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Northeast Missouri Local History Vertical Files

Collection

Identifier: MS VF

Scope and Contents

The vertical files consist of subject folders on people, places, and events related to Missouri history in Adair County, Kirksville and Northeast Missouri. Materials include articles, newspaper clippings, press releases, biographical information, fliers, and other ephemeral materials.

Dates: To present

Found in: Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library, Special Collections Manuscripts

Paul Owen Selby Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS S1

Scope and Contents

This collection includes P. O. Selby's personal papers, research notes and writings and includes the files and records he gave during his lifetime as well as those found in his campus office after his death. The majority are concerned with Kirksville and Adair County history, genealogies of Adair County families, and Mark Twain.

Dates: 1890-approximately 1995

Found in: Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library, Special Collections Manuscripts

Pauline Knobbs Greeting Card Collection

Collection

Identifier: MS K7

Scope and Contents Greeting and holiday cards gained popularity in the early 1900s when stamps became more available to all social classes. Valentines are some of the oldest forms of holiday cards, and are typically more intricate and detailed because of the importance attached to the Valentine holiday. Postcards became one of the most popular and easiest types of cards to send in the mail during this period.This collection contains a variety of Valentine, holiday, and greeting cards, in postcard...

Dates: 1910-1928; bulk 1910-1915

Found in: Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library, Special Collections Manuscripts

Pauline Knobbs Sheet Music Collection

Collection

Identifier: MS K5

Scope and Contents

A collection of 187 pieces of 19th-20th century sheet music including folk songs, Civil War era music, musical studies, selections from various operas, and more.

Dates: 1840-1915

Found in: Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library, Special Collections Manuscripts

Princess Theatre/Sieren's Palace Collection

Collection

Identifier: MS P5

Scope and Contents

Artifacts and movie posters from the Princess Theater, and a guest book from Sieren's Palace, both of which were located in Kirksville, Missouri.

Dates: 1944-1977

Found in: Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library, Special Collections Manuscripts

Prints of Early Hedrick X-Rays

Collection

Identifier: MS H9

Scope and Contents

Two radiogram X-rays of Earle Raymond Hedrick, one of a foot and one of a hand. These are purportedly two of the first of these images to be taken in the United States.

Dates: 1900

Found in: Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library, Special Collections Manuscripts

Quentin C. Smith Albums

Collection

Identifier: MS S7

Scope and Contents Copies of album scrapbooks created by Quentin Cabell Smith to "publish" his family history. The albums are about the histories of the Smith, Patterson, Shibley, Link and related families of Adair County, Missouri. They contain copies of photos, letters, newspaper clippings and documents Mr. Smith, his mother and other relatives accumulated, shared and organized while doing genealogical research. Some of the captions and pages of text came from information provided by the diary of his...

Dates: 1862-2003

Found in: Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library, Special Collections Manuscripts

Ralls County (Missouri), Jasper Township, Loyalty Oaths

Collection

Identifier: MS R4

Scope and Contents

Register of 90 loyalty oath questionnaires for Jasper Township, Ralls County, Mo. taken 1866 September 22 – October 20. Each questionnaire contains personal information about registrant, his family and his/their loyalties during "the recent war."

Dates: 1866-1881

Found in: Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library, Special Collections Manuscripts

Ram-Buller Magazine

Collection

Identifier: UA-P-RB

Scope and Contents

Issues of the magazine Ram-Buller, an independent, unofficial publication of the students of Kirksville State Teachers College (KSTC) and Kirksville College of Osteopathy and Surgery (KCOS).

Dates: 1949-1960.

Found in: Truman State University Archives, Pickler Memorial Library

Ross C. Allen and Family Letters

Collection

Identifier: MS A3

Scope and Contents Letters from Corporal Ross C. Allen, Squadron A, United States Army, Herington Army Airfield, Kansas, to his parents Dr. and Mrs. Ross C. Allen in Kirksville, Missouri. The letters were written as the base was being deactivated at the close of World War II. They are all "staying in touch" letters, written on a daily, sometimes twice daily, basis. Ross chats about things he is doing at work and leisure, places he goes on his weekends away from base, popular radio shows, the latest movies, his...

Dates: 1945

Found in: Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library, Special Collections Manuscripts

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Northeast Missouri Local History Vertical Files

Paul Owen Selby Papers

Pauline Knobbs Greeting Card Collection

Pauline Knobbs Sheet Music Collection

Princess Theatre/Sieren's Palace Collection

Prints of Early Hedrick X-Rays

Quentin C. Smith Albums

Ralls County (Missouri), Jasper Township, Loyalty Oaths

Ram-Buller Magazine

Ross C. Allen and Family Letters

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