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Election Returns, 1840 (C1736)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Missouri presidential election returns for Barry, Boone, Rives (now Henry), St. Charles, St. Louis, Warren, and Wayne Counties. Returns for state senator in Wayne County and circuit attorney in Rives and St. Louis Counties.
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Robert L. Elgin Travel and Tourism Collection, circa 1930s-1960s (R0623)
0.25 cubic foot (15 folders)
The Robert L. Elgin Travel and Tourism Collection contains materials related to travel and tourism in Missouri. Included are maps, postcards, ephemera, and a series of promotional booklets produced by the Missouri State Division of Resources and Development.
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Eliot Chapel Unitarian Church Newsletters, 1967-1972 (S1129)
0.4 cubic foot, 6 folders
The Eliot Chapel Unitarian Church Newsletters collection covers the activities of its members from September 1967 to December 1972. It includes sermons from its leader, Webster Kitchell, on the social and political issues of the era, including race relations, politics, and the conflict in Vietnam.
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Eugenia Ellinger Papers, 1900s-1976 (C4668)
0.8 cubic foot (12 folders)
The papers of Eugenia “Gene” Octavia Ellinger, one of the first women to work as an advertising copy writer in St. Louis, Missouri. The collection includes correspondence, handmade greeting cards, photographs, publications, clippings, writings, material from Gene’s 80th birthday party, and miscellaneous papers.
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Rory Vincent Ellinger Collection, 1951-1973 (C3555)
3.4 cubic feet (220 folders)
Papers of a student activist at the University of Missouri-Columbia, 1966-1972, who served as president of the Columbia branch of Students for a Democratic Society and was active in the New Democratic Coalition and numerous other organizations. SDS papers and SDS New Left Notes are included.
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Jennie Ellis Postcard Collection, 1905-1917 (SP0075)
.2 cubic foot (2 folders, 62 postcards)
The Jennie Ellis Postcard Collection contains postcards sent to Jennie (Raymond) Ellis and her family between 1905 and 1917. The postcards include images of various cities and landmarks throughout Missouri and the United States.
Mary Margaret Ellis Memoir, 1914-1930 (S0417)
0.01 cubic foot
This collection contains the memoirs of Mary Margaret Ellis, a second-generation Irish-American. The memoir includes stories of her childhood in the Soulard area of South St. Louis.
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Bill Elmore Papers, 1972-2000 (S0566)
4.5 cubic feet
The Bill Elmore Papers contain correspondence, reports, memos, and photographs documenting Elmore's career as a veteran’s advocate, including his involvement with the St. Louis Area Veterans Service Centers and as the first associate administrator for the Veterans Business Development Program for the Small Business Administration.
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Elmwood Park Photograph Collection, 1926-1960 (S0584)
0.01 cubic foot
The Elmwood Park photograph collection consists of photographs of an African-American community in St. Louis County, featuring images of dance recitals, school children, and the First Baptist Church of Elmwood Park.
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Ron Elz Papers, 1876-2020 (S1047)
8 cubic feet
The Ron Elz Papers contain essays, speeches, photographs, and reel-to-reel tapes pertaining to his career as a radio station at KSHE 95 and as a disc jockey at radio stations KXOK and KMOX under the moniker Johnny Rabbit. Materials of interest include radio scripts Elz wrote for his KMOX radio show, Route 66; essays he wrote on Gaslight Square; and reel-to-reel tapes featuring advertisements and jingles for local St. Louis businesses.
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Engineers Club of St. Louis Records, 1882-2000 (S0621)
89 cubic feet, 209 photographs, 72 glass negatives
The Engineers Club of St. Louis was established in 1868 by a small group of local engineers whose goal was the general advancement of professional knowledge and the interchange of ideas and the formation of a library for reference. The records contain the journals of the club as well as administrative files, photographs, and membership files.
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English Speaking Union, St. Louis Branch Records, 1980-2005 (S1156)
3 cubic feet
The English Speaking Union, St. Louis Branch Records contains agendas, correspondence, reports, meeting minutes, and newsletters pertaining to the group's mission to provide opportunities for native and non-native English speakers to develop their English comprehension and speaking skills.
