Guide to the Archival Collections.pdf - Missouri History Museum

(February 9, 1872); officers during its first ten years; list of active members; data on meetings;
lists of debates held; constitution and by-laws, with amendments' act of incorporation; and list of
annual exhibition programs.
Cite as: Union Literary Association History, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1836
Unitarian Church Time Capsule.
Collection, 1837-1880. 4 folders; 9 volumes
In 1834, a group of St. Louis residents from New England and the East invited the Reverend
William Greenleaf Eliot to come to St. Louis to be the minister for a new church. In response,
Reverend Eliot moved to St. Louis and established the First Congregationalist Church. A church
was built at the corner of Fourth and Pine Streets in St. Louis. The building was dedicated on
October 29, 1837. A second church was built at Olive and Ninth Streets in 1850. In 1854, the
name of the church was changed to the Church of the Messiah. A new church building bearing
that name was designed by Peabody and Stearns of Boston and built at Locust and Garrison
Streets in St. Louis. A new edifice was added to the Church of the Messiah building and
dedicated on February 1, 1880.
The collection consists of items recovered from two time capsules that were placed in the
corner stones of the two Unitarian churches in 1850 and 1880. The collection includes
instructional pamphlets on Unitarian beliefs, prayer books and hymnals, documents that
chronicle the founding of the First Congregationalist Church of St. Louis, circulars of speeches
that outline the debate over slavery and the admission of California as a state in 1850, and copies
of the Official Manual of Missouri for 1879 and the American Almanac for 1880.
Cite as: Unitarian Church Time Capsule Collection, Missouri History Museum Archives, St.
Louis.
A2486
United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners.
Note to Otto Rhodes, 1930 Dec 1. 1 item
Typescript letter signed Frank Duffy, United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners,
Indianapolis, to Otto Rhodes, Local Union No. 73, 3606 Cozens Ave., St. Louis, Missouri. Note
states, “In replying to yours of November 28th I wish to advise that if possible you should
arrange to be at the General Office Thursday morning, December 4th, in order that an audit of
your membership may be made.”
Cite as: United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners Note to Otto Rhodes, Missouri History
Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A2556
United Clothing Co. (St. Louis, Missouri).
Account payment card, circa 1950s-1960s. 1 item
The United Clothing Co. was located at 4517-4529 Easton Ave. in St. Louis, Missouri. The
card also mentions the Mr. Sam Big Four Clothing & Furniture Co.
Cite as: United Clothing Co. Account Payment Card, Missouri History Museum Archives, St.
Louis.
A2505
United Daughters of the Confederacy–Sons of Confederate Veterans.
Invitation, 1968 Jan 19. 3 items