Archives Receives NEH grant to Preserve Civil War Records

MISSOURI STATEARCHIVES... where history begins

Robin Carnahan, Secretary of State

MISSOURI STATEARCHIVES... where history begins

The Civil War brought an explosion of litigation as Missourianssought to right the wrongs of the war. Citizens sued government offi-cials for property confiscated, over homes or businesses damaged bytroops and bushwhackers, and about their civil rights and liberties.Over 11,000 such cases were filed in the St. Louis Circuit Court.These cases have long been inaccessible to the public. To preservethem and make them available, the National Endowment for the Hu-manities (NEH) has awarded the Missouri State Archives a coveted

“We the People” grant for$330,000.

The cases share the story ofa state deeply divided. Recog-nized by NEH grant reviewersas critically valuable in under-standing the economic andsocial issues of the Civil Warand its aftermath, the collec-tion will provide new insightsinto the history of Missouriand the nation.

Many of the cases in-volved notable compa-nies, such as the An-heuser-Busch BrewingCompany, and famousMissourians, such asbridge builder James B.Eads, Supreme CourtJudge William B. Nap-ton, Congressman and

Union General Frank Blair, Confederate General and later Gov-ernor John Sappington Marmaduke, and United States SenatorB. Gratz Brown.

This effort will be one of many projects the Archives willcomplete in anticipation of the Civil War sesquicentennial in 2011.

In addition, the project will be part of the greater St. Louis Circuit Court Historical Records Project,started in 1999 to preserve and make accessible over four million pages of original court documents, datingfrom 1787 to 1875. The records of the St. Louis Circuit Court comprise the largest single collection of his-torically valuable records in Missouri that have never been systematically reviewed by historical researchers.

Case files were tri-folded and placed in tilldrawers where they have remained for over onehundred years.

The flattening process reveals layers of coal, soot, andrelated environmental pollutants, as well as damagebrought by extremes in temperature and humidity.

Harper’s Weekly, showing Nathaniel Lyon at theBattle of Wilson’s Creek. August 31, 1861.

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Friends of the MissouriState Archives Board ofDirectors

Bob Priddy, PresidentWade Nash, Vice PresidentSandra Walls, SecretaryThomas Holloway, Treasurer

Roseann BentleySteve EhlmannAnn Carter FlemingWilliam Foley, Ph.D.Louis Gerteis, Ph.D.Wayne GoodeGary Kremer, Ph.D.Charles KruseHon. Stephen LimbaughVicki MyersElizabeth PoolRobert Sandfort, Ph.D.Sally Sprague

Ex-officio:Robin CarnahanSecretary of StateKenneth H. Winn, Ph.D.State Archivist

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From the State ArchivistNearly 150 years ago Missouri and the nation, plunged into what AbrahamLincoln termed the “fiery trial” of civil war. By now one would think each hairin Robert E. Lee’s beard had been numbered; all the cannon balls at Gettys-burg counted; every flanking movement described. What is surprising is thatthere is so much left to know. It is the Archives good fortune that it will play asignificant role in bringing new understanding of the War. The Archives notonly received $330,000 from the National Endowment of the Humanities tohelp make St. Louis Civil War era court records available, but this effort wasdesignated a “We the People” project, so named to serve as a model to the na-tional research community.

In Missouri, Lincoln’s fiery trial had a very literal as well as metaphorical mean-ing. Much of the state collapsed into lawlessness, with state militia forces offer-ing only tentative, and partial, support of the civilian order. Thanks to its statusas a Union stronghold St. Louis was an island of safety. Even pro-Confederatessometimes fled there for safety. St. Louis was where the war’s controversieswere often fought out through the court. Through our work on these recordsresearchers will learn more about the struggles over loyalty, bushwackers, and“politicalwackers”; the lives of slaves and newly freed people; the impact oneveryday people; and more about powerful economic interests.

We are grateful to the NEH for its support, and will enjoy telling you what wefind in the days ahead.

Sincerely,

Kenneth H. Winn

Land Records Database Now OnlineThe Archives is proud to announce completion of another onlineresource. The Land Records Database was recently completed andplaced on the web for use by a multitude of very interested pa-trons. The project involves over 37,000 records that document thetransfer of federal land to Missouri during the nineteenth andtwentieth centuries for sale by the state, and the issuing of patentsthat followed. Included are the Township School Land collection(1820–1900), Seminary and Saline Land records (1820–1825),the Swamp Land patents (1850–1945), and records detailing thesale and division of a 500,000 Acre Grant that spanned nearly onehundred years from 1843–1951. Most importantly, 22 e-volun-teers - with guidance from Archives staff - worked long and hardto make this resource available. Visit online at www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/land.asp.

