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20, where she became a star at the Metropolitan Opera. In 1930, she married Elmer Ray Jones,
president of the Wells Fargo Company. She died October 23, 1962, in Connecticut.
Collection consists primarily of the letters of Mrs. Elsa Taucke in St. Louis to her daughter
Marion Telva in New York City. Many of these letters include newsclippings from St. Louis
papers regarding the local singing community and local society news. Collection also contains
some other family correspondence.
Cite as: Marion Telva Correspondence, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A2554
Ten-Fifteen Washington Corporation (St. Louis, Missouri).
Record book, 1944-1957. 1 volume
Ten-Fifteen Washington Corporation was incorporated April 6, 1944. The company was
located at 1015 Washington Avenue in St. Louis.
The record book consists primarily of minutes of meetings of directors and stockholders.
Also includes the stockholders subscription list, certificate of incorporation, and other records of
the company. This bound volume has been disbound.
Cite as: Ten-Fifteen Washington Corporation Record Book, Missouri History Museum Archives,
St. Louis.
A1608
Terminal Railroad Association of Saint Louis (Saint Louis, Missouri).
Records, 1864-1953. 14 boxes; 26 volumes; 1 oversize folder
The Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis was incorporated in 1889 under the laws of
the state of Missouri. Its charter was amended in 1944 so as to make its corporate existence
perpetual. Dr. William Taussig, president of the St. Louis Illinois Bridge and Tunnel Company,
proposed the formation of the company composed of the important railroads entering and leaving
St. Louis to coordinate activities of the rail lines. The association would take over properties and
facilities in St. Louis and operate them under joint ownership. Taussig was elected the
association's first president in 1890 and held that position until 1896. The first item on their
agenda was the building of a suitable union station. The corporate structure of the terminal
system was quite complex consisting of the terminal and 21 subsidiaries. As a result of a
corporate simplification program begun in 1952, the number of subsidiary companies, as of
August 1, 1960, was reduced to five. These companies are the following: Terminal Realty
Company; St. Louis Merchants Bridge Terminal Railway Company; St. Louis Bridge Company;
Tunnel Railroad of St. Louis; and the Wiggins Ferry Company. The terminal is a fully integrated
railway company with its own personnel. Its principal functions are the intermediate handling of
traffic overheading the St. Louis–East St. Louis Gateway, the terminal switching of line haul
traffic which originates or terminates in the St. Loui–East St. Louis Switching District, and the
operation of St. Louis Union Station. The terminal's activities also include the operation of Eads
Bridge (owned by the St. Louis Bridge Company) and the Merchants Bridge (owned by the St.
Louis Merchants Bridge Terminal Railway Company).
Collection of minutes, correspondence, deeds, stock certificates, stock ledgers, annual
reports, and account books for the following companies: Illinois and St. Louis Bridge Company
(records, 1867-1879; deeds, minutes, 1867-1868; stockholders minutes, 1868-1879; journal,
1872-1874; ledgers, 1867-1876; and reports of engineers regarding construction of Eads Bridge,
1868-1873); Illinois and St. Louis Bridge Company and St. Louis Tunnel Railroad Company
(annual reports, 1875, 1877-1878); St. Louis and Illinois Bridge Company (minutes, 1864-1868;
minutes of the Construction Committee, 1869-1870, and Executive Committee, 1869-1873); St.