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Camp Crowder Photograph Collection Contributed by: Missouri State Archives Established in 1941, Camp Crowder was a military installation near Neosho, Missouri named in honor of Major General Enoch H. Crowder. By 1942, the first soldiers arrived at the Signal Corps Replacement Training Center for training in forty different military communications specialties. The post also trained medical-corps soldiers and ground-force troops, established an Officer Candidate Preparatory School, and held a large prisoner of war camp. |
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Camp Ozark – Powersite Dam Photograph Collection Contributed by: White River Valley Historical Society 101 photographs of the construction of the Powersite Dam, the first hydroelectric dam in the State of Missouri. During construction, most of the workers lived at the dam site; the settlement became known as Camp Ozark. Images include those of workers, machinery, barges, buildings, excavation work, railroads, and the spillway outlet and powerhouse. |
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Cape Girardeau Argus Contributed by: Southeast Missouri State University A weekly newspaper for Cape Girardeau, Missouri, published by W. H. Hamilton. The paper runs from June 18, 1863 through June 1, 1871, covering the Civil War era. The physical issues were bound into four volumes. Please note that there are two missing issues (May 26, 1864 and September 16, 1869) and that the issues from June 15, 1865 to July 27, 1865 have received conservation treatment. |
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Capitol Construction Photographs Contributed by: Missouri State Archives In 1913, workers broke ground for the construction of the current capitol in Jefferson City. Local photographer, Thomas Garfield Cooper photographed the construction process using a glass-plate camera. Cooper photographed the construction from the top of the Missouri Supreme Court building. |
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Carthage Picture Booklet Contributed by: Joplin Public Library Carthage, Missouri: The Most Beautiful City in the West is a promotional picture booklet created in 1906 by the Newell family to solicit investments in the family's various business enterprises including the Carthage Building Stone Co., Venango Royalty Co., Newell, Morse Royalty Co., and the Trinity Zinc, Lead and Smelting Company. |
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Cass Gilbert's Palace of Fine Arts Contributed by: St. Louis Art Museum The only remaining display building from the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, also known as St. Louis World's Fair, the Palace of Fine Arts now houses the St. Louis Art Museum. This collection of 687 photographs documents the history of the Palace of Fine Arts. |
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Celebrating the Louisiana Purchase: The 1904 World's Fair Contributed by: St. Louis Public Library The 1904 World's Fair (Louisiana Purchase Exposition) marked the 100th anniversary of the Louisiana Purchase. This collection features more than 1,200 images -- photographs, stereographs, lantern slides, and postcards. |
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Central Wesleyan College Archives Contributed by: Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections, Truman State University A collection of documents and ledgers containing correspondence; business, legal, and financial records; student organizations' records; college publications; and institutional histories of Central Wesleyan College and Orphan Asylum and merging institutions, Mt. Pleasant German College and Ozark Wesleyan College. |
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Centuries of Civil Engineering: A Rare Book Exhibition Celebrating the Heritage of Civil Engineering Contributed by: Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology An exhibit draws upon highlights from the Linda Hall Library collections to focus on the historical accomplishments of both American engineers and their European predecessors and counterparts. |
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Chariton Collector Contributed by: Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections, Truman State University A magazine focused on local history and folklore that was produced bi-annually by the Kirksville High School Local History class between Fall 1980 and Spring1989. |
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Charles E. Still Sr. and Jr. Collection Contributed by: Museum of Osteopathic Medicine (SM), A.T. Still University The digitized portion of the Charles E. Still Sr./Jr. Collection includes typed and handwritten reminiscences to Dr. Charles Still Sr., regarding his father Andrew Taylor Still. Andrew Taylor Still was the founder of the American School of Osteopathy in Kirksville, Missouri. |
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Charles Elliott Gill Photographs Contributed by: Missouri State Archives Photographs documenting the Ozarks (especially Dent County) and the travels of Charles Elliott Gill. |
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Civil War Collection (Guide) Contributed by: Missouri State Archives Guide to Civil War records and resources at the Missouri State Archives. |
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Civil War in Missouri - Monographs Contributed by: University of Missouri - Columbia Books about the Civil War in Missouri from several University of Missouri libraries. |
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Clarence M. Kelley Diploma Collection Contributed by: School of Law, University of Missouri - Kansas City Collection of 8 diplomas, honorary degrees, certificates conferred upon Clarence M. Kelley from 1936 through 1978. |
