1900s

Gustavus St. Gem Papers, 1901-1904 (C1642)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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The papers of Gustavus St. Gem contain speeches, essays, and songs about the St. Gem family, Ste. Genevieve, MO, and the Louisiana Territory. Subjects include settlement of Missouri, Kaskaskia, IL, Louisiana Purchase, pioneer conditions, and holiday celebrations.

St. James, Missouri Collection, 1869-1980 (R1528)
3 cubic feet (31 folders, 6 oversize folders, 141 photographs, 2 glass plate negatives)

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The James Memorial Library Collection contains photographs, genealogical records, maps, organizational records, publications, papers, and scrapbooks collected by James Memorial Public Library in St. James, Phelps County, Missouri.

St. Joe Minerals Corporation Collection, 1864-1974 (R0048)
(12 rolls of microfilm)

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hese are business records from mining concerns in Missouri's "Old Lead Belt." The collection
includes records from the St. Joseph Lead Company, the Doe Run Lead Company, the Bonne
Terre Farming and Cattle Company, and the Mine La Motte Corporation.

St. John's United Church of Christ (Pinckney, Mo.) Records, 1870-1978 (C3615)
1 roll of microfilm (1 folder, 2 volumes)

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Church records, including births, confirmations, marriages, deaths, communions, family register, collections, and love offerings. The church was established in 1870 with fourteen families included in its membership.

St. John's United Church of Christ (Concordia, Mo.) Records, 1863-1933 (C3905)
4 folders, 1 roll of microfilm

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The records of St. John's United Church of Christ include the constitution, minutes, and annual reports of the church. The records are in German. A translation of the records is included in the collection.

St. Joseph (Mo.) Typographical Union No. 40 Records, 1905-1991 (C4272)
4.0 cubic feet (98 folders), 3 oversize items

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The records of the St. Joseph Typographical Union No. 40 consist of correspondence, meeting minutes, contracts and agreements, convention materials, financial records, and miscellaneous materials of a printers’ trade union.

St. Joseph Auditorium Company Share, 1904 (C1981)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Share issued to James Knotts.

St. Joseph Veterinary College Student Record Book, 1908-1947 (C0612)
1 volume

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Student record book listing courses taken, grades, and date of graduation. Transcripts from schools previously attended are also included.

St. Joseph, Missouri, Photograph Collection, 1865-1966 (P0954)
6 photographs

An artificial collection of photographs depicting the city of St. Joseph and its residents.

St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Company, Passenger Traffic Department Collection, 1905 (R1139)
0.02 cubic foot (1 folder)

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These are rate circulars concerning special passenger fares and other matters concerning fare collection and routing issued in March, April, and May of 1905 by the Passenger Traffic Department of the St. Louis and San Francisco (Frisco) Railroad company. For the most part they dealt with special rates for meetings, conventions, and home seekers excursions.

St. Louis Artists' Guild Collection, 1907-1976 (S0070)
0.25 cubic feet, 10 folders

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The St. Louis Artists’ Guild is one of the oldest extant art organizations in the country and one of the few which maintains its own building and galleries. The Guild sponsors annual art exhibition competitions and provides education in many artistic varieties. The materials consist of minutes, catalogs, correspondence, "Book of Hours," indenture deed, and programs, including those of Little Theater of St. Louis.

St. Louis Association of Colored Women's Clubs, 1901-1980 (S0218)
0.02 cubic feet, 9 folders

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Collection includes minutes, photographs, histories, convention programs, yearbooks, pamphlets, and publications of the Informal Dames, the Auroran Club (of the YWCA), the Prudence Crandall Club, and the association.

St. Louis City Data Collection, 1885-1985 (S0075)
8 cubic feet

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The St. Louis City Data Collection is an artificial collection comprised of various donations documenting the history of St. Louis City, city government, and historic sites. Included in this collection are reports, newspaper clippings, and pamphlets on neighborhood rehabilitation, street plans, population trends, and urban land policy.

