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Collection consists primarily of receipts and correspondence relating to Cosmos Lodge No.
282.
Finding aid available.
Cite as: Max A. Wittmann Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis
A2418
Wm. R. Warner & Co.
Advertisement, no date. 1 item
Wm. R. Warner & Co., manufacturing pharmaceutists, had laboratories in Philadelphia and
St. Louis.
This four-page advertisement promotes lithia tablets, bromo soda, tono sumbul cordial, liquid
pancreopepsine, sodium phosphate, and pill cascara cathartic.
Cite as: Wm. R. Warner & Co. Advertisement, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1762
Wodicka, Arthur W.
Business records, 1937-1981. 3 folders
Arthur Wodicka was a St. Louis engraver.
Collection consists of various records of the engraving business of Arthur Wodicka,
including three account books. The first of these books lists monthly income for 1952, and also
includes earlier sketches of engravings. The second book lists monthly income and expenses for
1967 to 1969. The third book lists monthly income and expenses for 1970 to 1977. Collection
also contains a book of engraving formulas, business receipts, business cards, engraving sketches
and a certificate of the Wodicka coat of arms.
Cite as: Arthur W. Wodicka Business Records, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
Woman's Committee, Council of National Defense. Missouri Division (Saint Louis,
Missouri).
Records, 1917-1919.
See Council of National Defense. Woman’s Committee, Missouri Division Records, 1917-1919.
A1763
“Women for City Living.”
Scrapbooks, 1969-1982. 1 box; 1 oversize box
Women for City Living was organized in the summer of 1969 when Delphine McClellan,
along with Virginia Feinberg and Anna Busch, began to explore what other American women
were doing about crime. McClellan, a lifelong resident of St. Louis’ Central West End, decided
to take a stand when robberies, burglaries, arson and sexual assaults in the West End prompted
many residents to abandon the area. The group soon had 600 members, both black and white,
and first focused its efforts on the enforcement of building codes, and tracking down absentee
landlords to ensure that owners kept up their buildings. Women for City Living worked to close
down houses of prostitution and to help families buy homes in the city. In 1970, at the request of
Mayor Alfonso J. Cervantes, McClellan and Women for City Living developed the Women’s
Crusade Against Crime, a city-wide effort to combat crime in numerous neighborhoods,
including Walnut Park, Compton Heights, and The Hill. The Women’s Crusade took on drug
dealers, tracked down stolen goods, and advocated job training in the state correctional system.
For her work as president of Women for City Living and co-chair of the Women’s Crusade,
Delphine McClellan received the St. Louis Globe-Democrat’s 1970 Woman of Achievement