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MOBIUS Information

Portion of a hand-written manuscript

The Barnard Family Collection consists of a series of letters, documents, photographs, and postcards.

Barnard Family Collection

Snare drum

An interactive map of the Battle of Springfield, Missouri, January 8, 1863.

Battle of Springfield

Old photo of a man hugging two children

A genealogy guide to Southwest Missouri's black families from the 1820s to the 1950s.

Black Families of the Ozarks

A collection of photographs representing the people and places of the Ozarks.

Bob Linder Collection

A collection of city directories related to the Ozarks region.

City Directories

Hundreds of photos from the Civil War.

Civil War Photo Archive

A timeline (1820-1870) of the Trans-Mississippi Theater in the Civil War with artifacts, descriptions and parallel events.

Civil War Timeline

Civil War-era artifacts including letters, maps, diaries, weapons, flags, uniforms and photographs.

Civil War Virtual Museum

The Impact of the Civil War in the Ozarks. Photographs, journals, business and personal letters and other artifacts, 1850-1875.

Community and Conflict

Photographs depicting life in the Ozarks during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Enduring COVID-19 in the Ozarks

Giving the Springfield community a window to its diversity through the life stories of more than 30 ethnic elders.

Ethnic Life Stories Project

A collection of photographs and documents representing the history of auto racing in the Ozarks.

Fairgrounds & Beyond

A Look Back at the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway. Photographs, postcards, employee magazines and more.

Frisco

Thousands of photographic negatives and prints from the Springfield News & Leader, Leader and Press, and the Daily News.

From the Darkroom: Springfield's Historic Newspaper Photographs

Histories of Greene County, Missouri, available in full text.

Greene County History

Abstracts and indexes of a number of court and other records.

Greene County Records

Photos, text and related information for 21 historical markers. A Project of the University Club.

Historical Markers of Springfield and Greene County

113 postcards display a variety of themes and periods.

Historical Postcards of Springfield, Missouri

A collection of materials focusing on the two Lincoln Schools and its students.

Lincoln School Collection

Personal letters, diaries, photographs and artifacts from Lucile Morris Upton and her extended family.

Lucile Morris Upton Collection

An archive of more than 1600 Ozark Mountain folk songs. This site is a joint project of the Missouri State University Department of Music and The Library.

Max Hunter Collection

A statewide, collaborative digitization project investigating Missouri's involvement in World War I.

Missouri Over There

An annotated gazetteer of place names of populated places.

Moser's Directory of Towns, Villages and Hamlets Past and Present of Missouri

A collection of 194 photographs, a map, and history of this wartime facility.

O'Reilly General (Army) Hospital of Springfield, Missouri

A collection of more than 130,000 obituaries from southwest Missouri newspapers.

Ozarks Obituary Collection

A collection of postcards and photographs of the Ozarks.

Postcards & Photographs Collection

Full text of three Ozarks periodicals: OzarksWatch, Bittersweet, and White River Valley Historical Quarterly.

Regional Periodicals

A statewide collaborative digital exhibit that tells the story of Missouri through the lens of historically and culturally significant objects.

Show Me Missouri

Illustrations by Ozarks cartoonists depicting regional and national news and culture.

Sketches from Springfield

A 35-page illustrated booklet containing numerous engraved prints of Springfield scenes they appeared in 1889.

Springfield, Missouri, and Surroundings 1889

800 tales of life in the early days of the Ozarks.

Turnbo Manuscripts

A collection of glass plate negatives and negative film depicting early 20th century life in the Ozarks.

Turner Family Collection

Collections

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The Springfield-Greene County Library District's Local History Digital Archive is a series of collections that represent the history of the Ozarks in the 19th and 20th centuries. These collections feature materials related to businesses, local government, society and urban development. The items include photographs, manuscripts, documents, oral histories, and audio recordings.

Digital Archive

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