Scope and Contents The Carr-Papin Family Papers consist of records relating mostly to Judge William C. Carr of St. Louis and the allied family lines of Silas Bent and fur trader Joseph Marie Papin. The papers include miscellaneous records related to William C. Carr’s law practice, assorted personal and family records, business records, and land records of several generations of the Carr, Bent, and Papin families. The Walter Carr Papers Series...

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The collection consists primarily of business correspondence of George E. Walker, James Y. Sanger, David Sanger, and Lucian P. Sanger of Ottawa, Illinois, to Augustus H. Evans, and various legal papers mostly relating to land in St. Louis.

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The collection includes legal papers, school certificates, school graduation programs, autographs books, photographs, postcards, receipts, and other papers of the Flickinger family of St. Louis, Missouri.

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Collection includes Grant family correspondence, receipts, invitations, stock certificates, and other papers. Notable content includes a letter written by famed engineer James B. Eads and a letter written by Emily W. Grant, providing an eye-witness account of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.

Scope and Contents The collection consists of correspondence, deeds, a minute and land assessment book, legal papers relating to the property of Charles B. Gratiot and family, and the records of the Gratiot Square Realty and Improvement Company in St. Louis. Among the items included in the collection are papers concerning the acquisition of land by Sandy Annis (a veteran of the 70th U.S. Colored Troops Civil War regiment), correspondence and documents relating to a legal dispute that resulted...

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Collection consists primarily of nineteenth-century deeds for property in St. Louis and related legal documents, mostly relating to Anne M. Peters, George W. Kerr, and the Spencer family. Collection also contains two Civil War commissions of James F. How.

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Papers consist primarily of business correspondence of Kenneth Mackenzie; correspondence of Mackenzie with his wife, Mrs. Mary Marshall Mackenzie; and correspondence of Jane Marshall with her daughter, Mrs. Mary Marshall Mackenzie.

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The collection consists primarily of deeds for land in St. Louis County, receipts of St. Louis businesses, and receipts for St. Louis County real estate and personal property taxes.

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The collection include deeds, certificates of titles, house building contracts, and other Spoeri family papers.

Scope and Contents The Property Series, 1766-1979, contains various documents relating to land owned by the St. Louis Public Schools. Due to the 1812 Act of Congress granting vacant, unclaimed land for educational purposes, the formation of a board of education coincided with the acquisition of property. The series is divided into three subseries: Board Documents, Property Records, and Vouchers. The ...