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Wells Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A2364
Scope and Contents

Collection includes correspondence, legal papers, and other documents of the Wells family.

Dates: 1847-1883

Wells-Gordon Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A3038
Scope and Contents The collection is divided into two series: Wells-Howard Family series (f.1-7) and the Gordon-Hutchinson Family series (f.8-13). Each series is arranged chronologically within each family name. The Wells-Howard Family series contains letters and documents relating to Rolla Wells (1856-1944), his wife, Jane Howard Parker (1857-1917), and to her parents and siblings. The Gordon-Hutchinson Family series, contains letters, deeds, and other documents pertaining to Lindell...
Dates: 1825-2015; Majority of material found within 1867-1894

Wesloh-Wohlschlaeger Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A3217
Scope and Contents The collection includes documents relating to the ownership of the lots and dwelling at 7820 Minnesota Avenue. There is also a genealogy chart for the Wesloh-Wohlschlaeger family and copies of photographs of the family and the family home. Items in the collection are sporadically dated from 1869 to 1991. The collection is arranged alphabetically by topic. The earliest item in the collection is a survey completed for Mr. Nicholas Ast by the city...
Dates: 1869-1991

Harold William Westbrook Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A3028
Scope and Contents

The collection contains twelve letters and five postcards written by H.W. Westbrook to his friend, Eugenia Cayce. The letters and postcards date from December 9, 1917, to April 2, 1919, and detail Westbrook’s time in the United States Army in France, Germany, and Luxembourg during World War I.

Dates: 1917-1919

Western Travel Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A1734
Scope and Contents The Western Travel 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 collection consists primarily of accounts of travel in the nineteenth-century American West, but also includes material relating to western travel in the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. The collection includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, and journals and diaries. Many items...
Dates: 1766-1968

Wet Willy's Water Slide (Peerless Park, Mo.) Architectural Drawings

 Collection
Identifier: A3126
Scope and Contents The architectural drawings are blueline copies comprised of six numbered sheets dated from November to December 1978. The sheets include a site plan which shows the entire facility including the slide flumes and lower pool; floor plans and elevations for the building; various plans, details, and sections for the pool and building; and electrical and mechanical plans. There is also a logo for the business in the margins of the drawings. A stamp on the verso of Sheet 6 provides...
Dates: 1978

Whitman Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A1743
Scope and Contents

The collection consists primarily of Whitman family correspondence, including 17 letters and notes written by Walt Whitman, which were published in Edwin Haviland Miller, “New Letters of Walt Whitman,” Bulletin of the Missouri Historical Society, Volume XVI, Number 2, January 1960.

Dates: 1855-1946

Dr. James M. Whittico Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: P1168
Scope and Contents The Dr. James M. Whittico Photograph Collection documents Dr. Whittico’s career as one of the most prominent African American physicians in St. Louis, as well as his involvement in a variety of fraternal and civic organizations. The collection also documents the personal lives of Dr. Whittico and his wife Gloria Thompson Whittico. The collection includes formal studio portraits, candid shots by professional photographers, informal snapshots, slides, and albums.Dr. Whittico ran a...
Dates: Majority of material found in ca. 1899-2010

Dr. James M. Whittico Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A3340
Scope and Contents The papers include correspondence, speeches, news articles, programs, and various organizational records pertaining primarily to the medical career and civic activities of Dr. James M. Whittico, Jr. There are also documents relating to Whittico’s military service during World War II; to his wife, Gloria Thompson Whittico; and to his parents, Dr. James M. Whittico, Sr. and Nannie Whittico. The papers are arranged into three series: Personal series,...
Dates: 1928-2018; Majority of material found within 1965-2015

Kathlyn Wieland Collection

 Collection
Identifier: P1008
Scope and Contents The Kathlyn Wieland Collection contains one scrapbook documenting Helen Penhall and her classmates at Bryan Mullanphy School and one photograph showing a 1913 confirmation class. The scrapbook and photograph do not appear to be related.The scrapbook was created by Helen Penhall (1919-2007), and the cover is titled "Classmates and School Memories." The bulk of the material focuses on Helen's time at Bryan Mullanphy School, from which she graduated at the age of 15 in January 1935,...
Dates: 1913; 1933-1943