Carnahan Unveils RareAfrican-American PortraitCollection OnlineSecretary of State Robin Carnahan recently un-veiled a unique online collection of African-Amer-ican portraits assembled by staff at the MissouriState Archives. Taken during the decades follow-ing Civil War Reconstruction and the end ofWorld War I, Progress Amidst Prejudice: Portraitsof African-Americans in Missouri, 1880–1920, in-cludes 129 images from both urban and rural stu-dios across the state.

“Little is known about the subjects of these ele-gant portraits. We do know that by the late nine-teenth century, with the introduction of afford-able cabinet card photography, thousands ofAfrican-Americans in Missouri, despite their mod-est earnings as laborers, cooks, barbers, or laun-dresses, chose to put on their finest clothes andhave their portraits made,” Carnahan said.

In 1999, curators at the Missouri State Museumlocated and purchased several photo albums thatincluded unidentified African Americans primarilyfrom the Moberly area, but also from Hannibal,Louisiana, Macon, St. Joseph, Jefferson City, St.Louis, and Kansas City. These albums wereloaned to the Missouri State Archives for copyingand scanning. The bulk of the collection is in theform of the widely popular albumen print cabinetcard which was replaced later by the silver gelatinpostcard.

The collection includes formal portraits of bothmen and women, as well as more casual, outdoorphotos taken on front porches or beside trees.While some of the individuals are identified, thereare many more whose names remain a mystery.

In addition to the portrait collection, a supple-mental lesson plan geared for students in gradeseight through twelve has been created by Archivesstaff to assist teachers in using the collection inthe classroom.

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“These serene photographs mask the harsh real-ity faced by many African-Americans with the riseof Jim Crow Laws, legalized segregation and theshameful rise in lynching in Missouri and theUnited States. It is the mission of the Archives torestore and make available to the public theseunique portraits,” Carnahan said.

For more information about the images, contactLaura Jolley, Visual Materials Archivist, atlaura.jolley@sos.mo.gov or (573)526-3965. Tolearn more about the supplementary educationalmaterial, contact Archives Educator Kelly Smithat kelly.smith@sos.mo.gov or (573)526-5296.

The full collection is available at: www.sos.mo.gov/archives.

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Missouri State Museum

Archives Afield! Adair County: Lost Treasures Found

tain a vast array of civil and criminal court actionsconcerning debt, property disputes, divorce, mur-der and rape. Just a few of the stories detailed inthe collection include: selling liquor without a li-cense, laboring on Sunday, keeping a brothel, andpreaching during the Civil War without taking theOath of Loyalty. One of the more flamboyant casesinvolved the local sheriff who ran off with thecounty’s collected tax monies.

The Archives is currently microfilming the casesto make copies available at both the Adair CountyCircuit Clerk’s office and in the Archives Refer-ence Room. In addition, a keyword searchabledatabase index of all cases will be available on theArchives website.

These “lost treasures” will provide new insightinto Adair County – with local historians askingnew questions and writing new histories.

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As every good researcher knows - occasionally, his-tory can be hard to find. Nowhere is this more truethan at the local level where bad storage conditionsand lack of time, knowledge and resources can ringthe death toll for historical records. Field archivistsoften find that their jobs require more super-sleuthskills than what an archivist’s training brings to thejob. Archivist Mary McIntosh recently found herselfpresented with just such a situation in Adair Coun-ty, ferreting out rumors and false reports in searchof those elusive, but all important, primary sources.She ultimately solved the mystery and found atreasure of fascinating court records.

McIntosh’s assignment was to preserve nine-teenth-century circuit case files for the Adair CircuitClerk, but upon investigation no cases prior to1930 could be found in the courthouse. A collec-tion of poor quality microfilm produced in the1970’s showed cases dating back to the mid-1800s,but the location of the originals was unknown –even their existence uncertain. Donning a detectivecap, McIntosh learned from visiting with a deputyrecorder of deeds that some records had beenstored at the county road barn; and a county roadmaintenance engineer offered helpful informationwhen he learned about the search for “old paperdocuments stored in small metal drawers.” Tips giv-en by these individuals proved to be just what wasneeded. With a smile, the engineer led the way to abuilding where all the county’s vehicles were parkedand proudly pointed to the far wall. Stacked precar-iously on uneven gravel and buried behind tworows of used tractor tires, was drawer after drawerof circuit court case files dating from 1857.

The fortunate discovery of these records set intoaction a five-year processing and database projectwith the goal of producing archival quality microfilmof the nineteenth-century historical gems. McIntoshled the project with the aid of local volunteers Ros-alee Cooley, Walter Davision, Dolores Herleth,Shirley Mathew, Mary Jo Scott, Sally Singer, JeanetteSparks, and Del Tollenaar. Together these volunteerscontributed over 700 hours in processing and identi-fication of records. Spanning the years 1857-1899and numbering over 7,000 documents, the files con-

Local Records Archivist Mary McIntosh begins the work of reclaiminga treasure of mid-19th century case files in Adair County.

