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DIVISION OF LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES
Library
The Missouri Historical Society Library Collections consist of over 80,000
separate books, periodicals, newspapers, maps and microfilms. Collection
strengths include:
- St. Louis people, places and events, neighborhood history, urban
development, ethnic culture, politics, architecture, business, religion,
art and education
- Western travel, exploration and river transportation
- The American fur trade
- Missouri history to 1900
- Native American history and culture
- Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 St. Louis World's Fair)
- St. Louis newspapers, including the Missouri Gazette and Missouri
Republican (1808 - 1919), St. Louis German language newspapers and St. Louis
African American newspapers
- Fire Insurance Maps for St. Louis, from 1870-1941.
- Historic maps and atlases
- Business and trade catalogs
- Sheet music
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
Tel: 314-746-4500
Fax: 314-746-4548
E-mail: library@mohistory.org
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