Business and Industry
R
Harry Von Romer Autobiography, 1970-1980 (S0171)
0.01 cubic feet, 3 folders
The Harry Von Romer Manuscript contains two handwritten chapters by St. Louis laborer and union organizer Harry Von Romer. During the Great Depression, Von Romer worked to organize the auto industry, in particular, the Fisher Body Plant. The chapters describe daily life among the working class in the 1910s and 1920s in St. Louis, working conditions during the Depression, and the organizing efforts, parades, and strikes of local labor unions in St. Louis.
Subjects
Counties
Harry Von Romer Collection, 1880-1981 (S0471)
7 cubic feet, 149 folders, 7 photographs
Harry Von Romer was a laborer, union organizer, and a Central Trade and Labor Union convention delegate. The collection includes labor agreements, correspondence, constitutions and bylaws, as well as union-related buttons and badges Romer collected over his lifetime.
Subjects
Counties
Rosati, Missouri Collection, 1918-1983 (R0181)
0.04 cubic foot (2 folder, 1 audio cassette)
The Rosati, Missouri Collection contains photocopies of materials pertaining to the history of Rosati (formerly Knobview) in Phelps County, Missouri. The collection includes the business notebook of Antonio M. Piazza, a tape-recorded interview with Jodie Donati, and a research paper by Francesco Brogi.
Counties
Rosati, Missouri Label Collection, circa 1930s-1940s (R1013)
(1 folder)
These are two unused labels for strawberries packed by the Knobview Fruit Growers Association at Knobview and Concord wine made by R.M. Cardetti & Sons at Rosati in Phelps County, Missouri.
Subjects
Counties
Rose Cliff Hotel Collection, 1928-1960 (R0594)
(4 volumes)
The collection consists of 4 volumes; a single guest register dating from the hotel's opening, a combination 'cash and ledger' volume documenting daily expenses and income of the hotel as well as the expenses of a wholesale merchandise operation in 1947-1948, and two expnese ledgers showing operating costs ie meals, laundry, grieght, fuel oil, utilities, taxes, advertising, and labor.
Subjects
Counties
Mark H. Rose Papers, 1975-1991 (K1063)
15 c.f.
Professional papers of Rose, Ph.D. in History, with specialties in cities, technology, business, and public policy. Includes correspondence; subject files concerned with conferences, meetings and symposia; the writing, publishing and presentation of articles and papers; and special projects; and grant applications he was asked to evaluate.
Counties
Myra Belzer Rostov Papers, No date (K1097)
0.01 cubic foot (1 folder, 1 photograph)
The collection contains one photograph of the Executive Committee of the Jewish National Workers Alliance Branch #95.
Subjects
Counties
Rothville Bank (Rothville, Mo.) Papers, 1889-1955 (C0069)
3.5 cubic feet, 65 oversize volumes
Journals, ledgers, and papers detailing the daily business of the Rothville Bank.
Subjects
Counties
Rotoscope Collection, 1938-1981 (R1499)
11 cubic feet (23 folders, 50 reels 35mm film)
The Rotoscope Collection contains the personal papers of Rowe Carney Jr., photographs, patents, schematics and design materials, promotional material, and 35mm reels of film related to the Rotoscope. Invented by Rowe Carney Jr. of Rolla, Missouri, and Tom Smith of Urbana, Missouri, the Rotoscope is a single camera, single projection system capable of taking and projecting a scope of 180 degrees on one reel of film. The collection also includes film scripts written by Rowe 'Doc' Carney and correspondence related to the production of two of his films.
Counties
Roy Nelson Canning Company Records, 1907-1993 (R1029)
1 cubic foot (1 volume, 42 folders)
These are records of the Roy Nelson Canning Company, a large tomato-canning concern especially active in Stone, Taney, and Douglas Counties in Missouri. The collection consists of land records, deeds, financial statements, insurance papers, and records for individual factories, mostly for operations in Stone County, Missouri.
Subjects
Rozier & Jokerst Mercantile Records, 1876 (R0464)
0.05 cubic foot (1 volume)
The Rozier and Jokerst Mercantile Records contain a daily account journal of the general mercantile firm of Rozier & Jokerst of Sainte Genevieve, Missouri. The principals were Henry Louis Rozier and Francis L. Jokerst. Included are names of patrons, goods bought, and amounts charged. Inclusive dates are January 8, 1876, through September 23, 1876.
Subjects
Counties
Rozier Store Records, 1867-1885 (R0132)
3 rolls
These are daybooks, journals, and miscellaneous records of a mercantile operation run by Jules Rene Rozier, first at Rozier Landing on the Mississippi River in Perry County, Missouri, then in partnership with Charles F. Lawrence at St. Marys in Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri.
