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The Missouri Historical Society’s library and archival collections have been moved out of a second story window of the Jefferson Memorial Building in Forest Park.
The movers set up a continuous shuttle between the building and the new Library and Collections Center at 225 S. Skinker Blvd., the renovated United Hebrew temple.
The entire collection of 70,000 books and thousands of cartons of archival materials were loaded, shelf by shelf, into packing boxes wheeled up a ramp to a window sill in the second floor library, moved to a platform outside, lowered into a truck by a large crane and taken to the new facility for unloading and placement on shelves.
The Missouri Historical Society’s library staff supervised the professional movers from the Hallett Company of Chicago at both ends of the operation.
The move, including the pictorial history collections housed on the lower level of the Jefferson Memorial Building, will be completed in mid-October, according to Peter Michel, director of the division of library and archives.
The library will open to researchers in the fall.
The Greco-Byzantine style library will house more than 70,000 cataloged books, pamphlets and periodicals. Under its ornate 40-foot dome, researchers will find information about the commerce on the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers, St. Louis neighborhoods. the exploration and settlement of the Louisiana Territory and a host of other subjects.
They will have access to St. Louis newspapers dating back to 1808, city directories, French and Spanish colonial records and 17th and 18th century maps.
The archival collections, which may be accessed by a card catalogue in the same space, contain William Clark’s elkskin journal from his expedition with Meriwether Lewis, papers that belonged to the Chouteau family, to David R. Francis, who served as U.S. ambassador to czarist Russia, writer Kate Chopin, poet Sara Teasdale, educator Susan Blow and former President Thomas Jefferson. Researchers may request family papers as well as government, military and business records dating from the period of French colonization of the Mississippi Valley. Strengths are Western exploration, the fur trade, the Mexican War, river history and the Plains Indians.
Also on hand will be more than 430,000 images, including photos, prints, videotapes and motion picture film, presenting a nearly complete pictorial history of St. Louis in the last century. Works of photographers Emil Boehl and W. R. Persons, historic posters, lithographs and engravings are included in the pictorial history collection.
The Missouri Historical Society continues to operate the History Museum in the Jefferson Memorial Building in Forest [Source ends here.]
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Missouri Historical Society Library and Collections Center, 225 S. Skinker. Photographer not credited.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, October 1991.
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