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St. Louis County Parks Advisory Board Minutes, 1952-1990 (S0610)
0.4 cubic feet, 14 folders
This collection contains the meeting minutes of the St. Louis County Parks Advisory Board, which oversees the St. Louis County Parks Department.
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St. Louis County Parks and Recreation Photographs Collection, 1962-2000 (S1212)
5 cubic feet
The St. Louis County Parks and Recreation Photographs Collection contains photographs of various parks administered by St. Louis County.
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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.
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St. Louis Economic Conversion Project Records, 1971-1998 (S0969)
13 cubic feet
The records of the St. Louis Economic Conversation Project contain research files and meeting minutes pertaining to the group's mission to redirect arms resources toward peaceful uses.
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St. Louis Globe-Democrat Photograph Collection, 1982 (P1016)
Arch and St. Louis skyline in winter, Mississippi River frozen over
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St. Louis Harmony Chorus Records, 1958-2011 (S0334)
9 cubic feet
This collection contains scrapbooks, CDs, and VHS tapes, documenting the group's history as a volunteer women's chorus, with a specialization in four-part, a cappella harmony. Materials of interest include scrapbooks containing photographs, program booklets, newspaper clippings, correspondence, and histories chronicling the group's yearly activities, including local performances and participation in choir competitions in the United States.
St. Louis Housewives' League Scrapbook and Programs, 1973-1980 (S0155)
0.01 cubic foot
This collection contains a scrapbook titled, "The History of the St. Louis Housewives League, 1931-1973," as well as a program for the 43rd annual meeting of the National Housewives League in St. Louis, Missouri, 1980. The St. Louis Housewives League was founded on March 9th, 1931, to support African-American owned businesses in the St. Louis area.
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St. Louis Interfaith Committee on Latin America Records, 1977-2015 (S0622)
51 cubic feet
The St. Louis Interfaith Committee on Latin America is a non-profit group founded to educate the St. Louis community on social and political problems in Latin America. Its projects publicize such issues as immigrant rights, economic injustice, sweatshop labor, and U.S. involvement in Latin American conflicts. The records contain correspondence, subject files, and newsletters.
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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.
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St. Louis Lesbian and Gay Archives Collection, 1972-2011 (S0545)
19.8 cubic feet
This collection contains publications, t-shirts, buttons, flyers, newsletters, newspaper clippings, charters, by-laws of gay organizations, letters to legislators, and other ephemera documenting the activities of the gay and lesbian community in St. Louis. Included this collection are publications from other parts of the country and national organizations. Several of the St. Louis publications are complete, or near-complete runs.
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St. Louis Lesbian and Gay Pride Celebration Committee Records, 1982-1992 (S0544)
0.3 cubic foot, 6 folders, 1 audio tape, 2 items, 1 microfilm roll
The St. Louis Lesbian and Gay Pride Celebration Committee is responsible for the annual Lesbian and Gay Pride Fest in June. The records consist of Pride Guides from various North American cities, newsletters, local flyers, buttons, and other memorabilia. The microfilmed portion of the collection was loaned for copying and consists of general meetings and board of directors meeting minutes, correspondence, financial reports, and miscellaneous announcements. The microfilm is restricted.
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St. Louis LGBT History Project Collection, 1966-2015 (S1038)
17 cubic feet
The St. Louis LGBT History Project Collection consists of LGBT publications and three-dimensional objects (including t-shirts) collected by the Project. Founded by Steven Brawley in 2007, the St. Louis LGBT History Project is dedicated to preserving the history of the LGBT community in St. Louis, Missouri.
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St. Louis Local History Collection, 1963-1980 (S0076)
2 cubic feet
The St. Louis Local History Collection is an artificial collection comprised of various small donations documenting the history of St. Louis City, neighborhoods, and historic structures. The collection includes reports, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and unpublished manuscripts regarding Pruitt-Igoe, Mill Creek Valley, Laclede's Landing, and the Ville.
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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.
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St. Louis Merged Lutheran Parishes Photographs, 1986 (P1168)
Photographs of Easter Sunday services (March 30, 1986), the first merged service of the three north St. Louis Lutheran parishes of Pilgrim Lutheran, Mount Calvary Luther, and Lutheran Church of Our Savior. The merged congregation met at the Pilgrim Church building ,4112 W. Florissant Ave.
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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.
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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.
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St. Louis Metropolitan Reference Collection, 1980 (S0973)
0.04 cubic feet
This collection primarily contains reports on St. Loouis County, including child health and long-term care facilities.
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St. Louis Metropolitan Reference Collection, 1957-1984 (S0526)
1.0 cubic foot, 44 folders
The St. Louis Metropolitan Reference Collection is an artificial collection containing newsletters, reports, brochures, and maps regarding St. Louis City and County government agencies and organizations.
