Manuscripts Index

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. Joseph, Missouri, Public Schools Certificate, 1869 (C1987)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Promotion to second grade of Willie Gillmore.

St. Louis 2004 Report, 2004-2005 (S1056)
0.25 cubic foot

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A copy of the commemorative book Looking Back...Moving Forward, A Report To The Community on the St. Louis 2004 Effort by Deborah A. Dugan.

St. Louis Abused Women's Support Project, Inc. Records, 1977-1981 (S0118)
0.01 cubic foot, 1 folder

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The St. Louis Abused Women’s Support Project Inc. Records contains memos, flyers, newsletters, newspaper clippings, a questionnaire, correspondence, bylaws, legal advice, and a legislation notice relating to the organization’s mission to providing help and shelter for women subject to domestic violence.

St. Louis Aerial Photographs, ca. 1953, circa 1953 (P0596)
1 folder

Aerial photographs and map of St. Louis.

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.

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

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

St. Louis American Red Cross Scrapbook, 1952-1955 (S0047)
1 oversize volume, 1 microfilm reel

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The scrapbook contains newsletters and newspaper clippings pertaining to the St. Louis Chapter of the American Red Cross’s 1955 Fund Campaign. Also included in the scrapbook is a letter from Whitelaw T. Terry, Chairman of the St. Louis Chapter’s 1952 Red Cross Fund to Fred W. Gardner, Chairman of the chapter’s Special Gifts Division, regarding the 1952 fund raising campaign in St. Louis.

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 and San Francisco Railroad Letter Book, 1879-1883 (C1229)
0.07 cubic feet (1 volume)

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Letters concerning the Mississippi River and Bonne Terre Railroad. R.L. Van Sant, assistant engineer. Largely illegible.

St. Louis Area Women In Higher Education Collection, 1973-1980 (S0113)
0.01 cubic foot

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The collection consists of correspondence, meeting minutes, fliers, and membership lists regarding St. Louis Area Women in High Education efforts to create a support network for women employees in higher education.

St. Louis Argus Newspaper Photograph Collection, 1950s (S0586)
0.01 cubic foot, 8 photographs

 Digitized Materials

This collection contains 8 photographs of the St. Louis Argus staff and its building.

St. Louis Art Museum Photographs, 1780, 1950 (P0827)
2 photographs

Photos of the St. Louis Art Museum.

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 Banking Houses Notice, 1855 (C2828)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Handbill issued by twenty-two St. Louis businessmen during the Panic of 1855, guaranteeing the safety of deposits in seven St. Louis banking institutions. Dated January 15, 1855.

St. Louis Blues Musicians Research Collection, 1975-1986 (S0546)
1 cubic foot (30 folders)

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The St. Louis Blues Musicians Research Collection contains photocopies of newspaper clippings and magazine articles about blues musicians who began their careers in St. Louis, Missouri. Journalist, Kenn Thomas, gathered the research materials in the 1980s for a column in the Riverfront Times regarding St. Louis blues musicians.

St. Louis Board Of Aldermen Records, 2001-2008 (S1127)
1 cubic foot

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The St. Louis Board of Aldermen Records contains subject files on family violence, anti-gay terrorism, and dog and animal shelters.

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 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.

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.

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 City Plan Commission Collection , 1918-1942 (S0253)
0.01 cubic foot

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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 City-St. Louis County White House Conference on Education Records, 1955-1988 (S0494)
17 cubic feet, 488 folders, 1 grooved media, 738 photographs, 20 cassettes, 14 audio tapes, 11 video tapes

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This collection contains correspondence, cassettes, reports, and meeting minutes documenting the St. Louis-St. Louis County White House Conference on Education’s effort to improve education throughout St. Louis by examining local education problems, establishing effective communication among citizens, educators, and legislators, and creating recommendations to serve as guidelines for developing education policy.

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.

St. Louis Civic Ballet Records, 1958-1979 (S0072)
0.4 cubic feet, 19 folders, 3 photographs

 Digitized Materials

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The St. Louis Civic Ballet Records contain correspondence, meeting minutes, reports, and photographs documenting the dance company’s mission to foster young people’s interest in ballet through performances and scholarships.

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.

St. Louis Civil Rights Enforcement Agency Scrapbooks, 1953-1960 (S0607)
2 microfilm rolls

This collection consists of two scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings from March 1953 through December 1960 on crime in St. Louis City.

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.

St. Louis Consumer Federation Records, 1935-1977 (S0375)
2 cubic feet, 84 folders

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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 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.

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

 Digitized Materials

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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 Data Collection, 1942-1977 (S0073)
1.5 cubic foot

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The St. Louis County Data Collection is an artificial collection of various small donations documenting the history of St. Louis County and county government. The collection consists of publications, reports, newspaper clippings, pamphlets on historic buildings, highways, zoning, land use, and recreation.

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.

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.

St. Louis County Planning Commission Photographs, 1949 (P0831)
45 photographs

Photos of proposed Tyson Valley Park.

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 Department of Public Welfare Scrapbook, 1923-1924 (S0193)
0.02 cubic feet

This scrapbook contains newspaper clippings, brochures, and reports of the St. Louis Department of Public Welfare under the direction of Nelson Cunliff, 1923-1934. Topics include conditions of St. Louis hospitals, disease, hygiene, racial tensions over the use of local parks, crime, recreation, poverty, and calls to reform the public welfare system.

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 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

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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 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.

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 Environmental Media Center (LAD) Records, 1973-1977 (S1065)
3 cubic feet

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This collection contains slides of the Mississippi River, Forest Park, and the lower Meramec River.

St. Louis Germans, 1850-1920: the Nature of an Immigrant Community and its Relation to the Assimilation Process Dissertation, 1970 (S0029)
1 roll microfilm

This manuscript is an unpublished dissertation by Audrey Olson documenting the assimilation of St. Louis Germans into American life.

St. Louis Globe-Democrat Photograph Collection, 1982 (P1016)

Arch and St. Louis skyline in winter, Mississippi River frozen over

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 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.