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Samuel B. Clark Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A3242
Scope and Contents The collection is comprised of items collected by Samuel B. Clark. It is comprised primarily of advertising and programs from Gaslight Square businesses and programs from lectures and performances about Gaslight Square decades after its demise. The items date from circa 1962 to 2005 with the following date gaps: 1968-1974, 1976-1990, 1992-1993, and 1995-2000. The collection is arranged alphabetically by title/topic. Only two items in the collection...
Dates: 1960-2005

Samuel B. Clark Gaslight Square Collection

 Collection
Identifier: P0867
Scope and Contents The Samuel B. Clark Gaslight Square Collection contains 58 photographs collected by Clark that document Gaslight Square before, during, and after its heyday as a premier entertainment district. Photographs taken while the neighborhood was a popular destination show customers and entertainers at Montileone’s Café Espresso, Three Fountains, and other establishments, as well as interior and exterior views of Montileone’s and several street views showing various businesses. Photographs taken...
Dates: 1950-2000

Gorrell Starke Clinger Diaries and Scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: A3263
Scope and Content The collection is comprised of 96 volumes including mostly diaries and nine scrapbooks dating from 1901 to 1965. There are no diaries or scrapbooks for the years 1904, 1905, 1908, 1918, and 1932. The diaries for 1922 and 1923 and the 1955 scrapbook are incomplete. The collection is arranged chronologically. The diaries are a combination of daily activity journal and scrapbook. They include Gorrell’s daily notes on her activities and also many pasted newspaper...
Dates: 1901-1965

Clodfelter Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: P0882
Scope and Contents The Clodfelter Family Collection contains 11 photographs showing the family of Jackson Medler Clodfelter and Mary Louise Stout Clodfelter-Berry at home in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Photographs primarily depict Mary Louise and children David and Howard, showing them at play, opening Christmas presents, and posing with a carved Halloween pumpkin. At least some of these photographs were taken during the time that Jackson was serving overseas. Photographs also include a portrait of Jackson...
Dates: 1950-1969

George Winston Cloyd Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A0302
Scope and Contents

Private papers, correspondence, newsletter, printed matter, and newsclippings related to the career of Judge Cloyd, especially his civic activities in connection with the St. Louis Council on Human Relations and the early stages of desegregation of St. Louis swimming pools, 1950-1951. Also includes materials relating to student activities, military service, legal and judicial career and other civic involvements, 1938-1984.

Dates: 1938-1984

Shane Cohn Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: P1138
Scope and Contents The Shane Cohn Photograph Collection contains six small posters from an Explore St. Louis ad campaign directed at LGBT tourists and six composite photographs showing members of the St. Louis Board of Aldermen from 2009-2021. The tourism ads promote general St. Louis amenities, including Busch Stadium and local restaurants, as well as LGBT-specific destinations, including clubs in the Grove, Central West End, and Soulard. The ads feature quotes from The Advocate calling...
Dates: 2009-ca. 2021

Committee to Defend J.B. Johnson Records

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Identifier: A3187
Scope and Contents

The collection includes two documents produced by the Committee to Defend J.B. Johnson in 1973. There is a three-page paper by Lorena Jeanne Tinker, “J.B. (Pike) Johnson: St. Louis Victim of Unequal Justice,” listing the discrepancies in the case against J.B. Johnson and four blank copies of the petition sent to Governor Bond.

Dates: 1973

William F. Conner Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A3086
Scope and Contents The papers contain correspondence and various documents relating to William F. Conner. The papers are arranged into two series: Correspondence and Subject Files. The Correspondence series is arranged chronologically (1942-1980); the Subject Files series is arranged alphabetically by topic (1894-2016). The collection dates from 1894 to 2016 with the bulk of collection dating from 1943 to 1950. ...
Dates: 1894-2016; Majority of material found within 1943-1950

Gerard Connolly Collection

 Collection
Identifier: P1069
Scope and Contents The Gerard Connolly Collection contains photographs and negatives taken by Connolly to document the Shaw and McRee Town neighborhoods as they were prior to extensive demolition, rebuilding, and rehab in the early 2000s, resulting in what many considered to be gentrification of the area. Photographs show brick houses, apartment buildings, and four-family flats, as well as a few businesses and empty storefronts. Some buildings are dilapidated and run-down, with boarded up windows and doors,...
Dates: ca. 1990-2005

Joseph Conway Family Papers

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Identifier: A0320
Scope and Contents Collection contains several nineteenth-century surveys and deeds relating to Conway family land in Township 45, Ranges 4 and 5 East, St. Louis County; several legal papers relating to the estate of John Ward (1827-1830), who lived near Joseph Conway in Bonhomme Township; several bills of sales of slaves in St. Louis County and elsewhere in Missouri; and miscellaneous legal papers relating to various cases in St. Louis courts. Other notable items include a circular letter of the Treasury...
Dates: 1786-1959

