Springfield Yacht Club Collection, 1939 (R0941)
(1 folder)
These are official race programs for outboard-engine motorboat races held on Lake Taneycomo at Branson in Taney County, Missouri, on June 4 and September 9-10, 1939. The Springfield Yacht Club sponsored the regattas.
Springfield-Branson, Missouri, Metropolitan Area, Photograph Collection, 1884-1965 (P1109)
An artificial collection of photographs of Christian, Dallas, Greene, Polk, Webster, Stone, and Taney Counties.
St. Charles Borromeo Church Records, 1792-1934 (S0138)
3 rolls microfilm
St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church was dedicated November 7, 1791, by Manuel Perez, the Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana. Located off Main Street in the town of Les Petites Cotes, Perez officially changed the town's name to San Carlos (St. Charles) the same day he dedicated the church. Daniel Boone's oldest son, Daniel Morgan Boone, was married to Sarah Griffen Lewis at the church on March 2, 1800. The records include baptisms, marriages, and deaths, in Spanish, French, Latin, and English.
St. Charles County, Missouri, Photograph Collection, 1887-1968 (P1149)
An artificial collection of photographs of St. Charles County, Missouri.
St. Clair County, Missouri, School District Records, 1899-1952 (C4287)
0.4 cubic feet (15 folders), 8 oversize volumes
The records of the St. Clair County, Missouri, School District contain teacher's student records, term reports to District Clerk, Board of Education meeting minutes, and Annual School Enumeration Records.
Lawrence L. St. Clair Papers, 1930-1954 (C3847)
0.6 cubic feet (15 folders)
Papers of Lawrence L. St. Clair an educator who spent over forty years working in various primary, secondary, and higher education positions in Missouri, Illinois, and Kansas. Collection consists largely of personal correspondence; also includes occasional fliers and bulletins.
St. Ferdinand's Chruch, Florissant, Missouri Records, 1792-1977 (S0432)
5 microfilm rolls
Established in 1789 as the first church in Florissant, Missouri, St. Ferdinand's was the focal point of the Catholic Indian Mission Movement of the 19th century with Father DeSmet and Mother Duchesne both active there. The records include registers for baptisms, first communions and confirmations, marriages, burials, and financial records of both Old St. ferdinand's (1789-1955) and New St. Ferdinand's Church (1955- ). In Latin, French, and English.
St. Francis Hospital, Cape Girardeau, Missouri Collection, 1939 (R1092)
(1 folder)
This is an illustrated booklet concerning the new addition to St. Francis Hospital at Cape Giaradeau in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri. Included are photographic views of new rooms and medical equipment, along with a brief history of the hospital.
St. Francois Baptist Association Records, 1918-1952 (R0812)
(13 volumes)
These booklets contain printed minutes of annual meetings of an association of Baptist churches in southeastern Missouri. The St. Francois Baptist Association included about twenty congregations in Madison, Bollinger, Wayne, and Iron Counties.
St. James, Missouri Collection, 1869-1980 (R1528)
3 cubic feet (31 folders, 6 oversize folders, 141 photographs, 2 glass plate negatives)
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)
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)
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
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
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 Chamber of Commerce Photographs, 1930 (P0469)
4 photographs
Photos of St. Joseph by L.C. Shady, ca. 1930.
St. Joseph Veterinary College Student Record Book, 1908-1947 (C0612)
1 volume
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 Artists' Guild Collection, 1907-1976 (S0070)
0.25 cubic feet, 10 folders
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
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 Chamber of Commerce Photographs, 1939-1969 (P0813)
5 photographs
Images of St. Louis landmarks, including Union Station, the St. Louis Art Museum, Barnes Hospital Group, and a 1963 aerial photograph of the city.
St. Louis Christmas Carols Association Records, 1924-2022 (S0395)
5.5 cubic feet
This collection consists of meeting minutes, correspondence, financial records, and scrapbooks documenting the organization's mission to raise money for St. Louis children's agencies through Christmas caroling.
St. Louis City Data Collection, 1885-1985 (S0075)
8 cubic feet
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 City Plan Commission Collection , 1918-1942 (S0253)
0.01 cubic foot
The St. Louis City Plan Commission Collection consists of annual reports, zoning plans, and a report titled St. Louis After World War II.
St. Louis Consumer Federation Records, 1935-1977 (S0375)
2 cubic feet, 84 folders
The records of the St. Louis Consumer Federation contain correspondence, meeting minutes, reports, bulletins, legal briefs, and newspaper clippings pertaining to its mission to act as a communication link between consumers and the government. Topics of interest include food stamps, the Standard Milk Ordinance, and the Poultry Inspection Law.
St. Louis County Cemetery Collection, 1901-2000 (S0800)
2.5 cubic feet, 94 photographs
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 Residential Architectural Drawings, 1928-1967 (S1171)
3 cubic feet
This collection consists of architectural drawings and plans for homes in St. Louis County, Missouri.
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
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 Division of Parks and Recreation Photographs, 1930-1944 (P0814)
0.2 linear feet
Photos of St. Louis from 1936-1939, with an emphasis on parks, urban forestry, and public buildings.