Central Missouri Students “Take a Stand” for HistoryEach year approximately 700,000 students from across the United States, grades 6-12, take part in NationalHistory Day. Participants are divided into Junior and Senior Divisions and compete in one of four cate-gories: individual or group performance, documentary, exhibit, or historical paper. This year, Missouri isone of the states testing a new “web site” category which will officially become the fifth category at Na-tional History Day in 2008.

The Missouri State Archives sponsors the Region 4 (central Missouri) National History Day in Missouriprogram for students in Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Cole, Cooper, Howard, Moniteau, Morgan, Osage, Pet-tis and Saline counties. Students are invited to conduct and present research in areas related to a broad annu-al theme – working individually and in groups to seek historical information from libraries, archives, and mu-seums, carry out oral interviews, and visit historic sites.

This year’s theme, Taking a Stand in History: People, Ideas, Events, attracted sixty entries by eighty-four stu-dents in central Missouri. Performances, documentaries, exhibits and papers were judged at the Region 4competition on Saturday, February 28 at Lewis and Clark Middle School in Jefferson City. Staff from theState Archives donated their time to keep the event running smoothly, while volunteer judges from theArchives Records Services Division, Missouri Department of Natural Resources, Lincoln University, the Uni-versity of Missouri, and area public schools used a nationally defined evaluation system to determine whichstudents would move up as delegates to the April 8th state contest to be held at the University of Missouri.

At the end of the day, 23 of the 60 entries advanced to state competition. More than half of those stu-dents attended an optional delegate clinic on March 11 to discuss with judges the best ways to strengthentheir entries for state.

Congratulations to all who participated in the regional level of National History Day in Missouri, andbest wishes to each of the delegateslisted below as they advance to thestate contest.

Junior Historical PapersLauren Coudron, Taking a Stand: JohnF. Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Cri-sis; Shelby Harper, Taking a Stand inHistory: The Women’s Union Strike of1909 in New York City; Adrian Kelly,Sir Winston Churchill. Delegates in thiscategory are students of Widget Ewingat Columbia Catholic School.

Junior Individual ExhibitsMorgan Hickam, Woman President;New Franklin Schools; JacquelineStarke, teacher.

Jackie Nichols, Grace Hopper, Inventorof COBOL; Gentry Middle School,Columbia; Cathy Libey, teacher.

Peter Walker, Dred Scott: A Stand forFreedom; Lange Middle School, Co-lumbia; Beth Joelle Winton, teacher.

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Peter Walker of Lange Middle School in Columbia stands with his exhibit, Dred Scott:A Stand for Freedom. An important resource for Peter’s research was the St. Louis Cir-cuit Court Records Project’s Dred and Harriet Scott freedom suits.

Junior Group ExhibitsHaley and Nikia Chapman, Amelia Earhart; Christopher Arnold, Jeremy Landrey and Nathan Warren,WWII: How they Took a Stand; Hanna Wedemeyer and Lela Prichett, Rosa Parks: Taking a Stand by StayingSeated. Delegates in this category are students of Beth Joelle Winton at Lange Middle School, Columbia.

Junior Individual PerformancesColin Gardner, Preserving the Great Experiment; Columbia Independent School; Jason Bricker, teacher.

Junior Group PerformancesMason Scott and Ian Anderson, The Stand at Gettysburg; Samantha Purdy and Kassandra Algiere, MartinLuther King, Dreaming of Tomorrow. All of the delegates in this category are students of Beth Joelle Wintonat Lange Middle School, Columbia.

Junior Individual DocumentariesMalachi Matthews, How Political Cartoons Took a Stand in History; Sam Pautler, Marlin Perkins: Educatingthe Public Through the Wild Kingdom; Jamie Wang, Harry S. Truman. Delegates in this category are stu-dents of Cathy Libey at Gentry Middle School, Columbia.

Junior Group DocumentariesAlex Nail and Adam Kidwell, Muhammad Ali: A Stand for His Beliefs; Josh Little and Eric Young, TheManhattan Project: Taking a Stand for America; Ian Thacker and Stuart Spradling, Edison: Lighting Up theWorld. Delegates in this category are students of Beth Joelle Winton at Lange Middle School, Columbia.

Junior Web SitesTahura Lodhi, Malcolm X; Gentry Middle School, Columbia; Cathy Libey, teacher.

Senior Individual ExhibitsXiaoke Cui, Mahatma Gandhi: His Mark on the World; West Junior High School, Columbia; Chris Fischer,teacher.

Senior Group ExhibitsKatie Ortbals and Therese Spoller, Elvis Presley; Bismah Rahmat, Molly Farrell, Gina Pai and Lucy Fang,Queen Elizabeth I: The Golden Age; Delegates in this category are students of Chris Fischer at West JuniorHigh School, Columbia.

