STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MISSOURI-RESEARCH CENTER ST. LOUIS
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PROVENANCE
Vincent and Lucie Palmer's papers were donated by Lucie Palmer in February 1998.
BIOGRAPHY
Mr. and Mrs. Palmer were deep sea divers, underwater cinematographers and lecturers. The couple traveled around the world working on underwater projects, filming sea life and writing scripts to go with the films which they would then use to produce lectures to take on tour around the U.S.
Vincent grew up in Milton, Massachusetts and went to Harvard. He was involved in the Lampoon and the Crimson. He got his first taste of underwater life when he accompanied William Beebe on an expedition to Bermuda while in college.
Lucie was born in St. Louis and attended Mary Institute. She took art classes at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Art Students League in New York. She was an accomplished painter and had shows at many galleries.
The Palmers were married in September 1939. Their daughter, Lucie Cable Palmer was born in November of 1941.
The Palmers went to Ecuador in 1946 to repair a water pipeline that had been damaged in an earthquake, leaving the city of Guayaquil without a sanitary water supply. The Palmers were successful in repairing the pipeline and turning a revolution into a party.
They both got on the lecture circuit talking about submarines during World War II or the future uses of the resources found under the sea. These lectures were usually accompanied by the underwater films the couple had taken.
SCOPE AND CONTENT
The collection contains personal and business correspondence, receipts, newspapers clippings, 16mm films and personal notes regarding lectures and films. The films have been cleaned and spliced onto 400 foot reels
COPYRIGHT AND RESTRICTIONS
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PREFERRED CITATION
From the sl 817, Vincent and Lucie Palmer Papers at the Western Historical Manuscript Collection--University of Missouri - St. Louis
CONTACT INFORMATION
Western Historical Manuscript Collection
222 Thomas Jefferson Library
University of Missouri-St. Louis
1 University Blvd.
St. Louis, MO 63121
(314) 516-5143
whmc@umsl.edu
INVENTORY
BOX 1 (044916)
Series 1, Personal Papers
1. Correspondence and school papers, 1931-1936
2. School papers, 1927-1936
3. Harvard events, 1934-1939
4. Harvard organizations, 1936
5. Correspondence, William Beebe, 1935-1936
6. Information for parties, 1927-1935
7. Correspondence, personal, 1935-1939
8. Correspondence, wedding, 1939
9. Correspondence, personal, 1940-1949
10. Correspondence, personal, 1950-1959
11. Correspondence, personal, 1960-1969
12. Correspondence, personal, 1970-1987
13. Correspondence, personal, undated
14. Correspondence, personal, Vincent Palmer to Lucie Palmer, 1953-1956
15. Correspondence, personal, Joyce Windsor
16. Correspondence, personal, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Palmer, 1913-1949
17. Correspondence, personal, Nassau, Bahamas, 1946
18. Correspondence, personal, from Philippines, 1978
19. Lucie Mackay and Vincent Palmer engagement scrapbook, 1939
20. Lucie Cable Palmer birth scrapbook, 1941
BOX 2 (044917)
21. Personal notes, undated
22. Personal notes, undated
23. Personal notes from note card file, undated
24. Medical Documents, 1992-1994
25. Documents on house at 459 Henkel Circle in Winter Park, Florida, 1957-1975
Series 2 Business, Records
26. Correspondence, business, diving job in Ecuador, 1946
27. Correspondence, business, Marty Fowler, 1946
28. Correspondence, business, 1930-1939
29. Correspondence, business, 1940-1949
30. Correspondence, business, 1950-1959
31. Correspondence, business, 1960-1987
32. Correspondence, business, undated
33. Business insurance, 1945-1950
34. War work, 1942-1947
35. River work, 1954-1956
36. Business notes, 1957
37. Business notes, undated
38. Receipts, 1937-1975
39. Receipts, undated
BOX 3 (045781)
40. Mona Island expedition, 1937
41. Sulu Sea expedition, 1957
42. Bongoa, Sulu Sea, 1957
43. Stock Certificates, Robert Vincent Inc., Undated
44. Raising Barges on River, undated,
45. Lawsuit, Palmer vs. Bonds, 1954
46. PGM Ideas, 1962
47. Ship, Majestic, 1960-1965
Series 3: Lectures and Speeches
48. Correspondence, Lecture, 1940
49. Correspondence, Lecture, 1941
50. Correspondence, Lecture, January-June 1942
51. Correspondence, Lecture, July-December 1942
52. Correspondence, Lecture, January-June 1943
53. Correspondence, Lecture, July-December 1943
54. Correspondence, Lecture, 1944
