman Rea Papers, 1838-1899 (C0152)
0.12 cubic feet (6 folders)
Letters to a pioneer Presbyterian minister, containing early church history, and autobiography giving account of a trip on horseback to Texas in 1849-1850. Originals are in the possession of the donor.
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Red Bridge Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Congregation Records, 1879-2016 (K1361)
2 c.f.
Member directories, financial summaries, photos, programs, newsletters, records of land purchases, sketches of bldg plans, records of dissolution of corp., anniversary booklets and other items from the life of the church. Previously known as Oak Park Christian Church.
Red Top Christian Church (Boone County, Mo.) Deed, 1835 (C1333)
0.02 cubic feet (1 volume)
Deed to one acre of land, sold to the church by Nathan and Priscilla Roberts.
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Red Top Christian Church (Boone County, Mo.) Deed, 1868 (C1334)
0.02 cubic feet (1 volume)
Deed to approximately seven acres of land, sold to the church by Richmond T. and Polly Roberts.
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Red Top Christian Church (Boone County, Mo.) History, no date (C1335)
0.02 cubic feet (1 volume)
Brief history of the church, the bulk of it describing the controversy which resulted in its division into two congregations in 1914.
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Red Top Christian Church (Boone County, Mo.) Membership Directory and Historical Sketch, 1922 (C1336)
0.02 cubic feet (1 volume)
Membership lists; lists of elders, deacons, and ministers; church buildings; and traditions of the congregation.
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Lee Reeder Papers, 1931-1941 (C2536)
23.3 cubic feet (1849 folders)
Papers of a Kansas City attorney. Records of action relating to the trucking industry, labor disputes, bill collection and bankruptcy, damage suits, divorce cases, patent cases, and estates. Some papers pertaining to local Democratic politics, Boy Scouts, and Country Club Congregational Church.
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Sherwood Reese Papers, 1878-1891 (R0380)
1 folder
These are miscellaneous papers and family history of Dr. Sherwood Reese, a physician at
Mountain View, Howell County, Missouri.
Earl J. Reeves Papers, 1933-2001 (C4378)
5.4 cubic feet (143 folders)
Correspondence, reports, newsletters, teaching material, diaries, education material, genealogical material, military service, photographs, publications, scrapbooks, travel and newsletters of a professor of Political Science, former president of Missouri Valley College, and co-director of Community Bible Study International (CBSI) for Asia.
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Charles Rehkopf Papers, 1923-1995 (S0705)
6 cubic feet, 57 folders, 3 discs, 3 books
Charles Rehkopf was an archivist and historiographer of the Episcopal Diocese. During his career, he was also active in the State Historical Society of Missouri, the Missouri Historical Society, and the Webster Groves Historical Society. The collection contains original copies of sermons Rehkpoft delivered, as well as his collection of journals and pamphlets on topics concerning religion. The collection also includes articles and papers written by Rev. Rehkopf, including his history of the Episcopal Church (folder 43). It also includes his correspondence with the husband of dancer Josephine Baker during the publication of Mr. Baker's book, "Josephine: The Hungry Heart" in 1993, as well as correspondence with Robert Hilbert, author of a 1993 book on the jazz musician Pee Wee Russell.
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Religious Culture of St. Louis Senior Seminar Papers, 1980-1982 (S0140)
0.01 cubic foot, 3 folders
This collection contains eleven papers from History 293 (Spring, 1981), a senior seminar held at the University of Missouri-St. Louis on the religious history of St. Louis.
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Religious Newsletter Collection, 1874-1903 (C4425)
0.1 cubic feet (1 folder)
Religious newsletters and bulletins from various denominations, including Lutheran, Presbyterian, and Methodist churches, largely from the Sedalia, Missouri, area.
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Renshaw and McLin Family Papers, 1845-2000 (SP0087)
4 cubic feet (61 folders, 3 volumes, 1 oversize box)
The Renshaw and McLin Family Papers contain the personal papers of the Renshaw and McLin families of Cave Spring, Missouri, including correspondence, photographs, diaries, and genealogical material. The collection also consists of records related to Mount Zion Presbyterian Church located in Cave Spring.
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Rhea Church Records, 1844-1900 (R0123)
0.02 cubic foot (2 folders)
The Rhea Church Records contain letters of recommendation for individuals joining the Rhea Church in southern Phelps County, Missouri. Baptist churches in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Missouri issued most of the letters.
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James S. Rice Notebook, 1856-1875 (C2373)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Notebook of a Baptist minister in Salem, Dent County, MO. Accounts, 1859-1876; proceedings of board of education, 1867-1870; marriage records, 1860-1875; eighteen rules of mathematics; fifteen "rules of decorum of Baptists." Rice organized Lost Creek Church, ten miles north of Salem.