Subjects
Counties
Francis Claude Rozier Financial Records, 1875-1891 (R0465)
0.2 cubic foot (1 volume)
The Francis Claude Rozier Financial Records contain financial journal kept by Francis Claude Rozier (1816-1879) of Sainte Genevieve, Missouri, and after Francis Rozier’s death, by his son, Henry Louis Rozier (1849-1927). It provides periodic summaries of personal financial affairs, including lists of assets, expenses, and other financial transactions.
Counties
Francis Claude Rozier Records, 1871-1919 (R0461)
0.5 cubic foot (1 oversize volume)
The Francis Claude Rozier Records contains a ledger with lists of real estate owned by Francis Claude Rozier of Sainte Genevieve, Missouri. The listings are for properties in Missouri, Iowa, and Texas. Also included in the records are assessments of the real, personal, and intangible property owned by Rozier, his widow and his estate.
Henry Louis Rozier Records, 1883-1902 (R0463)
0.2 cubic foot (2 volumes)
The Henry Louis Rozier Records contain a ledger and journal of Henry Louis Rozier, a private banker in Sainte Genevieve, Missouri. Accounts indicate loans, payments, and other financial transactions.
Counties
Joshua Rucker Records, 1851 (R0054)
0.01 cubic foot (1 folder)
The Joshua Rucker Records contain photocopies of the daybook from Joshua Rucker's store in Franklin County, Georgia.
Subjects
Gerean Y. Rudnick Papers, 1954-1968 (K0981)
0.2 c.f.
Rudnick and other family members were owners of Thriftway grocery stores in Kansas City. Includes newspaper clippings and grocer magazine clippings on their Thriftway stores.
Counties
Ruskin Heights Presbyterian Church Records, 1954-2009 (K1169)
21 c.f.
Organizational records of the Church including general office files, pastor's files including sermons and special services, newsletters, bulletins, photograph albums, publications, architectural drawings, and records of several women's organizations associated with the church.
Counties
William James Ryan Papers, 1914-1996 (K0457)
10 c.f.
Research material, draft manuscripts, and oral history interviews and transcripts related to Ryan's book and other writings on the history of radio and television broadcasting in the Kansas City region.
Counties
Elaine Baum Ryder Papers, 1908-2006 (K0701)
1 c.f.
National Register of Historic Places forms written by Ryder while a researcher for the Kansas City Landmarks Commission, booklets, books, newspaper clippings and magazines, and photographs.
Counties
Mary E. Ryder Scrapbook, 1947-1981 (S0730)
0.1 cubic foot, 2 folders, 17 photographs
This collection contains correspondence and several news clippings that chronicle the life and achievements of Mary Ryder, a labor activist and founder of the Mary Ryder Home.
Counties
S
S. Patti Construction Company Records, 1916-1976 (K0021)
114 c.f.
Progress photographs of construction jobs in Missouri, Kansas and Alaska done by S. Patti Construction Company and associates. Also included are architectural drawings of structures for which they were the contractor
Counties
S.W. Hurst and Company (Tipton, Mo.) Records, 1872-1905 (C4169)
0.8 cubic feet (10 folders , one oversize)
Eight ledger books and two scrapbooks pertaining to a store in Tipton, Missouri which sold drugs, jewelry, stationery and music from approximately 1885 to 1900. Some additional materal falls before and after this time period. The scrapbooks contain colorful, old-fashioned advertisements for a variety of products including shoes, thread, coffee, medicine, etc. Numerous images of women and children, animals, birds, fruit, flowers, pastoral scenes, etc.
Counties
Pierre Sabourin Records, 1830-1832 (R0387)
1 volume microfilmed
This is an account book of Pierre Sabourin of Ste. Genevieve, Missouri. The first section is a
record of an unidentified mercantile operation, 1 May 1830 to 9 August 1830. The second section, 9
June 1831 to 4 April 1832, concerns the buying and selling of planks, primarily with the firms of
Menard & Valle and Valle & Griffard of Ste. Genevieve.
Subjects
Counties
Saint Francois County, Missouri Collection, 1925 (R0248)
0.01 cubic foot (1 folder)
The Saint Francois County, Missouri Booklet contains “A Message to the Homeseeker,” a booklet advertising the towns of Bonne Terre, Farmington, and Flat River in Saint Francois County and Fredericktown in Madison County, Missouri. There are descriptions of 157 business and illustrations of 85 commercial establishments, public buildings, and churches in those communities.
Counties
Saint Joseph Stockyards Company Records, 1896-1963 (K0192)
0.3 c.f.
