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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
Collection
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
J.L. Weitzel & Co. Collection
Collection
Identifier: A3290
Scope and Contents
The collection includes invoices and receipts for goods ordered from several St. Louis Companies: George E. Keith Company, Garrison-Wagner Company, Friedman-Shelby Branch of International Shoe Company, Ault-Shackford Shoe Co., Superior Hat Co., Hamilton-Brown Shoe Co., Roberts, Johnson & Rand, Peters Branch of International Shoe Co. The items are arranged chronologically.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1925-1937
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
Brenda Jones Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: P1038
Scope and Contents
The Brenda Jones Photograph Collection documents Brenda Jones’ life and career, including her position as the first African American to head the ACLU of Eastern Missouri (2004-2013). The collection also includes photographs related to Jones’ earlier work as the Community Relations Manager of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and with the Missouri Arts Council’s African American Cultural Initiative. Photographs related to Jones’ work with the ACLU include souvenir photographs taken...
Dates:
1953-2013
Jones’ Commercial College Business Accounting Book
Collection
Identifier: A3343
Scope and Contents
The bound volume lacks the board covers and a title page and is dated 1864. It is likely an instruction volume for students as it contains several brief sections that would be kept as independent volumes for nineteenth century business records. There is a printed title page for each of the several sections. Some examples include: Day Book No.4; Day-Book No.2 Compound Partnership with notations, “for information apply to Jonathan Jones;” Cash Book - Retail Form; Jonathan Jones and Co:s...
Dates:
1864
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- Eliot, William Greenleaf, 1811-1887 5
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- Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809 4
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- Best, Joyce, 1928- 3
- Best, Stephen R., 1926-2014 3
- Boy Scouts of America 3
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- Clark, William, 1770-1838 3
- Dagen, Margaret W., 1919-2002 3
- Eliot family 3
- Famous Barr Co. (Saint Louis, Mo.) 3
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- Freeman, Frankie Muse, 1916-2018 3
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- Homer G. Phillips Hospital 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
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- AIDS Foundation of St. Louis 2
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- 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
- 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
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