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Southern and Central Missouri Collection, 1856-2015 (R1442)
5 cubic feet (236 folders, 2 VHS, 7 CDs, 1 45 record, 1 cassette)

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The Southern and Central Missouri Collection is an artificial collection combining acquisitions related to individuals, places, organizations, and events. The collection mostly covers the Missouri counties of Crawford, Dent, Phelps, Pulaski, Shannon, Oregon, Barry, Miller, Taney, Jasper, and Laclede, among others.

Southern and Central Missouri Map Collection, 1874-2011, bulk 1930-2005 (R1466)
6 cubic feet (30 oversize folders, 145 maps)

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The Southern and Central Missouri Map Collection contains highway, railroad, geological, topographical, mining, tourist, city, county, and state maps. The maps focus on the southern and central counties in Missouri including Crawford, Dent, Franklin, Gasconade, Howell, Iron, Jefferson, Laclede, Madison, Maries, Miller, Morgan, Phelps, Pulaski, Reynolds, Saint Francois, Sainte Genevieve, Texas, Washington, and Wright counties.

Southwest High School Collection, 1943-2007 (K1199)
1 c.f.

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Books and documents relating to Southwest High School of the Kansas City, MO, School District and its alumni.

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Southwest Missouri Resource Conservation and Development Records, 1964-2011 (SP0009)
28 cubic feet

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The records consist of the financial documents, correspondence, project notes and publications pertaining to the operation of the non-profit environmental organization known as Southwest Missouri Resource Conservation and Development. 

Southwest Missouri Collection, 1864-2014 (SP0017)
1 cubic foot (43 folders, 34 photographs)

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The Southwest Missouri Collection is an artificial collection combining miscellaneous small acquisitions related to southwest Missouri individuals, places, organizations, and events. Material continues to be added to the collection.

James L. Soward Papers, 1995 (K0610)
9 c.f.

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Notes and research materials, oral interviews, and photographs for the book written by Soward, Hospital Hill: an illustrated account of public healthcare institutions in Kansas City, Missouri.

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Special Libraries Association, Mid-Missouri Chapter (Columbia, Mo.) Records, 1985-1999 (CA5957)
1.8 cubic feet

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Meeting minutes, financial records, newsletters, correspondence, and miscellaneous material of the organization.

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Speech and Theatre Association of Missouri Records, 1948-1991 (C3934)
1.3 cubic feet

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Records of the association, a professional organization of speech and theatre educators that promotes education and public awareness of speech and theatre issues in Missouri. The records consist of correspondence, minutes, publications, financial records, photographs, and miscellaneous records. See also collection #2961, Speech Association of Missouri, Papers, 1942-1964.

Mabel Spielman Papers, 1888-1968 (K0182)
1 c.f.

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Photographs, diaries, and legal documents, but mainly correspondence to and from Spielman, a resident of Webb City, Jasper County, MO, to her husbands and friends. These letters contain information on the day to day lives of the correspondents.

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Spirit of St. Louis Region Classic Car Club of America Collection, 1989-2009 (S0993)
2 cubic feet

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Annual meeting minutes and Spring Grand Classic and Caravan files of the Spirit of St. Louis Region Classic Car Club.

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Jeffrey Spivak Union Station Research Collection, 1880-1999 (K1432)
12.6 cubic feet

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The Jeffrey Spivak Union Station Research Collection contains letters, notes, and research documents compiled by Jeffrey Spivak for his book Union Station, Kansas City.

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Rose Evelyn Kurs Sporn Papers, 1943-2011 (K1166)
0.21 cubic foot (18 folders, 14 photographs)

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The Rose Evelyn Kurs Sporn Papers contain writings by Sporn, correspondence, and publicity related to the Kidde Kapers productions at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City. It also contains photographs, a brief history of the Dolls for Democracy project, and a scrapbook.

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Barbara Sprenger Papers, 1867-2016 (S0281)
11 cubic feet

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The Barbara Sprenger Papers contains correspondence, histories, photographs, reports, and maps pertaining to Dioxin and hazardous waste dumping of the Russell Bliss, Grover Callahan, and related properties in the Wildwood and Ellisville, Missouri, areas. The collection also contains family papers, which include correspondence, genealogical research materials, and photographs.

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Spring Creek Baptist Church, Phelps County, Missouri Records, 1880-1991 (R0445)
6 volumes microfilmed

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This collection includes minutes of meetings, 1880-1987, and membership records, 1880-1991, of
the Spring Creek Baptist Church in northern Phelps County, Missouri. Volume 1 includes records of
two earlier organizations: the Corinth Baptist Church, 1880-1891, and the Macedonia Baptist Church,
1881-1883.

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Springfield Contemporary Theatre Collection, 1995-2019 (SP0060)
12 cubic feet, 4 oversize boxes

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The Springfield Contemporary Theatre Collection includes posters, programs, photographs, marketing materials, and video recordings of productions performed by the company from 1995 to 2019. The collection also contains theatre files and newspaper articles.