Senior Individual PerformanceChris Ghan, To Secure These Rights…Harry Truman and the Desegregation of the Armed Services; RockBridge High School, Columbia; Terry Overfelt, teacher.

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Mid-Continent Public Library Announces Third Annual Family HistoryContest for StudentsIn honor of October being Family History Month, the Genealogy & Local History Branch of Mid-Continent Public Library is sponsoring the third annual Family History Contest in October 2006. Thecontest is open to any student in grades six through twelve, and home-schooled students of equivalentlevel. The contest is an opportunity for students to learn more about their family histories and perma-nently preserve the research they accomplished.

All entries must be postmarked by October 31, 2006, and will be judged on style, presentation, andclarity. For more information, registration forms, and official rules and regulations, please contact:Mid-Continent Public Library, Genealogy & Local History Branch, 317 West 24 Highway, Indepen-dence, Missouri 64050, or call Angela McComas at (816) 252-7228.

The Archives ReopensPopular Exhibit Ticket to the Past: The First 25 Years of the MissouriState FairFirst produced in1993, Ticket to thePast has been oneof the Archives’most popular trav-eling exhibits, hav-ing been hostedover the last severalyears by manyMissouri commu-nities to the enjoy-ment of thousandsof people. Now arefurbished version- produced by theArchives this year -is on display in thelobby of the StateInformation Center at 600 West Main Street in Jef-ferson City. This current exhibit features colorfulnew graphics and some never-before-seen imagesfrom the Archives’ collection of more than 200 cu-bic feet of material related to the state fair. Also, theexhibit is available online, with accompanying edu-cational material for elementary students that in-cludes a lesson overview, worksheet and guided dis-cussion questions. To view the online version andlesson plan, visit www.sos.mo.gov/archives/exhibits.

Ticket to the Past focuses on the fair’s first 25years, a period that not only brought increasedmechanization to agriculture, but provided manyfarmers with relative economic prosperity as well.Topics highlighted in the exhibit include the de-velopment of the fairgrounds, the role of the fairin celebrating Missouri’s centennial, and the influ-ence of World War I on life in Missouri homesand on Missouri farms.

For more information about this exhibit, orabout other Missouri State Archives’ traveling dis-plays, contact Greg Olson at (573) 522-2705 orgreg.olson@sos.mo.gov.

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at the State Archives, contact Kelly Smith at (573)526-5296 or kelly.smith@sos.mo.gov.

To request reproductions of the many photo-graphs or posters contained in the Missouri StateFair Collection, please contact Laura R. Jolley, Vi-sual Materials Archivist, at (573) 526-3965 orlaura.jolley@sos.mo.gov.

Friends Enjoy “Wine by theFire” FundraiserOn March 1,2006, JeffersonCitians Scottand Libby Poolhosted “Wineby the Fire,” anannual party forthe Friends ofthe MissouriState Archives, co-sponsored this year by theMissouri Farm Bureau Federation.

Guests enjoyed an evening of music, dining, andlaughter. Richard Stokes and Bill Nugent treatedthe crowd to fiddle and guitar music. Wine wasdonated by the Missouri Grape and Wine Pro-gram. Hors d´oeuvres were generously providedby Friends board members and supporters.

The event raised $1,000 for the Friends of theMissouri State Archives. These unrestricted giftswill be used to support various initiatives, such asArchives Alive!, the Thursday Evening Speaker Se-ries and online access to historical records.

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Host Scott Pool visits with board members Sally Sprague and BobSandfort at Wine by the Fire.

Spring-Summer Program CalendarThursday, April 20, 20067:00 p.m.

Mick Byrd, Americana Singer-Songwriter

In a special performance at the Archives, award-winningsinger-songwriter Mick Byrd will perform songs from hispopular country albums. Byrd’s songs tell vivid stories ofrural life in Missouri. Clint Harding of St. Louis Communi-ty Radio says, “Mick’s songs immediately draw the listenerinto a world we all can hope for. Complete with a slowerpace, comfortable surroundings, cleaner air…Every songcomes with its own story.” Byrd, 1995 National AwardWinner of Billboard Magazine’s Songwriting Contest, willperform songs like “The Chance,” which was chosen as thetheme song for the Missouri Statewide Parents AdvisoryNetwork, and “Gentle Souls,” which he recorded and per-formed for Special Olympics Missouri.

Thursday, May 11, 20067:00 p.m.

Rosemary Thornton, The Houses That Sears Built

Between 1908-1940, thousands of people across the countryfound a unique way to build their dream house: they orderedit from Sears! During that time, more than 100,000 “kit”homes were sold through the Sears, Roebuck and Company’smail-order Modern Homes program. Rosemary Thornton, au-thor of The Houses That Sears Built and Finding the HousesThat Sears Built, will give a presentation including images of awide variety of Sears Homes throughout the country. She’ll of-fer information on how to identify a local Sears Home and alsotalk about what makes these homes historically significant andwhy they should be found, identified and preserved.