St. Louis County Cemetery Collection, 1901-2000 (S0800)
2.5 cubic feet, 94 photographs

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The St. Louis County Cemetery Collection consists of subject files, books, and photographs collected by Ann Morris in preparation for her book, "Sacred Green Spaces." The subject files consist of correspondence, newspaper clippings, and pamphlets on St. Louis-area cemeteries, including Bellefontaine and Bates cemeteries. Other items of interest include drafts of the book.

St. Louis County, Missouri, Photograph Collection, 1900-1939 (P1152)

An artificial collection of photographs of St. Louis County, Missouri.

St. Louis Desegregation Case Records, 1849-1986 (S0684)
3 cubic feet, 35 folders

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This collection contains legal materials, reports, and analyses pertaining to Craton Liddell vs. the Board of Education, City of St. Louis. Minnie Liddell, the mother of Craton Liddell, organized a boycott against the Board of Education of the City of St. Louis in 1971 after the school board announced that they would bus her son from the overcrowded Yeatman School to a substandard school outside Liddell's neighborhood. The Board of Education relented to the boycott, and transferred her son to another school. Liddell continued her fight, filing a lawsuit against the Board of Education in 1972. The lawsuit was finally settled in 1999 and resulted in a city-wide busing plan that encompassed sixteen school districts in the St. Louis area, known as the Voluntary Interdistrict Transfer Program.

St. Louis Emergency Aid Association Records, 1908-1918 (C1240)
0.04 cubic feet (2 folders)

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Papers of a women's organization dedicated to providing the poor and unemployed with necessities if employment could not be found. This was accomplished in part through the donation of money to various St. Louis charities. The papers include correspondence, minutes of special and annual meetings, and treasurer's reports.

St. Louis History Slide Shows, 1984-1986 (S0519)
0.8 cubic foot, 6 folders, 561 slides, 5 reel-to-reel audio tapes, 7 audio cassette tapes, and 1 videotape

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The St. Louis History Slide Shows contains three slide shows: a forty-minute presentation highlighting women who have made significant contributions to St. Louis, a slide show about the Western Historical Manuscript Collection (WHMC)-St. Louis Research Center’s labor history collections, and a slide show about the St. Louis Collection.

St. Louis Hosmer Hall Yearbook, 1909 (S1082)
0.5 cubic foot

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This collection consists of the 1909 edition of the Ivy yearbook of Hosmer Hall, a young women's school that opened in Clayton, Missouri, in 1904. The yearbook contains photographs, cartoons, illustrations, and business advertisements that document the activities of the school and its students. The Clayton School District purchased the building in 1936 and converted it into a middle school.

St. Louis Little Symphony Concert Association Records, 1905-1978 (S0923)
3 cubic feet

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This collection contains correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, and scrapbooks related to the organization's mission to provide outdoor concerts for music lovers.

St. Louis Louisiana Purchase Exposition Educational Exhibit Papers, 1904 (C0051)
6 cubic feet (169 folders, 43 volumes)

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Copy books from Cape Girardeau State Normal School and public schools in Harrisonville, Kansas City, Lamar, Liberty, Mexico, Nevada, and Trenton, with samples of school assignments and essays. Also letters pertaining to standards of admission to agricultural and mining colleges.

St. Louis Media History Foundation Collection, 1853-2023 (S0580)
16 cubic feet

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The St. Louis Media History Foundation Collection consists of local St. Louis publications and original artwork, chronicling the history of print, television, radio, advertising, and public relations in the St. Louis Region. Materials of interest include issues of the St. Louis Outlaw, a radical newspaper published in the 1970s. 

St. Louis Metropolitan Medical Society Records, 1810-1993 (S0415)
15 cubic feet, 474 folders, 98 photographs

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The St. Louis Metropolitan Medical Society records contain abstracts of medical journals written by St. Louis doctors, newspaper clippings, reports, and photographs regarding medicine and medical practice in Missouri.

St. Louis National Stockyards Company Records, 1877-1979 (S0139)
0.15 cubic feet, 5 folders

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The records of the St. Louis National Stockyards Company contain Annual reports, stockholders meetings, histories, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and a rates investigation cases of one of the major stockyards in the nation.

