JASPER COUNTY, MISSOURI
Jasper County, named for Revolutionary War hero Sgt. William Jasper, was organized in 1841. The county seat is Carthage, and its largest city is Joplin. Jasper County was once the center of an important lead and zinc mining district. Listed below are collections at the Western Historical Manuscript Collection-Rolla that deal in some manner with Jasper County. Follow the hypertext links for additional information about each collection.
- African American Heroines of Jericho, Guiding Star Court No. 15 (Joplin, Mo.), records, 1916-1959
- All Star Concert Series (Joplin, Mo.), program, 1937
- American Institute of Mining Engineers, War Minerals of the Joplin-Miami District, 1917
- American Mining Congress (10th: 1907: Joplin, Mo.), Publicity Committee, booklet, 1907
- American Zinc, Lead & Smelting Company, records, 1901-1965
- Bank of Avilla (Avilla, Mo.), minute book, 1914-1924
- Bank of Avilla (Avilla, Mo.), records, 1923-1944
- Bank of Carthage (Carthage, Mo.), minute book, 1896-1913
- Bank of Carthage (Carthage, Mo.), records, 1907-1935
- Thomas Akers Barr papers, 1861-1919
- Beta
Sigma Phi, papers, 1943-1946
- Boy Scouts of America, MoKan Area Council, programs, 1937-1951
- William E. Brinkerhoff, papers, 1903-1912
- Bumble Bee Mine (Joplin, Mo.), photographs, ca. 1902-1917
- Business and Professional Womem's Club (Webb City, Mo.), records, 1951-1984
- Evans W. Buskett, letters, 1937
- Carthage (Mo.), Civil War battle memoir, n.d.
- Carthage (Mo.), funeral home records, 1887-1938
- Carthage Chamber of Commerce, Quasqui-Centennial Committee, booklet,
1967
- Carthage Fair and Horse Show, booklet, 1948
- Carthage High School (Carthage, Mo.), operetta program, 1944
- Carthage Horse Railway Company, record book, 1883-1891
- Carthage Loan and Investment Company, record book, 1912-1927
- Center Creek Association of Primitive Baptists, minutes, 1907-1919
- Center Valley Lead & Zinc Company, record book, 1892-1900
- Cherete Study Club (Joplin, Mo.), booklets, 1956-1963
- Child Culture Club (Joplin, Mo.), booklets, 1938-1954
- Commercial Club of Joplin, booklet, 1913
- Connor
Hotel (Joplin, Mo.), collection, 1908-1978
- Consolidated Jack Mines Company, stock certificate, 1905
- Crown
Coach Company, brochure, n.d.
- John B. Dale, account book, 1857-1860
- Daughters of Rebekah (Jasper County, Mo.), records, 1892-1987
- Daughters of Rebekah, Blendville Lodge No. 298 (Joplin, Mo.), minute books, 1901-1986
- Daughters of Rebekah, Blendville Lodge No. 298 (Joplin, Mo.), records, 1986-2001
- Daughters of Rebecca, Daisy Lodge No. 329 (Chitwood, Mo.), records,
1903-1931
- Daughters of Rebekah, Duenweg Lodge No. 266 (Duenweg, Mo.), minute books, 1932-1963
- Daughters of Rebekah, East Town Lodge No. 342 (Joplin, Mo.), records,
1903-1930
- Daughters of Rebekah, Joplin Lodge No. 97 (Joplin, Mo.), records, 1892-1986
- Daughters of Rebekah, Joplin Lodge No. 97 (Joplin, Mo.), records, 1950-1995
- Daughters of Rebekah, Past Noble Grand Club (Joplin, Mo.), secretary's book, 1950-1961
- Daughters of Rebekah, Rebekah Homemakers' Club (Webb City, Mo.), record book, 1933-1939
- Daughters of Rebekah, Webb City Lodge No. 106 (Webb City, Mo.), membership papers, ca. 1928-1991
- Daughters of Rebekah, Webb City Lodge No. 106 (Webb City, Mo.), records, 1961-1992
- Daughters of Rebekah, Zinc Lodge No. 369 (Joplin, Mo.), minute books,
1904-1987
- Daughters of Rebekah, Zinc Lodge No. 369, minute book, 1988-1993
- Daughters of the American Revolution, Joplin Chapter (Joplin, Mo.), records, 1912-1988
- Eagle-Picher Industries, Fibers and Minerals Division, labor contract, 1967
- Fairview Friends Sabbath School (Jasper County, Mo.), records, 1884-1979
- Farmers Cooperative League, booklet, 1909
- Federal Lead Company, Mining Dept. (Flat River, Mo.), letterbooks, 1907-1913
- Federal Mining and Smelting Company, booklet, 1945
- First
Baptist Church (Joplin, Mo.), T.E.L. Sunday School Class, booklet,
1926
- Freemasons, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, Orient of Missouri, Valley of Joplin, papers, 1906-1914
- Donald C. Garrigues, diaries and correspondence, 1942-1945
- Girl Scouts of the United States of America (Webb City, Mo.), banquet program, 1950
- Goodhealth Shoe Company, papers, 1921-1945
- Great Western Normal School and Business College (Webb City, Mo.), booklet, 1903
- Howard Gresham, letter, 1919
- Charley Hershey, diaries, 1883-1888
- Harry C. Hood collection, n.d.
