Scope and Contents The Art and Artists Collection consists of correspondence, news clippings, exhibit catalogues, and invitations relating to the arts and specific artists from St. Louis or Missouri. The Artists Series contains correspondence, news clippings, manuscripts, and research notes. Artists such as Thomas Hart Benton, Carl Wimar and others who gained prominence in the art world are filed in individual folders. Local artists and information...

Scope and Contents The McKenney and Hall: History of the Indian Tribes of North America Collection contains 59 matted, hand-colored lithograph folio portraits of American Indians. The prints were disbound from a first edition of McKenney and Hall's book The History of the Indian Tribes of North America. All the portraits included in this collection were based on works originally painted by Charles Bird King, but also included is a copy ofWar Dance of...