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.

World War I era scrapbooks and photograph album compiled by members of the Ann Haynes Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution.

Seven small yearbooks containing membership rosters, programs and more for The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International, Missouri Delta Chapter, Kirksville, Missouri.

Personal papers, research notes and writings of Paul Owen Selby, consisting of the files and records he gave during his lifetime as well as those cleared from his campus office after his death. Many are concerned with Kirksville and Adair County history, genealogies of Adair County families, and Mark Twain. Also includes his personal scrapbooks from 1890-1979.

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.

A collection of 60 articles, addresses and essays, by Willis J. Bray (1884-1961). The collection contains a mix of rough drafts, finished typescripts, and published versions of Dr. Bray's works. Topics covered include general education, chemistry, Masonry, religion, family and patriotism.