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Cite as: Henry Schneck Receipt Book, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1484
Schneiderhahn, Edward Vincent Paul (1874-1948).
Diaries, 1890-1913. 7 volumes
St. Louis attorney, legal advisor to Cardinal Glennon and then Archbishop Joseph E. Ritter,
named knight of St. Gregory in 1943 by Pope Pius XII.
Personal diaries begun at age 15, continuing through school years and the earlier part of his
legal career. Includes comments on most of the political and moral issues of the day, and
descriptions of events such as the visits of Presidents Grover Cleveland, William McKinley, and
Theodore Roosevelt, and Admiral George Dewey to St. Louis, the erroneous report of William
Jennings Bryan's election to the presidency in 1896, the golden jubilee celebration of old St.
Mary's Church, and the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, to which Schneiderhahn devoted 26
pages of retrospective comment. Also includes a description of an art exhibit at St. Louis
University in 1910 in which several works of Schneiderhahn's father, Maximilian
Schneiderhahn, were displayed. Portions of his diaries and memoir relating to the 1904 World’s
Fair were published in Martha R. Clevenger, editor, “Indescribably Grand”: Diaries and Letters
from the 1904 World’s Fair (St. Louis: Missouri Historical Society Press, 1996).
Cite as: Edward V. P. Schneiderhahn Diaries, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1485
Schoolcraft, Henry R.
Collection, [1818-1823]; 1844; 1902. 1 box (8 items)
Henry R. Schoolcraft (1793-1864) was a scientist, naturalist, mineralogist, geologist, traveler
and explorer; a student and an authority in all that pertained to the North American Indian. At 24
he traveled the Mississippi Valley, visited Jefferson County and St. Louis, which he called the
"Queen of the West."
Collection contains article titled “With Schoolcraft in S.W. Missouri in 1818 by Levi
Pettibone,” published in the Missouri Historical Society Collections, Volume II (January 1900),
pages 46-51; four letters to Schoolcraft from various people regarding minerals, 1820-1823 (in
Library of Congress, copied by Mary Louise Dalton); lecture on H.R. Schoolcraft read before the
Missouri Historical Society by Meade C. Williams, November 13, 1902.
Cite as: Henry R. Schoolcraft Collection, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1486
Schools collection, 1817-1991. 4 boxes
Material referring to primary and secondary schools (public and private), universities and
colleges in St. Louis, as well as in Missouri.
Indexed in the archives card catalog.
Cite as: Schools Collection, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1487
Schramm, Jack J. (1932- ).
Papers, 1963-1972. 10 boxes
Jack Schramm was a lawyer, Missouri state representative, 1965-1972, and the Democratic
candidate for lieutenant governor of Missouri in the 1972 election. He graduated from University
City schools in 1949 and received a bachelor's degree in political science at Colgate University,
1953. Schramm finished his first year of law school at Washington University when he joined