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Towne, Ruth Warner, 1917-1998

 Person

Found in 208 Collections and/or Records:

Elementary school report cards (6), 1st-6th grades, 1923-1924 to 1928-1929 school years.

 Item
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Ruth Towne's papers consist of both her home and campus office files and include family records dating from as early as the 1820s, her own personal and professional papers and correspondence, and some of the research for her dissertation on Congressman William Joel Stone, as well as books and articles she wrote over her long teaching career.

Dates: 1923-1924 to 1928-1929 school years.

Elizabeth as a young woman (3 tintypes); one with sister Susan Trigg, undated.

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Scope and Contents From the Series:

[Many of these photographs were loose in the boxes the Executor used to transport the Papers to the Library, others were grouped into mailing envelopes by family units, and some were in highly acidic "self-stick" albums, also grouped by subject or family unit. All have been removed from their various containers and placed in new acid-neutral photo sleeves and/or folders in the same or similar groupings as those used by Towne].

Dates: undated.

Elizabeth Stewart Towne with members of her family

 Sub-Series
Scope and Contents From the Series:

[Many of these photographs were loose in the boxes the Executor used to transport the Papers to the Library, others were grouped into mailing envelopes by family units, and some were in highly acidic "self-stick" albums, also grouped by subject or family unit. All have been removed from their various containers and placed in new acid-neutral photo sleeves and/or folders in the same or similar groupings as those used by Towne].

Dates: 1864-1990s.

Estate of Frank Warner Towne

 File — Folder 8:7
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Ruth Towne's papers consist of both her home and campus office files and include family records dating from as early as the 1820s, her own personal and professional papers and correspondence, and some of the research for her dissertation on Congressman William Joel Stone, as well as books and articles she wrote over her long teaching career.

Dates: 1896-1979.

Faculty

 File — Folder 20:1
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Ruth Towne's papers consist of both her home and campus office files and include family records dating from as early as the 1820s, her own personal and professional papers and correspondence, and some of the research for her dissertation on Congressman William Joel Stone, as well as books and articles she wrote over her long teaching career.

Dates: 1955-1989.

Formal portrait with sister Susan Trigg, undated.

 Item
Scope and Contents From the Series:

[Many of these photographs were loose in the boxes the Executor used to transport the Papers to the Library, others were grouped into mailing envelopes by family units, and some were in highly acidic "self-stick" albums, also grouped by subject or family unit. All have been removed from their various containers and placed in new acid-neutral photo sleeves and/or folders in the same or similar groupings as those used by Towne].

Dates: undated.

Formal wedding announcement / "at home" card, [1904?].

 Item
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Ruth Towne's papers consist of both her home and campus office files and include family records dating from as early as the 1820s, her own personal and professional papers and correspondence, and some of the research for her dissertation on Congressman William Joel Stone, as well as books and articles she wrote over her long teaching career.

Dates: [1904?].

Frank and Mary Towne's family home, 709 North Davis, Kirksville

 Sub-Series
Scope and Contents From the Series:

[Many of these photographs were loose in the boxes the Executor used to transport the Papers to the Library, others were grouped into mailing envelopes by family units, and some were in highly acidic "self-stick" albums, also grouped by subject or family unit. All have been removed from their various containers and placed in new acid-neutral photo sleeves and/or folders in the same or similar groupings as those used by Towne].

Dates: [1980s-1990s, unless otherwise noted].

Frank and Myron Stewart with unidentified girl of about same age, approximately 1892.

 Item
Scope and Contents From the Series:

[Many of these photographs were loose in the boxes the Executor used to transport the Papers to the Library, others were grouped into mailing envelopes by family units, and some were in highly acidic "self-stick" albums, also grouped by subject or family unit. All have been removed from their various containers and placed in new acid-neutral photo sleeves and/or folders in the same or similar groupings as those used by Towne].

Dates: approximately 1892.

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Adair County (Mo.) 1
Business and Industry 1
Civil War, 1861-1865 1
Diaries 1
Family and Personal Papers 1