Thornton has appeared on PBS (History Detectives), A&E (Biography) and CBS (SundayMorning News). Her book was also referenced in a question on Jeopardy. She is consideredthe country’s #1 authority on Sears kit homes. Her work has been featured in the New YorkTimes, Christian Science Monitor, Washington Post, L.A. Times, Dallas Morning News, OldHouse Journal, American Bungalow and nearly 100 other publications. This program is pre-sented in partnership with The Historic City of Jefferson.

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Thursday, June 22, 20067:00 p.m.

Carla Steck, Art Inside the Park Documentary

A visually dynamic short documentary about Public Art basedon the annual, three-day Jefferson City exhibition, Art Insidethe Park, will be screened at the Missouri State Archives. Oneof the few art festivals located in central Missouri, the exhibi-tion includes the contemporary art form of installations, andthe film features compelling images of the art being con-structed, placed in the park, and the viewer’s reaction tothem.

Carla Steck is the artistic director of the film and is founderand president of AtelierCMSinc, a not-for-profit contempo-rary visual arts organization located in Jefferson City,Missouri. The mission of AtelierCMSinc is to build, educate and sustain audiences for con-temporary public art. For more information on Art Inside the Park 2006, visit www.atelier-cms.com/.

Thursday, July 20, 20067:00 p.m.

H. Dwight Weaver, The Lake of the OzarksTurns 75

Mr. Weaver will give a visual presentation of theLake of the Ozark’s early fishing resorts, cafes,bridges, ferries, showboats and other icons fromthe period of the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. Discoverhow selecting the name, Lake of the Ozarks, wasa hot political issue while the Bagnell Dam wasunder construction, and review the many geo-

graphical features that make the region truly unique. This program will be one of many trib-utes this year, the lake’s 75th anniversary.

Dwight Weaver is a long time resident of the Lake of the Ozarks area and a graduate of the Jef-ferson City public schools. He spent more than twenty years in state government, retiring his ca-reer as a public information specialist with the Missouri Department of Natural Resources in2000. Since that time, he has published three books on the history of the Lake of the Ozarksregion. His newest book is titled, History and Geography of Lake of the Ozarks, Volume One.

Programming at the Missouri State Archives is free of charge and open to the public, withseating available on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information contact KellySmith, Archives Educator, at (573) 526-5296 or kelly.smith@sos.mo.gov.

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Recent AccessionsOctober 2005 – January 2006

ManuscriptsAfrican American Portrait Collection. 1890–1920. 68 photographs

Two photo albums containing portraits of African-Americans primarily in theRandolph County, Missouri area. One album contains formal, cabinet cards andthe second album consists of amateur photography. Via the Missouri StateCapitol Museum.

Peter Wilson Coldham. British Emigrants in Bondage. 1614–1788. 2005. 1 CD

Russell Callaway. Callaway Family Research Data. 2005. 2 CDs

Index to the History of Henry and St. Clair counties, 1883. 2 volumesCompiled by The Printery. 1970.

Camp Ozark digital files. 1911–1913. 1 CDConstruction of Ozark Beach Dam, later named Power-site Dam, which created Lake Taneycomo in Taney County. This collection exists originally as a photo album ownedby Empire Electric.

County and Municipal Records

Adair CountyCircuit Court. Case Files. 1861–1870. 12.5, 35 mm rolls

Bollinger CountyCircuit Court. Case Files (Civil and Criminal). 1880–1970. 2, 16 mm rolls

Boone CountyCircuit Court. Case Files. 1967–1969. 40, 35 mm rolls

Buchanan CountyRecorder of Deeds. Records. 1967 - 1980. 245, 35 mm rolls

Cooper CountyCircuit Court. Case Files (Civil and Criminal) and Index (Civil and Criminal). 3, 35 mm rolls

1850–1857.

Gasconade CountyProbate Court. Case Files. 1897–1971. 3, 16 mm rolls

Greene CountyMedical Examiner. Coroner’s Inquests. October 1834–December 1932. 13.5, 35 mm rolls

Howard CountyClerk. Justice of the Peace. Dockets. 1894–1948; 1, 35 mm rollJustice of the Peace. Marriages, 1898–1911.

Jackson CountyProbate Court (Kansas City). Case Files. 1909–1922 148, 35 mm rollsCircuit Court (Kansas City). Case Files. 1956–1957. 88, 16 mm rollsCircuit Court (Independence). Records. Wills and Bonds. 1834–1866; Settlements, 4, 35 mm rolls

Court Orders, Admr. Reports. 1850–1856.

