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Records and Correspondence

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 51 Collections and/or Records:

Goldie E. Pitney Bivin Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS P6
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1917–1950

Grim-Smith Hospital Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS G2
Scope and Contents

Financial records and board meeting minutes from the hospital in Kirksville, Missouri, from 1930-1945, as well as employee newsletters from 1985-1987 and 1989-1993.

Dates: 1939-1946, 1985-1993

Harry H. Laughlin Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS L1
Scope and Contents Harry H. Laughlin's professional files from the Eugenics Record Office, 1910-1939. These files contain institutional correspondence, memoranda, and reports; general correspondence; correspondence and printed materials related to the eugenical organizations to which Laughlin belonged; working manuscripts; notes; miscellaneous collected printed materials; some photographs; and glass lantern slides which were used for presentations. Laughlin, as one of the leaders in the eugenics movement, was...
Dates: 1900-1941

Heartland Chautauqua in Kirksville Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS H2
Scope and Contents

Publicity, schedules and other documents from the Heartland Chautauqua which came to Kirksville during the summers of 2000 and 2002.

Dates: 2000, 2002

Highway 63 Transportation Corporation Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS H3
Scope and Contents

Documents, correspondence, printed materials, newsletters and studies related to the Highway 63 Transportation Corporation which was incorporated "to fund, promote, plan, design, construct, maintain and operate, the construction of two additional lanes on Highway 63 in Adair County, Macon County...(in) a Cooperative Agreement with the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission, the County of Adair and the City of Kirksville."

Dates: 1995-2006

Home Economics and Family Sciences Collection

 Collection
Identifier: UA-D-HE
Scope and Contents

Part of the Truman State University Archives, this collection includes artifacts, audio-visual materials, manuscripts, photographs and print materials from Home Economics, which later became Family Sciences. The bulk of the materials are from the late 1960s through 1992, when the department began to close.

Dates: 1915–1993

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

James Mickelborough Greenwood Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS G1
Scope and Contents

Personal and business correspondence; correspondence with and publications of the National Education Association and other professional and civic organizations with which Greenwood was affiliated; Greenwood's writings, research and speaking notes on various educational topics; items related to the Kansas City School System and to school administration in general; and publications on educational topics.

Dates: 1874-1914

John D. Black Field Notebooks and Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MS B4
Scope and Contents

Two small research notebooks on fish studies Dr. Black made while a biologist with the Wisconsin Conservation Department in the 1940s; and a scrapbook of Dr. Black's contributions to the field and information regarding the Pre-Osteopathic Club at Truman State University, of which Dr. Black was an advisor.

Dates: 1943-2018

John M. Davis Civil War Military Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS D3
Scope and Contents

Personal military and pension records and documents created by John M. Davis as Company Commander, Company H, 63rd Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry. Bi-monthly muster rolls contain enrollment, discharge, promotions and other status changes for all company members December 1861 through December 1863.

Dates: 1861-1925