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United States -- Armed Forces 73
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African American Collecting Initiative, 2013- 19
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World War, 1939-1945 -- France 17
Real property -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 16
Indians of North America 14
Advertising -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 13
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AIDS (Disease)--United States 7
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Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.) -- History 6
Military discharge 6
NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt 6
Public schools -- Saint Louis -- Missouri 6
Saint Louis (Mo.) -- History -- 19th century 6
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Theater -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 6
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Alabama -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 5
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Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.) 11
Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.) 9
Brown, Michael, Jr., 1996-2014 8
Prince, Vida Goldman Sister, 1933- 8
St. Louis Public Schools (Saint Louis, Mo.) 8
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United States. Navy 8
Confederate States of America. Army 7
Gephardt, Richard A. (Richard Andrew), 1941- 7
Oldham, Marian, 1927-1994 6
Congress of Racial Equality 5
Eliot, William Greenleaf, 1811-1887 5
Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974 5
Missouri Historical Society 5
NAACP (Organization) 5
Oldham, Charles R., 1922-2006 5
Saint Louis (Mo.). Metropolitan Police Department 5
Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 5
Bates, Edward, 1793-1869 4
Delassus, Charles Dehault, 1767-1842 4
Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809 4
Metropolitan Community Church of Greater St. Louis 4
St. Louis Cardinals (Baseball team) 4
St. Louis Committee of Racial Equality (1947-) 4
ACT UP/St. Louis (1990-) (Saint Louis, Mo.) 3
American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri 3
American Red Cross 3
Bates, Frederick, 1777-1825 3
Best, Joyce, 1928- 3
Best, Stephen R., 1926-2014 3
Boy Scouts of America 3
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) 3
Clark, William, 1770-1838 3
Dagen, Margaret W., 1919-2002 3
Eliot family 3
Famous Barr Co. (Saint Louis, Mo.) 3
Freeman, Frankie Muse, 1916-2018 3
Fremont, John Charles, 1813-1890 3
Harrison, William Henry, 1773-1841 3
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 3
Moore, Gwendolyn R. 3
Moore, Laura Ann, 1945-2015 3
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. St. Louis Branch 3
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Youth Council 3
Phyllis Wheatley Branch YWCA (Saint Louis, Mo.) 3
Privacy Rights Education Project (PREP) 3
Rosen, Yvonne A. Marglous (Bonnie), 1928- 3
Schankman, Irv, 1924-2004 3
Seay, Norman R., 1932-2019 3
Soldan High School (Saint Louis, Mo.) 3
Stoddard, Amos, 1762-1813 3
Teasdale, Sara, 1884-1933 3
Teneau, Billie Coil Ames, 1925- 3
United States. Army 3
United States. Coast Guard 3
Urban League (Saint Louis, Mo.) 3
Vashon High School (Saint Louis, Mo.) 3
Western Sanitary Commission 3
Wired Women Dance, Inc. (Saint Louis, Mo.) (1983-2004) 3
Witherspoon, Fredda, Dr., 1918-1996 3
AIDS Foundation of St. Louis 2
Ahrens, William L., 1917-1997 2
American Institute of Architects. Saint Louis Chapter 2
Banneker Elementary School (Saint Louis, Mo.) 2
Belcher's Sugar Refining Company 2
Benton, Thomas Hart, 1782-1858 2
Black, Gurdon Gilmore, 1880-1953 2
Bradley, Charles E., 1845-1927 2
Bradley, James E., 1838-1887 2
Burr, Aaron, 1756-1836 2
Campbell, Robert, 1804-1879 2
Carson, Elizabeth Chapin, 1897-1983 2
Carson, Norman Bruce, Dr., 1844-1931 2
Carson, William Glasgow Bruce, 1891-1976 2
Center for Hearing and Speech 2
Chouteau, Pierre, 1789-1865 2
Christmann, Robert Louis, 1919-1942 2
Clark, Samuel Bromley, 1928-2014 2
Corbett, Katharine T., 1935- 2
Cureton, Carol 2
Dagen, Irvin (Irv), 1912-1998 2
Darby, John Fletcher, 1803-1882 2
Delassus Deluzières, Pierre Charles de Hault, 1738-1806 2
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority 2
Democratic Party (Mo.) 2
Dependahl, Edward R., 1895-1963 2
Dependahl, Mildred O'Toole 2
Dorrill Studio (1929-1966) 2
Dougherty, John, Major, 1791-1860 2
Dougherty, Lewis B. (Bissell), 1828-1925 2
Dreer, Vivian McField, 1916-2006 2
Feiner, Sidney R., 1921-1982 2
Ferguson (Mo.) 2
Frenzel, Milton, 1913-1986 2
Frenzel, Virginia, 1913-2005 2
Fruin-Colnon Contracting Company 2
Gamble, Hamilton Rowan, 1798-1864 2
Garlington, Elizabeth White, 1909-2006 2
Glasgow, William, Jr. (William Ross), 1813-1892 2
Goldenrod (Showboat) 2
Goode, P. Wayne (Wayne), 1937-2020 2
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