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University of Missouri Fortnightly Club Records, 1894-2022 (C3670)
4.4 cubic feet (77 folders), 34 oversize volumes, 2 card files, 1 video cassette, 3 audio cassettes
The records of the Fortnightly Club, a women’s organization for wives of University of Missouri faculty and female faculty members, which consist of materials surrounding membership and recruitment, finances, board meetings, committees and interest groups, and events and trips. Also included are bulletins and newsletters published by the group.
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University of Missouri Fortnightly Club Records, 1975-2024 (CA6677)
1.2 cubic foot
The records include information on the Gourmet Study Group’s meetings, including member lists, agendas, correspondence, photographs of events, recipes, membership dues, dinner costs, and miscellaneous material from the organization. Also includes organizational agendas, budgets, membership records, minutes, newsletters, and an article written on the history of the Fortnightly Club. Also includes two photo albums, Fortnightly Celebrations, 2022-2023, and Year of Smiles, 2023-2024.
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University of Missouri. Admission of Women Centennial Convocation Program, 1968 (C2592)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Program for the honors convocation, 7 May 1968.
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University of Missouri, Admission of Women Centennial Records, 1963-1970 (C2603)
2.3 cubic feet (82 folders)
Correspondence and lists used in preparations for commemorative activities on the centennial of the admission of women to the University. Program bulletins, posters, press releases, copies of speeches delivered, photographs, and biographical materials on distinguished alumnae.
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University of Missouri, Agricultural Extension Service, Home Demonstration Records, 1915-1953 (C3331)
0.12 cubic feet (6 folders)
The records of the Agricultural Extension Service contain correspondence, program outlines, and essays on benefits of home demonstration service, as well as early records of homemakers’ clubs and home extension services in Missouri.
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University of Missouri Charts, 1843-1925 (C1708)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Three charts about the University of Missouri. One lists the number of men and women enrolled, 1843-1925; the second lists names, addresses, and degrees granted the first women graduates, 1870-1922; the third lists total number of students who received degrees, 1870-1924.
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University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Resident Wives Club Records, 1941-1997 (C4436)
1.0 cubic feet (22 folders), 4 oversize volumes, 2 audio cassettes
The records of the Resident Wives Club (1941-1996) of the University of Missouri College of Agriculture include financial documents, event planning materials, membership lists, meeting minutes and reports, and photographs.
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University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Social Studies Club Records, 1914-1992 (C4166)
0.4 cubic feet (12 folders), 1 oversize volume
History, constitution, by-laws, meeting minutes, photographs, cards, and newspaper articles of a women’s club composed of the wives of University of Missouri, College of Agriculture professors.
University of Missouri, Department of Chemistry Records, 1912-1937 (C0939)
4 volumes
The records contain an official department record, 1912-1926; minutes of Missouri chapter of the American Chemical Society; notes on equipment of Schweitzer Hall; and minutes of Missouri Beta Chapter of Pi Delta Nu, women's chemistry organization.
University of Missouri, Department of Home Economics Records, 1886-1962 (C0993)
0.8 cubic feet
Correspondence and miscellaneous papers concerning faculty, facilities, alumni, curriculum, and department bulletins.
Bulk of the material consists of bulletins and reports of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Extension Service.
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University of Missouri, Extension Service Records, 1912-1979 (C1042)
234 rolls of microfilm
Annual reports of county and district agents of the Extension Service, 1912-1969, and annual reports of extension activities of UMC, UMKC, Lincoln University, UMR, UMSL and university-wide offices, 1960-1979.
University of Missouri, Young Ladies' Philalaethean Society Record Book, 1888-1895 (C1185)
0.06 cubic feet (1 volume)
Minutes and membership lists of a literary society.
University of Missouri-Columbia, Association of Women Students Questionnaire, 1972 (C3314)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Questionnaire regarding age, status in school, sexual/medical needs, and personal concerns.
