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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
Florence Stelzer Collection
Collection
Identifier: A3341
Scope and Contents
The collection contains the following four items: (1) a photo postcard of a young girl with a cat. Written on the back of the card is “May 31, 1909. Walter Stelzer, Augusta.” (2) Souvenir booklet of Wittenberg Public School, District No. 47, Brazeau Township, Perry County, Missouri, which includes the names of the students and school board members, 1909-1910. (3) Age and school certificate of Lena Darnstaedt (born October 1, 1896), Chester Public School, Chester, Randolph County, [Illinois],...
Dates:
1909-1943
Charles A. Stewart, Jr., Papers
Collection
Identifier: A3017
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of correspondence from Charles A. Stewart, Jr., to his family, various newspaper articles and clippings, and a scrapbook, that document his military service during World War II and his time as a prisoner of war. The correspondence includes letters from Charles A. Stewart Jr. to his family in which he discusses general conditions as a prisoner of war, but without detail presumably due to censorship. The correspondence also includes a letter from Commander Winfield...
Dates:
1939-1946
Gwendolyn Stewart Protest Papers
Collection
Identifier: A3327
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of correspondence, fliers, and cards related to protests, politics, meetings, lectures, and a play related to Ferguson, Missouri, and police brutality. There are also several fliers from the national and Ferguson-St. Louis chapter of The Stop Mass Incarceration Network. The papers date from August 2014 to May 2015; the folders are arranged alphabetically.
Ms. Stewart wrote letters to police officials in St. Louis County, the City of St. Louis, and...
Dates:
2014-2015
Lucy P. Stewart Photograph Album Collection
Collection
Identifier: P1287
Scope and Contents
The Lucy P. Stewart Photograph Album documents the life and career of Lucy's father, William J. Stewart. William Stewart was a minister in the Spiritualist church who rose to prominence as a Bishop in the national organization. The album provides a glimpse into the history of an early Spiritualist church founded by African Americans, as well as middle-class Black life in St. Louis during the period of the First Great Migration. Most of the photos appear to date from the 1910s, 1920s, and...
Dates:
1910-1939
Mr. and Mrs. John Bruce Stewart Papers
Collection
Identifier: A2524
Scope and Contents
The collection contains circular letters and advertising material received by Mr. and Mrs. John Stewart, 4961 McPherson Ave., St. Louis, Mo., from St. Louis businesses selling wedding supplies and services, on the occasion of the engagement of their daughter Phyllis to John Fred Schlafly, Jr., in 1949.
Dates:
1949
Henry Atkinson Stine Papers
Collection
Identifier: A1574
Scope and Contents
The collection consists primarily of the overland journal and correspondence of Henry Atkinson Stine to his mother, dated 1850, which recount his experiences on an overland journey with the Glenn & Co. wagon train from Independence, Missouri, to California. The collection also contains the notebook of Mary Ann Garrett Stine (daughter of Jacob R. and Emily Stine) while attending Lindenwood College in St. Charles, Missouri, in 1838; other papers of the Stine family; and a typescript copy...
Dates:
1838-1967
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- Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.) 12
- Gephardt, Richard A. (Richard Andrew), 1941- 10
- Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.) 9
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- Prince, Vida Goldman Sister, 1933- 8
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- Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974 7
- Oldham, Marian, 1927-1994 6
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- Congress of Racial Equality 5
- Eliot, William Greenleaf, 1811-1887 5
- Metropolitan Community Church of Greater St. Louis 5
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- Oldham, Charles R., 1922-2006 5
- Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 5
- St. Louis Cardinals (Baseball team) 5
- ACT UP/St. Louis (1990-) (Saint Louis, Mo.) 4
- Bates, Edward, 1793-1869 4
- Delassus, Charles Dehault, 1767-1842 4
- Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809 4
- St. Louis Committee of Racial Equality (1947-) 4
- 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
- Ferguson (Mo.) 3
- Freeman, Frankie Muse, 1916-2018 3
- Fremont, John Charles, 1813-1890 3
- Harrison, William Henry, 1773-1841 3
- 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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- Urban League (Saint Louis, Mo.) 3
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- Wired Women Dance, Inc. (Saint Louis, Mo.) (1983-2004) 3
- Witherspoon, Fredda, Dr., 1918-1996 3
- AIDS Foundation of St. Louis 2
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- American Institute of Architects. Saint Louis Chapter 2
- American Legion. Women's Auxiliary 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
- 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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