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Adair County Historical Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS A5
Scope and Contents
Focused on Adair County, Missouri, including Kirksville and surrounding areas, this collection encompasses a wide variety of materials from businesses, churches, and organizations. It includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, maps, and more.
Dates:
1832-1998
Adair County Public School District Documents
Collection
Identifier: MS A1
Scope and Contents
Ledgers of sub-districts of the Adair County School District for 1866-1881, as well as a compilation of district attendance statistics for 1880-1976 (incomplete).
Dates:
1866-1976
Biswell Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MUSDP B1
Scope and Contents
Approximately 130 documents from the Biswell family of Randolph and Linn Counties in Missouri. It includes letters, financial documents, and military papers from the early 1800s, and newspapers containing family obituaries. Of particular interest are the letters written by brothers Jonathan and Norvell Biswell on their way to, and while in, the California gold fields, 1850-1852. Of the six series, the Gold Rush letters, Series 1, are the most frequently used as they convey the story of a...
Dates:
1795-1912
Hubert Gordon Collett Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS C8
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, photographs, real estate records, financial records, sheet music, and event programs relating to Hubert Gordon Collett and the Collett Family of Adair County, Missouri.Record Group 1 contains approximately 760 documents pertaining to the family history of the Collett family, and the personal life of Gordon Collett, in the Kirksville, Missouri area. The collection ranges in date from 1874-1973, and consists of a wide variety of document types, including photographs...
Dates:
1773-2012
Ross C. Allen 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
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