Bader Family Papers
Scope and Contents
The collection includes advertising circulars, circular letters, price lists, and brochures, many of which relate to the dry cleaning business; advertisements and letters promoting dry cleaning correspondence courses; ten issues of “Widder’s Practical Dyer” (1920-1921), published by the Widder Dye & Chemical Co., Inc., Brooklyn, New York; letters to Ernst Bader offering jobs and business opportunities in reply to an advertisement he placed in a dry cleaning trade magazine; papers regarding courses in hypnotism, magic, phrenology, and psychology; papers relating to dog shows and dog breeding; papers, relating to the Plymouth Rock Squab Company of Boston, Massachusetts; and family papers.
Dates
- 1877-1922
Creator
- Bader family (Creator, Family)
Language of Materials
German
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research use.
Conditions Governing Use
For permission to publish, quote from, or reproduce material in this collection, please contact the Archives Reference Desk at archives@mohistory.org. Copyright restrictions may apply. The researcher assumes full responsibility for conforming to the laws of copyright.
Biographical Sketch
Ernest F.L. Bader (or Ernst F.L. Bader) was born April 24, 1853, in Germany. He emigrated to the United States in 1884, and operated a saloon in St. Louis in the early 1900s. He died November 10, 1910, in St. Louis.
Extent
0.3 Cubic Feet ( (11 folders; 1 oversize folder))
Arrangement
The collection is arranged in the following series: Advertising Circulars and Circular Letters Series; Military Papers Series; Legal Papers Series; Business Cards Series; Receipts and Business Papers Series; Hypnotism, Magic, Phrenology, Psychology, and Related Papers Series; Dogs Series; Plymouth Rock Squab Company Series; and German Documents Series. The documents within each series are arranged chronologically. Many documents in the collection are not dated. Undated documents that appear to relate to a dated document have been filed with that dated document.
Physical and Technical Requirements
There are no physical or technical restrictions.
Donor Information
Donor information is not available.
Processing Information
Processed by Dennis Northcott, August 2010. Translations by Sven Eliasson.
- Business cards -- Missouri -- Saint Louis
- Business enterprises -- Missouri -- Saint Louis
- Correspondence schools and courses
- Dog shows -- Missouri -- Saint Louis
- Dry cleaning industry -- United States
- Horoscopes
- Hypnotism
- Phrenology
- Plymouth Rock Squab Company (Boston, Mass.) (Associated name)
- World War, 1914-1918
Creator
- Bader family (Creator, Family)
- Bader, Ernest F. L., 1853-1910 (Creator, Person)
- Title
- Inventory of Bader Family Papers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- EAD by Jaime Bourassa using ArchivesSpace
- Date
- 2018
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Missouri Historical Society Library and Research Center Repository