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Frank Eschen Collection, 1927-1993 (S0570)
0.04 cubic feet, 27 folders, 220 photographs, 1 cassette tape
The Frank Eschen Collection contains correspondence, scripts, newspaper clippings, and photographs regarding the career of St. Louis radio and television broadcaster Frank Eschen. Also included in the collection is a copy of Frank Eschen’s son, Tom Eschen’s, dissertation titled, The Freeze and Beyond: The History of St. Louis Television, A Survey, 1947-1960.
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Espy Family Papers, 1800-1900 (C0099)
0.3 cubic feet (12 folders)
Papers primarily of Thomas Espy, an attorney who moved from Franklin, Pennsylvania, to Fort Madison, Iowa, and finally to St. Louis, Missouri.
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Ethical Society of St. Louis Records, 1880-2011 (S0444)
70 cubic feet
The Ethical Society of St. Louis Records contains meeting minutes, correspondence, newsletters, marriage applications, and cassette and VHS tapes relating to the group’s mission to create and sustain an ethical humanist congregation dedicated to the advancement of ethical values and behavior without reference to religion or a deity. Materials of interest include meeting minutes of the Board of Trustees and annual membership meetings, which include discussions on the Society’s move from Sheldon Memorial to 9001 Clayton Road, finances, and membership outreach.
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Ethnic Heritage Studies Colloquium, Proceedings, 1975 (S0023)
0.25 cubic foot, 1 folder, 109 pages
This collection contains the transcript of the Ethnic Heritage Studies City-Wide Colloquium proceedings, which was held at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri on May 13, 1975.
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Eugene Field Foundation (St. Louis, Mo.) Minute Book, 1928-1931 (C1100)
0.02 cubic feet (1 volume)
Records of an organization founded for the relief of children with disabilities.
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Eulenhorst Society (St. Louis, Mo.) Records, c. 1907-c. 1961 (CA4846)
1 volume
Meeting records, historical sketches, music, poetry, memorials and other records of the Society; the "literary branch" of a St. Louis Turner Society from ca. 1907 to ca. 1961. The Society included a women's auxiliary and kept their records in German.
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Mary E. Bugg Eversole Papers, 1822-1952 (R1268)
5 cubic feet (76 folders)
This collection consists of corresondence, legal papers, journals, ledger books, and ephemera of Mary E. Bugg Eversole and the Bugg, Cole, and Eversole families of Potosi, Washington County, Missouri. The bulk of the collection consists of Mary E. Bugg's personal correspondence, 1883-1941, financial records 1912-1952, and miscellaneous ephemera, 1863-1938.
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Everts, Wilson and Company Letter, 1857 (C0506)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
To H.C. Lennox from St. Louis, Missouri, January 25, 1857. Concerning deposit of funds with Everts, Wilson and Company by R.P. Knapp in his own name for Frank M. Hathorn, claims on funds by Knapp's creditors, and request for money from Hathorn.
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Fandom in Missouri Collection , 1969-2006 (S0317)
2 cubic feet
The Fandom in Missouri Collection is an artificial collection consisting of booklets, newsletters, and pamphlets documenting St. Louis's fandom subculture, which includes devotees of science-fiction, comic books, and television and movie series. This collection continues to have materials added; new additions are added at the end of the collection.
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Farkas Family Collection, 1875-1921 (S0743)
0.01 cubic foot
This collection contains five items donated by the Farkas Family, in particular, Charlotte Farkas. The collection contains three volumes of The Beacon, a publication of Grover Cleveland High School in St. Louis, MO. In addition, the collection also contains a ledger and a copy of the Report of the Commissioners of Forest Park, 1875.
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Oscar Farmer Collection, 1940-2005 (S0585)
0.5 cubic feet, 1 tape, 37 photographs
The Oscar Farmer Collection documents Farmer’s career working for the Saint Louis Police Department. It also contains an oral history interview and photographs related to his work at Club Riviera, a supper club that hosted prominent entertainers and served as a base for local politician Jordan Chambers.
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Farrelly Family Papers, 1884-2003 (CA6412)
2 cubic feet
Papers of the Farrelly family of Allenton and St. Louis, Missouri, include correspondence, business papers, genealogy, photographs, poetry, religious material, and miscellaneous papers. The papers include material concerning Thomas Farrelly's life as a monk in Kentucky, Utah, and Israel. Also included is genealogical material concerning the related Linton and Gross families. The family farm in Allenton was called "Pinook."