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John A. Rich Diaries, 1884-1943 (C0898)
0.08 cubic feet (4 folders)
Diaries kept by a lawyer and judge who was a resident of Slater, Saline County, Missouri. General home affairs, his law practice, religion, the Southern Methodist Church, politics, travel, business, bank failures, and improvements made over the years. Also includes genealogical material.
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Richmond Baptist Church (Richmond, Mo.) Program, 1942 (C0713)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
The collection contains one program of the centennial celebration and dedicatory service for the new church building, 14 June 1942.
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Richmond Heights Historical Society Records, 1900-2013 (S0274)
17 cubic feet
The Richmond Heights Historical Society (RHHS) Records contain photographs, scrapbooks, newsletters, plat maps, newspaper clippings, and correspondence collected by RHHS’s volunteers documenting the history and culture of Richmond Heights from the 1900s to the present. Materials of interest include maps of Richmond Heights’ area subdivisions, including the names of homeowners. The materials in this collection date from 1900 to 2013.
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James H. Roberts Diary, 1858-1909 (K1000)
0.04 c.f. (2 folders)
Roberts built houses, made and sold brooms, taught school, and owned a small mercantile store briefly. He was interested in Spiritualism and his second wife and one of his daughters were mediums. Includes a handwritten diary consisting of both shorthand and longhand entries. Entries were made every year on the writer's birthday, beginning at the age of 27, continuing until his death at 78.
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Harry B. Robinson Collection, 1921-1955 (C4109)
0.5 cubic feet
The collection of Harry B. Robinson contains a mix of materials concerning Columbia and mid-Missouri. Robinson focused on collecting diaries and account records of Columbia locals, dating primarily from 1905 to 1953.
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Rock Springs Baptist Church, Barry County, Missouri Records, 1888-1890 (R0397)
4 volumes microfilmed
These are records of the Rock Springs Baptist Church, a United Baptist congregation near
Washburn in the southwestern quarter of Barry County, Missouri. The records include minutes of
meetings, membership records, and statistical information.
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Rocky Fork Primitive Baptist Church (Boone County, Mo.) Minutes, 1821-1921 (C1319)
0.34 cubic feet (3 volumes)
Articles of faith, rules of decorum, letters of admission and dismission, membership lists, and minutes of church meetings.
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Rocky Point Baptist Church, Ripley County, Missouri Records, 1885-1933 (R0569)
(1 roll of microfilm)
The Rocky Point Baptist Church, Ripley County, Missouri Records are the record books and miscellaneous papers of Rocky Point Baptist Church in western Ripley County, Missouri.
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Joseph Kirtley Rogers Journal, 1858-1882 (C1223)
0.06 cubic feet (1 volume)
Personal journal containing remarks about weather, marriages and funerals performed by Rogers, and list of students enrolled in a Bible class. Rogers was president of Christian College, Columbia, MO, 1858-1877.
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Rogers-Banks Family Papers, 1820-1878 (C2339)
0.06 cubic feet (3 folders)
Papers of the Banks and Rogers families of Marion County, Missouri. Record book of Dr. Lynn Stanton Banks, physician and surgeon. Collection includes business and legal papers, Baptist church minutes, and physician records.
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Rolla United Service Organization Council Records, 1970-1971 (R0638)
0.01 cubic foot (1 folder)
The Rolla United Service Organization Council Records includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs and miscellaneous materials concerning the USO center at Rolla in Phelps County, Missouri, on the occasion of its thirtieth anniversary.
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James Sidney Rollins Letters, 1870-1885 (C3014)
1 roll of microfilm
Letters discussing Missouri and national politics written by James S. Rollins, a Missouri politician, lawyer, and businessman, to Carl Schurz, U.S. Senator from Missouri, 1869-1875, and Secretary of the Interior, 1877-1881.
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Oren Root Papers, 1858-1930 (C3311)
0.4 cubic feet
Root, an educator, lawyer, and minister, lived in New York before moving to Columbia, MO, to become professor of English at the University. During his ten-year residence in Missouri, Root served in several capacities as educator and minister.
Sermon sketches, personal writings, speeches and newspaper clippings.
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Marie Gotlieb Rosner Papers, 1938 (K1059)
0.01 c.f.
Photocopy of photograph of the Congregation B'nai Jehudah confirmation class.
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Jacob F. Rothblatt Collection, 1950-1979 (K0631)
0.5 c.f.
Rothblatt was Cantor of Congregation Beth Shalom in Kansas City, MO. Includes phonograph recordings, awards, plaques, photograph and hand painted portrait of Cantor Rothblatt.
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Round Prairie Baptist Church (Bates County, Mo.) Records, 1866-1937 (C1320)
0.13 cubic feet (1 volume)
Articles of faith, minutes of meetings, membership lists, and financial records of the church, founded in 1866 as the Pleasant Gap Baptist Church. The church moved in 1868, and the name was changed at that time.
