Special Collections - Alphabetical Listing

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Special Collections by collection number

• 1718 Louisiana Document
  M-186
• 1787 Freighting Document (Bill of Lading)
  M-184
• 1779 Oath of Allegiance
  M-194B
• 1856 Letter of Introduction
  M-197
• 1898 Philippines Document
  M-185
• 1908 Travel Diary
  M-395
• Abraham Beck Journal
• M-246
• Adams, John Quincy
  M-001
• African American Images Collection
  M-244
• Alaskan Gold Rush Photos
  M-219
• Ameren UE Collection
  M-282 
• American Art-Union Collection
  M-327
• Arkansas Township Plat Book
  M-383
• Art Collections of the St. Louis Mercantile Library
• Astor, John Jacob
  M-002
• John James Audubon Prints
  M-209
• Autographs
  M-003
• Aviation Wing Fragment Letter
  M-404
• Paul Azzara JFK Newspapers and Realia Collection
  M-360

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• Bankers & Exchange Dealers: City of St. Louis Records, 1852-53
  M-004
• Barbe-Marbois, Francois, marquise de
  M-005
• Barnes Glass Negatives
  M-167
• Homer Bassford Papers
  M-345
• Bauman Papers
• M-271
• Beers Indian Captivity Narrative
• M-338
• Beaumont, William Dr.
•  M-218
• Bell, John

• Bell, John Ledger of Finances

• The Henry H. Benham Papers
  M-336
• Adolphus Benedict Scrap Book Collection
  M-007
• McKinnley Bent
  M-261
• Thomas Hart Benton Collection
  M-008
• Thomas Hart Benton [Artist] Collection
  M-326
• General Daniel Bissell Papers
  M-009
• Bixby
  M-141
• Blumenthal, Augusts A.
  M-010
• Emil Boehl Photographs of St. Louis
  M-169
• Henry Boernstein Collection
  M-346
• Books in Series Collection
  M-154
• Boone, Daniel
  M-011
• Botts, John
  M-012
• Bolduc Photostats -- Ste. Genevieve
• M-215
• Civil War Letters of James Bradley
  M-347
• Breckenridge Photograph
• M-214
• American Broadsides Collection
  M-328
• Brooks, Richard
  M-013
• Brockmeier Genealogy Collection
  M-253
• Donny Brook Collection
  M-291
• Bryan, John [Daniel Boone's nephew]
  M-014
• Ruth Bryant Collection
  M-379
• Bryant, William Cullen
  M-015
• Buchanan, James
  M-016
• H. Buffman Auction Broadside
  M-225
• Burr, Aaron
  M-017
• Burr, Theodosia
  M-018
• Butterfield Stagecoach
  M-255

• Calhoun, John C.
  M-019
• Nives Capelli Collection
  M-436
• Robert Campbell Family Collection
  M-107
• Helen Campbell Correspondence Collection
  M-442
• Carroll, Charles
  M-020
• Matthew Casey Valedictory
  M-178
• Henry G. A. Casper's Journal
  M-021
• General John Smith Cavender Correspondence
  M-411
• History of Sarah Louise Chamberlain Redd
  M-403
• Chamless Print Collection
  M-120
• Chinese Portraits
  M-119
• Citizens for Educational Freedom: Part 1
  M-259
• Citizens for Educational Freedom: Part 2
  M-283
• City Hospital
  M-303
• Letters from the Civil War
  M-314
• Civil War Ship Journals
  M-306
• Charless, Joseph
  M-300
• August Chouteau Papers
  M-022
• Circuit Attorney and Staff of St. Louis Photographs
  M-420
• Clark Graves Collection
  M-447
• Clarke, Edward: Letter to London Booksellers
  M-452
• Clay, Henry
  M-023
• Clemens, James Jr.
  M-024
• Coal Dealers Photographs
  M-406
• Colonial Dames Collection
  M-147
• Community Federal Savings and Loan Archives
  M-136
• Compton & Dry, Pictorial St. Louis
  M-168
• Compton Heights Water Tower Collection
  M-433
• Confederate Civil War Document
  M-316
• Confederate Imprint Collection
  M-123
• Ernest Connally Papers
  M-252
• Manuscript Cookbooks Collection
  M-369
• J. Fred Coots Musical Score
  M-371
• W. Philip Cotton St. Louis Architect Papers
  M-412
• W. Philip Cotton St. Louis Architect Papers and Drawings
  M-459
• Crittenden, J.J.
  M-025
• Crockett, David
  M-026
• Ramsay Crooks Fur Trade Ledger
  M-391
• Cumberland Presbyterian Church Ledger, Alton Illinois
  M-448
• Cunningham, Jane
  M-435
• Cunningham, T. H.
  M-027
• Cupples Ledger Books
  M-456
• Edward Curtis
  M-210
  Custis, George Washington Parke
  M-028
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• Felix Darley Illustrations Collection
  M-156
• M. B. Darrich Collection of St. Louis Jewish Genealogy
  M-159
• Howard Day Photograph Collection
  M-143
• De Pew Life Magazine Collection
  M-150
• Fr. Pierre Jean DeSmet Collection
  M-296
• P. Diaz 1899 Proclamation
  M-180
• Dickinson, Brig. Gen. Philemon and Brig. Gen. Wil Livingston
  M-029
• Arthur Digby
  M-198
• Irving Dilliard Journalism Collection
  M-137
• William J. and Helen S. Dixon Collection
  M-441
• Dobyne, Nellie M.
  M-030
• A. J. Donilich
  M-196
• Douglass MSS, Binder
  M-174
• Downtown St. Louis Collection
  M-130
• Henry W. Drinker Journal
  M-031
• John Duxbury Sports Research Collection  
  M-440
  
