Guide to the Archival Collections.pdf - Missouri History Museum

Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, dated February 8, 1899; photocopies of
Schuster’s Civil War compiled service record; undated typescript notes (2 pages) on the
participation of Germans in the Civil War; and typescript letter of Samuel Simmons to the editor
of the Globe-Democrat, dated St. Louis, May 9, 1881, which contains his reminiscences (7
pages) of the capture of Camp Jackson. Also contains papers regarding his governmental
appointments in St. Louis.
Some German.
Cite as: George Daniel Schuster Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1826
Schwerdtmann, Otto F.
Papers, 1904. 3 folders
Collection contains several invitations to events association with the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition in St. Louis, 1904; two letters signed S. Doi to Mr. Schwerdtmann, October 3, 1903,
and October 3, 1904 (one of which is addressed from 7 Lewis Place, St. Louis); business cards of
Henry D’Allemagne, H.C. Pearson, Julien Romieux, S. Doi, Milan H. Hulbert, and Robert E.
Tommerson; program for the 25th national festival of the North American Saenger-Bund in St.
Louis, June 13-16, 1888; four business letters and receipts of Joh. Heckemann, forwarding and
shipping merchant, Hamburg, Germany, to the Schwerdtmann Toy Company; and two colored
postcards that show interior and exterior views of the Schwerdtmann Toy Company building at
811-813 Washington Ave., St. Louis.
Cite as: Otto F. Schwerdtmann Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1492
Scott, Bertha Warburton Drake (1866-1945).
Diary, 1893-1945. 1 volume
Daily journal of St. Louis woman, commencing with her marriage to Henry Clarkson Scott
(1859-1911) in 1893 until her death. Typescript only.
Cite as: Bertha Warburton Drake Scott Diary, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1493
Scott, Dred ( -1858).
Collection, 1843-1968. 1 box (approximately 100 items)
In 1832, John Emerson, an army surgeon in St. Louis, purchased the slave, Dred Scott. Scott
accompanied Emerson to posts in Missouri, Illinois, and the Minnesota Territory. In Minnesota
he married, and his wife gave birth to their first child in free territory. Scott then returned with
Emerson to St. Louis, and after the latter's death in 1843, he sought freedom for himself and his
family, first unsuccessfully through purchase and then in the Missouri courts, beginning in 1846.
Dred Scott lost both cases. He was manumitted with his family on May 26, 1857, after the death
of Sanford, but he died of consumption in St. Louis on Sept 17, 1858.
Collection includes typescripts of papers regarding court cases, 1844, 1846, 1847, 1851-
1853, 1853-1854; brief of the plaintiff, Supreme Court, December 1855; correspondence
regarding portrait of Scott, J. Milton Turner to Edmund Walsh, secretary of the Missouri
Historical Society; newsclippings, articles regarding Dred Scott's life and the trial; letter of Julia
Webster Blow to Frederick Hill, March 13, 1907, regarding her reminiscences of Scott.
Cite as: Dred Scott Collection, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1494