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Labor collection, 1830-1975. 6 boxes
Notes of meetings, correspondence of numerous labor groups in St. Louis; 1830 indenture
apprenticing Richard T. Howard to learn mystery of bricklayer, and bearer exchange certificate
for stores, 1833; circulars, 1929; data concerning Paul Priesler, Washington University professor,
and Victor B. Harris, his attorney, and their attempt to organize teachers' union, 1935; printed
material, scrapbook of clippings, regarding the labor question, 1877-1878; daybooks of the
Midwest Amalgamated Union Label Committee, 1939-1945; biographical data of pioneer labor
leaders including Gottlieb Hoehn, William M. Brandt, and Mary E. Ryder; and Board of
Directors of the Labor Publishing Company minute book, 1922-1930. Businesses concerned in
the papers include Absorbent Cotton Company, Valley Park, Bemis Bag Company, Bemis
Brothers Bag Company, Visinet Mill, Chase Bag Company, F. Burkhart Manufacturing
Company, Lowell Bleachery, Inc., National Bag Company, St. Louis Braid Company, and St.
Louis Cordage Mills.
Indexed in the archives card catalog.
Cite as: Labor Collection, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A0859
Lackay Family.
Papers, 1815-1862. 1 folder, 1 volume (approximately 25 items)
Mary Lackay (1843-1919) was a teacher in the St. Louis public schools for over 50 years.
Contains ribbons, photographs (some tin-type), genealogical materials; copy of bill of sale of
Negroes, 1840; U.S. Way bill for mail to St. Charles, May 14, 1838; pass to Hugh Lackay to
travel beyond city limits of St. Louis to go to Illinois, November 4, 1861; autograph book of May
Lackey, 1865.
Cite as: Lackay Family Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A0860
Lackland, James C. ( -1862).
Papers, 1769-1935. 3 boxes; 11 volumes
Resident of Montgomery County, Maryland, and St. Charles, Missouri; superintendent of
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, 1830-1832; and owner and operator of steam sawmill in St. Charles
after 1837 with Hugh H. and Benjamin R. Wardlaw, then William M. Mills, and finally
Augustus T. Lackland.
Correspondence concerning the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal of which Lackland was
superintendent in 1830-1832; letters received by him after moving to Missouri; letters from his
sons Eli R., Henry Clay, and Norman Lackland; documents of the trial of the State vs. Philip W.
Culver for the murder of Lackland's son Benjamin F. Lackland, 1849; accounts and other papers
concerning Lackland's steam sawmill operations in St. Charles; accounts, daybook, constitution
and minutes (1852) of the St. Charles Practicing Club; and papers relating to family affairs in
Montgomery County, Maryland. Also contains four ledgers and journals of personal and
business accounts of James C. Lackland from Maryland and St. Charles, Missouri, 1815-1855,
including some records of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Co. of Commelin, Maryland; and
seven ledgers and journals of St. Charles steam sawmill firms of Wardlaw, Lackland and Mills,
Lackland and Mills, and J.C. Lackland and Sons, 1840-1858, with the 1852 constitution of the
St. Charles Practicing Society in the last volume.
Cite as: James C. Lackland Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A2478