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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.

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Albert P. Miller, a merchant from Winchester, Augusta County, Virginia, was in partnership with Newton Andrew Baylor in Kirksville for about one year from mid-1881 to mid-1882. The collection includes miscellaneous personal documents from prior to his move and letters from Naylor urging him to come to Kirksville, as well as some publicity for the dry goods store in Kirksville.

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One bound volume (459 pages with table of contents) of documents including letters, telegrams and legal documents related to The Cessna Aircraft Company's 1967 Debentures offering.

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This collection contains 5255 stereographs, stereograph sets and viewers. The stereographs feature locations in the U.S. and worldwide; events, including diasters and exhibitions; industry; science and nature; and culture and art. It also includes boxed sets highlighting world tours, education, and for optometry diagnosis.

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A set of account ledgers from the Journal Printing Company, Kirksville, Missouri, containing accounts payable and accounts receivable information. These give an overview of the business from 1890 to 1979 through financial transactions and accounts.

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Book with minutes along with loose minutes and documents from the Kirksville Retail Merchants' Association.

Abstract Leon Karel, Professor of Music at Northeast Missouri State (now Truman State University), gathered a small collection which consists primarily of late 19th and early 20th century illustrated letterheads and business forms for Missouri firms, and 1913-1915 display ads clipped from The Kirksville Journal.The focus of the collection is on the printed form itself, with emphasis on the illustrations. However, information about the transaction completed or the subject of the letter is...

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This collection contains documents, photos, and artifacts from the life of Mildred (Brown) Willows. From 1943-1970, Willows owned and operated "Mildred's Beauty Shop", a local business in Kirksville, Mo.

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

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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.