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Scrapbook, 1944-1946. 1 volume; 1 oversize folder
Virginia Loeb was the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Virgil Loeb of 727 Radcliff Ave., University
City, St. Louis County, Missouri. She married Dr. Max Deutch.
Scrapbook compiled by Virginia Loeb, documenting her service with the American Red
Cross in Townsville, Australia, during World War II.
Cite as: Virginia Deutch Scrapbook, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A2270
Dewey, Frances L. (died 1976).
Papers, 1926-1932. 3 boxes
A long-time resident of Webster Groves, Missouri, Frances L. Dewey worked as a clerk and
secretary for Southwestern Bell Telephone Company from the late 1920s to the 1950s. She died
October 27, 1976.
The collection contains 117 issues of The Broadcaster (December 1, 1927–April 19, 1932), a
newsletter published in St. Louis by the Arkansas-Missouri Plant Department, Southwestern Bell
Telephone Company. It began as a weekly publication, but later changed to bi-weekly, then triweekly.
The issues contain articles relating to employee and company news. The collection also
contains typescript news stories compiled by Frances Dewey, an employee of the Webster
Groves District office of Southwestern Bell located at 5 West Lockwood Avenue, Webster
Groves, Missouri. These stories, dated October 25, 1927, to June 15, 1931, relate to employees
and affairs of the Webster Groves District office, and were submitted for inclusion in The
Broadcaster. The collection also contains correspondence and other papers of the Eastern
Division, mostly related to the publication of The Broadcaster; and issues of a typescript
newsletter titled “The Microphone” (“The ‘Hook-Up’ Between the Editors of ‘The
Broadcaster’”), dated 1928-1930.
Finding aid available.
Cite as: Frances L. Dewey Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A2650
DeWitt, William Orville (1902- ).
Biographical Data Sheet, 1954 Jan 20. 2 items [formerly Alphabetical File]
Biographical data sheet for the Missouri Historical Society filled out by William Orville
DeWitt, 11 Upper Ladue Road, Ladue, St. Louis County, Missouri. Includes genealogical data
on his family. Also includes typescript letter signed Wm. O. DeWitt, Baltimore Baseball Club,
Inc. (Baltimore Orioles), Baltimore, Maryland, to Charles van Ravenswaay, director of the
Missouri Historical Society, January 20, 1954.
Cite as: William Orville DeWitt Biographical Data Sheet, Missouri History Museum Archives,
St. Louis.
A0383
Diamant, Henry A.
Collection, 1800-1935. (approximately 100 items)
Collection contains bills; deeds; appointments of justices of the peace; legal papers; slave
emancipation papers; a political ticket listing Sterling Price as nominee for the U.S. House of
Representatives; a receipt to Madame Marie Therese Chouteau of St. Louis, Missouri, for use of
city water, 1835; a paper relating to the administration of the estate of her husband, Auguste
Chouteau, 1831, and a receipt to him for an account with LaGroze, 1824; a general accounts
ledger, 1810; and a fur accounts ledger, 1813.