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Laclede CountyClerk. School Records. 1887–1889; Plat Book. 1912. 0.5, 35 mm roll

Morgan CountyCollector. Tax Records (Personal Property). 1869–1969. 9, 35 mm rolls

Platte CountyRecorder. Deeds. February 1998–July 1999. 2, 16 mm rolls

Randolph CountyRecorder. Deeds. August 2003 – March 2005. 24, 16 mm rolls

Saint Charles CountyCircuit Court. Attorneys Roll. 1838 - 2004. 0.5, 35 mm roll

Saint Louis CityCounty/City Probate Court. Case Files. 1871–1896. 1, 35 mm rollSaint Louis County/City Probate Court. Guardianship 7, 35 mm rollsCase Files. 1837–1838, 1844–1845 and 1892.

Taney CountyRecorder. Marriage Licenses. 1886–1934; 21, 35 mm rollsMarriage Licenses and Applications. 1934–1996.

Legislative, Executive and Judicial Branch Records

Court of AppealsEastern District, Case Files (64658–85594). 1993–2004. 63 cubic feet

Department of ConservationNature Notes. 90 second radio programs discussing a variety of nature topics. 19 audio tapes1992–1997.

Department of Economic DevelopmentFlood Control Projects Map of Missouri. 1949. 1 map

Department of Health and Senior ServicesBureau of Vital Records. Death Certificates. 1955. 11 cubic feet

Department of Natural ResourcesHABS/HAER. Reports dealing with properties and bridges in a variety of Missouri 2 cubic feet

counties. 1995–2004.State Boundary Surveys. 1991–2005. 48 mapsPlats of survey (48 oversize maps) and bound surveys (1 vol.) for the state boundaries

with Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Iowa. Also Missouri county boundaries between Platte/Buchanan and Ste. Genevieve/St. Francois.

General AssemblyHouse. Records. 93rd General Assembly, 1st session. 2005. 9 cubic feetCommittee books, committee reports, reorganization plans, resolutions, courtesy

resolutions, messages, and records of the first extraordinary session and veto session.Senate. Bills 1–4. 93rd General Assembly, 1st Extra Session. 2005. 0.1 cubic footSenate. Interim Courtesy Resolutions. 93rd General Assembly, 1st session. 2005. 1 cubic footSenate. Records. 93rd General Assembly, 1st session. 2005. 2 cubic feet

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General Assembly (cont.)Messages, roll calls, committee minutes, and veto and special session records.Standing Legislative Committees. Judiciary & Civil & Criminal 2 cubic feetJurisprudence. Records. 2004–2005; Senate TransportationCommittee. Records. 2004–2005.

Missouri Supreme CourtCase Files (80821–86272). May 2004. 22 cubic feetJudge Duane Benton. Papers. 1991–2004. 1 cubic footNotes and background material on opinions for Missouri Supreme Court cases

during Judge Benton’s tenure on the bench (1991–2004). Specifically, theimpeachment of Secretary of State Judith K. Moriarty.

Secretary of StateElections. Returns. 2004–2005. 4.1 cubic feetReturns for the general election, November 2, 2004 and for a special election,

April 5, 2005; returns for special elections held on November 8, 2005

MiscellaneousAncestry.comU. S. Federal Census Index. Missouri. 1920. 1 CD

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Picture This: Lake of the OzarksLaura R. JolleyVisual Materials ArchivistUnion Electric Company of St. Louis began constructionof Bagnell Dam in Miller County on August 6, 1929. Thedam, which was completed in 1931, generated electricalpower for St. Louis residents. It also generated a vacationeconomy in Missouri’s central Ozarks that continues tothrive today. Although the tourism industry was slow todevelop during the Great Depression and World War II, bythe 1950s vacationers flocked to the lake where they had

hundreds of resorts tochoose from. Many of theearly businesses have beenreplaced by modern facili-ties, and some lake activi-ties look different thanthey did more than a half century ago - but the water culture thatdraws people to the lake remains substantially the same.

These photographs taken by Gerald Massie and Ralph Walker of theCommerce and Industrial Development Agency show the thriving lakearea during the 1950s and 1960s.

This aerial of the west side of the dam shows the large parkinglot built for vacationers and the Lakeside Casino and BoatDock. These original businesses on the strip were owned byUnion Electric to generate lake-area commerce.

The Larry Don Excursion Boat, now the Captain Larry Don, has operated on the lake since1948. Although the boat has undergone many structural changes over the years, it remains afavorite tourist activity.