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St. Louis Music Zines Collection, 1981-2011 (S0384)
1 cubic foot
The St. Louis Music Zines Collection contains local music publications, including Noisy Paper, Voc'l, Rough Edges, and Night Times. Other items of interest include two issues of Confluence, a quarterly journal that covered environmental, urban affairs, social justice, and labor issues in the St. Louis metro region.
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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.
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St. Louis New Call to Peacemaking Records, 1978-1981 (S0148)
0.1 cubic foot
The records contain meetings minutes, agendas, correspondence, and membership lists of the St. Louis New Call to Peacemaking, a pacifist religious group affiliated with the New Call to Peacemaking coalition that was committed to opposing the United States militarism through tax resistance and providing draft registration counseling services to youth.
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Saint Louis Philanthropic Organization Records, 1980-1985 (S0974)
0.4 cubic feet
This collection contains meeting minutes, reports, and a newspaper clippings scrapbook of the St. Louis Philanthropic Organization's anti-pornography effort to influence cable television programming.
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St. Louis Pledge of Resistance Newsletters, 1987-1989 (S0245)
0.01 cubic foot
This collection contains the newsletter Points of Resistance, published by the St. Louis Pledge of Resistance. The St. Louis Pledge of Resistance was a local chapter of the National Pledge of Resistance, a direct-action group organized to protest American involvement in Central America.
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St. Louis Post Dispatch, St. Charles Bureau Records, 1981-1994 (S0567)
4 cubic feet, 168 folders
The collection consists of subject files of the St. Charles bureau of the Post-Dispatch. Topics of interest include airports, ambulances, animal control, blight, City Council and it's charter, FEMA, fireworks, halfway houses, the Katy Trail, Lindenwood University, solid waste, and Weldon Springs.
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St. Louis Public Schools Power Plants Struggle Manuscript, 1982 (S0095)
0.01 cubic foot
This collection contains an autobiography titled The 30’s: Donnybrook Decade in St. Louis Public School Power Plants (A Geechee Maverick’s Quest in a Jim Crow City), written by Frank Weldon Young. Young wrote the manuscript to discuss his life as the first African American to receive their stationary engineer’s license in the city of St. Louis.
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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.
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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.
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St. Louis Regional Library Network Records, 1978-1987 (S0975)
1.5 cubic foot, 59 folders
The State of Missouri incorporated the St. Louis Regional Library Network (SLRLN) in 1977 as a not-for-profit dedicated to providing access to educational opportunities and shared resources for libraries and librarians in the greater St. Louis area, including St. Louis City and County, St. Charles, Franklin, Warren and Lincoln counties. The records contain correspondence, meeting minutes, reports, and workshop materials related to SLRLN's administration, finances and networking activities from 1978 to 1987.
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St. Louis Science Fiction Society Collection , 1977-2019 (S0340)
1.45 cubic feet
The collection contains issues of the Insider, the official publication of the St. Louis Science Fiction Society, a local science fiction club that provides a forum for members to discuss Science Fiction literature and media. Also included in the collection are issues of the St. Charles Science Fiction and Fantasy Society's newsletter, The View from the Circle.
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St. Louis Self-Help Clinic Records, 1979-1982 (S0985)
1 cubic foot
This collection includes newsletters and publications pertaining to abortion, including copies of "Our Bodies Our Selves" and the "Cervical Cap Handbook."
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St. Louis Square Dancing Collection, 1949-2019 (S0450)
8.5 cubic feet
This collection consists of bylaws, correspondence, flyers, meeting minutes, photographs, and scrapbooks, documenting the Swinging Singles, Singles and Doubles, and St. Louis Metro Square and Round Dance Association's efforts to promote and teach square dancing in the St. Louis Metropolitan area.
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St. Louis Storytelling Festival Records, 1979-2019 (S0247)
4.5 cubic feet
The St. Louis Storytelling Festival Records contain correspondence, flyers, photographs, posters, and videotapes documenting the organization's mission to preserve the history and culture of communities throughout the world through an annual three-day storytelling festival, held in St. Louis, Missouri. Materials of interest include a VHS tape of the twentieth annual St. Louis Storytelling Festival.
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St. Louis Strike Newspapers, 1978-1981 (S0706)
0.4 cubic feet
This collection contains copies of newspapers published during a labor strike against the major St. Louis dailies in 1973 and 1978.
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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.
