Manuscripts Index
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.
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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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St. Louis Peace Information Center Records, 1963-1976 (S0136)
3.2 cubic feet, 173 folders
The records of the St. Louis Peace Information Center contain correspondence, meeting minutes, and peace literature written and published by St. Louis and national peace groups, pertaining to the Center’s mission to facilitate communication and cooperation among St. Louis-area anti-war groups, as well as to inform the public about peace, activism, conscription, and the Vietnam War. The Center also provided draft counseling to conscientious objectors opposed to the war in Vietnam. Subjects of interest include anti-Vietnam protests in the St. Louis area, war tax resistance, and laws and regulations regarding draft counseling. The bulk of the materials date from the Center’s founding in 1967 to its closing in 1974.
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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 Photo Art Prints Collection, 1911 (S0594)
0.25 cubic foot
This collection contains retouched art prints of St. Louis landmarks, published by C. Witter and presented by the Business Men's League of St. Louis "to our guests Arkansas on Wheels, October 31, 1911." Included in this collection are twenty-four images of St. Louis, including Union Station, the riverfront, Eads Bridge, downtown hotels and skyscrapers, the Coliseum, and library branches.
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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 Police Circus Photograph Collection, 1946 (S1155)
0.01 cubic foot, 2 folders, 4 photographs
This collection contains four photographs documenting the circus's performance held at the St. Louis Arena in 1946.
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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.
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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 Post-Dispatch Editorial Cartoon Collection, no date (P0077)
proofs sheets from cartoons created by Daniel Fitzpatrick, Bill Mauldin, and Thomas Engelhardt during their tenure as staff cartoonists, Collection runs from early 1935 to early 1990s
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch Records, 1878-1902 (S0773)
1 cubic foot, 1 microfilm roll
The records of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch contain photocopies of correspondence, contracts, receipts, and balance statements relating to the newspaper's business operations.
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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.
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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 trolleys, St. Louis histories, and local businesses and government.
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St. Louis Rapid Transit Study Long-Range Program Reports, 1971 (S0403)
0.01 cubic foot
This collection contains two reports prepared by government and private organizations to study the feasibility of a rapid transit system fo the St. Louis area.
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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 Fellowship of Reconciliation Records, 1941-1967 (S0082)
22 folders, 0.6 cubic foot
The St. Louis Regional Fellowship of Reconciliation Records contain correspondence, meeting minutes, newsletters, and reports documenting the chapter's commitment to the philosophy and programming of religious pacifism. Topics of interest include conscientious objectors during World War II and the Korean War, the relocation of Japanese citizens, and nuclear weapons disarmament.
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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 Rotary Club Newsletters, 1949-1961 (S0616)
0.1 cubic foot, 1 folder
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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 Southwestern Railway Company Booklet, 1913 (R0460)
0.01 cubic foot (1 folder)
The St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company Booklet is an advertising booklet on the “Cotton Belt Route” in Missouri, Illinois, Arkansas, and Texas. The booklet includes timetables, a map of the system, and material on the passenger, freight, and agricultural services of the railroad.
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St. Louis Square Dancing Collection, 1949-2019 (S0450)
10.5 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 Streetcar Strike of 1900 Scrapbook, 1900 (S0664)
1 volume
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.
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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 Teachers Strike of 1973 Collection, 1972-1973 (S0086)
0.4 cubic feet, 8 folders
The St. Louis Teachers Strike of 1973 Collection contains correspondence to and from St. Louis teachers, court proceedings, strike bulletins, and flyers documenting the first teacher's strike in the history of St. Louis.
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St. Louis Teachers Strike of 1979 Collection, 1975-1979 (S0365)
0.25 cubic feet, 8 folders
This collection contains Daily strike bulletins, flyers, minutes, legal documents, newspaper clippings, strike information, and circulars pertaining to the St. Louis teachers strike of 1979.