The volume is indexed.
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Rucker Family Papers, 1886-2013 (R1429)
1.5 cubic feet (20 folders)
The Rucker Family Papers contain correspondence and newspapers relating to family history, significant events, and architecture in Rolla, Missouri's history.
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James F. Rupe Collection, 1885-1943 (C3463)
0.8 cubic feet
Records of Dr. James F. Rupe of Clay County, MO, including ledgers; account books, Paradise, MO, Christian Church treasurer's books; two warranty deeds; and four diplomas, including his diploma from medical college in St. Joseph, MO, in 1886.
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Ruskin Heights Presbyterian Church Records, 1954-2009 (K1169)
21 c.f.
Organizational records of the Church including general office files, pastor's files including sermons and special services, newsletters, bulletins, photograph albums, publications, architectural drawings, and records of several women's organizations associated with the church.
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Theodore Russell Speech, 1868 (C1568)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Address given to the Ironton Library Association on the history of Ironton, MO. Settlement, iron companies, public officials, settlers, businesses, churches, Arcadia Seminary, lodges, civic organizations, and the Civil War.
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Sacred Heart Catholic Church Records, 1867-1981 (S0052)
3 rolls microfilm
The records of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church of Florissant, Missouri, contain registers for baptisms, first communions, baptisms, marriages, and deaths. Collection materials are written in Latin, German, and English.
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Saint John's Lutheran Church, Benton County, Missouri Records, 1881-1945 (R0546)
4 volumes MICROFILM
These are records of St. John's Lutheran Church at Boeschenville in Benton County, Missouri.
Included are the constitution, by-laws, registers of members, lists of births, baptisms, communicants,
and deaths, and minutes of meetings, 1912-1941. Most of the records are in German.
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Saint John's Lutheran Church, Cole Camp, Missouri Collection, 1922-1971 (R0525)
0.02 cubic foot (1 folder)
The Saint John’s Lutheran Church, Cole Camp, Missouri Collection contains photocopies of programs for a new church building and two anniversary celebrations.
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Saint Mary's Jesuit Mission and College Records, 1832-1967 (K0330)
0.02 c.f.
Records of the Jesuit mission to the Potawatomi Indians located in present Linn County, KS, which moved to present Pottawatomie County, KS and became St. Mary's College (Saint Marys, KS.). Mission and college records, reports sent to superiors, and priests' diaries. Includes early missionary records of births, deaths and marriages in Buchanan, Clay, and Jackson Counties, MO.
Saint Paul's Lutheran Church, Cole Camp, Missouri Collection, 1918-1972 (R0524)
0.01 cubic foot (1 folder)
The Saint Paul’s Lutheran Church, Cole Camp, Missouri Collection consists of photocopied records and programs for St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Cole Camp, Benton County, Missouri.
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Sainte Genevieve "The Way We Worked Exhibit" Oral History Records, 2011 (CG0021)
0.01 cubic feet (1 folder)
The 96 oral histories were produced by Bolduc House Museum in Sainte Genevieve, Missouri for the Smithsonian Institution's traveling exhibit "The Way We Worked". This is the local copy of the records.
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Sainte Genevieve, Missouri Collection, 1885-1967 (R0165)
0.04 cubic foot (4 folders)
The Sainte Genevieve, Missouri Collection contains photocopies of miscellaneous papers concerning the history of Sainte Genevieve, Missouri. The papers include a historical address by Firmin A. Rozier, a printed directory of the Catholic Church, a souvenir program from a production of Shaun Rue, and two architectural reports by Ernest A. Connally on historic homes.
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Sainte Genevieve, Missouri Photograph Collection, circa 1880s-1920s (R0338)
0.1 cubic foot (2 folders, 7 photographs, 6 negatives)
The Sainte Genevieve, Missouri Photograph Collection contains thirteen black and white views of historic homes, churches, steamboats and the Garretson family of Sainte Genevieve, Missouri.
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Rhea Silverbery Salasche-Kaseff Papers, 1952 (K1144)
0.01 cubic foot (1 folder)
The Rhea Salasche-Kaseff Papers contain a May 1952 edition of the Beth Shalom Sunday School newsletter, "The Comet."
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Salem Association of Baptists Minutes, 1827-1934 (C1374)
0.1 cubic feet (1 volume)
Printed minutes of meetings of the Association for 1827, 1829-1839, 1841-1860, 1866-1877, 1880, 1881, 1884-1887, 1890, 1892-1894, 1896, 1899, and 1928-1934.
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Salem Association of Baptists Minutes, 1878-1926 (C1375)
0.1 cubic feet (1 volume)
Printed minutes of meetings of the Association for 1878, 1882, 1883, 1889, 1891, 1895, 1897, 1898, 1900-1915, 1917-1922, 1924, and 1926.