55. Correspondence, Lecture, 1945
56. Correspondence, Lecture, 1946-1947
57. Correspondence, Lecture, 1948
58. Correspondence, Lecture, 1949
59. Correspondence, Lecture, 1952-1959
60. Correspondence, Lecture, 1960-1975
61. Correspondence, Lecture, undated
62. Correspondence, Lecture, Karl Robinson, 1940-1945
BOX 4 (046096)
63. Oceans of Fun Script, 1955-1956
64. Audubon Lectures, 1956
65. Indonesian Challenges, script, 1959
66. Terror in Paradise, script, 1959
67. Terror in Paradise lecture at Coronado Hotel in St. Louis, 1959
68. Transcript of Vincent Palmer talk in Rockford, Illinois, 1959
69. John Burroughs lecture, 1959
70. Dodge City, Kansas speech, 1959
71. Ja Junta High School talk, 1959
72. Wednesday Club lecture, 1959
73. Lecture publicity, 1938-1940
74. Lecture publicity, 1941-1942
75. Lecture publicity, 1943-1944
76. Lecture publicity, 1945-1949
77. Lecture publicity, 1950-1955
78. Lecture publicity, 1956-1976
79. Lecture publicity, undated
80. Lecture publicity, undated
81. Lecture notes, 1940-1963
82. Lecture notes, undated
83. Lecture notes, undated
84. Lecture notes, undated
85. Lecture notes, undated
86. Lecture notes, undated
87. Lecture notes, undated
88. Lecture notes, undated
BOX 5 (046099)
89. Notes on Dead Man’s Chest lecture, 1939-1940
90. Notes on Alaska lecture, undated
91. Lecture lists, undated
92. Lecture lists, undated
93. Lecture forms, 1940-1941
94. Lecture forms, 1942
95. Lecture forms, 1943-1945
96. Lecture forms, 1948-1949
97. Lecture forms, 1951-1958
98. Lecture forms, undated
99. Lecture expenses, 1940-1963
100. Lecture outline on Mexico, undated
101. Travel tickets and schedules, undated
102. Travel notes, 1957
103. Travel notes, 1957
104. Travel documents, 1942-1959
BOX 6 (046100)
Series 4 Drawings and Writings
105. Drawings and Cartoons, undated
106. Drawings and Cartoons, undated
107. Paper on Vikings in Mexico, undated
108. From Nast to Disney, 1935
109. From Nast to Disney, illustrations, 1935
110. Drawings for barge, 1950
111. Drawings, S.E. Asia, undated
112. Documents, 1943-1989
Series 5: Publications, Newspaper clippings, Brochures
113. Acting career clippings, 1959
114. Harvard newspaper clippings, undated
115. Harvard Crimson newspaper clippings, undated
116. Harvard Journal newspaper clippings, 1934
117. Harvard Lampoon newspaper clippings, 1933
118. Harvard Lampoon newspaper clippings, 1933
119. Harvard Lampoon newspaper clippings, 1934
120. Newspaper clippings about the Palmers, undated, 1932-1975
121. Newspaper clippings, 1929-1934
122. Newspaper clippings, 1935
123. Newspaper clippings, 1936-1939
124. Newspaper clippings, 1940-1949
BOX 7 (046101)
125. Newspaper clippings, 1952-1987
126. Newspaper clippings, undated
127. Newspaper clippings, undated
128. Newspaper clippings, undated
129. Artists’ Advisory Bulletin, 1935-1937
130. The Press Art School Lesson book, undated
131. Cartooning Course booklets, undated
132. Publications, flyers and Brochures undated
133. Overseas publications, 1957-1959
134. Maps
Series 6: Photographs and Audio tapes
135. Photographs, 817.1 - 817.114
136. Photographs, 817.115-817.182
137. Photographs, 817.183-817.257
Audio Tapes
Series 7: Oversize documents
Oversize, two items laid flat on top of folders
BOX 8 (046421)
Series 8: Notebooks
Notebooks, nd. Not in folders
BOX 9 (046422)
Series 9: 16mm Films
Reels V817.1-V817.13
BOX 10
047929
Reels V817.14-V817.26
BOX 11
047971
Reels V817.27-V817.32
INDEX
American Booking Cooperative, f. 51
Army Corps of Engineers, f. 34
Associated Platform Artists, f. 57-58
Beebe, William, f. 5
Circus Saints and Sinners, Dexter Fellows Tent, f. 5
Columbia Lecture Bureau, f. 29, 48-50
Donovan, Malloy, f. 50-51
Eastman Kodak Company, f. 29, 30, 48
First Voters League, f. 7
Fowler, Marty, f. 26-27
Frederick Snare Corporation, f. 26, 29, 32
Grace Sims Peat, f. 59
Handsome Harry Case, Harvard College, f. 119
Harrington, George, f. 1
Harvard College, f. 2-4 114-119
Harvard Crimson, f. 2
Harvard Lampoon, f. 2
Knife and Fork Clubs, f. 59
Mackay, George C., f. 6, 10-11, 26
Marineland, f. 29, 48
Milton Academy, f. 1
National Geographic Society, f. 48
National Lecture Bureau Inc., f. 52-55
New York Zoological Society, f. 5
Palmer, Henry, f. 7
Palmer, Henry Jr., f. 7
Peabody, George, f. 7
Robinson, Karl, f. 62
Sacred Cod Case, Harvard College, f. 118
St. Louis Christian Youth Conference, f. 1
The Associated Clubs, f. 59-61
The National Economy League, f. 28
War Department, f. 34
Windsor, Joyce, f. 30
Washington University Association, 49-50, 56
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