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Missouri Historical Society Library and Research Center 628
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Subject
United States -- Armed Forces 74
LGBTQ resource 71
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 59
LGBTQ Collecting Initiative 57
Business enterprises -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 40
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African Americans -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 35
Missouri -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 33
World War, 1914-1918 33
Families -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 32
United States -- Politics and government 28
World War, 1939-1945 25
Gay community -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 24
African American Collecting Initiative, 2013- 21
Portrait Photographs 18
Missouri -- Politics and government 17
World War, 1939-1945 -- France 17
Real property -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 16
Advertising -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 14
Indians of North America 14
Lesbian community -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 14
Saint Louis (Mo.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 13
West (U.S.) -- Description and travel 13
Deeds -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 12
Diaries 12
Families -- Missouri 12
African American women -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 11
Civil Rights -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 11
Race Relations -- Missouri -- St. Louis 11
Segregation -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 11
Steamboats 11
Gay pride celebrations -- Missouri 10
Mexican War, 1846-1848 10
Artists -- Missouri 9
California -- Gold discoveries 9
Europe -- Description and travel 9
German Americans -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 9
Legislators -- Missouri 9
Oral history 9
Soldiers -- United States 9
Soldiers -- United States -- Correspondence 9
AIDS (Disease)--United States 8
Cholera -- Missouri -- Saint Louis -- 1849 8
Fur trade -- United States 8
Love-letters 8
Protest movements -- Missouri -- Ferguson 8
United States -- History -- War of 1812 8
World War, 1914-1918 -- France 8
African American men 7
Arkansas -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 7
Artists 7
Baseball -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 7
Business cards -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 7
City planning -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 7
Civic leaders -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 7
Clubs -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 7
Deeds -- Missouri -- Saint Louis County 7
Gay men -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 7
Jews -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 7
Lawyers -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 7
Mississippi -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 7
NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt 7
Public schools -- Saint Louis -- Missouri 7
Race discrimination -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 7
Race relations -- Missouri -- Ferguson 7
Real property -- Missouri -- Saint Louis County 7
Scrapbooks 7
Teachers -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 7
Tennessee -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 7
Theater -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 7
Veterans -- United States 7
African American business enterprises 6
African American churches -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 6
African American families 6
African Americans 6
African Americans -- Families -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 6
Architectural photography 6
Businessmen -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 6
Campaign literature 6
Civil rights 6
Commencement ceremonies 6
Discrimination in housing -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 6
Education -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 6
Finance, Personal 6
Fund raising 6
Legislators -- United States 6
Louisiana -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 6
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.) -- History 6
Military discharge 6
Mill Creek Valley (Saint Louis, Mo.) 6
Music -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 6
Police -- Missouri -- Saint Louis 6
Political campaigns 6
Presidential campaigns 6
Saint Louis (Mo.) -- History -- 19th century 6
Saint Louis (Mo.) -- Social life and customs 6
Schoolgirls 6
Speeches, addresses, etc 6
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 6
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 6
World War, 1914-1918 -- Military life -- United States 6
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Language
English 775
French 49
German 37
Spanish; Castilian 15
Italian 5
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Names
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.) 12
Gephardt, Richard A. (Richard Andrew), 1941- 10
St. Louis Public Schools (Saint Louis, Mo.) 9
Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.) 9
Brown, Michael, Jr., 1996-2014 8
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Prince, Vida Goldman Sister, 1933- 8
United States. Navy 8
Confederate States of America. Army 7
Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974 7
Oldham, Marian, 1927-1994 6
Saint Louis (Mo.). Metropolitan Police Department 6
Congress of Racial Equality 5
Eliot, William Greenleaf, 1811-1887 5
Metropolitan Community Church of Greater St. Louis 5
Missouri Historical Society 5
NAACP (Organization) 5
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
Boy Scouts of America 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
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
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
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
Davis, Julia, 1891-1993 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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