Minutes of the Stockyards Company including attachments and associated items such as the Articles of Incorporation of the organization, proxy statements, contracts, orders to pay dividends, reports to the Board and some correspondence.
Subjects
Counties
Sainte Genevieve "The Way We Worked Exhibit" Oral History Records, 2011 (CG0021)
0.01 cubic feet (1 folder)
The 96 oral histories were produced by Bolduc House Museum in Sainte Genevieve, Missouri for the Smithsonian Institution's traveling exhibit "The Way We Worked". This is the local copy of the records.
Counties
Sainte Genevieve Savings Association Records, 1865-1874 (R0466)
0.9 cubic foot (1 folder, 4 oversize volumes)
The Sainte Genevieve Savings Association Records include a letter book, account books and draft stubs for the Sainte Genevieve Savings Association of Sainte Genevieve, Missouri. Firmin A. Rozier was president and Oliver D. Harris, Eugene Guibourd, and Hiram Blackledge were cashiers.
Subjects
Counties
Sainte Genevieve Telephone Company Records, 1899-1906 (R0339)
0.5 cubic foot (8 folders)
The Ste. Genevieve Telephone Company Records contain bills for various goods and services rendered to the Ste. Genevieve Telephone Company. John Tlapek and Henry L. Rozier organized the company, which later became part of the Bell system.
Subjects
Counties
Sainte Genevieve, Missouri Collection, 1885-1967 (R0165)
0.04 cubic foot (4 folders)
The Sainte Genevieve, Missouri Collection contains photocopies of miscellaneous papers concerning the history of Sainte Genevieve, Missouri. The papers include a historical address by Firmin A. Rozier, a printed directory of the Catholic Church, a souvenir program from a production of Shaun Rue, and two architectural reports by Ernest A. Connally on historic homes.
Counties
Sainte Genevieve, Missouri Mercatile Records, 1819-1825 (R0212)
(1 roll of microfilm)
The Beaver Creek United Baptist Church Records contain microfilm copies of minutes of meetings and membership records of the Beaver Creek Baptist Church in Phelps County, Missouri. The church was founded in 1866 as Willow Spring Baptist Church, and
was relocated and renamed in 1874.
Subjects
Counties
Sainte Genevieve, Missouri Records, 1865-1883 (R0040)
0.02 cubic foot (2 folder)
These are photocopies of miscellaneous city and county documents. Included are tax records, a census of school-age children, loyalty oaths, and ballots from the elections of 1876. There are also pamphlets containing a report on mining and manufactures to the Missouri legislature, 1881, and an address by Gov. Thomas T. Crittenden, printed in German, 1883.
Counties
Sainte Genevieve, Missouri Tan Yard Records, 1823-1829 (R0335)
0.2 cubic foot (1 folder)
The Sainte Genevieve, Missouri Tan Yard Records contain a ledger and daybook, combined into one volume, of a tannery located in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri. Accounts note hides and skins exchanged for leather and general merchandise credits. Also included are a poem and an inventory of the personal estate of James Buckely.
Subjects
Counties
Frances Asbury Sampson Collection, no date (CA5935)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Additions of business cards, hotel advertisements, temperance pledge card, and speech to the Women's Christian Temperance Union. See also C3813.
John K. Samuel Collection, 1839-1981 (K0081)
0.3 c.f. (12 folders)
Photocopied scrapbooks of photographs, newspaper clippings, reminiscences and some copies of original material related to the history of Barry, Clay County, Missouri, the Chevis-Samuel Tavern, and Missouri Town-1855. Also material related to the Chevis and Samuel families of Barry, Missouri.
Counties
John A. Sanborn Diaries, 1899-1908 (C1242)
0.15 cubic feet (10 volumes)
The collection contains the diaries of a Mound City, Missouri, farmer who sold his farm and moved to Corning, Kansas, in 1902. He sold his Kansas farm and moved to Macon, Missouri, in 1903. Diaries include cash accounts and memoranda for the ten-year period 1899-1908.
Harold David "Hal" Sandy and Wilda Barmore Sandy Collection, 1974-1995 (K0718)
3 c.f.
Research notes, photographs, draft manuscripts for various local history writings by the Sandys. Includes Articles, promotional materials, working drafts, photographs, slides and talks concerning their book, "Here Lies Kansas City," articles, correspondence, taskforce report, notes, and resolutions relating to various historic preservation projects.
Subjects
Counties
Santa Fe Place Historic District Collection, 2004-2005 (K0456)
0.3 c.f.
