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Title: Pott Library Maps
Description: The Pott Library's map collection is a vast holding of maps dating from the earliest days of printing to the 21st century. The maps cover river geography, charting and other riparian subjects.

Title: P-025: Golden Eagle River Museum Collection
Description: The Golden Eagle River Museum Collection consists of documents and photographs related to the inland rivers of the United States, especially the vessels and people that work them. For a complete finding aid of the collection, including its non-digitized materials, please see the Golden Eagle River Museum Collection page.

Title: Akron Canton & Youngstown Railway Corporation System Diagram
Date: 1926, 1936
Description: A series of scans of the fold-out track chart for the Akron Canton and Youngstown Railway

Title: John W. Barriger III Collection Maps
Date: 1984, 1984
Description: Maps from collection B-1; The John W. Barriger III Papers.

Title: P-011: Captain William F. and Betty Streckfus Carroll Collection
Description: The Captain William F. and Betty Carroll Collection traces the history and development of Streckfus Steamers Inc., as well as its antecedent and descendant companies through correspondence, financial documents, business documents, photographs and memorabilia. In addition, the collection boasts a sizable number of photographs, blueprints, documents and ephemera related to river vessels, including but not limited to all of the Streckfus vessels. Captain Carroll also collected information on the history of steamboating, packet and excursion businesses, and river information, history, heritage and life, mostly through clippings and transcriptions; however the collection also contains some photographs, publications, charts and correspondence relating to the above subjects. There is also information regarding river personalities, including people involved with the Streckfus family and businesses, as well as river life and river work in general. Most of the biographical information takes the form of photographs or clippings. Currently, the photographs have been digitized. A finding aid to the entire collection is available.

Title: M-002: John Jacob Astor Collection
Description: This collection contains two letters written by the New York fur trade executive John Jacob Astor to Charles Gratiot of St. Louis in July of 1811 and to Anthony Charles Cazenove in July of 1813. Both have been transcribed.

Title: M-009: General Daniel Bissell Papers
Description: This collection contains 31 hand-written letters bound in a single volume. The correspondence covers the years 1800-1820. Correspondents include Gen. James Wilkinson; Lieut. Zebulon M. Pike; Gov. William Henry Harrison; Henry Dearborn; William Clark; Frederick Bates; Gov. Meriwether Lewis; and Auguste Chouteau
Immediately after the Louisiana Territory was ceded by France to the United

Title: M-169: The Emil Boehl Collection
Description: became one of the most prolific St. Louis scenic photographers active in the latter half of the 19th Century. The Boehl/Koenig partnership lasted until 1897. Boehl retired from photography in 1919 and died later that year on the 12th of December. The Emil Boehl Collection consists of three series. The collection contains images dating from 1850 to ca. 1906. The collection’s archival materials include

Title: Pott Library Art and Artifacts
Description: In addition to books and archival materials, the Pott Library also has a robust art collection, including prints, drawings, paintings, models and inland waterways related artifacts.

Title: Mercantile Library Newspapers
Description: The Mercantile Library has extensive newspaper collections covering much of the history of printing in St. Louis including complete runs of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Many shorter run newspapers are available in print and on microfilm in the library's reading room.

Title: Maps from The Lewis Collection.
Description: Maps from the Robert and Hansell Lewis Collection of the Barriger National Railroad Library

Title: B-1 John W. Barriger III Archival Collection

Title: P-053: The Robert Graul Delta Queen Photographs
Date: 1972-07
Description: This collection consists of 55 photographs taken by Robert Graul on a trip aboard the excursion steamboat DELTA QUEEN from July 1972 trip from St. Louis to Peoria. Photographs include images of the DQ, passengers, crew, shore excursions, and local landmarks.

Title: St. Louis Globe-Democrat Photographs: People
Description: Located here are photographs from the St. Louis Globe-Democrat Newspaper relating to people. Generally, they are photographs that were filed according to the content being of or about a single individual, though some instances of photographs of multiple individuals can be located here as well.

Title: Mercantile Library Books
Description: Digitized books (monographs) belonging to the general collections of St. Louis Mercantile Library, the Herman T. Pott National Inland Waterways Library, the John W. Barriger III National Railroad Library, the UMSL University Archives and the Thomas Jefferson Library. In some cases, a digitized book is part of a larger archival, manuscript or special collection. In such cases, the book has been included with the collection.

Title: Record Group 17 - Annual Reports
Description: published with lecture transcripts. The seventh report is translated into German. Starting in the mid-1850s, reports were also published by the shareholders of the Mercantile Library Hall until its eventual complete purchase by the library association. The reports appear in this collection in alphabetical order, but can be 20?type=dismax&f

Title: St. Louis City Directories, Gazetteers, Rosters, and Guides
Description: This collection contains resources that cover the people and places in the city of St. Louis, including but not limited to residential, business, and street directories, membership rosters for organizations, clubs, and social societies, and descriptive guidebooks of notable residents, businesses, institutions, and landmarks. A comprehensive list of directories for St. Louis available at other institutions can be accessed at List of St. Louis City Directories, Gazetteers, Rosters, and Guides or at this list created by the Missouri History Museum. Washington University in St. Louis has a particularly strong collection digitized as part of its St. Louis Circuit Court Records Project.

Title: M-113: St. Louis Imprints Collection
Description: The St. Louis Imprints Collection at the St. Louis Mercantile Library contains approximately 8,000 items documenting the printing history of St. Louis, from its beginnings in 1808, to the end of World War II in 1945. Formats include books, broadsides, pamphlets, serials, prints and maps. The collection covers the widest array of topics, from history and law, to art and literature, and includes

Title: M-111, Series 1: Baptist Pamphlet Collection
Description: Historically, the Mercantile Library had several bound volumes of "Baptist Pamphlets" which were initially part of John Mason Peck's library but catalogued together under one call number. These volumes have been disbound and each pamphlet put in a separate, non-acidic enclosure. A number has been added to an alphabetical arrangement. The list is roughly arranged alphabetically by the first important word of the Church, benevolent Society, or other organization's title or name concerned.

Title: M-389 St. Louis Breweries Collection

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