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Missouri State Archives - Missouri Department of Agriculture Reports, 1867-Present

Content includes illustrations and photographs of animals, crops, farmers, farm houses and outbuildings, harvesting, insects, planting, and tools; reports from the board of agriculture committees, board secretary, state entomologist, state veterinarian, state dairy commissioner, state apiarist, state horticulture society; gubernatorial proclamations; financial statements and treasury reports; biographical materials, obituaries, and photographs of board members and officers; minutes, proceedings and addresses from the annual meeting of the board; minutes, proceedings, addresses and essays from Missouri Farmers' Week; agriculture association meeting minutes, proceedings, addresses; reports on crop conditions and yields, weather conditions, and agriculture statistics. The collection also includes histories of the St. Louis Agricultural and Mechanical Association and Laclede Race Course, a recap of the 1866 St. Louis Fair and Horse Show as well as assessments of the Missouri agricultural exhibits displayed at the 1893 Chicago Worlds' Columbian Exposition, the 1898 Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition at Omaha, and the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis.

Sankofa-gen Wiki - Missouri

Sankofa-gen Wiki is a growing collection of freely accessible genealogical and historical data pertaining to U.S.A. antebellum plantations, farms, factories, manors, etc. that used African slave labor. This site is a wiki which means that you, the slave genealogy researcher, can add and update information instantly. This website aims to summarize plantation-related data in a way that allows the genealogist to better visualize the lives of our enslaved ancestors within a historical context.

The Frisco Papers and More

The St. Louis San Francisco Railroad did not make it to California like the name implies. Missouri was its center point. It was better known as The Frisco. Information relating to employment on the line from 1895 to the 1940s.