Saint Louis (Mo.) -- History

Scope and Contents The Brick Industry Collection contains booklets, photographs, certificates, and correspondence that provide insight on the manufacturing, distribution, and sale of bricks from the 1880s into the early 20th century. Many of the materials are from the local Hydraulic-Press Brick Company of St. Louis, a prominent business founded in 1868 and later owned by Henry W. Eliot, T.S. Eliot’s father. The company is known for its use and development of the hydraulic press, which allowed for the mass...

Content Description Dijaspora bošnjačka (Bosnian Diaspora) is a Bosniak periodical that was published monthly between May 2004 and December 2009 in St. Louis, Missouri. It was one of the two components comprising the Bosnian Media Group (the other was Radio Behar St. Louis). The publication features original articles by an international group of contributors (including from Bosnia and Herzegovina) and was distributed in the United States and Canada and parts of Europe. The paper was...

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This collection contains 4 business letters from 1842 sent to Elisha Riggs, a prominent businessman and banker in New York known for founding the Riggs National Bank. The letters are sent from local St. Louis merchants, business agents, and attorneys communicating with Riggs on matters related to banking, credit, and business in the local area.

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The personal collection of Elsie Roth, RN (of St. Louis, MO) documents the war and the relief missions she organized in the mid-1990s.

The collection includes slides, photographs, videotapes, audio tapes, newspaper articles, color reproductions of original artwork drawn by children in Sarajevo, a t-shirt (Maybe Airlines Sarajevo), a flak Jacket worn by Roth on one trip, and miscellaneous papers and handwritten notes.

Content Description Two hardbound volumes contain approximately 4,800 photographs of clothing and personal items found with human remains from mass graves in the summer of 1995 in the eastern part of Bosnia-Herzegovina. The people who were buried in these graves were victims of the war and genocide perpetrated between 1992 and 1995.These particular volumes were brought to St. Louis to help family members identify the remains of their loved ones before more accurate DNA testing was readily available....

Scope and Contents This collection consists of materials from Nathan B. Young Jr. (1894-1993), a lawyer and judge in St. Louis, Missouri. These materials consist of correspondence, personal papers, scrapbooks, photographs, writing, publications, newspapers, and art.Nathan B. Young Jr. was born in Tuskegee, Alabama on November 28th, 1894, to parents Nathan B. Young Sr. and Emma Mae Garret. At the time of his birth, his father was a teacher at the Tuskegee Institute and a close friend of Booker T....

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The Center for Bosnian Studies oral history project (formerly the Bosnia Memory Project) is an ongoing historical and cultural documentation effort that seeks to establish an enduring record of the experiences of Bosnian genocide survivors and their families during and after the war.

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Near-complete run of Plima Magazin, a bi-monthly Bosnian-language publication that was published in St. Louis between spring 1997 and spring 2000.

Date of inaugural issue is unknown.

Physical issues were obtained from publisher and returned after scanning. CBS holds physical copies of three issues.

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Ron Klutho's collection of materials related to Bosnia, the Bosnian Student Project, and the local diaspora. Klutho (Amir Amerikanac to many Bosnians) has worked with refugees in St. Louis in a number of roles. Amassed over more than two decades, the collection includes articles, documents, and a single photograph of a boys' soccer team (undated).