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St. Louis Tip Toppers Inc. Records, 1943-2012 (S0268)
10 cubic feet
The records of the St. Louis Tip Toppers Inc. contain bylaws, meeting minutes, newsletters, booklets, correspondence, and scrapbooks pertaining to the club’s mission to provide friendship and fellowship for tall people through social activities and charitable causes. Materials of note include the club’s monthly in-house newsletter, Tips on Toppers, which contain the club’s meeting minutes, essays recounting the clubs planned social activities, event listings, and tips on clothing stores catering to tall people. Also included in the records are the club’s scrapbooks, which document the member’s charitable endeavors and social events, including their sponsorship of the 1986 Tall Clubs International Convention in St. Louis, Missouri.
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St. Louis Track Club Records, 1974-2021 (S0536)
10.5 cubic feet
The St. Louis Track Club Records contain correspondence, flyers, maps, newspaper clippings, race itineraries and results, medals, and membership cards documenting the organization's mission to promote running and walking in the St. Louis metropolitan area.
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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.
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St. Louis Vertical File, 1859-2011 (S0814)
0.4 cubic feet
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.
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St. Louis Women Historians Records, 1983-1988 (S0478)
1 cubic foot, 57 folders, 10 photographs
This collection contains reports, correspondence, photographs, and publicity relating to the St. Louis Women Historians from 1982-1988. The St. Louis Women Historians was founded in 1981 to provide a local forum for women historians throughout St. Louis.
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St. Louis Women's Choir Records, 1986-1990 (S0977)
0.25 cubic feet
The St. Louis Women's Choir Records contain concert programs, a philosophy statement, and retreat materials.
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St. Louis-San Francisco Railroad Company Collection, 1852, 1916-1984 (R1506)
18 cubic feet (14 folders, 81 volumes, 33 oversize volumes)
The St. Louis-San Francisco Railroad Company Collection contains records of the St. Louis-San Francisco Railroad Company “Frisco.” These records include AFE completion reports, ICC valuations, equipment registers and inventories, and materials on corporate history.
St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company Collection, 1920-1980 (R1491)
0.5 cubic foot (19 folders, 1 photograph)
The St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company Collection contains a sales kit, business records, and photographs for the St. Louis-San Francisco "Frisco" Railway Company. The collection includes train and freight schedules, specifications for rail cars and lines, promotional materials, maps, sales manuals, and images of railcars and stations.
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St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company Records, 1859-1980 (R0362)
(178 cubic feet)
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. Paul United Church of Christ (Hermann, Mo.) Records, 1844-1998 (C3969)
1 roll of microfilm
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.
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Frances Hurd Stadler Papers, 1917-2000 (S0329)
0.01 cubic foot
The papers contain a 15-page typescript titled That Was No Picnic, by Frances Hurd Stadler, recounting her experiences as a stenographer for Bechtel-Price-Callahan’s Canol Project, a $100,000,000 United States Department of War construction project to build an oil pipeline from Norman Wells, Canada, to Whitehorse, Alaska. Also included are photocopied newspaper articles and magazines about Bechtel and the Canol Project.
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Reba Staggs Papers, 1938-1990 (C3970)
1.0 cubic foot (75 folders)
Papers of Reba Staggs, a graduate of Drury College and the University of Missouri and Director of the Department of Home Economics of the National Live Stock and Meat Board in Chicago, Illinois. The papers consist of correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, and miscellaneous materials.
Thomas Stanford and Rene Rozenbilt Goldman Papers, 1900-2010 (K1143)
.04 c.f.
Personal and family papers including certificates, letters, telegrams, and photographs for the Davis (Davidovich), Gitterman, Karash, Kopitnik, Levy, Rozenblit, and Spindler families.
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Sally Stapleton Papers, 1982-2023 (CA6716)
0.1 cubic feet (1 folder), 1 DVD, 5.98 GB of digital files
The papers of a photographer, photo editor and managing editor from southeast Missouri. From 1984 -1990, Sally Stapleton worked as a photo editor with the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Miami Herald and Boston Globe. From 1990 to 2004, Stapleton worked first as the senior photo editor for Latin America and later as the deputy executive photo editor at The Associated Press. There she led two staff teams working in Africa to Pulitzer Prizes in Photography. From 2017 -2019, she was the managing editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The Post-Gazette staff was awarded the 2019 Breaking News Reporting Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Tree of Life synagogue massacre. The papers contain biographical material, photographs, Pulitzer programs, and material on her father, newspaper publisher Jack Stapleton, Jr.
STARFLEET, the International Star Trek Fan Association, USS Discovery Chapter, St. Louis, Missouri, Records, 1985-2017 (S0310)
3.25 cubic feet
The collection consists of correspondence, meeting minutes, newsletters, reports, and starship schematics documenting the USS Discovery's activities as a chapter of Starfleet: the International Star Trek Fan Association, devoted to the Star Trek Franchise and making creator Gene Roddenberry's vision of the future a reality.