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University of Missouri-Columbia, Campbell-Harrison Home Economics Cooperative House Records, 1936-1986 (CA5756)
9 cubic feet, 1 oversize volume, 4 audio cassettes
Scrapbooks containing photographs, newspaper clippings, programs and other materials related to the University of Missouri sorority. Also includes office files, financial records, minutes, audio cassettes, and miscellaneous material.
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University of Missouri-Columbia, Chancellor's Committee on the Status of Women Papers, 1974-1989 (C4441)
1.0 cubic feet (13 folders)
Completed surveys on job satisfaction at the University of Missouri-Columbia, final report, and salary analysis created by the Chancellor’s Committee on the Status of Women.
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University of Missouri-Columbia, Women's History Papers, 1971-1979 (C4548)
0.6 cubic feet (7 folders)
Research papers for women’s history courses taught by John E. Lankford at the University of Missouri.
University of Missouri-St. Louis Women's Studies Program Collection, 1949-1988 (S0489)
5 cubic feet, 240 folders
This collection contains newspapers, magazines, articles, posters, conventions notes, and newsletters from across the United States, focusing on women-oriented issues and feminist-lesbian literature. Publications of interest include several lesbian-feminist publications such as Off Our Backs, Lesbian Connection, DYKE, The Lesbian Tide, and Moonstorm.
Lucile Morris Upton Papers, 1823-1986 (C3869)
1 cubic foot, 25 rolls of microfilm (599 folders, 71 volumes), 1 video cassette
The personal and professional papers of a Springfield, Missouri, journalist and writer consist of newspaper clippings, correspondence, research notes, manuscripts, pamphlets, photographs, and scrapbooks. The papers are especially strong in the history of Springfield and the Ozarks region, and in Ozark folklore.
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Florence Wyman Richardson Usher Scrapbooks, 1909-1913 (S0059)
1 microfilm roll
Florence Wyman Richardson Usher helped found the Equal Suffrage League of St. Louis in 1910. She chaired the League's lecture committee for six years and was a member of the board of governors in 1912. The scrapbooks in this collection document suffrage activities both nationally and in St. Louis. They include news clippings, correspondence, public notices, programs, leaflets, and Usher's annotations.
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Kathleen Van Buskirk Papers, c. 1870s-1990s (CA6208)
6 cubic feet, 1 video cassette
Manuscripts and research materials of an author who wrote about the Ozarks. Includes records of the Taneyhills Library Club of Branson, Missouri, and genealogy files on several families.
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Kathleen Van Buskirk Papers, 1845-2003 (SP0096)
7 cubic feet (294 folders, 1 video cassette, 21 audio cassettes, 2,271 photographs, 2,607 negatives, 327 slides)
The Kathleen Van Buskirk Papers contain manuscripts, correspondence, research, genealogy, cemetery records, publications, and photographs from Kathleen Van Buskirk, a journalist and regional historian who spent most of her career writing about the people, culture, and history of the Ozarks and White River Valley.
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Susan D. Vanarsdale Diary, 1847-1855 (C1283)
0.06 cubic feet (1 volume)
Written in Mexico, MO, and various locations in Illinois and Indiana about family and personal affairs; local people; religious activities; and her own writing efforts, some of which she sold to newspapers.
No information is available about the location of the original of the diary.
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Kathryn Brossard Clarke Varnell Oral History, 1922-1992 (S0632)
0.01 cubic foot
This collection contains an oral history of Kathryn Brossard Clarke. She discusses her experiences in St. Louis with her son, John Rodney Clarke.
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Elaine Viets Papers, 1967-2018 (S1239)
12 cubic feet
The Elaine Viets Papers contains correspondence, copy-edited manuscripts, photographs, books, and newspaper clippings pertaining to her career as a columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1972-1997) and mystery writer of the Francesca Vierling, Dead-End Job, and Josie Marcus, Mystery Shopper series. Materials of interest include correspondence from fans of Viets’s mystery novels wishing her well after her stroke in 2007, as well as photographs from Viets’s book tours and the set of Viets Beat, a KMOV talk show Viets hosted in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Also included in this collection are scrapbooks containing Viets’s columns for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, written between 1972 and 1995. The newspaper clippings are incomplete, however, as they do not contain her St. Louis Post-Dispatch columns written from 1996 to 1997.