St. Louis Naturalists Club Records, 1896-1990 (S0539)
4 cubic feet, 244 folders, 278 photographs, 7 reels microfilm

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The St. Louis Naturalists Club originated in 1898 when several friends met to discuss topics related to natural science. The club was limited to twelve members and met on the last Saturday of every month at the home of one of its members. The host was responsible for a presentation related to the natural sciences for the edification of their fellow members. The collection consists of correspondence, newspaper clippings, and a scrapbook.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch Records, 1878-1902 (S0773)
1 cubic foot, 1 microfilm roll

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The records of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch contain photocopies of correspondence, contracts, receipts, and balance statements relating to the newspaper's business operations.

St. Louis Protestant Orphan's Asylum Records, 1834-1940 (S0058)
8 microfilm rolls

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The St. Louis Protestant Orphans' Asylum Records contain bylaws, histories, annual reports, board minutes, matrons' daybooks, and admission and departure records documenting the organization's mission to care for orphaned children.

St. Louis Streetcar Strike of 1900 Scrapbook, 1900 (S0664)
1 volume

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The 131st Division of the Amalgamated Association of Street Railway Employees was founded in 1899 by several St. Louis Transit Company employees. In 1900, the union members, disgruntled by long work hours, low pay, and the mistreatment of employees, went on strike against the Transit Company. The strike lasted from March to September. During that time, St. Louis was in a state of lawlessness, 14 people were killed, and nearly 200 wounded. The collection consists of one scrapbook documenting this bloody strike.

St. Louis Strike of 1877 Manuscript, 1877-2000 (S0320)
0.01 cubic foot

An Unpublished manuscript on the response of the Working Men's Party, St. Louis chapter, to the 1877 national railroad strike. Also included in this collection is an article by David Roediger entitled, "Not Only the Ruling Class to Overcome, But Also the So-Called Mob: Class, Skill and Community in the St. Louis General Strike of 1877," published in the Journal of Social History, Vol. 19, No. 2. Winter 1985.

St. Louis Typographical Union No. 8 Records, 1856-1974 (C3661)
16.4 cubic feet (925 folders), 40 oversize volumes

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The records consist of minutes, financial records, correspondence, and printed material of the union. The records also include The Typographical Journal and The Bulletin of the International Typographical Union and material from the St. Louis Allied Printing Trades Council.

St. Louis Typographical Union No. 8 Records, 1856-2008 (CA5275)
5.4 cubic feet, 5 card files

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Addition of union publications, meeting minutes, and membership records.

St. Louis Vertical File, 1859-2011 (S0814)
0.4 cubic feet

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The St. Louis Vertical File Collection is an artificial collection consisting of newspaper clippings, personal papers, oral histories, genealogy records, magazines, and other published material regarding St. Louis-area topics, including Forest Park, Dredd Scott, Gaslight Square, Delmo Housing Corporation, and architecture.

St. Louis, Missouri, Photograph Collection, 1817-1971 (P1151)

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An artificial collection of photographs depicting the city of St. Louis.

St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company Records, 1859-1980 (R0362)
(178 cubic feet)

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These are corporate minutes and financial account books, and other records of the St. Louis-San Francisco ("Frisco") Railway Company (1916-1980) and predecessor, subsidiary, and constituent companies, most notably the St. Louis & San Francisco Railway (1876-1896) and the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad (1896-1916). The "Frisco" operated in Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida. It became part of the Burlington Northern Railroad in 1980. Also of note are four architectural drawing boxes that include the blueprints for structures along the St. Louis-San Francisco Line. A detailed inventory of the drawings is included in each of the four boxes.

St. Martins School, Morgan County, Missouri Records, 1897-1900 (R0414)
1 folder

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This is the clerk's record book of the Saint Martins School District, which was located north of
Versailles and east of Glensted in Morgan County, Missouri. The records include minutes of meetings,
annual enumeration of children and taxpayers, and an account of expenditures by the district.

