Guide to the Archival Collections.pdf - Missouri History Museum

10, 1896, at Norborne, Carroll County, Missouri.
Papers include letters of Ethelbert W. Lewis, written from Jefferson City, Howard, Chariton
and Saline Counties, Missouri, to his brother William W. Lewis in Culpeper Court House,
Virginia. Letters contain descriptions of affairs in these Missouri counties and also family
matters. Papers also contain a biographical sketch of Franklin Selden Robertson, written by his
son Robert Emmett Robertson in 1955. Sketch includes typescripts of Civil War documents; a
letter dated 1862 from Franklin Selden Robertson to his father, written in Alton Prison; and
excerpts from letters dated 1940 of Mrs. Nannie P. Tidd to Robert Emmet Robertson regarding
the death of her father, Anthony Walton.
Cite as: Lewis-Robertson Family Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A0900
Lexington, Chillicothe and Gulf Rail Road Company (Lexington, Missouri).
Minute book, 1869-1872. 1 volume
This volume contains the records of the board of directors of the Lexington, Chillicothe and
Gulf Rail Road Company, which planned and began to build a small railway connecting the
counties of Livingston, Bates, and Lafayette in western Missouri. It was later used as evidence in
the case of Bates County v. Winters, tried in the U.S. Circuit Court at Jefferson City and
appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. See Bates County v. Winters, 112 U.S. Sup. Ct. Rep. 325.
Cite as: Lexington, Chillicothe and Gulf Rail Road Company Minute Book, Missouri History
Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A0901
Libraries collection, 1867-1970. 1 folder (approximately 50 items)
Collection includes certificates of membership in public libraries of St. Louis; letters to Rev.
Samuel J. Nichols regarding the building of the Carnegie Library in St. Louis on the site of the
Exposition Building and Music Hall, 1901-1902; notices and publication of Missouri Library
Association and the Illinois Library Association, 1912-1914; information booklet for persons
desirous of entering staff of St. Louis Public Library, 1913; and booklets, pamphlets, etc.
information regarding library information, 1940-1969.
Cite as: Libraries Collection, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A2389
Liederkranz Fair Art Exhibition.
Catalogue, no date. 1 item (2 copies)
Includes a list of 65 works of art.
Cite as: Liederkranz Fair Art Exhibition Catalogue, Missouri History Museum Archives, St.
Louis.
Lighting Collection
See Downtown Lighting Association Records.
A0902
Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865).
Papers, 1839-1964. 1 box; 1 oversize folder
Collection includes letters and other papers (1854-1864) written by President Lincoln;
telegrams (1865) exchanged between Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles and officers in
command of the Navy Yard, Washington, D.C., and others, relating to Lincoln's assassination,