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Eugene F. Karst Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 623
Scope and Contents The Eugene F. Karst Collection contains a variety of articles, newspapers, pamphlets, publications, correspondence, posters, and travel items related to Mr. Karst's work for the U. S. State Department in Central and Latin America. Much of the material in the collection is from Karst's time as a press attache and information officer in Argentina (1950-1952), El Salvador (1955), Brazil (1960-1962), and Paraguay (1968). The materials reveal an interest in geography and travel, perceptions of...
Dates: 1940-1991

Saugrain Family Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 657
Scope and Contents This collection consists of handwritten copies of 18th-century French literary works by such authors as Condillac, Florian, and Voltaire. It was donated to Saint Louis University by Frederick Saugrain, son of early St. Louis settler Dr. Antoine Francois Saugrain. Either or both of these men may have been the copyist of the pieces preserved here, which perhaps served as educational aids at a time when both books and schools were in short supply in the Mississippi Valley. This...
Dates: 1744-1933