Scope and Contents "Till the Boys Come Home: Chronicles of the Activities of the Missouri State Guard at Kirksville During World War II, October 1940-February 1947" was compiled by Sgt. Paul O. Selby. A two-volume scrapbook/photo album of the unit's 1942-1943 activities; includes Volume 1 (1942 December-1943 October) of the Battalion's newsletter 3rd Battalion Review. Although the creator P.O. Selby included the full life of Company M in the album title, all photos are from 1942-1943; there are only a few...

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

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A photograph scrapbook of Ella (Skippy) Skipwith Harrison’s time as a Kirksville State Teacher’s College (now Truman State University) student from 1937–1939.

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A 189-page scrapbook containing programs, photos and other memorabilia kept by Gladys Tull during her high school and college years at Kirksville Jr. and Sr. High Schools and Northeast Missouri State Teachers College (now Truman State University), along with a few childhood photos. Her photo album consists of 100 pages of photographs, most of which seem to be of her extended family.

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A photo album, diploma and certificates, and various school documents and letters from Goldie E. Pitney Bivin which capture life in Kirksville and at Northeast Missouri State Teachers College (now Truman State University) during the 1920s–1930s.

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A diary, scrapbooks, a recipe books, and documents such as programs and poems that represent Helen Mar Halliburton McReynolds life while at Kirksville State Normal School (now Truman State University).

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Scrapbook created in 1912 during Miss Selby's first year as a college student at Kirksville State Normal School (now Truman State University). June Selby created this album with photos clipped from Normal School publications, to which she added handwritten identification.

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This collection contains a scrapbook of the Kirksville Boy Scouts from 1930-1935, which includes clippings of local Boy Scouts news, posters and programs for local Boy Scout events. The cover was created by J.F. Walker.

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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.

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...