  
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• Early Paper Money, Coins, and Medals
  M-118
• East Orange High School Yearbooks
  
• Adolf Ebent United States Passport
  M-396
• Easton, Rufus
  M-032
• Early 20th Century Bookseller's Correspondence
  M-418
• Edgewood Children's Center
  M-142
• Ron Elz / Johnny Rabbitt Collection
  M-281
• Emerson Transcripts
  M-182
• Emmigration Poster, c. 1830s - 1840s
  M-324
• Ephemera Collection
  M-381
• Episcopal Letters Collection
  M-320
• Exhibits Collection
  M-319
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• Fagg, Helen
  M-033
• Falstaff Brewery Collection
  M-389
• Families Photographs Collection
  M-400
• Field, Eugene
  M-173
• Forcier Collection
  M-144
• Ford, John
  M-034
• Fort Belle Fontaine
  M-179
• Franchot Scrapbook
  M-217
• Franklin, Benjamin
  M-035
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• French, Juliet S.
  M-310
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• Gallatin, Albert
  M-036
• Gantt, Thomas J et. al.
  M-037
• Alexander Gardner Photographic Prints M-211
• Gates -- St. Louis Bank Regulations
  M-193
• Gaty Register
  M-190
• Gay and Lesbian Publications
  M-228
• Genealogical Chart, 1911
  M-175
• General Life and Fire Assurance Company
  M-304
• General Scrapbook Collection
  M-434
• St. Louis Globe Democrat Collection *Search database on-line*
  M-112
• St. Louis Globe Democrat Images
• M-112
• St. Louis Globe Democrat Collection Addendum 
  M-112A
• Gray, A. B., Manuscript Letter
  M-376
• William Gentry American Ambulance Field Service Scrapbook
  M-405
• German Sisters Captivity Letter
  M-370
• M. B. Greensfelder Collection
  M-413
• Greeting Card Collection
  M-158
• Greve / Fisher Collection
  M-257
• Dan Groncy Collection
  M-227
• Leonard Gruggs
  M-269
• Gordon, General J.B.
  M-038
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• Hamilton, Alexander
  M-039
• Hancock, John
  M-040
• Hancock, Gen (Winfield Scott)
  M-041
• Heartman
  M-140
• Heil Chemical Company of St. Louis Papers
  M-043
• Hill Family Letters
  M-329
• Hinchey, Pa
  M-301
• Hindenburg Collection
  M-145
• Hinton Rowen Helper Collection
  M-124
• Henderson, Richard
  M-044
• Hendricks, Gov. Thomas A.
  M-045
• Henry, Patrick
  M-046
• Don Hesse Political Cartoon Collection *Search database on-line*
  M-248
• Heughes, J.C.
  M-047
• Hill, Walter J., S. J.
  M-048
• Historic Pets Collection
  M-453
• History of Wine Collection
  M-278
• Ethan Allen Hitchcock Alchemy Collection
  M-108
• John Neal Hoover Collection of Agriculture and Rural Life
  M-105
• James D. Horan Collection
  M-293
• Horton History of Sports Collection
  M-129
• Hunter, Will
  M-049
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• Illinois Glass Papers
  M-138
• Illustrated Periodicals Collection
  M-116
• Illustrated Travel Journals Collection
  M-318
• Images of American Indian & Popular Western Culture Collection
• M-212
• Immigration Cartoons, ca.1840
  M-229
• Ingalls, Rufus; Diaries 1853, 1854, 1861.
  M-462
• Irish State Trial Scrapbook
  M-240
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• Jackson, Andrew
  M-050
• Japanese Internment Papers
  M-349
• Jefferson, Thomas
  M-051
• John B. Myers Co. Ledger
  M-275
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• Secretary to the Mayor Kaufmann Correspondence
  M-354
• Keller, Helen
  M-299
• Thomas T. Kerslake Overland Journal from Canada to New Zealand
  M-355
• King, William R.
  M-052
• Knox, R. M-053
• Koran Manuscript ca. 17th Century
  M-226
• Krey Meat Packing Company Collection
  M-461
• KSTL Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
  M-348
• Kyse-Manley-Barnett Families Collection
  M-233
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• Lafayette, G.W.
  M-054
• Lafayette Square Restoration Committee Papers
  M-128
• Lancaster Borough Mortgage Collection
  M-437
• Henry F. Langenberg Economics Collection
  M-232
• Lankey-Davies Mortgage
  M-437
• John Tate Lanning Collection
  M-132
• Latino and Hispanic Affairs Collection
  M-386
• Lee, Richard Henry
  M-055
