Guide to the Archival Collections.pdf - Missouri History Museum

county clerk. The kinds of records to be found in this collection include deeds, bonds,
certificates, etc. (dated 1823-1911, and arranged sequentially by instrument number), to which
the city of St. Louis was a party or in which the city held an interest. Also includes bound
indexes to bonds (1859-1911); contracts (1866-1884; 1890-1894); Kiel Auditorium booking
contracts (1945-1955); deeds and related instruments (1830-1892); official oaths (1847; 1860-
1863; 1875-1894), including oaths of aldermen (1915-1923); tavern, dram shop, and peddlers’
licenses (1857-1874); assorted receipts and bills (1872-1873; 1878-1884); records of election
and appointment (1880-1888; 1898-1915); registers of physicians, surgeons, and dentists in St.
Louis (1874-1883; 1902-1909); records of documents received (1889-1911, 1921-1926, and
1933-1937); records of vouchers (1907-1911); and city agency job descriptions (1939). Records
also relate to real estate vested in the city of St. Louis. This part of the collection includes records
of the sales of the St. Louis Commons (1836; 1843-1856); and records of property acquired by
the city for various purposes (1828-1878). It also contains a volume of St. Louis land surveys,
with plats and descriptions, transcribed in 1865 by the office of the United States recorder of
land titles from the original volumes of the office of the surveyor of public lands in Illinois and
Missouri, which includes surveys of lands in St. Louis designated and set apart for schools
(1840-1865); block surveys of the city of St. Louis (1837) and Carondelet (no date) made by
U.S. deputy surveyor Jos. C. Brown; and field notes of the surveys of common field lots
adjoining the town of St. Louis, made by U.S. deputy surveyor Rene Paul (1826).
Cite as: Saint Louis, Missouri, City Register Records, Missouri History Museum Archives, St.
Louis.
A1360
Saint Louis, Missouri, Committee of Public Health.
Minute book, 1849. 1 volume
The Committee of Public Health was formed in St. Louis by ordinance 2215 of the city
council to help prevent the spread of cholera within the city during the summer of 1849.
These minutes include the records of daily meetings of the St. Louis Committee of Public
Health, the reports of block inspectors, notices of deaths of prominent individuals, and records of
the problems with immigrants arriving by boat and lists of those quarantined, dated June 27-
August 1, 1849.
Cite as: Saint Louis, Missouri, Committee of Public Health Minute Book, Missouri History
Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1361
Saint Louis, Missouri, Council.
Journals of the council, 1867-1868; 1877-1879. 3 volumes
In the 1860s and 1870s, the council was the St. Louis municipal assembly.
These volumes are minute books of the St. Louis Council.
Cite as: Saint Louis, Missouri, Council Journals, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1362
Saint Louis, Missouri, Court of Common Pleas.
Records, 1843-1866. 19 volumes
Prior to 1876, the jurisdiction of the St. Louis court of common pleas included both the city
and county of St. Louis.
The collection consists of three volumes of abstracts of judgment (1844-1855 and 1861-
1865); three return dockets (1841-1846 and 1865-1866); a trial docket (1862-1865); an index