DIVISION OF LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES
Archives and Architecture Collections
The Archives consists of over 1,800 separate collections, totaling more
than 5,000 linear feet of original documents, including:
- The American fur trade and western exploration
- North American Plains Indians
- Settlement of French, Spanish, Americans and African-Americans in the
Mississippi Valley
- The Mexican War and the Civil War in Missouri
- Steamboats and river transportation
- St. Louis literary and intellectual figures and movements
- The Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 Worlds Fair)
Among the most significant are:
- William Clark’s journals from his exploration with Meriwether
Lewis
- The fifth largest collection of Thomas Jefferson papers in the country
- Court records of free African-Americans in St. Louis and Missouri
- The French and Spanish colonial archives from Upper Louisiana
- The Chouteau family papers, including records of the American Fur Company
- The David R. Francis papers, including those from his tenure as American
Ambassador to Russia during the Revolution of 1917.
- The records of the Lousiana Purchase Exposition Company
Literary and theatrical collections include:
- Writers Kate Chopin, Sara Teasdale, Zoe Akins, and Thekla Bernays
- Educator and philosopher William Torrey Harris and his protégé
Susan Blow
- Social reformer and writer Fannie Cook
- Early theatrical impresarios Sol Smith and Noah Ludlow
For collection guides and finding aids, visit the Archives
Collections Guides
New hours effective on January 3, 2006
12:00 pm to 5:00 pm, Tuesday through Friday
10:00 am to 5:00 pm, Saturday
Access:
No appointment is necessary during public hours.
Tel: 314-746-4510
Fax: 314-746-4548
E-mail: archives@mohistory.org
The Missouri Historical Society has received a Save America's Treasures
grant to completely conserve and microfilm the Clark
Family Collection,
including the William Clark Papers; the Meriwether Lewis Collection; the
Louisiana Purchase Transfer Collection; and the Thomas Jefferson Collection.
The James W. Fitzgibbon Papers in the Architecture Collections are now
open for research. View
the Web guide to the collection.
Selected documents of the William McChesney Martin
Papers may be viewed
at the Federal Reserve Archival
System for Economic Research web site.
Digitization of this collection was made possible through a partnership
of the Missouri Historical Society and the Federal Reserve Bank of St.
Louis.
Architecture Collections
The Archives newest special collecting area, these collections include drawings,
office records, and project files of St. Louis architectural and design
firms. The purpose of the Architecture Collections is to document the built
environment of St. Louis and the architectural firms that work in St. Louis.
Highlights include:
- George W. Hellmuth Collection
- Kuhlmann Collection (includes Mauran, Russell & Garden and its
successor firms)
- Lucas Pfeiffenberger Collection
- Ernst Preisler Collection
- Karasek Architects Records (includes Jamieson and Spearl and successor
firms).
- James W. Fitzgibbon Papers. (Professor of Architecture at Washington University
in St. Louis and associate of Buckminster Fuller)
New hours effective on January 3, 2006
12:00 pm to 5:00 pm, Tuesday through Friday
10:00 am to 5:00 pm, Saturday
Access:
By appointment
Tel: 314-746-4510
Fax: 314-746-4548
E-mail: archives@mohistory.org
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