St. Paul United Church of Christ (Hermann, Mo.) Records, 1844-1998 (C3969)
1 roll of microfilm

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Records of a protestant church in a German community in Gasconade County, MO. The collection also includes records of the neighboring St. James Evangelical and Bethel Evangelical churches.

Thomas Stanford and Rene Rozenbilt Goldman Papers, 1900-2010 (K1143)
.04 c.f.

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Personal and family papers including certificates, letters, telegrams, and photographs for the Davis (Davidovich), Gitterman, Karash, Kopitnik, Levy, Rozenblit, and Spindler families.

Anton J. Stankowski Papers, 1890-1977 (C4552)
0.4 cubic feet (14 folders, 1 oversize item)

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The papers contain notes and clippings kept by Stankowski regarding University of Missouri football and intramural sports, as well as correspondence and other materials concerning the 1966 reunion of the 1916 University of Missouri football team.

Lois Stanley Photograph Collection, 1905-1906 (P0886)
1 photograph

Photo of Rural Carrier Convention, district meeting at Chillicothe ca. 1905-1906

Stark Brothers Nurseries and Orchards Company Records, 1890s-1993 (CA4111)
139.7 cubic feet, 12 oversize volumes, 13 oversize items, 2 16 mm films

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Business records of a Louisiana, Missouri, company include correspondence, reports, catalogs, printed materials, photographs, and miscellaneous material. Also included is material pertaining to varieties of fruits and plants developed by Luther Burbank.

George Stark Photographs, 1890-1903 (P0546)
3 photographs

Photos by Stark of steamboat William McClellan ca. 1903, cotton bales in a Pemiscot Co warehouse, and Washington Ave in St. Louis, ca 1890s.

Lloyd Crow Stark Journal, 1904 (C3582)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Journal describes life as a Midshipman 4th Class, 2nd Company, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis. Journal also used for math by William Reynolds Purnell (1886-1955). Newsclippings, photographs, calling cards, and name index for 2nd Company.

Lloyd Crow Stark Papers, 1905-1941 (C0004)
170 cubic feet (12,401 folders), 5 oversize volumes, 2 card files

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Papers of a Democratic governor of Missouri, 1937-1941. Material relates to official business, campaigns, and personal affairs.

Nancy Enloe Stark Papers, 1895-1958, 2022 (CA6649)
2.4 cubic feet, 1 oversize volume, 1 oversize item

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The papers of Nancy Enloe Stark largely contain scrapbooks and scrapbook material, which includes news clippings, religious material, personal letters and cards, and some genealogical material.

Stark-Logan Family Papers, 1813-2012 (CA6607)
2.2 cubic feet

The papers of a family from Louisiana, Missouri, include clippings, photographs, correspondence, genealogical information, and miscellaneous material, including material on Gov. Lloyd Stark.

Raymond H. Starr Papers, 1900-1966 (K1138)
0.25 c.f.

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This collection contains Captain Raymond Starr's correspondences with his wife while he was serving during World War II in the United States Army Air Corps. Also included are a few letters to his children and friends.

State Historical Society of Missouri Art Collection Records, 1824-1988 (P1042)

Photographs of artwork held in the State Historical Society of Missouri's art collection.

State Historical Society of Missouri Photographs, 1896-2010 (P0137)
3.34 linear feet

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Photos of the State Historical Society of Missouri, its staff, facilities, and events.

State Historical Society of Missouri Records, 1898-2023 (CA5785)
214.25 cubic feet, 26 oversize volumes, 24 oversize items, 5 audio cassettes, 4 CDs, 7 DVDs, 72.1 GB of digital files

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The records of the State Historical Society of Missouri include correspondence; state historical marker files; scrapbooks; records of Executive Directors Richard Brownlee, James Goodrich, and Gary R. Kremer; executive committee and annual meeting materials; financial records; audiovisual recordings; and miscellaneous administrative material.

State Historical Society of Missouri Typescript Collection, 1814-1962 (C0995)
14 rolls of microfilm

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The State Historical Society of Missouri Typescript Collection consists of typescripts of articles and manuscripts donated over the years to the Historical Society.