Association of St. Louis Area Archivists
 

 

 

Missouri History Museum--Archives

WEB SITE:

http://www.mohistory.org/

ADDRESS:

225 S. Skinker
St. Louis, MO 63105

MAIL:

P.O. Box 11940
St. Louis, Missouri 63112-0040

TELEPHONE

(314) 746-4510

EMAIL

CONTACT:

Dennis Northcott, Reference Archivist

HOURS:

Tues-Fri., 12pm-5pm, Sat. 10am-5pm.

ACCESS AND USE:

Open to researchers. Materials do not circulate.

SPECIAL SERVICES AVAILABLE:

  • Interlibrary loan
  • Photographic services
  • Publications
  • Tours
  • Educational programs
  • Exhibits
  • Audio-visual equipment
  • Photocopying
  • Microfilming

GENERAL SCOPE AND CONTENTS:

General historical collection for St.Louis, Missouri, and Louisiana Territory, from French settlements to present. Collectionincludes government records, family papers, correspondence, businessjournals, and corporate records.

MAJOR COLLECTIONS:

  1. St. Louis Archives, (1764-1804), 18 boxes. French andSpanish Colonial Archives.
  2. St. Louis Court House Papers, (1801-1967), 15 boxes.
  3. New Madrid Archives, (1791-1910), 11 boxes. Original papersfrom New Madrid County Court.
  4. St. Genevieve County Archives, (1761-1854), 7 boxes.
  5. St. Charles County Archives, (1779-1806), 3 boxes.
  6. Washington County Court Collection, (1788-1954), 7 boxes. Court records.
  7. St. Louis City Records, (1835-1965).
  8. Missouri Tax Lists, (1805-1863), 35 volumes.
  9. Archives of the Indies, (1766-1805), 10 boxes. Copies of Spanish Colonial Records.
  10. Chouteau Collection, (1752-1910), 60 boxes. Family papers;business and personal correspondence; fur trade.
  11. Clark Family Papers, (1766-1902), 17 boxes. William Clarkpapers, including journals of expedition.
  12. Meriwether Lewis Papers, (1777-1954), 2 boxes. Correspondence and journals.
  13. Thomas Jefferson Papers, (1763-1826), 5 boxes.
  14. William Ashley Papers, (1811-1868) 1 box. Rocky Mountain Fur Co.
  15. Sara Teasdale Papers, (1905-1956), 3 boxes. Correspondence, manuscripts, diaries.
  16. Louisiana Purchase Exposition Papers, (1898-1918), 28 boxes.Official Records of the St. Louis World's Fair, 1904.
  17. Potter's Wheel Collection, (1904-1908), 3 boxes. Originalmanuscript journal compiled by St. Louis women writers andartists.
  18. Richard Graham Papers, (1795-1938), 12 boxes. Correspondence;military and Indian Agency records.
  19. Ludlow-Field-Maury Papers, (1784-1949), 17 boxes. St. Louis Theater.
  20. Dexter P. Tiffany Collection, (1808-1902), 78 boxes. St. Louis County Court Records.
  21. Kate Chopin Papers, (1860-1902), 2 boxes. Journals, correspondence, account books.
  22. Fannie Cook Collection, (1874-1949), 30 boxes.Correspondence, literary manuscripts, and papers concerningher work with the sharecroppers, and the St. Louis RaceRelations Commission.
  23. William Sublette Papers, (1819-1905), 7 boxes. RockyMountain fur trade.
  24. Charles Gratiot Papers, (1769-1933), 3 boxes. Letterbooks,account books, correspondence concerning early fur trade inSt. Louis.
  25. William Torrey Harris Collection, (1855-1951), 13 boxes.Correspondence; journals; manuscripts; and materialregarding the philosophers of the St. Louis Movement;Public education and the Kindergarten Movement;correspondence with Susan Blow, Elizabeth Peabody, and LauraFisher.
  26. Emil Frei Papers, (1860-1959), 30 cu. ft. Job files of stained-glassartist.
  27. George Kessler Papers, (1893-1923), 16 boxes.Correspondence, business papers of prominent urban landscape artist whodesigned Forest Park.
  28. David R. Francis Papers, (1832-1936), 56 boxes. Personalpapers concerning Louisiana Purchase Exposition Co., and his tenure asAmbassador to Russia (1916-1918).
  29. Charles A. Lindbergh Papers, (1827-1969), 114 boxes.Correspondence, log books, diaries, and literary manuscripts ofCharles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh. (Restricted).

(11/2008)

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