Guide to the Archival Collections.pdf - Missouri History Museum

A2018
Bell, Ovid Hall.
Biographical Data Sheet, 1958. 1 folder [formerly Alphabetical File]
Cite as: Ovid Hall Bell Biographical Data Sheet, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A0105
Bellairs, Kenneth G.
Papers, 1892-1942. 1 box
Kenneth Bellairs was born in India where his father was a British Army officer. The family
moved to St. Louis when he was a boy. He received the nickname "Jock" by attending to the
horses at the St. Louis Fairgrounds. He worked for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat and the Post,
but from 1893 until his death he was the police reporter for the St. Louis Star-Times.
Collection contains correspondence and newsclippings concerning police matters;
mementoes of the Maxwell-Preller murder case which shocked St. Louis in the 1880s; copies of
reports and stories of police cases; a series of clippings and letters concerning Missouri governor
Joseph W. Folk (1904-1908), a long-time friend of Bellairs.
Finding aid available.
Cite as: Kenneth G. Bellairs Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A2347
Bellefontaine Farms.
Photograph Album, circa 1920s-1940s. 1 item
Title page of photograph album reads, “History and Views of Bellefontaine Farms, the
Juvenile Court Corrective Parental Institution of the City of St. Louis.” The album contains 25
captioned photographs of Bellefontaine Farms, many of which show buildings on the grounds.
The album also contains a 1-page typescript history of “the Bellefontaine Farms, Site of the New
St. Louis Industrial School,” and a 3-page copy of the U.S. War Department record of Fort
Bellefontaine, which relates the history of the fort in the early 1800s.
Cite as: Bellefontaine Farms Photograph Album, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A0106
Below, Frank H.
Family papers, 1896-1942. 2 boxes; 2 oversize folders
Frank H. Below was an accountant in Chicago; a member of the Missouri Home Guard, 1st
Regiment Infantry; and assistant treasurer of Simmons Hardware Company.
Collection contains family correspondence including letters of Frank and Nellie Below,
1924-1926 (Nellie's letters describing trip to Europe); letters of Louis and Dorcus Wolf, 1922-
1942; correspondence of Augustus Hager Bryant, 1924-1938; business correspondence regarding
the Simmons Hardware Company, circa 1895-1923; Frank Below's garden/farm journal, 1896,
with clippings regarding gardening; and photographs and family memorabilia.
Finding aid available.
Cite as: Frank H. Below Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A2019
Belt, Henry B.
Biography, 1866. 1 folder [formerly Alphabetical File]
Contains an autobiographical sketch of Henry B. Belt.