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Hagnauer, 816 South Hanley Road, Clayton, St. Louis County, Missouri. Includes genealogical
data on his family.
Cite as: Hilbert William Hagnauer Biographical Data Sheet, Missouri History Museum Archives,
St. Louis.
A0640
Hale, Nettie Lumpkin.
Scrapbook, 1901-1926. 1 volume
Scrapbook containing personal memorabilia; 1901 graduation programs, etc. from Mary
Institute; Veiled Prophet material; postcards and written experiences from travel.
Cite as: Nettie Lumpkin Hale Scrapbook, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A0641
Hall, Corinne Steele.
Collection, 1841-1953. 4 boxes
Corinne Steele Hall was born and educated in St. Louis. After marrying Dr. Frederick Bagby
Hall, they lived in the Ozarks for three years; they subsequently maintained a country home in
Potosi. She was a member of the Wednesday Club and the Missouri Federation of Women's
Clubs, and stimulated the cultural activities of the clubs and schools throughout the state by
sponsoring exhibitions of all Missouri art.
Correspondence, receipts, deeds/indentures for land in Potosi, and business papers of the
Hall-Steele families; correspondence and newsclippings pertaining to the Missouri Artists'
Exhibition, 1927-1928; scrapbooks of newsclippings and magazine articles (many written by
Hall) relating to Missouri art, artists and club activities; minutes of the St. Louis Society for
Crippled Children, 1949-1953, the years Mrs. Hall served as vice-president of the organization;
and manuscript book of poetry of Corinne Steele Hall, illustrated in water color sketches by
Dionysius Dooley, 1942.
Cite as: Corinne Steele Hall Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A2132
Hall, Mary T. (1911- ).
Papers, 1888-2003. 43 boxes
Mary Bolland Taussig was born February 21, 1911, to Frederick J. and Florence Gottschalk
Taussig. She attended Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania from 1929 to 1933 and then worked
for Jane Addams at Hull House in Chicago during the summer of 1933. She graduated from the
George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in 1938 after writing
her master’s thesis on factors influencing school attendance in Washington County, Missouri.
Following graduate school, she began a long career of public service with various organizations
involved with child welfare, race relations, public health, and world peace, including the 1946
Missouri Children's Code Commission, the Missouri Association for Social Welfare, the Urban
League and the United Nations Association. She also worked with several political campaigns in
the region. She married Louis Benoist Tompkins in 1941 and they had two children. Her
husband died suddenly of a heart attack in 1950. She then married Thomas Hall, a dean and
professor at Washington University, in 1952.
The papers consist of correspondence, minutes, reports, flyers, pamphlets, newspaper
clippings, and other types of material that document her work with various social welfare and
world peace organizations. The papers from the Missouri Children's Code Commission
document the formation of the group, the recommended bills, the final report, and the efforts to