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Franklin W. Olin Papers
Collection
Identifier: A2383
Scope and Contents
The collection consists primarily of receipts and business correspondence of Franklin W. Olin.
Dates:
1887-1900
Oregon-California Collection
Collection
Identifier: A1162
Scope and Contents
The Oregon-California Collection is an artificial, or subject-based, collection comprising of a variety of documents that have been placed in this collection over the years due to their common subject matter. The collection consists primarily of letters, diaries, and articles from Missouri newspapers relating to overland travel to Oregon and California in the 1840s and 1850s. Most of these items are transcriptions or reproductions, rather than original documents. The collection also includes...
Dates:
1832-1943
Johann Wilhelm Osterhorn Papers
Collection
Identifier: A1168
Scope and Contents
This collection contains letters between Wilhelm and Minna Osterhorn and from friends and family. The letters from Wilhelm to Minna sometimes give first-hand accounts of conditions in the U.S. Army during the Civil War. The letters from the Buhner family in Marburg consist mostly of news about family and friends. The collection also contains Wilhelm's journal, which has untranslated receipts in German in the front and his account of his own personal history in the middle, with the rest...
Dates:
1849-2000; Majority of material found within 1862-1865
Bill Parker Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: P1040
Scope and Contents
The Bill Parker Photograph Collection contains photographs documenting Parker’s work acting and directing in St. Louis, particularly with the Southtown Players. Photographs show actors onstage; group portraits, including cast members in costume; and parties. Most actors and productions are unidentified. In addition, several photographs show Parker at a pool with Richard Gerichten and Ron Goode. Copies of two newspaper clippings promote Parker's work as the director of "The Man Who Came to...
Dates:
1953-1975
Parker-Russell Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: A1181
Scope and Contents
The collection contains family and business papers, estate papers, passports, and deeds of the families of Lemon Parker, William Russell, and James Russell (St. Louis, Washington County, and Franklin County, Mo.). Included are a travel journal of Lemon Parker, Sr.; land records from Howard County, Mo.; records relating to the firm of Ward & Parker and to the Galena Mining Company; and reminiscences of Anne Clendennin Russell (wife of Silas Bent Russell, son of Russella Russell Parker’s...
Dates:
1797-1947; 1991-1994
William E. Parker Theater Programs
Collection
Identifier: A3141
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of four theater programs from productions in which Bill Parker performed and directed. The productions date from ca. 1960 to 1974 and are arranged chronologically. The first three programs are productions performed by the Southtown Players during their tenure at the Richmond Theatre (1025 Big Bend Blvd., Richmond Heights): A Festival of Song (ca. 1960), The Man Who Came to Dinner (1962), and Dark of the...
Dates:
ca. 1960-1974
Charles Parsons Papers
Collection
Identifier: A1185
Scope and Contents
The Charles Parsons Papers consist of accounts, abstracts, correspondence, bills of lading, orders, transportation passes, crew lists, charters, contracts and other types of material that document his work as assistant quartermaster in St. Louis during the Civil War. The collection includes both loose papers and bound volumes that provide extensive information on the logistics of transporting troops and supplies for the Union army in the western theater, including the Vicksburg Campaign. The...
Dates:
1808-1940; 1862-1864
Mosby Monroe Parsons Papers
Collection
Identifier: A1186
Scope and Contents
The Mosby Monroe Parsons Papers consist primarily of family correspondence and papers regarding Parsons' Division in the Civil War. The collection also contains the Civil War–era diaries of Dr. and Mrs. Robert J. Bell.
Dates:
1847-1869
Kenneth W. Paul Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: A3048
Scope and Contents
The collection is comprised primarily of letters and greetings cards sent and received by Ken Paul, his girlfriend Marian Hentscher, his mother Edna Paul, his brother Bill Paul, and various friends and family members while the Paul brothers served in the Army during World War II. The letters are arranged chronologically and date from 1942 to 1946. The only item dated after 1946 is Ken Paul’s nametag for a reunion of the 302nd Fighter Command Squadron in October 2000.
In addition...
Dates:
1942-2000; Majority of material found within 1942-1945
Rev. Charles Peabody Papers
Collection
Identifier: A1192
Scope and Contents
The collection contains a typescript copy of a diary of Rev. Charles Peabody, May 21– September 11, 1846; a diary of Rev. Peabody, October 12, 1846–July 25, 1849, while he traveled in the West (mostly in St. Louis, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio) as an agent of the American Tract Society; and four travel diaries of Rev. Peabody, 1858-1859, recording his travels mostly in Europe. The collection also contains correspondence to Rev. Peabody, 1888-1889; many of these letters are from his Dartmouth...
Dates:
1846-1889
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- Bates, Frederick, 1777-1825 3
- Best, Joyce, 1928- 3
- Best, Stephen R., 1926-2014 3
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- Eliot family 3
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- Harrison, William Henry, 1773-1841 3
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- 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
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- AIDS Foundation of St. Louis 2
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- Belcher's Sugar Refining Company 2
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- Black, Gurdon Gilmore, 1880-1953 2
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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