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This Belva Manufacturing Company flyer titled “Madame Belva’s Beauty Preparations” includes advertisements for several hair care products including Hair-Rep, over-night pin curl kit, solid brilliantine, fast gloss, and pine oil shampoo.

Scope and Contents Records relate primarily to the founding of Missouri's first African American bank. They include Gateway National Bank's feasibility study, March 1964; its prospectus and charter, 1964; by-laws, October 13, 1964; and trust agreement, April 15, 1965. Also includes correspondence and documentation from Douglass State Bank (Kansas City, Kansas) and Riverside National Bank (Houston, Texas), two other African American banks whose officers assisted with the founding of Gateway National Bank. Other...

Scope and Contents The Carolyn Kelley-Bounds S.T.I.L.L. Collection documents activities of the St. Louis Tavern and Independent Liquor Licensees, Inc. (S.T.I.L.L.), formed to represent the interests of African American-owned bars and liquor stores. S.T.I.L.L. prided itself on community service, and many of the photographs document activities related to S.T.I.L.L.’s scholarship fund. Photographs show bar owners, scholarship recipients, and liquor distributors at the annual scholarship banquet during the...

Scope and Contents The six scrapbooks in this collection contain newspaper clippings, programs, and handbills collected and mounted by Charles Turner, which reflect his interest in the status and affairs of African Americans in the St. Louis region and across the nation. The scrapbooks all contain overlapping dates and items from assorted sources. Some of the dominant themes in the scrapbooks include lynching, African American Republicans, the A.M.E. Church, Booker T. Washington, fraternal...