Guide to the Archival Collections.pdf - Missouri History Museum

Brewer Family.
Genealogy, 1956. 1 folder [formerly Alphabetical File]
Collection includes genealogical information on the Brewer family of Virginia and North
Carolina.
Cite as: Brewer Family Genealogy, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A0173
Brewing industry collection, 1884-1904. 1 folder
Collection contains information regarding the brewing industry in Missouri and St. Louis.
Collection contains Beer Brewing in Missouri, a list of beer breweries in Missouri (1810-1971),
and St. Louis Board of Public Improvements correspondence relating to the Winkelmeyer and
Excelsior Brewing Associations. (Anheuser-Busch and John B. Busch Brewing Company items
were transferred to the Corporations and Industry Collection.)
Cite as: Brewing Industry Collection, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A2177
Brewster, Charles G.
Papers, 1856-1858. 1 folder [formerly Alphabetical File]
The collection consists of papers relating to Charles G. Brewster’s duties as deputy surveyor
in Sibley County, Minnesota Territory.
Cite as: Charles G. Brewster Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A0174
Brickey, John Compton (1816-1903).
Papers, 1816-1818; 1837-1889; 1909; 1973. 2 boxes; 6 volumes
John Compton Brickey and his brother Franklin W. Brickey, sons of John Brickey, resided in
Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri. John, born February 8, 1816, in Potosi, Missouri, purchased
land circa 1838 and established Brickey's Landing in Ste. Genevieve County. He resided there
(except for two years in California during the gold rush) until 1888 when he moved to Festus,
Missouri. He married Mary Carpenter, who died January 31, 1845. A year and a half later he
married her sister Emily. He owned Brickey's dry goods store along the Mississippi River in Ste.
Genevieve County.
Family and business correspondence of John Compton Brickey and his brother Franklin W.
Brickey, as well as correspondence that discusses current political situations; account books and
mercantile record of Brickey's Landing, 1840-1842; list of boats observed from Brickey's
Landing passing up and down the Mississippi River, May-August, [184?]; typescript letter of
John S. Brickey to grandson, John Randall Weber, dated July 4, 1852, describing trip to East
Coast and stay in Washington, D.C. In addition, there are six volumes of financial accounts of
John C. Brickey and Franklin W. Brickey for general merchandise sales, lumber sales, and wood
hauling at Courtois Mills, Brickey's Landing, and Ste. Genevieve, 1837-1851.
Cite as: John Compton Brickey Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A2064
Bridge, Beach & Co. (St. Louis, Missouri).
Letter, 1932 May 8. 2 items
Typescript letter signed Clarence Reckmeyer, Fremont, Nebraska, to Bridge & Beach
Manufacturing Co., St. Louis, May 8, 1932, regarding pieces of old oven doors he found at the
site of old Fort Reno in Wyoming that were marked “Lily Box, Bridge, Beach & Co., St. Louis,