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Father Dickson Cemetery Burial Books, 1904-1983 (S0337)
3 microfilm rolls
Founded in 1903 by the Twelve Knights and Daughters of Tabor, a black philanthropic organization. The 13-acre cemetery served African Americans from Webster Groves and Kirkwood. It fell into disrepair in the 1960s. The Friends of Father Dickson Cemetery organized in 1988 to restore the cemetery and promote its heritage.
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Faulkner Family Memoirs, 1980 (S0124)
0.01 cubic foot
The Faulkner Family Memoirs was written by Edward Paul Faulkner and recounted the history of the family in the southeastern Missouri region, as well as the St. Louis branch of the family.
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Martin L. Faust Papers, 1932-1953 (C2354)
0.08 cubic feet (4 folders)
The papers of Martin L. Faust, professor of political science at the University of Missouri, contain a book on personal materials compiled by Faust, and two student papers.
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Feely Family Papers, 1934-1987 (S0557)
0.8 cubic foot
The Feely Family Papers primarily consist of correspondence, campaign materials, and bound St. Louis City Board of Alderman meeting minutes books documenting Edgar J. Feely's career as a St. Louis alderman who represented the 20th Ward from 1939 to 1959.
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Conrad Theodore Fehlig Diaries, 1902-1913 (S0250)
1 microfilm roll
Conrad Theodore Fehlig was a partner in the Fehlig Brother Box Manufacturing Company. His diaries reflect activities of his personal life, including passing references to the 1904 World’s Fair, a Teamsters strike and notes about the weather.
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Fellowship of America's Loyal Irish Record Book, 1928-1930 (S0025)
0.25 cubic foot
The Fellowship of America’s Loyal Irish Record Book contains a constitution, by-laws, meeting minutes, correspondence, and membership list of a St. Louis Irish organization. The organization was founded to promote “good fellowship” amongst St. Louis Irish Americans.
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Fennell Family Papers, 1858-2014 (S0174)
0.6 cubic foot (11 folders, 2 volumes, 1 oversize folder)
This collection contains photographs, correspondence, a contract book, and a memoir pertaining to the Fennell, Carpenter, and Bland families of Maplewood, Missouri. Materials of interest include photographs of the Floyd Alonzo Fennel's landscaping business, as well as Nancy Fennell Hawkins’ memoir: I Remember When: Memories of Growing up in Maplewood, Missouri.
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Ferguson Cookbook, 1939 (S1214)
0.25 cubic foot
Some Favorite Recipes Compiled By St. Stephen's Service League, First Edition, published in Ferguson, MO 1939
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Fern Leaf Study Club History, 1976 (S0104)
0.01 cubic foot
The collection includes a one-page history of the Fern Leaf Study Club, a St. Louis-area African American women’s club, written by Lillie Robinson, the club’s secretary.
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Dorothy Ferneding Diary, 1914 (S0551)
0.1 cubic foot
The Dorothy Ferneding Diary consists of 98-page diary written by St. Louis native Dorothy Ferneding (1896-1992) recounting her travel approad to Europe in 1914 during the outbreak of World War I.
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Chauncey Ives Filley Letter, 1880 (C1824)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
To D.K. Abeel, Kansas City, MO, from St. Louis, MO, Feb. 20, 1880.
Political maneuvering in Missouri for General Grant's presidential candidacy in 1880. Organization and influence of St. Louis German vote, the WESTLICHE POST, Emil Preetorius. State politics, particularly party positions. Also typed copy.
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Chauncey Ives Filley Letter, 1915 (C1881)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
To Krekel Dillon Wilbanks, Mt. Vernon, IL, from St. Louis, MO, Jan. 13, 1915.
Letter about an article in the ST. LOUIS REPUBLIC on Filley's reminiscences of emancipation in Missouri. Article contained several errors of fact on the Missouri Convention of 1861-1863, which Wilbanks had pointed out.
