Guide to the Archival Collections.pdf - Missouri History Museum

of Minnesota, working as the night editor of the school paper as well as writing for a local black
weekly. After graduation, he moved to Kansas City to work for the Kansas City Call. His
outspoken campaigns against the continuing humiliation of Jim Crow brought him to the
attention of Walter White, then the director of the NAACP, who offered him a position with the
national office of that organization. Wilkins moved to New York in 1931 and later became the
executive director of the NAACP. Wilkins was a pragmatist who advocated progressive change
through legal action. He participated or led in the achievement of every major civil rights
advance, working for the integration of the army, helping to plan and organize the historic march
on Washington, and pushing presidents from Roosevelt to Carter to implement civil rights
legislation. Wilkins died September 8, 1981. On that day, President Ronald Reagan declared that
all flags on public buildings and grounds be lowered to half-staff in honor of Mr. Wilkins.
Collection includes photo reproduction of Wilkins receiving various awards, Wilkins
marching in a peace rally, no date; list of Roy Wilkins memorials; two applications and pamphlet
information on the Roy Wilkins scholarship from St. Louis University; two issues of The Crisis,
December 1980 and November 1981; photographs of Wilkins, 1965; commemorative medal
from NAACP.
Cite as: Roy Wilkins Collection, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1746
Wilkinson, James (1757-1825).
Collection, 1788-1932. 8 folders (approximately 50 items)
Commander and chief of the U.S. Army and one of the commissioners of the United States
when the Louisiana Purchase was transferred.
Correspondence of Wilkinson regarding political matters in Kentucky and bordering states
and the Louisiana Territory; some photostats and typescripts; correspondence regarding the
collection.
Cite as: James Wilkinson Collection, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A2342
William Y. Patch vs. R.A. Johnson & Co.
Depositions for plaintiff, 1851. 1 item (18 pages)
The case of William & Patch, plaintiff, vs. R.A. Johnson & Co., defendants, in the Fourth
District Court of New Orleans, Louisiana, related to a dispute over a sale of corn of Russell &
Bennett of St. Louis to R.A. Johnson & Co.
Includes depositions of the following men, taken at the office of St. Louis County justice of
the peace Mann Butler: Samuel Cranwill (bookkeeper for W.S. Gillman), Charles Hodgman
(clerk on the steamer Iowa), Robert M. Funkhouser, George Pegram, Ferdinand L. Garesche
(clerk fo Russell & Bennett), and William Edwards (member of the firm of E.J. Gay & Co.). The
following men and firms are mentioned in the depositions: D.W. Matthews & Co. of St. Louis,
W.S. Gillman (or W.S. Gilman) of St. Louis, J.A. Eager & Co. of New Orleans, and B.J. Gilman
(or B.I. Gilman). Also includes list of interrogatories and cross interrogatories to be asked of the
plaintiff’s witnesses.
Cite as: William Y. Patch vs. R.A. Johnson & Co. Depositions for Plaintiff, Missouri History
Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A2368
Williams & Tittmann.
Papers, 1874-1875. 3 items