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John Grether, Jr., Papers
Collection
Identifier: A2919
Scope and Contents
Collection contains several commissions of John Grether, Jr., as a notary public and other professional and personal papers.
Dates:
1856-circa after 1896
Thomas Hawkes Griffith Papers
Collection
Identifier: A1887
Scope and Contents
Collection consists primarily of letters of Thomas H. Griffith of St. Louis to his niece Mrs. Belle Resor in Cincinnati, which mostly discuss family news. Collection also contains two biographical sketches and an autobiographical sketch of Griffith.
Dates:
1878-1949; Majority of material found within 1886-1900
Groot Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: A2964
Scope and Contents
The collection consists primarily of Groot family correspondence. Most of the letters were written by James P. Groot. Notable content includes three letters signed Rachel Mull to her sister Maria—dated September 2, 1855, April 5, 1856, and February 25, no year—that describe the abusive relationship with her husband, Barney Mull. The collection also includes 12 Civil War–era letters signed James P. Groot describing affairs in St. Louis and his military service in the 6th Iowa Infantry.
Dates:
1836-1886
Francis T. Guelker Log Cabins Collection
Collection
Identifier: P0909
Scope and Contents
The Francis T. Guelker Log Cabins Collection was assembled by Guelker, with the help of his wife Catherine "Bobbie" Guelker, between 1992 and 2007 and contains photographs and research documenting log structures within 100 miles of St. Louis, in both Missouri and Illinois. Log cabins are the predominant building type, but other structures such as barns, corn cribs, sheds, smokehouses, and churches are also included.Guelker's research represents an avid collector’s interest in...
Dates:
1964-2007; Majority of material found within 1992-2007
Guignon-Miltenberger-Ziegler Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: A3045
Scope and Contents
The collection is divided into two series: Family and Business. The Family series is arranged chronologically and relates to the Guignon and Miltenberger families. It spans from 1863 to circa 2009 and contains correspondence, articles about family members, clippings, and a memoir (photocopy). There are no letters for the years 1887 or 1892 through 1894. The Business series spans from 1797 to...
Dates:
1797-ca. 2009; Majority of material found within 1834-1859; 1881-1907
John H. Gundlach Collection
Collection
Identifier: A0630
Scope and Contents
The John H. Gundlach Papers consist primarily of correspondence, clippings, notes, memoranda, and printed material that document Gundlach’s activities in city planning and civic affairs, as well as his interest in the theater and collecting manuscripts.
The Civic Affairs Series comprises correspondence, memoranda, notes, and clippings arranged by the various St. Louis city improvement projects that Gundlach was instrumental in...
Dates:
1848-1927
Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries
Collection
Identifier: A0632
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of 22 volumes of diaries dating July 7, 1849-April 7, 1863. In addition to nearly daily diary entries, the collection includes newspaper clippings, letters, photographs, sketches, and other items inserted into the volumes by Gunn. Gunn wrote extensively about his experiences in the New York publishing and literary world, encounters with well-known literary and artistic personalities (such as Fanny Fern, James Parton, Walt Whitman, Fitz James O’Brien,...
Dates:
1818-1902; Majority of material found within 1849-1863
Theonis K. Guyton Collection
Collection
Identifier: A3147
Scope and Contents
The collection is comprised primarily of St. Louis civic and religious event programs and individual memorial service programs collected by Theonis Guyton during her service in many church and philanthropic organizations in the St. Louis African American community from 1948 to 2017. The bulk of the collection dates from 1993 to 2018. There are several notable date gaps: 1952-1953, 1955-1956, 1958-1962, 1966-1968, 1970-1973, 1976-1980, and 1989-1992. The collection is arranged...
Dates:
1946-2018; Majority of material found within 1993-2018
Leeman Hackworth, "Memoirs of the Hippy Era" Reminiscence
Collection
Identifier: A3119
Scope and Contents
The collection contains a four-page (typed) reminiscence entitled "Memoirs of the Hippy Era" written by Leeman Hackworth about his experiences with the Ferguson, Missouri, police department in the late 1960s and 1970s. The memoir focuses on teen activities centered around Wabash Park during the hippy/anti-war era, circa 1969. Hackworth remembers teens and pre-teens using marijuana, alcohol, and other drugs in the area. Some runaways explained that Ferguson’s Wabash Park was...
Dates:
ca. 2017
Philip Henry Hale Papers
Collection
Identifier: A3090
Scope and Contents
The collection is comprised mostly of correspondence with newspaper clippings, typescripts of Hale’s writings, and a few photographs. The papers are arranged alphabetically by topic and range in date from 1896 to 1927. The correspondence has several gaps between 1896 and 1926, with the largest between 1905 and 1913.
There is not a large amount of correspondence in the papers, but the letters reveal bits of information about several facets of Hale’s life. In the earliest...
Dates:
1896-1927
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