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Daniel Bissell Papers
Collection
Identifier: A0127
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of original and photostatic copies of correspondence, vouchers, clippings, receipts, deeds, and Lieutenant Bissell's General Order books, 1792-1795. The collection includes a series of letters from the United States War Department relating to Bissell's involvement in the building of the cantonment of Bellefontaine in 1805 and correspondence between Daniel Bissell and Secretary of War Henry Dearborn concerning the whereabouts of Aaron Burr; the War of 1812; the council...
Dates:
1770-1962
Dr. J. Owen and Joy Blache Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: P1053
Scope and Contents
The Dr. J. Owen and Joy Blache Family Collection contains snapshots, studio portraits, and photo albums showing Dr. Julian Owen Blache, Director of Pathology at Homer G. Phillips Hospital; Joy Pettiford Blache, a graduate of the Homer G. Phillips School of Nursing; and their children, Frank and Joan Blache. The photographs document the lives of a well-to-do African American family in St. Louis, largely during the period of the 1940s through the 1960s. Photographs show Frank and Joan as...
Dates:
1909-1992
Gurdon Gilmore Black Papers
Collection
Identifier: A0130
Scope and Contents
The Gurdon Black Collection consists of correspondence, receipts, deeds, land transactions, account books, and genealogical information. The collection contains the papers of Dr. John Kennedy, including attendance tickets from his university courses at Glasgow University (Glasgow, Scotland), account books noting fees and patient records from his practice, a prayer book, and various land records.
The collection also contains papers of John McKnight,...
Dates:
1805-1950
Lillie Devereux Blake Papers
Collection
Identifier: A0134
Scope and Contents
This collection consists largely of data used by Lillie Devereux Blake’s daughter Katherine Devereux Blake to write her biography, Champion of Women: The Life of Lillie Devereux Blake (New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1943). Although the collection contains few of Lillie Devereux Blake’s letters, it does include several, though not all, of her original journals and
diaries, ranging from 1847 to 1903; a complete transcription of her diaries as prepared by her...
Dates:
1847-1986; Majority of material found within 1847-1913
Bob Blanchard Collection
Collection
Identifier: A3318
Scope and Content
The collection contains a miscellany of items in the possession of Bob Blanchard of the St. Louis Regional Commerce and Growth Association in 1994.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1884-1980, no date
Susan Block Poster Collection
Collection
Identifier: P1049
Scope and Contents
The Susan Block Poster Collection contains two posters documenting LGBTQIA+ community events.One poster commemorates the June 2010 production of "The State of Marriage," written and directed by Joan Lipkin in collaboration with JT Ricroft. It offered a theatrical exploration of the issue of same-sex marriage, presented from a local perspective and incorporating thinly fictionalized stories of actual St. Louisans. Most notably, the play centered on the "Marriage Bus" that brought...
Dates:
2006-2010
William Blue Papers
Collection
Identifier: A3070
Scope and Contents
Collection contains the 136-page diary (1918-1919) of William Blue that describes his military service in France in World War I and his return to the United States. Collection also includes genealogy materials on the Blue and Mapp families, newspaper clippings regarding William Blue, and Blue’s appointment as assistant band leader in the 350th Field Artillery.
Dates:
1898-1932
Hamiet Bluiett Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: P1167
Scope and Contents
The Hamiet Bluiett Photograph Collection contains one photograph showing Hamiet Bluiett playing the saxophone. The photograph was taken by Jeffrey Kliman of Baltimore, Maryland.
Dates:
1998
Charles Ludwig Jacob Borberg Papers
Collection
Identifier: A2966
Scope and Contents
The collection contains a bound volume that consists primarily of the diary of Charles Borberg (pages 29-54 of the volume) describing his experiences during a march from Fort Smith, Arkansas, to Fort Union, New Mexico, to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, with the 57th United States Colored Infantry from June 8 to November 30, 1866. The volume also includes an undated, handwritten draft obituary of John L. Criswell of Stanton, Missouri (obituary is written in pencil and is difficult to read); a page...
Dates:
1866-1885
Bostick-Sprinkel Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: A2378
Scope and Contents
The collection contains a scrapbook, perhaps compiled by Dr. William Bostick; a couple of family letters; and a couple of unidentified photographs.
Dates:
1902-1920
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