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Collection includes documents concerning Pelham, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; also<br />

issues of <strong>the</strong> Massachusetts Gazette.<br />

Cite as: Melvin L. Gray Collection, <strong>Missouri</strong> His<strong>to</strong>ry <strong>Museum</strong> Archives, St. Louis.<br />

A2443<br />

Great Busch Gardens Balloon Rally, The.<br />

Poster, [1975] Sept 20-21. 1 item.<br />

This annual balloon race, held in Forest Park (St. Louis, <strong>Missouri</strong>), later became known as<br />

<strong>the</strong> Great Forest Park Balloon Race.<br />

Cite as: The Great Busch Gardens Balloon Rally Poster, <strong>Missouri</strong> His<strong>to</strong>ry <strong>Museum</strong> Archives, St.<br />

Louis.<br />

A1617<br />

“The Great Migration: A Discussion of Personal Life His<strong>to</strong>ries During 1930-1950.”<br />

Oral His<strong>to</strong>ry Project, 1995. 11 folders<br />

Collection contains transcripts of interviews of African-American senior citizens in St. Louis<br />

regarding <strong>the</strong>ir personal life his<strong>to</strong>ries. Topics discussed include relocating from <strong>the</strong> South <strong>to</strong> St.<br />

Louis; farming and sharecropping; working on <strong>the</strong> railroad; segregation; education; housing;<br />

religious and family life; and general memories regarding life in St. Louis. Interviews were<br />

conducted by students from St. Louis Community College-Meramec. Interviewees include<br />

Brown Bogan, Leomia Harrell, Rosie Lee Claypool, Jessie Hill, Ollie Griffin, Mae Louise Black<br />

Coleman, James Dorsey, Mabel Corynn Foog, Paul Porter, and Mrs. Sarah Yarber. The latter<br />

interview contains a brief typescript his<strong>to</strong>ry of <strong>the</strong> Single<strong>to</strong>n family.<br />

Cite as: “The Great Migration: A Discussion of Personal Life His<strong>to</strong>ries During 1930-1950" Oral<br />

His<strong>to</strong>ry Project, <strong>Missouri</strong> His<strong>to</strong>ry <strong>Museum</strong> Archives, St. Louis.<br />

A2767<br />

Green, Allen Percival (1875- ).<br />

Biographical Data Sheet, 1953 Nov 25. 1 item [formerly Alphabetical File]<br />

Biographical data sheet for <strong>the</strong> <strong>Missouri</strong> His<strong>to</strong>rical Society filled out by Allen Percival<br />

Green, Mexico, <strong>Missouri</strong>. Includes genealogical data on his family.<br />

Cite as: Allen Percival Green Biographical Data Sheet, <strong>Missouri</strong> His<strong>to</strong>ry <strong>Museum</strong> Archives, St.<br />

Louis.<br />

A0612<br />

Green, Caleb (1837-1901).<br />

Collection, 1767-1886. 3 folders; 5 volumes (approximately 50 items)<br />

Caleb Green was born in England and came <strong>to</strong> America in 1854 with a group of English<br />

Mormons who were heading for Salt Lake City. In August 1856, he was engaged by Abraham O.<br />

Smoot <strong>to</strong> cross <strong>the</strong> plains as a clerk and assistant commissary <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> church train. In 1857, he<br />

escaped from <strong>the</strong> Mormons, and came <strong>to</strong> St. Louis. In July 1859, he became a citizen of <strong>the</strong><br />

United Sates and <strong>the</strong> following August he married Jane E. Brown of St. Louis. He was a broker<br />

by trade.<br />

Collection includes genealogical records of <strong>the</strong> Green and Essex families; Caleb Green's<br />

citizenship and marriage certificates; journals of Edwin F. Green describing a trip abroad, 1886<br />

and 1891; journal (1862) reviewing <strong>the</strong> trip of <strong>the</strong> English Mormons who came <strong>to</strong> America in<br />

1854, headed for Salt Lake City, and Caleb Green's account of <strong>the</strong> trip from Atchison, Kansas,<br />

beginning in August 1856; journal of Caleb Green's escape from Mormonism and Salt Lake City

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