Guide to the Archival Collections.pdf - Missouri History Museum

Contains pamphlets, clippings, maps regarding historic buildings in St. Louis and St. Louis
County, including Bissell Mansion, DeMenil House, and Old Post Office. Items are mainly
generated from the Landmarks Association.
Cite as: Saint Louis Historic Preservation Collection, Missouri History Museum Archives, St.
Louis.
A1426
Saint Louis Historical Documents Foundation, Inc. (St. Louis, Missouri).
Records, 1946-1977. 1 box
The Colonial St. Louis Documents Committee was formed in 1946. The board of directors
consisted of John Francis McDermott, Charles E. Peterson, Arthur C. Hoskins, John F. Bannon,
Hart Vance, Jr., and William C. Fordyce, Jr. Charles van Ravenswaay joined the board at a later
date. As stated on its stationery, the organization's purpose was "To make available the source
materials from which the history of St. Louis and the West will be written." The organization
became the St. Louis Historical Documents Foundation, Inc., in 1947.
The collection includes minutes, membership records, reports, financial records and
correspondence of McDermott with A.P. Nasatir, Kate L. Gregg, et al. Records regarding
publication and distribution of works on colonial St. Louis include Nasatir's Before Lewis and
Clark and Life on the Spanish Mississippi; McDermott's Early Histories of St. Louis, The French
in the Mississippi Valley, and Old Cahokia; and William Carson's Managers in Distress.
Cite as: Saint Louis Historical Documents Foundation, Inc., Records, Missouri History Museum
Archives, St. Louis.
A1427
Saint Louis history collection, 1762-1976. 5 boxes; 4 oversize folders
Collection of material pertaining to the history of the city of St. Louis. Includes original
documents and letters and numerous articles and newsclippings referring to various aspects of
life in St. Louis.
Some French.
Collection is indexed in the archives card catalog.
Cite as: Saint Louis History Collection, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1428
Saint Louis Light Artillery Armory Association (Saint Louis, Missouri).
Records, 1896-1956. 3 boxes
Collection contains scrapbook of Colonel Rumbold of Battery A, Missouri National Guard in
St. Louis; correspondence and bills (rent, repaid to armory, etc.); typescript manuscript titled
“History of the First Regiment of the Infantry, 138th Infantry and Connected Organizations,
1808-1933”; manuscript titled “History of Battery ‘A’ of St. Louis: With an Account of the Early
Artillery Companies from Which It Is Descended,” 1905; cashbook of the armory association.
Cite as: Saint Louis Light Artillery Armory Association Records, Missouri History Museum
Archives, St. Louis.
A1552
St. Louis Magazine.
Scrapbook, 1963-1968. 1 box
The first issue of St. Louis Magazine was released in May 1963. Girard P. Brownlow, the
magazine’s publisher, founded the publication with the intent of creating a magazine that