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Fru-Con Construction Corporation Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: P0970
Scope and Contents
This collection documents Fruin-Colnon Contracting Company projects dating from 1900 through approximately the 1950s. Many of the photographs appear to have been gathered for a 1997 anniversary publication titled Celebrating 125 Years of Construction Excellence. Photographs show a variety of construction sites, many in the foundation stages, as well as finished buildings, street scenes, riverfronts, and railways. Projects include various Union Electric...
Dates:
1900-1959; 1993
Fru-Con Construction Corporation Records
Collection
Identifier: A3054
Scope and Contents
The records span from 1883 to 2004 and are divided into three series: Administrative (1883-2003), Publications (1968-1988), and News (1958-2004). The bulk of the records are dated 1968 to 2004. The Publications series is divided into two subseries: Employee and General. Many published newsletters and business catalogs are located in the Missouri Historical Society...
Dates:
1883-2004; Majority of material found within 1968-2004
Richard Fuhrmann Collection
Collection
Identifier: P0764
Scope and Contents
The Richard Fuhrmann Collection spans ca. 1862- 1935 and includes the original and copy negatives that were the source of many of the lantern slides Fuhrmann used to illustrate his public lectures on St. Louis history. There are 481 glass plate negatives of various sizes and 386 4x5 film negatives. They include copy negatives and original images depicting historic buildings, African American troops at Jefferson Barracks during the Spanish-American War, St. Louis parks, and the 1900 Streetcar...
Dates:
ca. 1862 - ca. 1935
Mildred Robinson Gadson Collection
Collection
Identifier: A3380
Scope and Contents
The collection is comprised of items collected by Mildred Gadson. These include her school report cards, an infant care card from Homer G. Phillips Hospital, the program from David Peaston’s Celebration of Love event, and three programs from her grandchildren’s school activities. Most notable is a scrapbook about members of Calvary Missionary Baptist Church. Materials date from 1939 to 2007, with a large date gap from 1958 to 2000. Items are arranged alphabetically by topic...
Dates:
1939-2007; Majority of material found within 1940-1957
Gaebler-Knight Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: A0543
Scope and Contents
The Gaebler-Knight Collection is comprised of the papers of Adolph Nelson Gaebler (1863-1954), his daughter Anita Gaebler (1892-1977), and Anita’s husband Walter J. Knight (1881-1951). Adolph Gaebler’s papers are predominately business records, correspondence, and real estate papers. The papers of Anita Gaebler and Walter J. Knight are personal correspondence, mostly between the two of them before their marriage in 1914.
The Adolph...
Dates:
1883-1954
Daniel B. Gale Papers
Collection
Identifier: A0545
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of letters written to Daniel Gale from friends and family. The letters also include those written by Ella Gale, Daniel's daughter, to her brothers; letters written to Daniel's two other sons, Theodore and Arthur; and letters written to Ella, her husband, and their sons. The letters contain both personal information and business information about the family store Greeley & Gale.
The letters contain several examples of thoughts and...
Dates:
1823-1926
Hamilton Rowan Gamble Papers
Collection
Identifier: A0549
Scope and Contents
The Hamilton Rowan Gamble Papers consist of deeds, early land grants, surveys, a St. Louis court docket book (1816-1833), bills of sale, legal papers regarding land ownership and business agreements, letters pertaining to causes of the Civil War, letters regarding the raising of a state militia, correspondence with political and military leaders, account books and receipts.
Papers pertaining to land cases include deeds from French and Spanish ownership...
Dates:
1787-1964; Majority of material found within 1787-1876
Gardner Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: A2917
Scope and Contents
Papers contain Gardner family correspondence.
Dates:
1846-1928
Gladys M. Garesche Papers
Collection
Identifier: A3040
Scope and Contents
The collection is comprised of letters, postcards, and greeting cards written to Gladys and Creighton Garesche by service men and women and also by their son and daughter in-law. The letters range from 1941 to 1949 and are arranged chronologically. The bulk of the letters date from 1944 to May 1945 during World War II. There are also three photographs that were enclosed with letters. There are no letters from 1942, June 1945, or September 1945.
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Dates:
1941-1949; Majority of material found within 1944-1945 May
Elizabeth White Garlington Papers
Collection
Identifier: A3179
Scope and Contents
The papers are comprised of certificates of awards, biographies, newspaper clippings, one oral history interview transcript, and some correspondence relating to the life and accomplishments of Elizabeth White Garlington. The papers date from approximately 1961 to 2001 and are arranged alphabetically by topic/type of document. The bulk of the collection dates from 1980 to 2004 with the following date gaps: 1962-1969 and 1976-1979.
Miriam Joseph...
Dates:
1961-2004
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- Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.) 12
- Gephardt, Richard A. (Richard Andrew), 1941- 10
- St. Louis Public Schools (Saint Louis, Mo.) 9
- Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.) 9
- Brown, Michael, Jr., 1996-2014 8
- Prince, Vida Goldman Sister, 1933- 8
- United States. Navy 8
- Confederate States of America. Army 7
- Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974 7
- Oldham, Marian, 1927-1994 6
- Saint Louis (Mo.). Metropolitan Police Department 6
- Congress of Racial Equality 5
- Eliot, William Greenleaf, 1811-1887 5
- Homer G. Phillips Hospital 5
- Metropolitan Community Church of Greater St. Louis 5
- Missouri Historical Society 5
- NAACP (Organization) 5
- Oldham, Charles R., 1922-2006 5
- Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 5
- St. Louis Cardinals (Baseball team) 5
- Urban League (Saint Louis, Mo.) 5
- ACT UP/St. Louis (1990-) (Saint Louis, Mo.) 4
- Bates, Edward, 1793-1869 4
- Boy Scouts of America 4
- Delassus, Charles Dehault, 1767-1842 4
- Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809 4
- St. Louis Committee of Racial Equality (1947-) 4
- Vashon High School (Saint Louis, Mo.) 4
- 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
- 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
- Ferguson (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
- 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
- American Legion. Women's Auxiliary 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
- Carondelet, Luis Héctor, barón de, 1748-1801 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
- Davis, Julia, 1891-1993 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
- Frenzel, Milton, 1913-1986 2
- Frenzel, Virginia, 1913-2005 2
- Fruin-Colnon Contracting Company 2
- Gamble, Hamilton Rowan, 1798-1864 2 ∧ less
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