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Title
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Rock Crushing Machine
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Description
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Unidentified men working with a rock crushing machine as part of a WPA work project near Mayview, Missouri.
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Date
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1938-11-21
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Quarry Workers and Machinery
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Description
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View of men and machinery at the WPA rock quarry and crushing operation near Higginsville, Missouri.
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Date
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1938-11-21
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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County Road
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Description
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View of a road in Lafayette County, Missouri improved through the efforts of the WPA.
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Date
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1939-03-28
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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County Road and Residences
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Description
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View of residences and road in Lafayette County, Missouri improved through the efforts of the WPA.
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Date
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1939-03-28
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Bridge Construction Project
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Description
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View of unidentified men working on a WPA bridge construction project in Lafayette County, Missouri.
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Date
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1938-11-21
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Quarry
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Description
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View of WPA rock quarry and crushing operation located near Higginsville, Missouri.
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Date
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1938-11-21
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Lexington Sheet
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Description
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Topographical and geological map of an area of Lafayette and Ray counties in Missouri adjacent to the Missouri River. The towns of Lexington, Mayview, and Odessa are included, as are railroads, mine shafts, and information about bedrock type and mineral locations.
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Date
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1910
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Daring Bandits: A Bank Robbed in Cool Style
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Description
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Article about the robbery of the American Bank in Corder, Missouri, in Lafayette County, on August 31, 1891, by two masked men on horses. Description of the same-day capture and expected lynching of one of the robbers, still carrying half of the $664 stolen loot.
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Date
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1891-09-01
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Lexington
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Description
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Article about Lexington, Missouri, in Lafayette County, and its tourist attractions, especially Civil War sites from the Battle of Lexington.
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Date
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1975-08
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named
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Description
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Third of a series of articles about the origins of place names in Missouri, including Jackson County (containing the cities of Kansas City, Independence, Lee's Summit, and Blue Springs, Missouri), Johnson County (containing the town of Warrensburg, Missouri), Gentry County, Missouri, Holt County, Missouri, Henry County (containing the towns of Clinton and Deepwater, Missouri), Lafayette County (containing the towns of Lexington and Concordia, Missouri), and Livingston County, Missouri (containing the town of Chillicothe, Missouri).
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Date
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1917-01
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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''Life Is Uncertain...'' Willard Hall Mendenhall's 1862 Civil War Diary
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Description
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Willard Hall Mendenhall began his diary on January 1, 1862 and maintained it into 1864 writing over 780 entries in four diaries. He lived a short distance from Lexington, Missouri in Layafette County. "Mendenhall's writings provide a revealing account of the ravages of civil war upon the population in west central Missouri. Regardless of allegiances to the Union or the Confederacy, Lafayette Countians and their neighbors faced harrassment, confiscation, looting, burning and killing throughout the traumatic war years." Diary passages were chosen for the article that showed the hardships and sufferings encountered in 1862 by Mendenhall and other Lafayette Countians.
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Date
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1984-07-01
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Marking Missouri History
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Description
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History of Lexington, Missouri, in Lafayette County on the Missouri River, highlighting its Civil War battle and historic sites, with photo and illustration.
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Date
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1998
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Marie Dierking Herd Neuhaus: Lafayette County German Farmwife and Proto-Feminist
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Description
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Article tells the story of Marie Dierking Herd Neuhaus, a German immigrant who lived in Concordia, Missouri, in the nineteenth century. Mary was unusual for a woman of her time, particularly a German Lutheran woman, in her vigorous assertion of her right to control her property and protect it for her children.
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Date
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2007-10
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Lafayette County and the Aftermath of Slavery, 1861-1870
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Description
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In Lafayette County, an area along the Missouri River, was a prosperous hemp-growing region where one in three persons was a slave just before the Civil War. This article explores the fate of these African Americans during and just after the Civil War in this area and particularly around Lexington, Missouri, the county seat.
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Date
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1980-10
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Lafayette County Missouri
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Description
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Map of Lafayette County, Missouri, including roads, auto roads, railroads, schools, churches, and streams. Includes townships of Clay, Lexington, Dover, Middleton, Sniabar, Washington, Davis, and Freedom. Includes cities of Lexington and Higginsville.
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Object Type
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Map
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