The District National Register Nomination Update #2, 2005, including the Santa Fe Place Historic District Design Guidelines and the Memorandum of Agreements relating to the District. Also files on the Lovett Place Apartments Demolition Project.
Counties
Sappington Family Papers, 1819-1895 (C0159)
0.8 cubic feet
Papers of Dr. John Sappington of Arrow Rock, MO, and his family. Business letters about Sappington's pills and book for the treatment of malaria. Letters and papers from family and friends; supplies; notes. Legal case of Coffee & Blacke vs. Sappington & Sons. Miscellaneous personal record and account book.
Subjects
Counties
Samuel Sawyer Letter, 1822 (C1497)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
The collection contains a letter to Oliver Parker, Lexington, MO, from New York, NY, Jan. 20, 1822, regarding collection and payment of accounts.
Subjects
Nathan Scarritt Family Papers, 1839-1962 (K0248)
1 c.f.
Newspaper clippings, articles, announcements, correspondence, and publication relating to the Scarritt and Chick families, two early families in Kansas City. Deeds and leases concerning the property owned by Scarritt and his estate. Also are family histories and a diary and autobiography of Nathan Scarritt, Methodist minister and missionary and early city builder.
Subjects
Counties
Scarritt-Royster-Swinney Family Papers, 1818-1989 (K0632)
71 c.f.
Family papers of three prominent families of Kansas City and Glasgow, MO. Includes a wide variety of materials including letters, postcards, speeches, newspaper articles, poetry, photographs, family items, business and personal papers, tributes to various individuals and historical papers and recollections.
Subjects
Counties
Schaberg Family Papers, 1894-1974 (C3665)
3.0 cubic feet (193 folders)
The personal and professional papers of Benjamin F. Schaberg, Sr., who worked as an engineer on the Panama Canal, St. Louis sewer projects, World War II army post construction, and Missouri Public Service Commission studies, include family correspondence between Schaberg and his wife, sisters, and sons. Ben Jr. and John George Schaberg were in China during and after the 1937 Japanese invasion.
Robert L. Schenker Records, 1884-1891 (R0604)
(1 roll of microfilm)
The Robert L. Schenker Records contain a microfilm copy of a ledger from a mercantile business operated by Robert L. Schenker, at Vienna, Maries County, Missouri. The ledger includes a list of promissory notes and their settlements, and an inventory of stock.
Subjects
Counties
Elenore Schewe Collection, 1920-2002 (C4266)
1.8 cubic feet (39 folders), 3 audio cassettes, 5 oversize items
The collection of Elenore Schewe contains material of her research into refractory companies in Missouri, including both institutional records of the companies themselves and the personal papers and records of various important figures in the refractory companies. This collection was created as part of Schewe's work assisting in the research for the book Refractories: the Hidden Industry by Corinne Azen Krause.
Subjects
Counties
John Henry Schiermeier Record Books, 1878-1922 (C3839)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder, 5 rolls of microfilm)
The Schiermeier Record Books consist of letter books, a ledger, and stock inventories of stores owned by John Henry Schiermeier in the New Melle, Missouri, area.
Subjects
Albert Schoenberg Records, 1915-1940 (K0793)
2 c.f.
Schoenberg was owner of Schoenberg Realty and Investment Company active in the downtown real estate business. Includes architectural drawings and photographs of buildings in downtown Kansas City, MO as proposed or built.
Counties
School House Mining Company Collection, 1914 (R1114)
0.01 cubic foot (1 folder)
This is a certificate dated October 26, 1914 for 4,000 shares of capital stock in the School House Mining Company at Joplin in Jasper County, Missouri. The firm operated a mining lease and had a plant at Carterville. The certificate was registered to A.P. Callahan and was signed by A. F. Dexter, President, and J. F. Dexter, Secretary.
Counties
Schrader-Holtschneider Family Papers, 1868-1959 (C3773)
0.8 cubic feet (38 folders)
The collection contains papers of the Schrader and Holtschneider families of Rich Fountain, Osage County, Missouri. They were farmers, merchants, postmasters, and county judges. Papers include correspondence, business and legal papers, post office records, and school district records.
Counties
Schwarz Studio Taxidermy Records, 1882-1987 (S0520)
9 rolls microfilm
Founded in 1882 by German immigrant Frank Schwarz, Schwarz Studios passed through four generations to become the oldest taxidermy operation in the United States. Its clients have included L. Roos Fur Company, Adolphus Busch, Simmons Hardware, and special clients such as the Board of Education, the Boy Scouts, and the St. Louis Zoo. The collection contains scrapbooks, daily journals, and customer ledgers of the Schwarz Studio Taxidermy Company, 1882-1987.