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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 Topographical Map Collection, 1929-1955 (S0976)
0.4 cubic foot
This collection contains topographical area maps produced by the U. S. Geological Survey, the Missouri Geological Survey and Illinois Geological Survey.
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St. Louis Tornado of 1896 Collection, 1896 (S0307)
0.01 cubic foot
This collection contains three books regarding the St. Louis Tornado of 1896: The Great Tornado at St. Louis, May 27, 1896, 1896; St. Louis Chronicle’s Photographic Views of The Great Cyclone at St. Louis, May 27, 1896, 1896; and Pictured Story of the Tornado, 1896.
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St. Louis Tornado of 1927 Photograph Collection, 1927 (S1237)
0.01 cubic feet, 1 folder, 27 photographs
This collection consists of 21 photographs depicting damage from tornadoes in St. Louis in 1927, and 6 photographs depicting destruction from a fire in an unidentified building in 1939.
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St. Louis Tornado Photographs, 1896, 1896 (P0277)
40 photographs
Photographs of damage following an 1896 tornado in St. Louis, including many by Samborsky Photo. Some of these images were published in Julian Curzon's The Great Cyclone at St. Louis and East St. Louis, May 27, 1896.
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St. Louis Track Club Records, 1972-2021 (S0536)
11 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, 1856-1974 (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.
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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 Union Labor Advocate Newspapers, 1934-1937 (S0203)
1 microfilm roll
The St. Louis Union Labor Advocate was a Labor newspaper endorsed by Central Trades and Labor Union of St. Louis and St. Louis branch of AFL. The paper was the precursor of the St. Louis Labor Tribune. The collection does not include issues from September 1934 and May 1, 1937
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St. Louis Unit of March on Washington Paper, 1944 (S0170)
0.02 cubic foot
This collection contains the unpublished thesis The Saint Louis Unit of the March on Washington Movement: A Study in Sociology of Conflict by Louise Elizabeth Grant. In her manuscript, Grant chronicles the creation of the St. Louis’ March on Washington Movement chapter and its participation in the March on Washington Movement from 1941-1944.
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St. Louis University Photographs, no date (P0259)
Photographs of buildings on the campus of St. Louis University.
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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 Vietnam Committee, American Friends Service Committee Records, 1966-1971 (S0164)
0.2 cubic foot, 7 folders
The American Friends Service Committee was a Society of Friends (Quaker) peace organization. In 1966, the St. Louis chapter set up a local project, the St. Louis Vietnam Committee, to oppose the Vietnam War, especially through public education with guest speakers, political ads, films, and seminars. The collection contains correspondence, meeting minutes, anti-war literature, and information about public speakers.
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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 Women's Labor Conference Collection, 1973 (S0110)
0.01 cubic foot
The St. Louis Women’s Labor Conference met in 1973 to discuss working women’s issues such as organizing the unorganized, job training, equal pay and advancement, and daycare. Conference participants listened to speeches by prominent women unionists, attended workshops, and passed resolutions as part of a larger plan that was designed to further women’s positions in the workforce. The collection includes correspondence, flyers, a meeting packet, resolutions, and handouts.
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St. Louis, Missouri, Board Meeting Minutes, 1821 (C1993)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
The collection contains a fragment of minutes of meeting of 5 May 1821.
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St. Louis, Missouri, Historic Markers Collection, 1941-1943 (C3533)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
The collection contains newspaper accounts and illustrations of markers placed in St. Louis by the Young Men's Division of the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce to commemorate events in the city's past.
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St. Louis, Missouri, Papers, 1822-1825 (C1473)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
The papers of St. Louis, Missouri, consist of positive photostats of an act passed by the General Assembly and approved by Governor McNair, 1822, to incorporate the inhabitants of the town of St. Louis and to establish election procedures, requirements and duties of the mayor and board of aldermen. A supplementary act was approved by Governor Bates, 1825, establishing qualifications for mayor and voters, city budget, assessor, and salaries.