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Digital Collections and Indexes

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• American Civil War In Missouri
  Digital collection of letters, diaries, and newspaper articles.
• Art Collection
• Civil War eBooks
  Select Civil War publications from the Society’s collection.
• Editorial Cartoons
• Historic Missourians
  Prepared especially for Missouri’s fourth graders, a great resource for anyone wanting to learn more about Missouri’s history.
• Missouri Digital Newspaper Project
  Digital images of select historic Missouri newspapers. 
• Missouri Place Names
  The Place Names File compiled Professor Robert L. Ramsay during the first half of the twentieth century.
• Missouri Historical Review Online
  Archived issues of our quarterly journal published since 1906.
• National Women and Media
  Documents the roles women have played and are playing in media fields, both as media employees and as objects of coverage, how those roles have altered over time, and how attitudes of and towards women have changed.
• Photograph Collection
• Plat Maps of Missouri
  Online collection of plat maps published between 1875 and 1917.
• Politics in Missouri Oral History Project
• TWA Skyliner Magazine Collection

Directories & Guides

The Society’s circulating microfilm collections include newspapers, selected high-demand county history books, city and county directories, land ownership maps, periodicals, and other materials. Several online indexes, directories and guides help the researcher locate these resources.

• Directory of Local Historical Societies, Museums, and Genealogical Societies in Missouri
• Index to Selected Missouri Newspapers
  
  This index to selected nineteenth-century Missouri newspapers was compiled over a number of years by State Historical Society of Missouri staff members. The newspaper titles and dates included in the online index are the Columbia Missouri Statesman, 1843-1886, and the Missouri Intelligencer, 1819-1835, published consecutively in Franklin, Fayette, and Columbia. A few entries appear for other mid-Missouri newspapers. The newspapers are not available online.
  
  Researchers can find information about people and topics throughout Missouri in newspapers published in mid-Missouri. Most newspapers published articles picked up from papers in other parts of the state and covered events that occurred outside their readership area.
  
  
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• Guide to Selected Holdings on Microfilm at the State Historical Society of Missouri
• Guides to Missouri Genealogical and Historical Research
• Missouri Newspapers on Microfilm at the State Historical Society

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