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Famous-Barr Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: P0980
Scope and Contents
The Famous-Barr Photograph Collection documents a wide variety of events and promotions sponsored by Famous-Barr department store to engage with the local community and to bring shoppers into the store. The photographs in the collection come from the office of Helen Weiss, Famous-Barr vice president for public relations and special events. The collection may include photographs inherited from Weiss’ supervisor, Joan Van de Erve, or some 1990s records that belonged to Sherri Gwinnup, vice...
Dates:
1956-2006; Majority of material found within 1966-1991
Fant Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: A0470
Scope and Contents
The collection contains personal letters of the Fant family; tax receipts; and a title abstract for land in the city of St. Charles.
Dates:
1848-1910
Fashions R Boutique Fire Recovery Collection
Collection
Identifier: A3176
Scope and Contents
The collection contains charred papers salvaged from Juanita Morris’s Fashion R Boutique building located at 9844 West Florissant Road by staff members of the Missouri Historical Society in January 2015. The papers represent the broad effect of the upheaval surrounding the 2014 shooting death of Michael Brown, Jr. and the subsequent civil unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, and nearby municipalities. Due to the fragility of the items, they are housed in special boxes which allow...
Dates:
2014
Faust-Busch Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: A2309
Scope and Contents
Collection contains correspondence, menus, memorial cards, holy cards, newspaper clippings, and other papers of the Faust-Busch and allied families.
Dates:
1835-1965
Fehl Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: A3332
Scope and Contents
The collection includes ten sketches of St. Louis residences by George Fehl III; a few pieces of stationery of the George Fehl Blue Ribbon Cigar Company; promotional booklets, programs, and handbills for theatrical performances; and a city of St. Louis automobile license issued to Lavina Fehl in 1931.
Dates:
circa 1920s-1971
Conrad Theodore Fehlig Diaries
Collection
Identifier: A3222
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of four personal pocket diaries kept by Theodore Fehlig from the years 1902, 1904, 1912, and 1913. The majority of the entries are written in English, but a few entries in the 1902 diary and an enclosed newspaper clipping are in German. The diaries are arranged chronologically.
Most of the entries focus on daily weather conditions, farming activities, and family members. Fehlig used the memoranda and accounts pages at the end...
Dates:
1902-1913
Sidney and Lorraine Feiner Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: P1233
Scope and Contents
The Sidney and Lorraine Feiner Collection documents Sidney Feiner's World War II service in the US Army Air Forces. After joining the Army in February 1943, he served in the Asiatic-Pacific Theatre in campaigns of the Western Pacific until February 1946. He spent much of 1945 with the 35th Photo Tech Unit, Twentieth Air Force in Guam. In this capacity he amassed a number of photographs showing operations, explorations, and aircraft nose art. The collection also includes photographs related...
Dates:
1941-1946
Fenian Brotherhood Papers
Collection
Identifier: A0481
Scope and Contents
The Fenian Brotherhood Papers contain several speeches of John O’Keefe; a couple of publications of the Brotherhood; and a scrapbook that consists primarily of circulars, orders and correspondence of the Fenian Brotherhood.
Dates:
1869-1922
The Ferguson Commission Collection
Collection
Identifier: A3067
Scope and Contents
The collection contains four items collected at the ceremony in which Gov. Jay Nixon signed an executive order creating the Ferguson Commission. It includes the five page press release listing the 16 members of the Commission, its task, its budget, and two pages of frequently asked questions. There is a program for the Ferguson Commission with photographs and brief biographies of all 16 members and the pen that Gov. Nixon used to sign the executive order. After the ceremony, Gov. Nixon...
Dates:
2014
Filley Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: A0487
Scope and Contents
Papers consist mainly of correspondence of Oliver D. and Giles F. Filley to their family in Connecticut, relating to early ventures in the tin and stove manufacturing business. Giles F. Filley's firm, the Excelsior Manufacturing Company, made the famous "Charter Oak" cooking stove. Also includes records pertaining to affairs and public service of Chauncey Ives Filley. These include Chauncey I. Filley's letterbook, 1862, containing only two letters, one of which discusses railway routes...
Dates:
1740, 1810-1953
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