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...

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...