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Map Showing Existing Track Layout in Downtown St. Louis
Title
Map Showing Existing Track Layout in Downtown St. Louis
Date
1930-03
Description
From: Report of the Transportation Survey Commission of the City of St. Louis / submitted to the Board of Aldermen.
Saint Louis Lyceum Meeting Record
Title
Saint Louis Lyceum Meeting Record
Date
1838
Description
The meeting record of the Saint Louis Lyceum is a large hand-written book recording the institution's founding constitution, by-laws, and meeting minutes as recorded by various elected secretaries. It documents the organizations membership, lectures, and debated questions from 1838 into the 1840s.
M-022: August Chouteau Journal
Title
M-022: August Chouteau Journal
Description
Great Britain and suppression of Indian hostilities. The journal is a fragment of Chouteau's "Narrative of the Settlement of St. Louis." It is the only eyewitness documentation on the activities surrounding the founding of St. Louis. A literal translation from the original manuscript by J. Givin Brown and J. Wilmer Stith was published by the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association in 1857 in the
Eagle Packet Company Coal Book
Title
Eagle Packet Company Coal Book
Description
Eagle Packet Company coal book from 1931 - 1945. Records Eagle company coal sales as well as balance sheets for the company's labor, drayage, and cargo from various ports such as Saint Louis, Alton, Grafton, Mozier, Louisiana, Keokuk, Ste. Genevieve, Chester and Quincy, among others. Some pages are missing.
Saint Louis Lyceum Circulation Record
Title
Saint Louis Lyceum Circulation Record
Description
Circulation record for the Saint Louis Lyceum, a subscription library and debating club in St. Louis that existed from 1838 to 1851. The record indicates that 870 members borrowed 10,983 volumes from the institution at an unknown time.
M-393: Sale of Real Estate Broadside and Manuscript
Title
M-393: Sale of Real Estate Broadside and Manuscript
Date
1831-02-14
Description
I Jno. K. Walker Sheriff as hereby certify that caused to be put up at the following named places a copy of this advertisement twenty days before the sale -- before the 30th day of March 1831 at the court house doors, at Fashnughty Barber Shop, at the Missouri Hotel at the city Hotel, at the Green Tree Tavern in the city of St. Louis, at Phillys Tavern in Bonhomnic, at Blacksmith Shop 5 miles east of Manchester, at -- Store in Manchester, at Lamisi Store in same place, -- McDonald's Mill in St. Ferdinand Township at Owens Station at Thomas Shop, at Connelly Grocery in Florissant, and at I. Aubuchon's -- same village, one at H. Jofo Tavern on Florissant Road -- at Darny -- Loc -- -- in St. Louis Township. Ten of the most public places in the county. Shff cost $5.00 Jno. K. Walker Shff.
M-008 Thomas Hart Benton Collection
Title
M-008 Thomas Hart Benton Collection
Date
1858, 1858
Description
Created by Thomas Hart Benton (1782-1858); early senator from Missouri who served six terms equaling thirty years in office. Included are the handwritten lecture, "Progress of the Age," delivered at the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association, 1850; 1 letter from 1829; and 2 letters from 1858, one from J.B. Brant concerning Benton's health. Senator Benton was among the first of many illustrious figures to speak at the St. Louis Mercantile Library on November 14, 1850. This particular speech, presented to the Library by Senator Benton, himself, and several letters make up the Mercantile's small collection of primary materials by or concerning Thomas Hart Benton
Lecture on the Progress of the Age
Title
Lecture on the Progress of the Age
Date
1850, 1850
Description
Speech given at the St. Louis Mercantile Library in 1850.
M-552 Scudder, John Missouri Hotel Lease Indenture
Title
M-552 Scudder, John Missouri Hotel Lease Indenture
Date
1836-11-15
Description
Manuscript lease indenture between John Scudder and Benjamin L. Turnbull to lease the Missouri Hotel in St. Louis. The manuscript, dated November 15, 1836, contains witness signatures and an inventory of hotel goods, including feather-beds, lamps, linens, and a Franklin stove. The document indicates the property will be used as a tavern or house of entertainment, and a list of payments is

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