New Book AccessionsJuly 2005–January 2006

Immigration, Family History, Church and County RecordsAmerican Passenger Arrival Records, by Michael Tepper.The BCG Genealogical Standards Manual, by the Board of Certification of Genealogists.Black Genesis: A Resource Book for African-American Genealogy.British Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1788, by Peter Wilson Coldham.The Complete Beginner’s Guide to Genealogy, the Internet, and Your Computer Program, by Karen Clifford,

A.G.Finding Your Hispanic Roots, by George R. Ryskamp.A Fond Look Back: Butler County, Missouri, by Robert L. Manns.Germans in American Series II, lists of passengers arriving at U.S. ports in the 1840s, by Ira R. Glazier.Hispanic Surnames and Family History, by Lyman D. Platt.International Vital Records Handbook, by Thomas Jay Kemp.Madole Family and Allied Lines, by Gwen Gunn Shoemaker.The Scotch-Irish, 2 vols., by Charles A. Hanna.Surnames of the United Kingdom, 2 vols., by Henry Harrison.Teaching Genealogy to Young People, by Bee Barton Koons.Tracing Ancestors Among the five Civilized Tribes: Southeastern Indians Prior to Removal, by Rachel Mills

Lennon.Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry, by Kathleen B. Cory.

Missouri/United States HistoryAmerica’s First Olympics: The St. Louis Games of 1904, by George R. Matthews.Heartland History III, by Gary R. Kremer.Joseph Robidoux: The Family Patriarch, by Clyde M. Rabideau.Showdown in the Show-Me State: The Fight Over Conceal-and-Carry Gun Laws in Missouri, by William

T. Horner.Slave Narratives: Missouri, vol. X, by the Federal Writers Project.The Union on Trial: The Political Journals of Judge William Barclay Napton, 1829–1883, edited by

Christopher Phillips and Jason L. Pendleton.What Caused the Civil War? Reflections on the South and Southern History, by Edward L. Ayers.

MiscellaneousArchival Fundamental Series II:

• Arranging and Describing Archives and Manuscripts, by Kathleen D. Roe.• A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology, by Richard Pearce-Moses.• Providing Reference Services for Archives and Manuscripts, by Mary Jo Pugh.

From Memories to Manuscript, by Joan R. Neubauer.

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Donations to the Friends ofthe Missouri State ArchivesThrough February 15, 2006

Memorials to Elizabeth Elaine WinnMarshall and Debbie Crossnoe, Jefferson CityGeorge and Paula Hartsfield, Jefferson CityGary and Lisa Kremer, Jefferson CityDiane McKinney, Jefferson CityLynn and Kristen Morrow, Jefferson CityWade L. and Dorothy A. Nash, Jefferson City

Institutional DonorsCentral Bank, Jefferson CityMid-Missouri Genealogical SocietyWal-Mart, Jefferson City

ContributionsKathleen Ailor, Jefferson CityDonald L. and Judy G. Connor, Jefferson CityBeverly D. Crain, Jefferson CityBea Cummins, Jefferson CityJohn and Mary Drobak, St. LouisEdward G., Jr., and Joan T. Elliott, Jefferson CityJames D. and Ann M. Fleming, ChesterfieldWilliam E. and Martha A. Foley, WarrensburgRoger and Rita Fortner, OzarkWayne N. Johnson, Paola, KSDr. John and Chris Krautmann, Jefferson CityMarilyn L. Miller, Jefferson CityWade L. and Dorothy A. Nash, Jefferson CityWalter Rottmann, Jefferson CityJim and Honorable Mary Russell, Jefferson CitySally and Hugh Sprague, Jefferson CityRobert W. Taylor, ColumbiaKathryn Tetley, Jefferson CityThomas A. Vetter, Jefferson CityKenneth and Karen Winn, Jefferson CityDenise Ziegelbein, Lohman

Alexander McNair Society $1,000 +Dr. and Mrs. Robert M. Sandfort, St. Charles

Thomas Hart Benton Associate $100 +Marci Bennett, St. JosephMae Bruce, Jefferson CityEugene G. Bushmann, Jefferson CityPetra DeWitt, RollaWayne Goode, St. LouisRobert E. Heidbreder, SullivanJoan Koechig, St. Charles

Charles E. Kruse, Jefferson CityHonorable Stephen N. Limbaugh Jr., Jefferson CityScott and Elizabeth Pool, Jefferson CityJames Neal Primm, University CityHarry and Suzanne Richter, Jefferson CityPatricia Sanchez, Oxnard, CAR.T. Schutt, Jefferson CityJohn L. and Agnes L. (Bee) Sullivan, Jefferson CityRichard and Donna Zeilmann, Bonnots Mill

Daniel Boone Supporter $75 +Joseph L. Adams, University CityJean A. Ferguson, HartsburgVirginia Laas, Joplin

Mark Twain Contributor $50 +Jon Bergenthal, St. LouisJohn Britton, Jefferson CityBill and Rosalee Buehrle, Jefferson CityJerry R. Ennis, ColumbiaEdward W. Dolata, Des PeresJack A. Fly, GoldenMr. and Mrs. William G. Guerri, ChesterfieldMartha Henderson, St. LouisSusan Iverson, AuroraLaura Jolley, ColumbiaAlmon E. Judy, Wright CityDr. and Mrs. Gerald B. Lee, Kansas CityRobert W. Lyner, ChesterfieldMargot McMillen and Howard Marshall, FultonPamela Boyer Porter, ChesterfieldAlice Robinson, Jefferson CityDavid and Jo Sapp, ColumbiaTony Smith, Jefferson CityRandy Turley, Jefferson CityJoel and Marty Vance, RussellvilleLeeAnn Whites and Anna Lingo, Columbia