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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.

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St. Andrew's Evangelical Lutheran Church (Columbia, Mo.) Records, 1957-2024 (CA6262)
9.4 cubic feet, 26 oversize items, 64 computer discs, 9 video cassettes, 185 MB of digital files

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The records of a church established in 1957 include newsletters, annual reports, directories, photographs, slides, building records, membership records, church bulletins, and a parish register.

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St. Charles Countians Against Hazardous Waste/Weldon Springs (SCCAHW) Records, 1946-1996 (S0677)
5 cubic feet, 148 folders, 79 photographs

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The St. Charles Countians Against Hazardous Waste Records contain correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, and reports documenting the group’s effort to halt nuclear dumping at, and eventual decontamination of, the Weldon Spring Ordnance Works site.

St. Charles County, Missouri, Photograph Collection, 1887-1968 (P1149)

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

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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.

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St. Louis Ambassadors Records, 1965-2007 (S0968)
10 cubic feet

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The records of the St. Louis Ambassadors contain chronological event memorabilia, directories, videotapes, and photographs relating to the group's mission to help the St. Louis community through helping organizations plan and execute events and assist with electing candidates for political office in Missouri and Illinois.

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St. Louis American Newspaper, (S0325)
37 microfilm rolls

Weekly newspaper of the African American community in St. Louis.

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St. Louis Chinese Americans Oral History Collection, 1993-1994 (S0556)
0.5 cubic foot, 12 tapes

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This collection contains oral history interviews conducted with seven members of St. Louis' Chinese-American community in 1993 and 1994. The collection includes 12 audio cassette tapes, transcripts, and accompanying documents supplied by the Chinese Americans interviewed for the oral history project.

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St. Louis Christmas Carols Association Records, 1924-2022 (S0395)
5.5 cubic feet

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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.

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St. Louis City/County Board of Freeholders Records, 1959-1990 (S0487)
18 cubic feet, 396 folders, 126 audio cassettes, 20 photographs, four 3.5 disks, four 5.25 disks

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The records of the St. Louis City/County Board of Freeholders contain meeting minutes, correspondence, plans, photographs, and audio cassette tapes, chronicling the board's mission to reunify St. Louis City and County. The plan was never brought before the voters due to a class-action suit brought by non-property holders.

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St. Louis Civic Orchestra Records, 1968-2011 (S0386)
1 cubic foot

The St. Louis Civic Orchestra Records contain correspondence, program booklets, financial materials, and photographs, documenting the orchestra's mission to preserve and perform musical creations in the St. Louis area.

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St. Louis Committee for a Nuclear Weapons Freeze Records, 1982-1990 (S1039)
16 cubic feet

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This collection contains meeting minutes, press releases, correspondence, and manuals pertaining to the St. Louis branch of the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign.

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St. Louis County Boundary Commission Records, 1985-2002 (S0812)
6 cubic feet, 204 folders

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The Boundary Commission reviewed proposals affecting the boundaries of incorporated and unincorporated areas in St. Louis County. State statute mandated that the commission approve any boundary changes in the county, although such changes also required voter approval. These changes included annexations, incorporations, disincorporation, consolidations, and transfers of jurisdiction between municipalities and the county. The Boundary Commission reviewed proposals, was responsible for proposal paperwork, and conducted public hearings on various boundary change proposals. The collection includes meeting minutes, proposals, legislation, and newspaper clippings.

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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.

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St. Louis County Parks Advisory Board Minutes, 1952-1990 (S0610)
0.4 cubic feet, 14 folders

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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

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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 Economic Conversion Project Records, 1971-1998 (S0969)
13 cubic feet

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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 Harmony Chorus Records, 1958-2011 (S0334)
9 cubic feet

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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 Interfaith Committee on Latin America Records, 1977-2015 (S0622)
51 cubic feet

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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 Internship Program Collection, 1993-1999 (S0278)
0.5 cubic foot

The collection contains newsletters, program booklets, newspaper clippings, and a student handbook, chronicling the group's mission to provide St. Louis inner-city high school students with internships at local businesses to learn more about the businessworld, America's legal system, and to prepare for their post-secondary education.

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St. Louis/Southern Illinois Labor Tribune Records, 1918-2019 (S0521)
49 cubic feet

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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

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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

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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

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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 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. 

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St. Louis Metropolitan League of Women Voters Records, 1936-2006 (S0234)
39 cubic feet

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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

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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.

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St. Louis Music Zines Collection, 1981-2011 (S0384)
1 cubic foot

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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

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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.

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St. Louis Post Dispatch, St. Charles Bureau Records, 1981-1994 (S0567)
4 cubic feet, 168 folders

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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 Publications Collection, 1887-2005 (S0764)
4 cubic feet, 56 folders

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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

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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 Science Fiction Society Collection , 1977-2019 (S0340)
1.45 cubic feet

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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.

St. Louis Square Dancing Collection, 1949-2019 (S0450)
8.5 cubic feet

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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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