• Lee, Gen. Robert E.
  M-056
• Lemen Collection of St. Louis Photographs
  M-170
• Eugene Lewis
  M-260
• Lewis Genealogical Charts
  M-191
• Life Association of Missouri
  M-057
• Franz Liszt Musical Score
  M-380
• Little Shield Sketchbook
  M-058
• Littleton-Van Thal Correspondence
  M-455
• Locke's Common-Place Book
  M-059
• Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
  M-060
• Early Lottery Broadsides
  M-206
• Louisiana Territory Legislative Journal
  M-061
• Lyttleton-Van Thal Correspondence Coll.
  M-455
• McCaughen & Burr Ledger Book Collection
  M-446
• McElwee Genealogy
  M-187
• McNair, Alexander
  M-062
• Hugh McPheeters
  M-270
• Mallinckrodt Company Advertising Scrapbooks
  M-135
• D. W. Mar Collection
  M-166
• Marbled Paper Collection
  M-127
• Martin Family Materials
  M-262
• Mathurin, J. H. St. Louis 1817
  M-202
• Madison, James
  M-063
• Manley Family Papers
  M-315
• Don Marsh Collection
  M-280
• Masonic Temple Building of St. Louis Collection
  M-419
• August F. Marty Scrapbook
  M-230
• McCaughen & Burr Ledger
  M-445
• Merrill J. Mattess Speech
  M-401
• Matthews Family Collection
  M-323
• Gene McNary Collection
  M-358
• Meachum, Rev. John B.
  M-313
• Merchants Exchange of St. Louis
  M-305
• St. Louis Mercantile Library and Association, Archives of the
  M-117
• Mid-Coast Aviation Photograph Collection
  M-236
• Military Miniatures Collection 
  M-443
• Missouri Pinewoods Logging and Forestation Scrapbook
  M-407
• Monroe, James
  M-064
• Marianne Moore
  M-183
• History of Mormonism Collection
  M-385
• Morgan, Daniel
  M-065
• Morris, Robert
  M-066
• Morrision, James
  M-067
• Muhammed Temple of Islam Scrapbook
  M-243
• James Myers Indian Artifact Collection
  M-295
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• Dr. Helen E. Nash Collection of African-Americana and Africana
  M-357
• John Henry Nash Fine Print Manuscripts
  M-308
• National Black Economic Devlopment Conference, Detroit, Michigan, 1969
  M-302
• Native American Issues Collection
  M-388
• Native American Song Research Notes and Translations
  M-410
• Netsuke Reference Collection
  M-155
• Newman-Koken-Elwang St. Louis Family History Collection
  M-439
• Niedringhaus Letter
  M-399
• Historic Newspaper Collection
  M-126
• Nott, Elizabeth
  M-068
• Frank Nuderscher Collection
  M-288
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• John O'Fallon
  M-172
• E. Phillips Oppenheim Collection
  M-110
• Original Late-WWII Telegrams
  M-363
• Osecola, Leader of the Seminoles
  M-069
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• Paintings (Art Collection)
  M-264
• Francesca Paillou Monograph "A Handful of Songs" and Related Correspondence
  M-394
• Parkview Heights Papers
  M-416
• Peach Family Papers
  M-408
• John Mason Peck Collection
  M-111
• Pegler-Bisch Letter Collection
  M-247
• Peter-Clemens St. Louis History (Membership Receipt)
  M-189
• Charlotte Peters Collection
  M-279
• Charles S. Peterson Speech "A Mormon Town: One Man's West"
  M-402
• Historic  Pets Collection
  M-453
• Peyton, Caroline
  M-071
• Pierpont, T.H.
  M-070
• Philipson, Jacob
  M-072
• Joseph Philipson Business Account Book
  M-073
• 19th Century Photographically Illustrated Book Collection
  M-134
• Pinkney, William
  M-074
• Pitt, William
  M-075
• Planters House Broadsides
  M-205
• Political Cartoons by st. Louis Weatherbird Artists
  M-284
• Polk, James K.
  M-076
• Pop-Up Book Collection
  M-157
• F. E. Porter
• M-213
• St. Louis Studio Portraits
  M-454
• Postage Stamp Collection
  M-161
• Pregaldin Papers
  M-268
• Presidential Election of 1824 Collection
  M-077
• Press Women, Mildred Planthold Michie
• M-290  
• Fine Printing / Private Press / Book Arts Collection
  M-125
• Prints of the American West
  M-245
• Prints, Photos, Drawings (Art Collection)
  M-265
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• Quiet Please Murder Lobby Cards
  M-415
• Quincy Library [Illinois]
  M-078
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  Railroads -- see Barriger Railroad Library Special Collections

