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County. Includes typed translations.
Cite as: Justus Post Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1243
Postal Service collection, 1821-1958. 4 folders (approximately 150 items); 1 oversize folder
Papers include circulars, maps, promotional and historical material, time tables, etc.
pertaining to air mail service in St. Louis and the United States; general postal service related
items; letter dated Washington, Kentucky, 1821, describing postal duties; notice of establishment
of post office in Bellefontaine, 1826.
Cite as: Postal Service Collection, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1244
Postlethwaite, Samuel (1772-1825).
Journal, 1800-1801. 1 folder
Born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania; merchant; settled in Natchez; married Ann Dunbar in 1805.
Journal of Postlethwaite's journey down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers from Louisville to
Natchez via flatboat, with maps, charts, and surveys of distances, plus typescript transcription.
Cite as: Samuel Postlethwaite Journal, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1621
Potters Wheel collection, 1904-1907. 4 boxes; 18 volumes
The Potters were a group of St. Louis women artists and writers who issued a monthly
magazine called The Potter’s Wheel from 1904-1907. Only one copy of the magazine was handlettered
and hand-illustrated by the Potters. The Potter’s Wheel contained a variety of artistic
output, including poetry and prose, photographs, calligraphy artwork, needlework and the like.
The Potters were all young women in their late teens and early twenties and members included
poet Sara Teasdale, artists Caroline Risque and Petronelle Sombart, photographers Grace and
Williamina Parrish, and writers Vine Colby, Inez Dutro, Celia Harris, Edna Wahlert and Guida
Richey. Their mentor, Lillie Rose Ernst, was a botany teacher at Central High School and later
an administrator with the St. Louis Public School System. She alternately encouraged and
challenged them. The Potters went their various way after 1907, some of them to marry, others
for further study or to actively pursue careers in distant places.
The collection contains fifteen issues of The Potter’s Wheel. The issues contain poems, short
stories, watercolor prints, photographs--mostly portraits, various hand-painted designs, plays,
fabric covered designs, and photographs of sculptures. Also in the collection; four criticism
notebooks that accompanied each issue in which the girls critiqued each others work; Christmas
party book, consisting of paintings and photographs of the girls, completed for Lillie Rose Ernst;
tiny notebook describing each of the Potter's personality characteristics, dedicated to L.R. Ernst;
five booklets in published form with poems (one with photo portraits of the girls) from The
Potter’s Wheel, 1910; play title The Soul's Inheritance by George Cabot Lodge; play titled
Whitsuntide, Ye Comets Tail by Will [Williamina] Parrish and Vine Colby, 1908; and play titled
The Pursuit of the Ideal, 1908.
Finding aid available.
Cite as: The Potter’s Wheel Collection, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1245
Pratt, John Vernon (1926- ).
Papers, 1922-1958 (bulk 1944-1946). 2 boxes