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First African Baptist Church History, 1976 (S0006)
0.01 cubic foot, 1 folder
The First African Baptist Church History contains a four-page document that briefly describes the history of African-Americans in St. Louis as well as the First African Baptist Church in St. Louis. The church was founded in 1827 by Reverend John Berry Meachum and is the oldest African-American church west of the Mississippi River. Many of the original congregation consisted of slaves, who were permitted by their owners to attend. A physical church was built two years following the organization’s inception and went through two other location changes to accommodate the rapid growth of the church’s congregation.
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First Boatmen's Church, St. Louis Collection, 1854 (S0382)
0.01 cubic foot
This collection contains a fourth anniversary sermon, three tracts, and lithograph of First Boatmen's Church of St. Louis.
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First Unitarian Church, St. Louis, Photographs, 1974-1977 (P0818)
9 photographs
Copy photos of First Unitarian Church, St. Louis.
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Daniel R. Fitzpatrick Papers, 1913-1966 (C3832)
1 cubic foot, 16 reels of 16mm film, 16 DVDs
Personal and business correspondence of D.R. Fitzpatrick, editorial cartoonist for the ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH (1913-1958). Letters, magazines, and newspaper articles concerning "Fitz's" cartoons of local, regional, and national politics, including government propaganda for both World Wars. Also includes 16 one-half hour television documentaries on political affairs, entitled 45 YEARS WITH FITZPATRICK.
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Daniel R. Fitzpatrick and Bill Maudlin Papers, 1935-1962 (S0460)
0.8 cubic foot, 15 folders
Daniel R. Fitzpatrick and Bill Maudlin were St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial cartoonists. The collection is comprised of duplicate pertaining to local and national political, social, and economic issues. Included in the collection is Fitzpatrick's "rat Alley" series depicting vice and corruption in St. Louis from the 1930s-1950s and cartoons depicting local and national labor issues.
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Daniel R. Fitzpatrick Cartoons, 1934-1943 (C0820)
0.06 cubic feet (3 folders)
Newspaper cartoons concerned with Missouri politics during this period. Published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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Thomas Clement Fletcher Letter, 1866 (K0220)
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Letter, written by Fletcher, Governor of Missouri, to an unnamed Colonel (presumably A.F. Denny, commander of the post at Glasglow, MO). Fletcher's concern is the need to capture or kill Jim Anderson, a former member of William Clark Quantrill's bushwhackers, who was in Howard County.
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Florissant Historical Society Museum Opening Photographs, 1958 (P1169)
Photographs of the Florissant Historical Society Museum, on the occasion of its opening
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Florissant Missouri City Council Ordinance and Council Meeting Minute Books Collection, 1857-1972 (S0013)
0.3 cubic foot, 9 rolls microfilm (33 volumes)
The Florissant Missouri City Council Ordinance and Council Meeting Minute Book Collection include copies of official correspondence, council rosters, budgets, resolutions, certificates of appointments, and maps, chronicling the city's growth and development from 1857 to 1973.
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Flum Family Papers, 1930-2017 (S0369)
0.5 cubic foot
The Flum Family Papers consist of program booklets, obituaries, and newspaper clippings pertaining to Paul and Nancy Flum's business and civic endeavors, including Paul Flum Ideas, Inc., the St. Louis Ballet, the United Nations Association, and Goals for Americans Foundation. Also included are photographs depicting family holidays, events, and vacations.
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Focal Point Calendars and Newsletters, 1974-1989 (S0266)
0.01 cubic foot
The Focal Point Calendar and Newsletters are a collection of monthly newsletters distributed by the St. Louis Folk Music Society and Focal Point, a non-profit coffeehouse for performers and fans of folk music. The calendars contain schedules of performers.
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FOCUS St. Louis Records, 1976-2014 (S0881)
134 cubic feet
This collection contains meeting minutes, memos, reports, scrapbooks, photographs, newspaper clippings, and publications of FOCUS St. Louis, a group that works for positive community change through developing leadership and influencing public policy.
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Margaret Fogg Photographs, 1921 (S1209)
0.25 cubic foot
This collection consists of 15 black and white photographic prints of St. Louis scenes from 1921. The photographs were taken by Margaret Fogg's father, aviator Robert Stevens Fogg (1897-1976).
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Joseph Wingate Folk Letter, 1903 (C1980)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
To Louis Wiley, New York, NY, from St. Louis, MO, Nov. 19, 1903.
Regretting his inability to address Society of the Genesee.