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St. Louis Redevelopment Projects Collection

 Collection
Identifier: P0198
Scope and Contents The St. Louis Redevelopment Projects Collection documents various urban renewal and redevelopment projects undertaken in the mid-20th century. The bulk of the collection focuses on post-war projects, including demolition of Mill Creek Valley; construction of the Plaza Square Apartments; construction of a downtown viaduct; and proposals for a River Center complex on the site of Laclede's Landing. Photographs also show buildings in public housing projects; buildings in various rehabilitation...
Dates: 1920-ca. 1966; Majority of material found within 1953-ca. 1966

St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church Records

 Collection
Identifier: A1456
Scope and Contents

The papers contain minutes and reports of various organizations of St. Stephen’s Church, such as the Men’s Club and Girls’ Friendly Society; financial records of the church; items relating to church musical and theatrical performances; correspondence, mostly of Reverend Henry Mizner; items relating to St. Stephen’s-in-the-Hills; papers regarding health services; items regarding church members, and newspaper clippings regarding the church.

Dates: 1886-1951

Francis Hurd Stadler Titanic Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A1554
Scope and Contents

This collection contains original correspondence, telegrams, magazines, newspaper clippings, whole newspapers and memorabilia collected by Frances Hurd Stadler’s parents, Carlos and Katherine Hurd, between 1912 and 1949, as well as newspaper and magazine clippings relating to her parents and the Titanic disaster that she collected over the intervening years.

Dates: 1912-1996

Lloyd C. Stark Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A3037
Scope and Contents The collection consists of 16 letters written to Maud B. MacBride by Stark and newspaper clippings saved by MacBride about Stark. Only one of the letters is dated, 25 July 1917, in which Stark tells Maud of his commission as captain in the U. S. Army Field Artillery. There are two envelopes with 1919 postmarks but it is unclear which letters they held. Being love letters, the correspondence lacks the mention of daily news and events that often prove...
Dates: 1916-1950

Starkloff Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A2538
Scope and Contents

The collection contains correspondence and records of Max Starkloff and his wife Colleen in regards to their work with Paraquad on behalf of people with disabilities, including letters exchanged between Max and Congressman Richard Gephardt, speeches of Max, press clippings, corporate records of Paraquad with organizational structure and financial information, photographs, and information regarding a trip of the Starkloffs to Japan.

Dates: 1977-2002

Samuel H. Starr Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A1558
Scope and Contents

The Samuel Starr Papers consist primarily of correspondence, military papers, and miscellaneous material regarding Starr's family and his service with various military units. The papers also include several folders of papers regarding William D. Price and his family.

Dates: 1846-1904

Steamboats and River History Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A1560
Scope and Contents The Steamboats and River History Collection is an artificial, or subject-based, collection comprising a variety of documents that have been placed in this collection over the years due to their common subject matter. The bulk of the collection relates to river travel and commerce primarily in the vicinity of St. Louis and on the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers. The collection includes more than 60 receipts and bills of lading, mostly dated pre-1900, for...
Dates: 1802-1986

Dotty Steele Poster Collection

 Collection
Identifier: P1016
Scope and Contents The Dotty Steele Poster Collection contains 9 posters and 1 collage documenting performances by women authors, musicians, and comedians, particularly those associated with the LGBTQ community. Posters advertise concerts, lectures, and other performances held from the mid 1980s through the early 1990s at various venues in the St. Louis area, as well as performances in Kansas City, Kansas and Columbia, Missouri. Performers include Rita Mae Brown, Lucie Blue Tremblay, Heather Bishop, Jasmine,...
Dates: ca. 1984-ca. 1992

Mel and Mavis Stein Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: P0977
Scope and Contents The Mel and Mavis Stein Photograph Collection documents Mel Stein’s careers in the Civilian Conservation Corps, United States Marine Corps, and St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, as well as Mavis Stein’s service in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force of the Royal Air Force during World War II.The bulk of the collection documents Stein’s career with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department. Many of these photographs relate to Stein’s role in foiling a robbery at Southwest...
Dates: 1933-2008

Melburn F. Stein Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A3055
Scope and Contents The collection is arranged alphabetically by topic and dates from 1913 to 2016. The bulk of the collection dates from 1937 to 1959. The collection contains birth certificates for the Stein family (Mel, Joyce, Philip, and Valerie), death certificates for Joyce and Philip, Joyce’s immigration documents, and the RAF military records of Mavis Stein. Joyce Stein wrote a letter to Mel with the instructions that he open it upon her death (f.14). Due to privacy concerns, access to Valerie T....
Dates: 1913-2016; Majority of material found within 1937-1959

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Missouri Historical Society Library and Research Center 572
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United States -- Armed Forces 73
LGBTQ resource 64
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
Missouri -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 33
Families -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 32
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
Deeds -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 12
Lesbian community -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 12
African American women -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 11
Civil Rights -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 11
Families -- Missouri 11
Segregation -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 11
Steamboats 11
Artists -- Missouri 9
California -- Gold discoveries 9
Diaries 9
Legislators -- Missouri 9
Mexican War, 1846-1848 9
Oral history 9
Race Relations -- Missouri -- St. Louis 9
Soldiers -- United States -- Correspondence 9
Cholera -- Missouri -- Saint Louis -- 1849 8
Europe -- Description and travel 8
Fur trade -- United States 8
Gay pride celebrations -- Missouri 8
German Americans -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 8
Love-letters 8
United States -- History -- War of 1812 8
World War, 1914-1918 -- France 8
AIDS (Disease)--United States 7
Arkansas -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 7
Baseball -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 7
City planning -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 7
Clubs -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 7
Deeds -- Missouri -- Saint Louis County 7
Jews -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 7
Lawyers -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 7
Mississippi -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 7
Protest movements -- Missouri -- Ferguson 7
Race discrimination -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 7
Race relations -- Missouri -- Ferguson 7
Real property -- Missouri -- Saint Louis County 7
Soldiers -- United States 7
Teachers -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 7
Tennessee -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 7
Veterans -- United States 7
African Americans 6
African Americans -- Families -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 6
Architectural photography 6
Civic leaders -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 6
Civil rights 6
Commencement ceremonies 6
Discrimination in housing -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 6
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
Business cards -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 5
Businessmen -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 5
Civil rights workers -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 5
Gay men -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 5
Group portraits 5
Indians of North America -- Wars -- West (U.S.) 5
Kentucky -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 5
Music -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 5
Physicians -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 5
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Language
English 709
French 49
German 35
Spanish; Castilian 14
Italian 5
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Names
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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