Guide to the Archival Collections.pdf - Missouri History Museum

County, Missouri, to Wm. Walsh, Hudson, Massachusetts. Postcard reads, “Regarding the ties
we sent you sometime ago. Please make it possible for us to employ more physically
handicapped persons by retaining same. If you find it impossible to use the merchandise, will
you kindly return same? Please return this card with your correspondence; it carries your file
number. Very truly yours, Alice Regan, secretary.”
Cite as: Necktie Workers’ Organization Postcard, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A2522
Neely, S.F.
Real estate advertisement for Tower Grove Parklands, 1898. 1 item
Advertisement of S.F. Neely for sale of lots in Tower Grove Parklands (St. Louis, Mo.).
Includes photographs of four residences and lots. Research indicates that the photograph of the
home on the top right of the advertisement is 3659 Cleveland Ave.; the home on the bottom right
is 3667 Cleveland Ave.
Cite as: S.F. Neely Real Estate Advertisement for Tower Grove Parklands, Missouri History
Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A2274
Nelson, Mary Gay Wyan.
Travel Journal, 1840. 1 volume
Typed transcription of a travel journal kept by Mary Gay Wyan Nelson on a trip east in 1840
with her husband, Thomas Withers Nelson, and their fifteen-month-old daughter, Margaret Eliza
Nelson. Their travel commenced on March 30, 1840, when they left their home in Vermont,
Cooper County, Missouri, and concluded on May 5, 1840, when they arrived in Washington,
D.C.
Finding aid available.
Cite as: Mary Gay Wyan Nelson Travel Journal, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1128
Nelson, N.O. (1844-1922).
Papers, 1875-1950. 2 boxes; 5 volumes
The N.O. Nelson Manufacturing Company was founded in 1877 by N.O. Nelson for the
manufacture of plumbing supplies. It was incorporated on February 27, 1883. In 1890, the
company established the manufacturing village of Leclaire, Illinois, for its employees.
Collection consists of the personal and business records of N.O. Nelson; the N.O. Nelson
Manufacturing Company; and the Nelson Cooperative Association. It includes family
correspondence; business correspondence; history of the plumbing business; material about the
profit-sharing venture (the cooperative association) and employee community at Leclaire,
Illinois, including the breakup of the association; material relating to the bankruptcy of the N.O.
Nelson Manufacturing Company, 1918-1919; background information, publications, and
correspondence on baths and bathing customs; and biographical information on N.O. Nelson;
and a scrapbook. In addition this collection includes the corporate records of the N.O. Nelson
Manufacturing Company, consisting of four volumes of minutes of stockholders' and directors'
meetings (1883-1945); and one register for visitors to the factory located at Leclaire, Illinois
(1904-1937).
Cite as: N.O. Nelson Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A2239