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This collection contains sales slips, paychecks, and worker time cards and other documents including some land leases from Adair County coal mines and companies including Baiotto Coal Company, Inc., Billy Creek Coal Mine, Blacksmith Coal Corporation, Corrigan Coal Company, Kansas City Midland Coal & Mining Company, Orek Coal Company, Rose Hill Coal Mine and Simler Bluff Coal Mine, as well as the Adair County Coal Operators Association.

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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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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).

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Autograph album with signatures from friends and cousins of Amelia and Anna Burk.

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A class term paper on The Battle of Kirksville and the Battle of Vassar Hill which Kent Bergstrand wrote and submitted to Dr. David March, Professor of History on October 17, 1975. The paper is 79 pages of text, maps and photographs relating to the two battles and associated events and people. The color photographs are of Kirksville, Vassar Hill and other Adair County sites connected with the battles as they appeared at the time the paper was written in 1975.

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Poems and plays for children, and articles about children and classroom teachers written by Berenice Beggs, a lifelong educator. This collection contains some of her work from her time as a rural school teacher through her time on the faculty of what is now Truman State University. These papers also contain items from her mother's scrapbook and a few pieces of personal correspondence.

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...

Scope and Contents Recordings and music scores including over 270 music books and sheet music, dating from the 1880s through the 1940s (some later), and more than 340 recordings from the 1900s through the 1970s. The scores are primarily classical and popular arrangements for music students; the vinyl records, which are mostly pop, also include classical, juvenile, jazz and country-western.The older items are from the music library of David Todd and Catherine (Firestone) Stump, Davis'...

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Family history compiled by David O. Long, including photographs, and unpublished articles and papers.

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