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R         Wiley, Robert S., collector.

521                  Collection, 1869-1997 (bulk 1930s-1980s).

                                    Eighty-four folders.

 

 

 

This is a collection of legal documents, newspaper clippings, magazines and printed mate­rial, advertising items, and miscellaneous paper ephemera pertaining to the history of Stone County, and to travel, tourism, and recreation in the White River Lakes region of southwestern Missouri.  Much of the collection pertains to Stone County, Missouri, but there is also material on Greene, Law­rence, and Taney counties in Missouri, and some locations in Arkansas.

 

SECTION 1

 

Folders 1-22,  Topical Files: Stone County, Missouri

 

F. 01   Collector’s Office, papers, 1869-1945

F. 02   County officers, miscellaneous material

F. 03   County officers, stationery, letterhead, and business card collection

F. 04   Crane, miscellaneous material, Part 1

F. 05   Crane, miscellaneous material, Part 2

F. 06   Bank of Crane

F. 07   Bank of Crane, canceled checks

F. 08   Crane Broiler Festival, 1952-1993

F. 09   Crane churches

F. 10   Crane Masonic Cemetery records, compiled by Harlan Gatton and Mary Hemphill, n.d.

F. 11   Galena, miscellaneous material

F. 12   Galena Abstract Co.

F. 13   Galena/boating

F. 14   Galena/Thomas S. McCord family

F. 15   Hurley, miscellaneous material

F. 16   Ponce de Leon Bank, papers, 1918-1929

F. 17   Reeds Spring, miscellaneous material, ca. 1904-1990

F. 18   Stone County, miscellaneous historical material

F. 19   Stone County scrapbook, ca. 1950s (organized topically for advertising and real estate sales purposes)

F. 20   Stone County Fair, programs, 1976-1992

F. 21   Republican Central Committee of Stone County, 1948-1954.  (This includes mate­rial from acc. #627, 25 April 95, by Layne Merrill).

F. 22   Stone County Treasurer’s Office, tax receipts, 1898-1942

 

 

SECTION 2

 

Folders 23-39,  Topical Files: Miscellaneous

 

F. 23   Baker Hospital (Eureka Springs, Ark.), pamphlets, ca. 1940

F. 24   Cape Girardeau, Mo., miscellaneous, 1928-1929

F. 25   Greene County/Springfield, Mo.  35th Infantry Division, 10th annual reunion year­book, 29-30 September 1928

F. 26   Greene County/Springfield, Mo., miscellaneous, ca. 1920-1993

F. 27   Hot Springs National Park ( Hot Springs, Ark.), visitors’ guides

F. 28   Lawrence County, Mo.,  miscellaneous

F. 29   Lawrence County, Mo.,  Aurora Centennial book, 1970

F. 30   Lawrence County, Mo., Marionville

F. 31   McCleary Sanitarium (Excelsior Springs, Mo.), booklets, 1939

F. 32   New Madrid County, Mo., letter and draft of regional history by Rhod Reaves,

                1988

F. 33   “Ozarkians” (Hollister, Mo.), program, 16-18 August 1928

F. 34   Ozarks, miscellaneous

F. 35   Pineville, Mo., “Jesse James Days” souvenir program, July 1969

F. 36   Table Rock Lake, tourist guides, 1959-1978

F. 37   Taney County, Mo., Branson magazines, 1994

F. 38   Taney County, Mo., Marvel Cave, brochures, n.d.

F. 39   Taney County, Mo., miscellaneous material

 

 

SECTION 3

 

Folders 40-64,  Travel and tourism publications: magazines, pamphlets. yearbooks, guides, etc.

 

F. 40   American Sportsman (June 1948)  Ozark Lakes issue.

F. 41   Arcadian (February, March 1931)

F. 42   Arcadian Life Magazine (1928)

F. 43   Bull Shoals Gazette (September-October 1952)

F. 44   Civil War Times Illustrated (1974)   Special issue: “The Guerrilla War,” by Albert Castel.

F. 45   Lake of the Ozarks (Union Electric Co., ca. 1940s)

F. 46   McCanse, Keith.  Where To Go in the Ozarks (1931, 1932)

F. 47   Missouri Life (1974, 1978)  The issue of March-April 1978 features Forsyth and Taum Sauk.

F. 48   Missouriana (September 1938)

F. 49   The Open Road, yearbook, 1929

F. 50   Outdoors (June, July 1959).  The June issue features the Ozarks.

F. 51   Ozark (January-February 1915)

F. 52   Ozark Guide, yearbooks, 1958-1965

F. 53   Ozark Life (1928-1931)

F. 54   Ozark Life Outdoors (November 1931)

F. 55   Ozarks, edited by Lon Scott. (Springfield, Mo.: 1929)

F. 56   The Ozarks Advertiser.  (Thayer, Mo.: September, November 1939)

F. 57   Playgrounds of the Ozarks (Joplin, Mo.: ca. 1960)

F. 58   The Thinker (April-June 1928)

F. 59   True West (December 1983).  Artie Ayers, “Lost Yocum Silver Mine,” 47-49.

F. 60   U. S. Highway 66/Will Rogers Highway, map, ca. 1950s

F. 61   Missouri State Division of Resources and Development.  Recreational booklets, ca. 1960s:

                Lake of the Ozarks Country of Missouri

                Missouri Invites You

                Ozark Playgrounds of Missouri

                White River Country of Missouri

F. 62   Missouri and Arkansas travel and tourism calendars

F. 63   Ozark Playgrounds Association, tourism and travel publications:

                Spotlighting Missouri (Oct 1960).  Fort Leonard Wood Commemorative                                   Centennial Issue.

                For Gracious Living in Retirement in the Playgrounds of the Ozarks,

                   ca. 1950s

F. 64   White River Lakes Association.  Missouri Ozarks White River Lakes:  Table Rock, Taneycomo, Bull Shoals, ca. 1960s

F. 65      Selected political correspondence from the Robert S. Wiley scrapbook, 1931-1997

 

SECTION 4

 

Folders 66-75, Photograph File

 

F. 66      Aurora clubhouse (Cape Fair, Mo.),  August 17, 1916

F. 67      Galena Blues baseball team, n.d.

F. 68      Road construction southeast of Galena, Mo., n.d.

F. 69      Campers on Galena to Branson float, White River, n.d.

                 (This is a copy of a George Hall postcard, #757.)

F. 70      Unidentified school [?] group, Stone County, Mo., n.d.

F. 71      Construction of railroad tunnel near Reeds Spring, Mo., n.d.

F. 72      “Fissure” [sinkhole] near Reeds Spring, Mo., n.d.

F. 73      Photographs and postcards from the Robert S. Wiley collection

                (copied on 35mm slides)

F. 74      Photographs of unidentified individuals, ca. 1880-1900

F. 75      Photographs of unidentified individuals, ca. 1900-1940

 

SECTION 5  (accessioned 17 October 2002)

 

Folders 76-80, Miscellaneous topical files

 

F. 76      The Acorn, Crane High School yearbook, 1930

F. 77      Stone County Centennial, pageant script, 1951

F. 78      Stone County Courthouse/hanging of Rosco “Red” Jackson, 1937-1984

F. 79      Fairy Cave/Spanish (or Wildcat) Cave, 1927-1960

F. 80      History of the Mars Hill Church & Cemetery (Barry County, Mo.), 1969

 

Folders, 81-84 Leonard J. Williams papers

 

F. 81      Miscellaneous historical and biographical material

F. 82      Scrapbook, 1976-1977, 1982

F. 83      Scrapbook, 1978-1982

F. 84      Scrapbook, 1982-1983

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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