- Hunter family letters, 1864-1880
- Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Beta Phi Theta Rho Girl's Club No. 10 (Joplin, Mo.), minute book, 1946-1950
- Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Blendville Lodge No. 573 (Joplin, Mo.), papers, 1922-1926
- Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Canton Lincoln No. 17 (Joplin, Mo.), minute book, 1895-1905
- Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Carterville Lodge No. 314 (Carterville, Mo.), papers, 1918-1930
- Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Carterville Lodge No. 314 (Carterville, Mo.), record books, 1907-1911
- Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Joplin Lodge No. 287 (Joplin, Mo.), booklets, 1917-1920
- Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Webb City Lodge No. 79 (Webb City, Mo.), minute books, 1888-1961
- Jasper County (Mo.), Cedar Bluff School, register, 1893-1898
- Jasper County (Mo.), records, 1842-1890
- Jasper County (Mo.), School District No. 6, Dixie School, record book,
1886-1902
- Jasper County (Mo.), Subdistrict No. 5 (Smithfield School), record book, 1870-1896
- Jasper County (Mo.), Superintendent of Schools, programs, 1912-1913
- Jasper
County (Mo.), tax assessment list, 1861
- Jasper
County (Mo.), tax book, 1864
- Jasper County Tanning Company, stock certificate, 1924
- Joplin (Mo.), centennial celebration schedule, 1973
- Joplin Business College, booklets, ca. 1920-1939
- Joplin Chamber of Commerce, booklet, ca. 1920s
- Joplin Chamber of Commerce, Aviation Committee, air show program booklet, 1971
- Joplin Choral Club, program, 1904
- Joplin Globe, magazine editions, 1928-1929
- Joplin High School (Joplin, Mo.), program, 1918
- Joplin
Railroad Company, ledger, 1877
- Joplin Separating Company, record book, 1902-1909
- Joplin Theatre (Joplin, Mo.), program, 1929
- Karl L. Koelker collection, 1896-1948
- Alfred Avery Lamkin, diaries, 1853-1872
- Lawrence County Historical Society (Mo.), Baptist association minutes,
1882-1933
- League of Women Voters (Joplin, Mo.), Papers, 1919-1921
- Leggett & Platt Manufacturing Co., records, 1896-1932
- Mansfield Mining and Development Company, stock certificate, 1918
- R. S. McClintock, letter, 1916
- Douglas E. McDowell, "The Ginseng Garden," 1909
- Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Southwest Missouri Conference. Joplin District. Jasper Circuit (Jasper County, Mo.), records 1919-1967 (bulk 1919-1925)
- Missouri, historic mining photographs, ca. 1880s-1910s
- Jettie Ferguson Ohler, Pleasant Valley School collection, n.d.
- Old Dominion Mining Company, pamphlet, ca. 1910
- Order of the Eastern Star, Carterville Chapter No. 11 (Carterville, Mo.), booklet, 1952
- Order of the Eastern Star, Ruth Chapter No. 177 (Joplin, Mo.), booklet,
1942
- Order of the White Shrine of Jerusalem, Azotus Shrine No. 5 (Joplin, Mo.),
booklets, 1950-1982
- Osceola Lead and Zinc Mining Company, stock certificate, 1905
- Ozark
Artists' Guild, papers, 1952-1962
- Ozark
Crude Oil Company, stock certificate, 1902
- Ozark
Playgrounds Association, booklets and pamphlets, 1929-1958
- William N. Pearson, Sherwood: The Forgotten Village, 1978
- Picher Lead Company, records, 1875-1918
- Prairie State Mining Company, stock certificate, 1904
- Pralin Mines Company, stock certificate, 1907
- Puritan Mining Company, stock certificate, 1911
- Pyle's
International Transcontinental Foot Race, programs, 1928-1929
- Prairie Flower Literary Society (Webb City, Mo.), record book, 1884-1888
- Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., Presbytery of Ozark, pamphlet, 1890
- Ramona Study Club (Joplin, Mo.), booklet, 1944
- Ritter
family, papers, 1850-1956
- Rives & Stemmons store, ledger, 1867-1889
- Rotary Club of Joplin, papers, 1921-1952
- Royalty Land & Mining Company, drill records, 1917
- Adolph Schoenherr, papers, 1906-1919
- Schoenherr-Walton Mining Company, record book, 1907-1911
- School House Mining Company, stock certificate, 1914
- Ward Loren Schrantz memoirs, ca. 1909-1946
- Ephraim Homer Scott, The Record, 1888
- Frank
Shaw, "Memorandum," 1901
- T. J.
Shelton, Southwestern Miner, 1892
- Short Creek Zinc and Lead Company, stock certificate, 1916
- Jesse Russell Simonson, papers, 1894-1901
- South Joplin Christian Church (Joplin, Mo.), Woman's Council, booklet, ca. 1925
- Southwest Missouri Railroad Company, records, 1891-1941
- Southwest Missouri Teachers' Association, booklet, 1941
- Spring River Baptist Association, booklet, 1937
- St.
Louis-San Francisco Railway Co., records, 1859-1980
- Paul
Stubblefield, editor, The Mirror (Joplin, Mo.),
1952-1953
- Benjamin Guy Sweet, journals, 1862-1872
- W. S.
Tower, letter, 1885
- Tri-State Health and Housing Committee, "The Menace of the Slime Pile," n.d.
- Tri-State Rebekah Association, records, 1911-1941
- U. S.
Highway 71 Celebration, collection, 1930
- Frank C. Wallower papers, 1877-1966
- Webb City Chamber of Commerce (Webb City, Mo.), minutes, 1920-1924
- Webb City Community Chest (Webb City, Mo.), records, 1939-1955
- Webb City Factory Holding Corporation, stock certificate, 1938
- E. L.
Williams, mining lease, 1912
- L. L.
Wittich, "Zinc and Lead Handbook," 1916
- Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Missouri, booklet, 1937
- Woman's Club of Joplin, program, 1960
- Zinc
Milling and Manufacturing Company, stock certificate, 1911
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