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St. Louis Mercantile Library Special Collections
The special collections of the St. Louis Mercantile Library consist of over 400 individual collections with archival materials numbering in the millions, including over 100 historic newspaper titles, presidential letters, early travel diaries and civil war era letters, fur trade records and the newspaper and printing morgue of the St. Louis Globe Democrat, some of which is available digitally. The M-Series of collections represents the core of the Mercantile's holdings. Finding aids and descriptions can be accessed from the library's website through the Mercantile Special Collections Directory.
St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri-St. Louis
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- M-389: Falstaff Brewery Collection
- The collection consists of some items relating to 20th-century advertising from the Falstaff Brewing Company. The oldest artifact is an undated oversize (about 2 feet by 3 feet) cloth hanging advertisement that makes fun of Germans and German terms. The most recent dated artifact is a 1964 aerial shot of a Falstaff plant located in New York. Bulk of the collection runs from 1957-1960, meticulously documenting various cans, bottles and cartons. Frustratingly, several oversize photos are included in which NO person's name is recorded. Also an original full-color cartoon.
Mercantile Library Collections Directory
Mercantile Special Collections Directory
Barriger Library Collections Directory
Barriger Special Collections Directory