• Jerry Ray
  M-181
• Ronald Reagan Speech, A Time for Choosing
  M-368
• Real Estate Sale Broadside
  M-393
• Receipts and Documents, 18th Century
  M-204
• Reedy, Mrs. William Marion
  M-079
• Regimental History of the 4th Cavalry
  M-235
• Remmert-Werner Collection
  M-237
• Republic of Texas Documents
  M-201
• Revere, Paul: Goldsmithing Document, 1731 (Father of Revolutionary War Figure)
  M-449
• Rice Family Papers
  M-160
• Lucile W. Ring Collection
  M-146
• Rivington, James
  M-080
• Robbins Collection
  M-081
• Robinson, Hamlin Elijah
  M-082
• Rogers, John
  M-083
• Theodore Roosevelt, John Gundlach Collection on
  M-131
• Round Table Records
  M-084
• Russell-Allen Family Papers
  M-273
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  Steamboats -- see Pott National Inland Waterways Library Special Collections

• St. Leo's Saint Louis Church Collection
  M-438
• St. Louis 2004 Collection
  M-373
• Old St. Louis Arsenal
  M-242
• Saint Louis Ballads Collection
  M-384
• Early St. Louis Bank Receipts
  M-207
• St. Louis Booksellers and Rare Book Auction Catalog Collection
  M-106
• St. Louis Business Journal Photograph Collection
  M-258
• St. Louis Caledonia Society Records
• M-216
• St. Louis Coliseum Company
  M-307
• St. Louis Cupples Ledgerbook
  M-456
• St. Louis Fairs & Expositions Collection
  M-164
• St. Louis Globe Democrat Collection *Search database on-line*
  M-112
• St. Louis Globe Democrat Images
  M-112
• St. Louis Images
  M-171
• St. Louis Imprints Collection
  M-113
• St. Louis Juvenile Detention Center Photographs
  M-418
• St. Louis Lyceum, Records of
  M-114
• St. Louis Maps and Guidebooks
  M-153
• St. Louis Memories Public Photographs
  M-367
• St. Louis Mercantile Library and Association, Archives of the
  M-117
• St. Louis Model Cities Association Archives
  M-151
• St. Louis Studio Portraits Collection
  M-454
• St. Louis Waterworks
  M-203
• Saunders, Rolfe A.
  M-085
• Sautelli, J.
  M-312
• Elizabeth Gentry Sayad Collection
  M-392
• Schmidt Collection
  M-086
• Saunders Schultz Collection
  M-460
• Schweitzer Weatherbird Collection
  M-284
• James Godwin Scott Collection
  M-289
• Second Bank of Philadelphia Account Book
  M-375
• Severson Collection
  M-325
• Sculpture (Art Collection)
  M-266
• B. Shaumburg -- New Orleans, 1799
  M-195
• Early American Sheet Music Collection
  M-121
• Shepard, Elihu
  M-087
• Dr. Allen B. and Helen S. Shopmaker American Political Collection
  M-322
• Horatio Seymour
  M-148
• Simmons / Chandler Collection
  M-162
• Single Photograph Collection
  M-321
• Unknown Author, Slave Receipt, 1842. Mary Ann
  M-451
• Smith Act Pamphlet
