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St. Louis.
A1645
Transportation collection, 1704; 1833-2001. 1 box
This collection consists of materials acquired from a variety of sources that relate mostly to
land transportation in St. Louis and Missouri. These items are housed together because of their
common subject matter. The collection contains passes, tickets, timetables, maps, schedules,
transfers, correspondence, printed matter, and histories of the Pony Express, horse and wagon
transportation, railroads, streetcars, buses, automobiles and bicycles. Most but not all materials
relate to St. Louis. Items of special interest include: rules and regulations book for conductors
and drivers of Cass Avenue and Fair Grounds Railway Co, 1885; annual report of St. Louis,
O'Fallon and Lebanon Electric Railroad Company, 1904; and constitution and by-laws of East
St. Louis and Suburban Railway, filed 1923.
Cite as: Transportation Collection, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1646
Travilla, James C., Jr.
Patents, 1926-1982. 1 box
List and copies of patents of James C. Travilla. Commentary by F. Travers Burgess, patent
counsel, General Steel Industries. The patents mainly deal with railroad vehicles. Mostly
photocopies.
Cite as: James C. Travilla, Jr., Patents, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1647
Treat, Samuel, Judge (1815-1902).
Papers, 1815-1889. 2 boxes; 1 volume
St. Louis journalist, lawyer, jurist, and educator; graduate of Harvard in 1837; came to St.
Louis in 1841; started career in law, was newspaper editor of the St. Louis Union until 1849;
became judge of court of common pleas in 1853. He sat in the Dred Scott case. Was one of the
incorporators of Washington University (1853) and one of original directors, cooperating with
Henry Hitchcock to organize the university’s law school. He died August 31, 1902, in Rochester,
New York.
This collection consists of Judge Samuel Treat's recollection of his boyhood and college
days, covering 1815-1851; it includes extensive material from his years as a student at Harvard,
including themes, lectures, class songs, and diplomas; oration delivered before the alumni
association of Washington University, February 25, 1868; discourse delivered at the inauguration
of the "St. Louis Law School, Being the Law Department of Washington University," October
16, 1867; manuscript reminiscences about Treat’s career, written circa 1864, includes some
newsclippings; and correspondence relating to national politics. Correspondents include D.R.
Atchison, Edward Bates, James Buchanan, John C. Calhoun, Lew Cass, Judge J. Catron, Edward
T. Channing, Coleridge, Alfred Conkling, J.J. Crittenden, Caleb Cushing, David Davis, John F.
Dillon, Stephen A. Douglas, Edward Everett, C.C. Felton, T. Fiske, J.W. Forney, John C.
Fremont, Hamilton R. Gamble, James S. Green, R.C. Grier, E.A. Hitchcock, R.M. Johnson,
Henry Lee, Abraham Lincoln, Henry W. Longfellow, Judge J. Lowell, Sam F. Miller, H.B.
Payne, John S. Phelps, Benjamin Pierce, Frank Pierce, Horatio Seymour, Leonard Swett, R.B.
Taney, M.R. Wait, E. Washburn, E.B. Washburn, Robert C. Winthrop, Levi Woodbury, and D.L.
Yulee. Subjects include Thomas Hart Benton, the Civil War, Mrs. Elizabeth A.R. Linn, Dred
Scott, railroads, and slavery. In part copies.