Basic Membership $25 +Missouri Mansion Preservation, Inc., Jefferson CityCathryn C. Adams, Jefferson CityAllen County Public LibraryStephen M. Archer, ColumbiaJoseph and Marilyn Bacon, Jefferson CityClaudia Baker, LinnRoger G. Baker, Holts SummitLesa Barnes, Port Townsend, WAJoan and Ron Barthels, ColumbiaShirley Blevins, Jefferson CityEvelyn Borgmeyer, Jefferson CityMark A. Boyer, Jefferson CityJohn Bradberry, Rolla

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Virginia M. Brinkmann, Jefferson CityClara M. Bryant, Jefferson CityRon Budnik, ChamoisJ.R. Chaney, Jefferson CityCarolyn Collings, ColumbiaLois Conley, St. LouisRosemary Coplin, SullivanBill T. Crawford, ColumbiaPatsy Creech, TroyThomas Danisi, St. LouisBarb Davis, EldonStephen S. Davis, Jefferson CityBarbara Payor Diehl, St. LouisJennie F. Dolan, Jefferson CityDowntown Books (Cece McClure), Jefferson CityCharles A. Ecklund, Jefferson CityBill Eddleman, Cape GirardeauPhyllis Erhart, Jefferson CityEmilie V. Fagyal, St. LouisKathleen Farrar, St. LouisKay and Leo Fennewald, Jefferson CityJohn J. Forti, St. LouisBert Foster, GlencoeRichard Franklin, IndependenceFriends of Arrow Rock, Arrow RockLynn Wolf Gentzler, ColumbiaGeorge W. Giles, TroyJune F. Glaser, Jefferson CityRayma Grohs, Jefferson CityLloyd Grotjan, Jefferson CityRobert and Mary Haake, Jefferson CityKenneth Hartke, Jefferson CityCalvin W. Hawkins, LibertyRobert and Roberta Herman, Jefferson CityRon and Gerry Hook, Jefferson CityPatrick Huber, RollaBarbara Huddleston, FultonThomas and Melba Inman, Newton, TXDarrell and Ann Jackson, LohmanLucille Kampeter, Jefferson CityKingdom of Callaway Historical Society, FultonAnna Knaebel, Jefferson CityRay Koch, JoplinDavid Konig and Judith Mann, Webster GrovesTamara Krewson, WinchesterPatricia Kroeger, St. LouisMargaret Landwehr, Jefferson CitySam and Bonnie Lewers, Jefferson CityKen and Ann Littlefield, Jefferson CityDonald M. and Kathryn S. Love, Jefferson City

Lorraine Allgaler Magee, ImperialFranziska A. Malley, Jefferson CityJohn and Beth Marquardt, ColumbiaDonna W. Masterson, Bloomington, CACarol McArthur, St. LouisJames E. McGhee, Jefferson CityDorothea McKee, Jefferson CityKaren McMahon, Jefferson CityChristian R. Mentrup, Kansas CityMid-Continent Public Library, IndependenceJim M. Miget, St. CharlesCarol R. Morgan, Cardiff, CALiz Murphy, LawsonAlana and Brian Murray, Lake OzarkMary A. Nebel, Jefferson CityMarsha Newman, FentonAlfred E. Nichols, Indianola, IAGail and Joann Oehrke, Jefferson CityOsmund Overby, ColumbiaIrma J. Plaster, CaliforniaG. Mabel Reed, DeslogeMartha Diane Welmering Reid, Carrollton, TXWilma Riffenburgh, Atascadero, CALarry and Judy Rizner, Jefferson CityMary M. Ryan, St. AnnFrank Rycyk, Jefferson CityLarry Sanders, BoonvilleEdwin F. Schwartz, St. LouisLouise Schreiber, Jefferson CityJean Schukart, Redmond, ORAgnes R. Scott, Holts SummitOna Scott, Maryland HeightsHelen Scruggs, Jefferson CityJames R. Skain, Jefferson CityWarren and Joan Solomon, Jefferson CityMarilyn Stanley, AuxvasseMark C. Stauter, RollaKaren Steely, Vancouver, WARichard L. Stokes, Jefferson CityGail Thoele, St. LouisCarole M. Van Vranken, Jefferson CityJohn Viessman, ViennaHarriet Waldo, Jefferson CityJoseph E. Wilkinson, MorrisonKarol R. Witthar, Blue SpringsMary Lee Wyss, Jefferson CityKristine S. Zapalac, St. LouisJeanette Zinkgraf, Des Peres

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