  M-398
• Tom K. Smith Papers
  M-152
• Snow / Wherry Papers
  M-088
• Sons of the Revolution Flag Collection
  M-256
• Spanish American War Scrapbook
  M-285
• Spanish Document
  M-176
• Steiner, Paul E. Manuscript, Second Regiment MO Volunteers of African Descent
  M-450
• Stereopticon Slide Collection
  M-220
• Stix, Baer and Fuller Collection
  M-231
• Stockton, Rich
  M-089
• Sundry Book
  M-297
• Swift & Company Papers
  M-409
• John L. & James C. Sutton Blacksmith Collection
  M-091
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• Tevis Civil War Scrapbook Collection
  M-165
• Theater Programs / Minnie Milne Collection
  M-122
• James S. Thomas Collection
  M-092
• Thomas, Chester L.
  M-224
• Thomas, V.
  M-093
• Eugene A. Atwater St. Louis Tornado Photographs
  M-378
• Trans World Airlines Collection
  M-234
• C harles Trefts Photographs
  M-397
• Turley Collection
  M-432
• Turner, Capt. V. E.
  M-094
• Mark Twain Autograph
  M-192
• Tyler, John
  M-095
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• UNITE Union of Needletrades, Industrial, and Textile Employees
  M-272
• Utopia Collection
  M-133
• The University Club Archives
  M-277
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• Vaughan Civil War Transcript
  M-188
• Vehicle Top and Supply Company Scrapbook
  M-221
• Voelker Collection
  M-294
• Voelker Scrapbook on Missouri
  M-222
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• Walker, R.J. Secretary of the Treasury, 1801-1869
  M-096
• Eugene Ware Letters
  M-351
• George Washington Collection
  M-097
• Norbury Wayman Collection
  M-109
• Webster Collection
  M-287
• Webster, Daniel
  M-098
• Western American Life Collection
  M-387
• Western History Association Archives Collection
  M-276
• Westerners' Organization, St. Louis Chapter, Archives
  M-311
• Wetumka, Indian Territory, Archive of
  M-239
• Wherry Autograph
  M-200
• White, (Bishop) William
  M-099
• Whitney Genealogy
  M-199
• Whyte Scrapbook
  M-223
• Wilkinson, James
  M-100
• William Douthit - Urban League Collection
  M-362
• Williams, Mary L. L.
  M-101
• Williams - Territorial Broadside
  M-177
• Wilstack, Dr. C. F.
  M-102
• Woods Family Papers
  M-286
• Berth Hewit Woolrych Collection
  M-446
• World Map Collection
  M-249
• World Travel Film & Slides (G. Smith)
  M-139
• World War I Pamphlet
  M-115
• World War II Japan/ China Atrocity Photos
  M-298
• World War II Scrapbooks
  M-377
• Worth, Patience
  M-103
• Wright, June B.
  M-104
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• Yeatman Family Album
  M-241
• Young, Robert A, III
  M-238

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