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Adolphus Busch, 1915; collection of letters to Thomas Doherty from police officials in St. Louis,
Kansas City, and Chicago regarding his lectures on polygraph machine, 1938-1941;
newsclippings regarding polygraph machine, 1939-1941; various police related brochures.
Cite as: Police Collection, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1229
Political collection, 1814-2005. 4 boxes; 5 oversize folders
This collection contains manuscript and printed materials pertaining to political subjects,
especially elections, mostly in St. Louis, St. Louis County, and Missouri. This material was
acquired from a variety of separate sources, and is housed together by virtue of its subject matter.
Materials include circulars, notices, certificates, maps showing ward boundaries, propaganda
sheets and handbills; election returns; poll books (including one from Warren County, Missouri);
materials relating to national political conventions held in St. Louis in 1896 (Republican), and in
1904 and 1916 (Democrat); and a variety of party tickets for various local and national elections.
The collection also contains two volumes of abstracts of votes cast in the city of St. Louis in the
state Republican primary election, August 4, 1914. Pledge card regarding peaceful settlement in
Vietnam, 1966.
Indexed in the archives card catalog.
Cite as: Political Collection, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1230
Polk County, Missouri.
Collection, 1858-1973. 1 folder (11 items)
Survey of swamp lands and overflowed lands in Polk County, August 30, 1858; document
signed Grant to [M] Rankin of Polk County of 40 acres in township 34, November 27, 1868;
receipt for poll tax received, L.P. Hueye, 1901; news account, 1973, of presentation of plaque by
Townsend family to Polk County. Collection also includes seven deeds, dated 1878-1895.
Cite as: Polk County, Missouri, Collection, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A2466
Polk County Agricultural and Mechanical Society Third Annual Fair (Bolivar, Missouri).
Broadside, 1860 Oct 2. 1 item
Broadside contains a list of premiums to be awarded at the fair.
Cite as: Polk County Agricultural and Mechanical Society Third Annual Fair Broadside,
Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1231
Pollock, M.E.F.
Collection, 1861-1904. 2 folders (approximately 30 items)
M.E.F. Pollock served as volunteer aid to Confederate General Slack at the Battle of Pea
Ridge. In late 1864 he recruited three companies of men, mostly from Reynolds County,
Missouri, for the Confederate service. Following the war Pollock returned to St. Louis where he
worked as a lawyer.
Collection contains official military correspondence and orders mostly regarding Pollock’s
recruiting efforts for the Confederate army in Arkansas and along the Missouri border. Also
includes commission of Richard T. Morrison as aide-de-camp with the rank of lieutenant colonel
in the Missouri State Guard, dated May 18, 1861; rosters of Pollock’s squadrons of recruits;
typescript statement of Pollock, dated January 18, 1904, regarding the history of saddle bags and