Guide to the Archival Collections.pdf - Missouri History Museum

Papers, 1809-1838. 1 box (approximately 50 items)
Emil Mallinckrodt was born November 9, 1805, in Dortmund, Germany, and sailed for
America late in 1831. He settled first in St. Charles County, but in the spring of 1840 he moved
to St. Louis, buying a tract of land on the present site of Bremen, where he built his home, laid
out gardens and invested in real estate. In 1833, he married an American woman, Elinor Lucke,
whose ill health during the 1850s caused him to move from the growing city to a more healthful
farm on Bonhomme road. He died in 1892. The Mallinckrodt Chemical Works was established
by his sons in 1867. The papers include original and typed copies of correspondence of Emil
Mallinckrodt in which he describes everyday life. Also includes the correspondence of Hugh
Armstrong in San Francisco and Civil War material in relation to Hugh Armstrong. Also
includes a scrapbook of German newspaper editorials by Emil Mallinckrodt.
Original correspondence in German handscript, with German typescript transcriptions, and
English typescript translations.
Cite as: Emil Mallinckrodt Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A0973
Manar, Louis J.
Papers, 1915-1935. 1 folder (approximately 10 items)
Louis Manar, known as "Indian Lou" or the medicine man, in St. Louis in the 1930s. He
owned the first crier bell that was heard in St. Louis.
Correspondence between the Missouri Historical Society and Manar regarding the bell and a
movie that was being made about St. Louis in 1921. Newsclippings in regard to the bell and the
Pageant and Masque.
Cite as: Louis J. Manar Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A0974
Manley, Helen (1894-1987).
Papers, 1911-1983. 6 boxes; 1 oversize folder
Helen Manley was born November 15, 1894, in St. Louis. She graduated from McKinley
High School in 1911. She earned an undergraduate degree from Wellesley College and her
master's degree from Columbia University in New York. She taught physical education at
Kirksville High School for several years, before returning to St. Louis, working as a physical
education instructor for the University City public schools, where she developed the school
system's physical education program. In 1946, she was elected president of the American
Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation. The following year she served as
senior specialist in health and physical education for the United States Office of Education. In
1948, the army sent her to Japan for three months as a visiting expert to advise Japanese
educators in health education. After retiring from the University City public schools in 1960, she
served as the executive director of the Social Health Association of Greater St. Louis. She was a
nationally known pioneer in the fields of physical education and sex education. She died
November 18, 1987.
Papers consist primarily of correspondence, publications and newsclippings relating to Helen
Manley's career as an educator in the fields of physical education and sex education. Includes
curriculum guides and papers regarding teacher training; papers regarding Washington
University's traveling seminars in health education; outline and rough draft of Manley's proposed
book "Health in a Changing World"; Wellesley College yearbook (1915) and other reunion and
alumnae publications; University City Public Schools Christmas newsletters and other University
City schools material; papers regarding school camping; Helen Manley's girl graduate book from