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...

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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.

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....

Scope and Contents The Shirley L. Seifert Manuscript Collection is comprised of a rough draft, galley proofs, and a makeup copy of Seifert's book, "The Key to St. Louis." Seifert, a native of the St. Louis area, wrote this historical work about the founding and economics of Saint Louis as part of "The Key to the Cities Series" published by the J. B. Lippincott Company in 1963.Seifert donated a copy of "The Key to St. Louis" to the Pius XII Memorial Library as well as various drafts and manuscripts...

Scope and Contents This collection contains materials related to or produced by St. Elizabeth’s Parish, a Black Catholic church in St. Louis, Missouri that operated from 1873 to 1951.In 1858, Rev. Peter Koning, S.J. started a chapel for Black Catholics in the upper gallery of St. Francis Xavier’s Church. When the patronage outgrew the chapel, Rev. Ignatius Panken, S.J., now in charge of the chapel, purchased the Vinegar Hill Hall building at 14th and Gay Streets in 1872. St. Elizabeth’s Parish was...