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Viles-Hosmer Family Papers, 1814-1948 (C3709)
6.1 cubic feet (464 folders)
This collection contains autograph albums, account books, diaries, and personal and business correspondence of the Viles and Hosmer families. Included are Jonas Viles' professional papers while professor of history at the University of Missouri from 1902 to 1942.
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Washington Press Club Foundation, Women in Journalism Oral History Project Records, 1987-1994 (C3958)
4.4 cubic feet (289 folders)
The records of the Washington Press Club Foundation, Women in Journalism Oral History Project includes transcripts of interviews with fifty-three women journalists whose careers span from the 1920s to the 1990s.
Catherine and Cyrus Watson Letterbook, 1836-1837 (C2756)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
The collection contains thirty-two letters written by Catherine and Cyrus L. Watson from Louisiana, Missouri, and Springfield and Bloomington, IL, to friends and relatives on the sickness and deaths of Mary Pond and Catherine Watson.
Weathers Family Papers, 1868-1991 (C4014)
3.0 cubic feet (71 folders), 1 audio cassette
The papers document the lives of Virginia “Kate” and Benton H. Weathers of Howard County, Missouri, and the lives of their children and grandchildren. In addition to genealogical materials on the Weathers, Duncan, and Grigsby families, the collection includes some materials on the Weathers Lumber and Hardware Store in Fayette, Missouri, and the Missouri Polled Hereford Association Records.
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Weathers Family Papers, 1920s-2000s (CA6216)
32 cubic feet, 3 audio tapes
Addition of family papers, primarily from Gene Weathers of Fayette, Missouri. Includes correspondence and teaching materials for the blind.
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Wednesday Study Club (Columbia, Mo.) Minutes, 1908-1935 (C0992)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Minutes of a women's organization.
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Lisa Weinmann, "Awakening and Angst" Thesis and Tapes, 1992 (S1011)
0.8 cubic feet
This collection contains a thesis written by Lisa Weinmann on mainstream feminism in St. Louis during the 1970s, as well as fifteen oral history tapes she used as research for her thesis.
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Carla Weitzel Papers, 1970-1999 (C2154)
1.8 cubic feet (131 folders), 6 audio cassettes
The papers of Carla Weitzel, a sociology graduate student at the University of Missouri-Columbia, consist of newspaper clippings, magazine articles, correspondence, posters, pamphlets, photographs, and miscellaneous materials. The materials document civil rights issues, particularly the anti-apartheid and divestment movement that occurred on the University of Missouri-Columbia campus during the mid-1980s.
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Elizabeth Welty Letters, 1891-1894 (C0986)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Letters from Elizabeth Welty near Monte Vista and Lockett, CO, to her sister Ida in Missouri. Mention household, farming, and family matters; price of fruit and cereal crops; crop conditions; and hard times.
Debra Weyermann Papers, 1970s-2012 (CA6399)
5.0 cubic feet, 20 audio cassettes, 1 video cassette
The papers of a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and investigative reporter who worked for the Arizona Daily Star, Denver Post, and Santa Barbara News-Press. The papers include research for Weyermann's books The Gang They Couldn't Catch and Answer Them Nothing, as well as news articles, interviews on audiocassettes, and miscellaneous professional material.
Mae Wheeler Papers, 1975-2004 (S1013)
3 cubic feet
The Mae Wheeler Papers contains autograph and address books, contracts, newspaper clippings, flyers, and correspondence relating to Wheeler's career as a Jazz singer. Also included in the collection are photographs of Wheeler's performances.
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Ann Peppard White Papers, 1870-2009 (K0652)
10 c.f.
Personal papers and writings of White, one-time columnist for the Kansas City Star, and her daughter Kate who did interviews with her mother and edited the stories. Included is correspondence, postcards, scrapbooks, publications, newsletters, books, photographs, oral history transcriptions, and audiocassettes.
