Guide to the Archival Collections.pdf - Missouri History Museum

Gratz Family.
Papers, 1750-1850. 27 volumes
The Gratz brothers, Barnard and Michael, were merchants based out of Philadelphia during
the eighteenth century. Their heavy involvement in the fur trade took them and others into the
American West.
Bound, multi-volume series, with table of contents in each volume, of Gratz brothers papers.
Collected by William Vincent Byars from different libraries across the United States to give an
appreciation of life in early America and to document the first waves of westward expansion.
Series assembled in 1915. Volumes include some originals, essays, newsclippings, photographs,
and photocopies of maps pasted or bound into the volumes. The first volume explains the
development of the collection, and the last, titled "First American Movement West," is an
historical overview by Byars.
Cite as: Gratz Family Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A2766
Gravely, Joseph Jackson, Mr. and Mrs.
Marriage Invitation, 1947 June 14. 2 items [formerly Alphabetical File]
“Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Jackson Gravely request the honor of your presence at the marriage of
their daughter Marjorie [Marjorie Gravely] to Doctor James Cash Sisk on Saturday, the
fourteenth of June one thousand nine hundred and forty-seven at eight o’clock in the evening,
First Congregational Church, Saint Louis.” Also includes reception reply card: “The favor of a
reply is requested, 7134 Maryland Avenue.”
Cite as: Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Jackson Gravely Marriage Invitation, Missouri History Museum
Archives, St. Louis.
A0610
Graves and Henton.
Business papers, 1870-1881. 3 boxes
Graves & Henton, druggist, cutlery, and fancy goods store, Canton, Missouri, 1870s.
Correspondence and business papers including billheads, statements, and receipts related to the
firm of Graves & Henton.
Cite as: Graves and Henton Business Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A2230
Gray Lady’s.
Prayer, no date. 1 item
Gray Ladies were American Red Cross volunteers who provided non-medical services to
patients in hospitals and private homes. The service began at the Walter Reed Army Hospital in
1918, but it did not become officially known as the Gray Lady Service until after World War II.
The Gray Lady Service ended in the late 1960s.
Undated, printed verse titled “A Gray Lady’s Prayer.”
Cite as: Gray Lady’s Prayer, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A0611
Gray, Melvin L. (1815-1904).
Collection, 1774-1871. 1 folder (approximately 10 items)
Melvin Gray came to St. Louis in 1842 and was admitted to the bar in 1843. He married Ruth
C. Bacon in 1851; she died in 1893. He retired from the practice of law in 1893.