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Classics and Landmarks Collection Contributed by: Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology This collection brings together publications in science and technology that have become recognized for their seminal influence, groundbreaking ideas, or presentation of initial discoveries. The collection presents two editions of Galileo’s Sidereus Nuncius; Tycho Brahe's discovery of a Nova; the first published description of the Copernican system; and more. |
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Claude N. Strauser, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District Contributed by: University of Missouri - St. Louis Collection of 69 images documenting the flood of 1927, which started around the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers and flooded the tributaries southward to the Gulf of Mexico. The flooded area covered the towns of Forrest City, Arkansas; Greenville, Mississippi; Vicksburg, Mississippi; Hamburg, Louisiana; and Baton Rouge, Louisiana. |
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Club Kaycee Contributed by: Miller Nichols Library, University of Missouri - Kansas City Club Kaycee serves up sights and sounds of the Golden Age of Kansas City Jazz from the Miller Nichols Library, University of Missouri - Kansas City, in cooperation with kansascity.com and The Kansas City Star. |
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Cold War Confrontation: Truman, Stalin, and the Berlin Airlift, June 1948 - May 1949 Contributed by: Harry S. Truman Library & Museum The collection focuses on the Berlin Airlift and includes 126 documents and some photographs covering the years 1948 through 1952. |
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Columbia Missourian Contributed by: State Historical Society of Missouri; University of Missouri School of Journalism This collection includes issues of the Columbia Missourian daily newspaper for the years 1908, 1909, 1929, 1966, and from January 2, 1966 through December 31,1985. |
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Come Home Tigers Contributed by: University of Missouri - Columbia These photographs depict the homecoming traditions at the University of Missouri. The 1911 University of Missouri football game against the University of Kansas began an enduring Tiger tradition. |
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Community and Conflict: the Impact of the Civil War in the Ozarks Contributed by: Springfield-Greene County Library District Documents and artifacts that depict life in the Ozarks between 1850 and 1875. The collection contains first hand perspectives of the Civil War through the eyes of soldiers, civilians, merchants and farmers, as told through letters, maps, diaries, court records and photographs. |
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Connor Brochure Contributed by: Joplin Public Library Joplin’s Connor Hotel was constructed in 1906-1908 at the northwest corner of Fourth and Main Streets and served as the anchor of downtown Joplin for half a century. This brochure documents many of the building’s architectural elements and interior design. |
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Constance Fauntleroy Runcie Collection Contributed by: Missouri Western State University This manuscript collection of Missouri woman writer Constance Fauntleroy Runcie includes many original letters she wrote and received and materials that were used by the Runcie Club in St. Joseph that she organized. |
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Cook Bros. Carriage Co. (Jewish Federation-Women's Division), 1897-1904 Contributed by: St. Louis Jewish Community Archives In 1897 two brothers from the Missouri bootheel who had found their way to St. Louis formed the Cook Bros. Carriage Co. The deeds, catalogs, biographical information and albumen photographs that illustrate their work crew and assembly line process, are part of this collection. |
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Coon-Sanders Nighthawks Orchestra Contributed by: Kansas City Public Library Joe Sanders and Carleton Coon co-founded the Coon-Sanders Nighthawks orchestra that gained fame during the 1920s. This collection includes many photographs of the orchestra and other performers as well as photographs from Fred Edmiston, author of The Coon-Sanders Nighthawks. |
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Copenhaver Collection Contributed by: Missouri State University Special Collections and Archives Department Papers of the brothers James Albert and H. H. Copenhaver, union members who worked in Springfield, Missouri's milling industry in the 1920s-1930s. The collection mainly documents the Missouri Farmers Association (MFA) Milling Company in Springfield, Missouri. This collection was scanned in its entirety. See the finding aid for more information. |
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Cows on the Lawn Contributed by: University of Missouri - Columbia This collection depicts the beginnings of dairy husbandry at the University of Missouri-Columbia. The program gained national recognition with its championship dairy cattle, notably world record holder Missouri Chief Josephine and her descendants. |
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Cuneiform Tablets: Records of Ancient Mesopotamia Contributed by: University of Missouri-Columbia Special Collections A collection of eight rare cuneiform tablets including a messenger tablet; a letter tablet; a large contribution list tablet; a business contract tablet; a butcher's bill tablet; a temple offerings tablet; a delivery recording tablet; and a tablet purchased in Amuda, Syria whose contents have not been translated. |