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Cornelia C. White Papers, 1913-1931 (C2744)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Reminiscences of her early childhood in Cazenovia, NY; two letters to J.C. Bay, 1928; and photograph, articles about, and obituary of Cornelia C. White.
Ida Tinsley Whiteacre Diaries, 1935-1937 (C3030)
0.2 cubic feet
Fifteen diaries, written from 1935-1937 by Ida Tinsley Whiteacre, detailing her thoughts about living in the home of her daughter and son-in-law in St. Joseph, Missouri, during the Great Depression. Family conflicts, Depression-era prices and chores, and discussions about "physical culture" exercises and procedures are some of the topics covered.
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Fannie L. Whittle Speech, 1884 (C1669)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Valedictory address delivered by Fannie L. Whittle, first woman valedictorian at the University of Missouri.
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Clara L. Wilber Papers, 1885-1933 (SP0100)
0.4 cubic foot (8 folders, 1 photograph)
The Clara L. Wilber Papers contain the personal papers and handwritten poems of Carthage, Missouri, woman Clara Luella Wilber.
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Russel Wilbur Papers, 1856-1919 (C4283)
0.25 cubic feet (4 folders)
The papers of Russel Wilbur contain minute books and correspondence from St. Louis organizations attended by Reverend Russel Wilbur. Other volumes include personal diaries and poetry books that belonged to Wilbur's mother, Charlotte Wilbur.
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Mildred Durr Wilcox Papers, 1859-2010 (CA6640)
1.4 cubic feet
The papers of Mildred Durr Wilcox include correspondence, photographs, business records, family papers, genealogy, legal documents, deeds, and miscellaneous material.
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Laura Ingalls Wilder Papers, 1894-1943 (C3633)
3 rolls of microfilm (34 folders)
Papers of the author of the "Little House" series of children's stories. Manuscripts, a diary and some correspondence are included.
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Estella Wilferth Papers, 1912-1962 (C3035)
0.2 cubic feet
A collection of correspondence written to Estella Wilferth from friends and family members, mostly during World War I. The letters cover topics concerning local events, weather, daily activities, and feelings about the war from the perspective of both soldiers and civilians.
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Alice May Williams Diaries, 1863-1867 (S0178)
1 roll of microfilm
This collection consists of the diary of a young St. Louis woman, documenting her daily life, as well as her voyage to Venezuela with her father in 1867.
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Sara Lockwood Williams Papers, 1885-1961 (C2533)
27.5 cubic feet (1433 folders, 54 volumes)
The papers of Sara Lockwood Williams and Walter Williams; material on their journalistic careers; and information on the founding of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and Walter Williams' presidency of the University, 1931-1935.
Sarah Cornelia Williams Diaries, 1845-1889 (S0177)
1 microfilm roll
This collection consists of the diaries of a St. Louis wife and mother with references to daily life, servant problems, Civil War, Lincoln's assassination, and the Chicago fire of 1871.
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Willis Family Papers, 1843-1908 (C0419)
0.06 cubic feet (3 folders)
Correspondence between A.F. Willis on a trip to the West and his wife in Fayette, MO. He spent several years in California, working in the gold fields and other jobs. Also letters from A.J.'s brother, W.F. Willis, from Alabama and miscellaneous letters and papers.
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Betty Wilson Papers, 1957-1990 (S1015)
13 cubic feet
The Betty Wilson Papers contain correspondence, conference proceedings, position papers, reports, studies, and newspaper clippings regarding clean water and water conservation in the Upper Mississippi River Basin, as well as Dioxin pollution in Missouri.
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Jean Gaddy Wilson Papers, 1959-2011 (C3884)
29 cubic feet (733 folders), 288 audio cassettes, 5 video cassettes, 3 audio tapes
Papers of a journalism educator and author, primarily dealing with research on women and minorities in media. Contains her work on, "Taking Stock: Women in the News Media 20 Years Before the 21st Century," including taped interviews and transcripts of media professionals and extensive research data. Also includes correspondence, speeches, publications, teaching and conference materials, and papers pertaining to her early career in journalism, media, and public relations.