St. Louis Donor Historical Recordings, 1927-1974 (S0825)
1 cubic foot, 27 Acetate and Vinyl albums
This collection contains historical recordings from St. Louis's past, including audio of President Calvin Coolidge welcoming Charles Lindbergh to Washington, D.C. on June 11, 1927, as well as jazz recordings.
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
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 Joint Council of Women's Auxiliaries Scrapbook, 1926-1976 (S0209)
1 volume
Founded on February 27, 1926, under the leadership of Mary Ryder to assist strike efforts and to lobby for legislation to improve working conditions for laborers. It helped to establish Mary Ryder Homes for underprivileged and homeless women in 1930 and pioneered the organization of state and national auxiliary groups. The scrapbook contains newspaper clippings, photographs, and histories of individual auxiliaries.
St. Louis Labor Council Minute Books, 1913-1963 (S0061)
14 rolls of microfilm
The St. Louis Labor Council, AFL-CIO Meeting Books contains meeting minutes, committee reports, and attendance lists documenting the Council’s efforts to strengthen organized labor, and advocation for social justice in the St. Louis area from 1913 to 1963.
St. Louis/Southern Illinois Labor Tribune Records, 1918-2019 (S0521)
49 cubic feet
Maury Rubin founded the St. Louis Labor Tribune in 1935 to help expose poor quality work on non-union housing projects in St. Louis. Rubin's nephew, Ed Finkelstein, became publisher in the late 1970s, and Rubin died in 1984. The collection primarily includes the paper's photograph negative morgue. Also included in the collection are correspondence, memoranda, and newspaper clippings documenting labor-related events and news stories.
St. Louis Little Symphony Concert Association Records, 1905-1978 (S0923)
3 cubic feet
This collection contains correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, and scrapbooks related to the organization's mission to provide outdoor concerts for music lovers.
St. Louis Media History Foundation Collection, 1853-2023 (S0580)
16 cubic feet
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 League of Women Voters Records, 1936-2006 (S0234)
39 cubic feet
The records of the St. Louis Metropolitan League of Women Voters contains correspondence, financial records, reports, publications, and newspaper clippings chronicling the organization's mission to promote political responsibility through informed and active participation of citizens in government.
St. Louis Metropolitan Medical Society Records, 1810-1993 (S0415)
15 cubic feet, 474 folders, 98 photographs
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 Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Records, 1939-1977 (S0057)
1 roll microfilm
The collection contains meeting minutes, correspondence, treasurer’s reports, and newspaper clippings documenting the establishment and growth of the St. Louis Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends.
St. Louis Municipalities Collection, 1930-1976 (S0074)
10 cubic feet
The St. Louis Municipalities Collection is an artificial collection containing multiple small publications documenting the history of St. Louis County's municipalities. The collection contains publications, histories, and reports.
St. Louis National Stockyards Company Records, 1877-1979 (S0139)
0.15 cubic feet, 5 folders
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
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 Police Journals, Annual Reports, and Workmen’s Compensation Collection, 1916-1947 (S1100)
0.01 cubic foot, 1 folder
The Annual Reports, the Police and Workmen’s Compensation journals span the period 1916 to 1947 and describe labor and financial conditions in St. Louis, along with the Metropolitan Police Department’s administrative relationship with the Board of Aldermen. The collection contains twelve journals, and the writers consist of Alroy S. Phillips and unknown individuals who worked for the Metropolitan Police Department.
St. Louis Protestant Orphan's Asylum Records, 1834-1940 (S0058)
8 microfilm rolls
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 Publications Collection, 1887-2005 (S0764)
4 cubic feet, 56 folders
This collection contains various St. Louis publications, including but not limited to store advertisements, civic organization newsletters, religious publications, women's magazines, and African-American organizations. Topics of interest include trollies, St. Louis histories, and local businesses and government.
St. Louis Regional Chamber Records, 1912-2004 (S0162)
46 cubic feet, 2088 photographs, 174 video tapes, 7 cassette tapes
The St. Louis Regional Chamber records contain materials from its six-predecessor organizations, the City Plan Commission, the Metropolitan Plan Association, the St. Louis Research Council, the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce, the Regional Industrial Development Corporation (RIDC), and the St. Louis Regional Commerce and Growth Association (RCGA). The records include correspondence, meeting minutes, reports, photographs, newspaper clippings, and videotapes, documenting the St. Louis Regional Chamber and its predecessor’s mission to promote regional cooperation and planning for the development of the area’s resources. Materials of interest include RCGA and RIDC’s reports and studies, which provided economic and sociological analyses, as well as statistical data, of urban problems in transportation, public works, labor, the environment, capital investment, manufacturing, industrial education, and employment. The materials in this collection are incomplete, as they do not contain the records of the City Plan Commission before 1912.
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 Topographical Map Collection, 1929-1955 (S0976)
0.4 cubic foot
This colletion contains topographical area maps produced by the U. S. Geological Survey, the Missouri Geological Survey and Illinois Geological Survey.
St. Louis Typographical Union No. 8 Records, 1856-1974 (C3661)
16.4 cubic feet (925 folders), 40 oversize volumes
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
Addition of union publications, meeting minutes, and membership records.