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Title: Map of the State of Missouri
Date: 1837
Description: Scale of 17 miles to the inch. Includes rivers and counties of the State., Map included in Gazetteer of the state of Missouri : with a map of the state...To which is added an appendix, containing frontier sketches, and illustrations of Indian character : with a frontispiece, engraved on steel / compiled by Alphonso Wetmore.

Title: Diagram of the State of Missouri
Date: 1837
Description: Map shows the townships of Missouri according to the Surveyors Office at St. Louis on the 30th of October 1837. The map also illustrates some of the different boundaries of the State of Missouri. Drawn to a scale of 18 miles to an inch.

Title: Supreme Court of the United States, in Error, to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Missouri
Date: 1836-07-04

Title: A Description of Grand Tower, on the Mississippi
Date: 1839
Description: A in-depth description of the region of Grand Tower, Illinois, in the Mississippi Valley.

Title: Eighth Annual Report of the Missouri & Illinois Tract Society
Date: 1835-04-03
Description: Presented at the Annual Meeting

Title: Seventh Annual Report of the Missouri and Illinois Tract Society
Date: 1834

Title: Prospectus of the Missouri Iron Company And Missouri And Iron Mountain Cities
Date: 1837
Description: Together With A Map of the State of Missouri and Plans of the Cities. Announcement and details regarding the progress of the act to charter the Missouri Iron Company

Title: Map Showing the Disputed Boundary of Missouri and Iowa
Date: 1839-01
Description: This map depicts the steps officials in Missouri and Iowa took to create two modern states. They were landmarks in their day - actually led to possible armed conflict in the "Honey War" on the contested state line or lines, when several honey bee tree hives were cut down - militias and hot heads assembled on both sides of the supposed boundaries. Iowa got a proper line and eventually Missouri got the Platte district and stretched towards Council Bluffs and the Missouri River country's rich soil in the northwest. Much of the work for the resolution of this conflict was performed out of St. Louis in the 1830s. Shows four claim lines: No. 1 and No. 2: old Indian boundary or Sullivan's Line; No. 3; and No. 4: Brown's Line or line claimed by Missouri. Longitude west from Washington. Executed under the direction of the Commissioner on the part of the United States. January 1839, signed by Albert Miller Sea, Court for U. States.

Title: Missouri.
Date: 1834
Description: Map of Missouri created by David Burr in 1834. Shows counties along the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers. Land to the west of the state is labelled "Missouri Terr.", Map published in "New and Universal Atlas Comprising Separate Maps of all the Empires, Kingdoms and States throughout the World and Forming a Distinct Atlas of the United States." New York: Stone, 1836.

Title: To the Citizens of the State of Missouri
Date: 1838-07-02
Description: An open letter from Missouri senator John Miller regarding an upcoming senatorial election.

Title: Gazetteer of the State of Missouri
Date: 1837, 1837
Description: Gazetteer of the State of Missouri with other materials from 1837.

Title: Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the Auxiliary Bible Society, Missouri Tract Society, and Missouri Sunday School Society
Date: 1837-10-26
Description: Presented with the Treasurer's Report, a List of the Officers, Auxiliaries, &c.

Title: Wathen-Ranney House, Cape Girardeau, MO
Date: 1956-03-18
Description: Photo of the Wathen-Ranney House in a snowy March, built in 1839

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