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Women for City Living Scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: A1763
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of two scrapbooks (dissembled) which contain newsclippings, newsletters and brochures regarding Women for City Living and associated organizations; a notebook (dissembled) titled, "A Crusade Starter Kit," containing brochures, pamphlets, bumper stickers and information sheets on how to combat crime; and issues of "Crusade Courier," the official newsletter of the Women's Crusade Against Crime.

Dates: 1969-1982

Woodruff Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A1767
Scope and Contents The collection contains two items that are clearly from the Woodruff family, namely, the bound school notebook of F.C. Woodruff and the Missouri Historical Society family history form, filled out by Frederick Eno Woodruff. However, the remainder of the collection is a disparate assortment of documents that cannot be readily associated with the Woodruff family. Other surnames that appear in the collection more than once are Fauntleroy, Schrage, and Uhlich. ...
Dates: 1850-1957

Woodward and Tiernan Printing Company Stock Certificate

 Collection
Identifier: A3193
Scope and Contents

The collection is comprised of one stock certificate for the Woodward & Tiernan Printing Company issued to Harry P. Walter. The certificate is No. 17 for thirty shares at $25 per share.

Dates: 1937

World War Adjusted Compensation Act Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A3111
Scope and Contents The collection consists of printed items relating to bonus compensation legislation for World War I veterans from private organizations, states, and the Government Printing Office. The materials date from 1919 to 1935 and are arranged chronologically. There is a booklet from the State of Minnesota which provides a synopsis of the act passed in September 1919, and where applications for the benefit could be obtained (2 copies). The State of Missouri passed its benefits bill in...
Dates: 1919-1935

Patience Worth Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A0351
Scope and Contents The collection includes correspondence of Pearl Curran and miscellaneous material relating to her career; 29 typescript volumes of dialogues between Patience Worth and the family and friends of Pearl Curran, 1913-1937; loose typescripts of selected dialogues, 1916-1928; one bound volume titled “Odds and Ends” of miscellaneous writings, poems, etc. by Patience Worth; a typescript by Casper Yost of Patience Worth’s The First Book of Panda, 1915-1916; partial typescript...
Dates: 1913-2012

Pelagie Green Wren Memorial Service Program

 Collection
Identifier: A3104
Scope and Contents

The collection contains the program from the memorial service for Pelagie Green Wren held on 1 October 2013. It includes a biography of Mrs. Wren and several photographs.

Dates: 2013 Oct 1

William F. Wright Civil War Diary

 Collection
Identifier: A3132
Scope and Contents The diary contains daily entries beginning on May 27, 1861, in Iowa and ending on December 25, 1861, in St. Louis at Benton Barracks. The pages are numbered from 1 to 119; misnumbered pages resulted in no page 63. There are two entries for December 25, one of which is out of order on page 93. The diary’s binding has failed, and the pages are loose. Wright’s friend Henson Thomas wrote two brief diary entries on July 2nd and August 7th on the endpaper in the back of the volume. On...
Dates: 1861 May-Dec

Edward F. and Viola E. Wulf Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A3041
Scope and Contents The collection is divided into two series: Edward F. Wulf series and the Viola E. Wulf Diaries series. Folders in the Edward F. Wulf series are arranged by type of documents. The documents are arranged chronologically within the folders and date from 1918 to 1919. The Viola E. Wulf Diaries date from 1931 to February 1968 and are arranged chronologically. There is a large gap in...
Dates: 1918-1968; Majority of material found within 1918-1919; Majority of material found within 1931-1968

Wyckoff Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A1778
Scope and Contents

The Wyckoff Family Papers consist primarily of correspondence of George and Josephine Wyckoff and their family and friends. The bulk of the correspondence dates from the Civil War years and contains letters of George Wyckoff, while serving in the 18th Missouri Infantry, and other soldiers in Iowa, Indiana, and Missouri regiments.

Dates: 1857-1911; Majority of material found within 1862-1864

Dorothy Yawitz and Samuel Roth Wedding Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: P0973
Scope and Contents

This collection contains 2 photographs showing Dorothy Yawitz, Samuel Roth, and their wedding party on December 18, 1924. The wedding party includes a best man, maid of honor, and two flower girls. Yawitz is wearing a flapper-style wedding dress with flower-shaped embroidery and heavy beading, as well as a long, tulle veil. The dress was purchased for Dorothy in France by a buyer from Famous-Barr.

Dates: 1924

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Missouri Historical Society Library and Research Center 565
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United States -- Armed Forces 73
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LGBTQ Collecting Initiative 47
Business enterprises -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 40
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African Americans -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 32
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World War, 1914-1918 31
United States -- Politics and government 27
Gay community -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 22
World War, 1939-1945 22
Portrait Photographs 17
World War, 1939-1945 -- France 17
Missouri -- Politics and government 16
Real property -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 16
African American Collecting Initiative, 2013- 15
Indians of North America 14
Saint Louis (Mo.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 13
West (U.S.) -- Description and travel 13
Advertising -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 12
Deeds -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 12
Lesbian community -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 12
African American women -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 11
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German Americans -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 8
Legislators -- Missouri 8
Love-letters 8
Oral history 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
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Deeds -- Missouri -- Saint Louis County 7
Jews -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 7
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Mississippi -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 7
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Tennessee -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 7
Veterans -- United States 7
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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
Teachers -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 6
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United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 6
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 6
Advertising -- United States 5
African American business enterprises 5
African American families 5
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Alabama -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 5
American poetry -- Women authors 5
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City planning -- 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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Music -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 5
Physicians -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 5
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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
United States. Navy 8
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Confederate States of America. Army 7
Gephardt, Richard A. (Richard Andrew), 1941- 7
Oldham, Marian, 1927-1994 6
St. Louis Public Schools (Saint Louis, Mo.) 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
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
Saint Louis (Mo.). Metropolitan Police Department 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
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
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
Grant, David M., 1903-1985 2
Hadley Vocational School (Saint Louis, Mo.) 2
Hardge, Ernestine R. 2
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