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Jackson Johnson Jr. Post 72, American Legion, Records

 Collection
Identifier: A3285
Scope and Content The collection includes Post 72 meeting notes and minutes compiled by Oscar J. Hammer from 1960 to 1966, information about “Operation Show Your Colors,” 17 membership applications, membership rosters, by-laws, and brochures dated 1952-1969. The first folder contains membership information including applications dated 1953-1956, membership rosters, by-laws of the post dated 1952-1960s, and brochures for the American Legion dated 1966 and 1969. The second and third...
Dates: 1952-1969

Ivan C. James, Jr. Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: P1180
Scope and Contents The Ivan C. James, Jr. Photograph Collection is divided into two series: Series 1: James Family Photographs and Series 2: Community Photographs. Materials in both series were collected by Ivan C. James, Jr., an avid genealogist and amateur historian who was interested in his own family history as well as the history of the broader African American community.Series 1: James Family Photographs contains photographs related to multiple generations of the...
Dates: 1880-1989

Chester Jankowski Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: P0993
Scope and Contents The Chester Jankowski Photograph Collection contains seven photographs documenting Jankowski’s World War II service with the United States Navy aboard the USS Epping Forest and USS Massachusetts. Photographs include a studio portrait showing Jankowski in his sailor’s uniform; Jankowski and others building a human pyramid on the deck of a ship; and an elderly Jankowski wearing a Pearl Harbor cap with a variety of patriotic and military service pins. Additional photographs show the USS Epping...
Dates: ca. 1941-2015; Majority of material found within 1941-1946

Jefferson County, Missouri, Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A0768
Scope and Contents

The collection includes 19th-century deeds, land patents, and tax receipts for land in Jefferson County. The collection also includes some 20th-century newspaper clippings and other items relating to Kimmswick and Jefferson County.

Dates: 1818-1974

Thomas Jefferson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A0770
Scope and Contents The collection consists of 890 documents, primarily letters written by Jefferson and letters written to him, arranged in chronological order. There are also notes in Jefferson's hand, pamphlets, and circulars. Jefferson kept copies of his outgoing correspondence and filed all letters alphabetically and chronologically, making them quickly accessible for later use. His filing notes are evident on most of the documents in the collection. Many of the...
Dates: 1773-1826

Thomas Jefferson Letter

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Identifier: A3225
Scope and Contents The letter is a draft written by Thomas Jefferson to his granddaughter, Ellen Coolidge, on June 5, 1826. It is comprised of one page written in Jefferson’s hand with several corrections and changes. He planned to enclose the letter with one he wrote to Ellen’s husband, Joseph Coolidge. Jefferson wrote about neighborhood young ladies searching for husbands and his health and sent greetings to Cornelia Randolph, Ellen’s younger sister who was staying with her. A transcript...
Dates: 1826 June 5

Cathy Johnson Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: P1134
Scope and Contents The Cathy Johnson Collection documents gay and lesbian activism in St. Louis from about 1979-1990. Photographs show the St. Louis contingent at both the 1979 and 1987 March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights; the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt in St. Louis in 1988; and Team St. Louis at the 1990 Gay Games in Vancouver.Photographs of the March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights show marchers carrying banners identifying the group; signs calling for equal rights; and...
Dates: 1979-1990

Margaret Flowing Johnson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A3233
Scope and Contents The papers include writings, newspaper clippings, fliers, organizational records, correspondence, and photographs relating to the activism of Margaret Flowing Johnson. The papers are arranged alphabetically by topic/name of organization and date from 1979 to 2003. The earliest items in the papers relate to Women Take Back the Night (B2/f.20) and to the St. Louis Abused Women’s Support Project (presently known as The Women’s Safe House), for which the...
Dates: 1979-2003

Ruth Eliot Johnson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A1824
Scope and Contents

The collection includes several letters written by William Greenleaf Eliot; papers relating to Washington University; papers relating to the Church of the Messiah; and papers of the Eliot family.

Dates: 1848-1960

Brenda L. Jones Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A3145
Scope and Contents The papers contain correspondence, memos, newspaper clippings, brochures, and speeches relating to the career of Brenda Jones and some family information. The materials date from 1975-2017, with the bulk of the papers dating 1991-2012. Gaps in the papers include: 1976-1987, 1989-1990, and 2014-2016. The papers are arranged alphabetically by topic/type of document. Items relating to Brenda Jones’ family include an autobiography that she wrote while answering questions for the...
Dates: 1975-2017; Majority of material found within 1991-2012

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Missouri Historical Society Library and Research Center 573
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United States -- Armed Forces 73
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 59
LGBTQ Collecting Initiative 48
Business enterprises -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 40
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African Americans -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 33
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World War, 1914-1918 31
United States -- Politics and government 28
Gay community -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 22
World War, 1939-1945 22
African American Collecting Initiative, 2013- 19
Missouri -- Politics and government 17
Portrait Photographs 17
World War, 1939-1945 -- France 17
Real property -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 16
Indians of North America 14
Advertising -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 13
Saint Louis (Mo.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 13
West (U.S.) -- Description and travel 13
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AIDS (Disease)--United States 7
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Architectural photography 6
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Civil rights 6
Commencement ceremonies 6
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Education -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 6
Finance, Personal 6
Legislators -- United States 6
Louisiana -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 6
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
Saint Louis (Mo.) -- Social life and customs 6
Scrapbooks 6
Speeches, addresses, etc 6
Theater -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 6
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 6
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 6
Advertising -- United States 5
African American business enterprises 5
African American churches -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 5
African American families 5
African American men 5
African American musicians -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 5
Alabama -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 5
American poetry -- Women authors 5
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Businessmen -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 5
Civil rights workers -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 5
Gay men -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 5
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Indians of North America -- Wars -- West (U.S.) 5
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French 49
German 35
Spanish; Castilian 14
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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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