NEWS AND TIPS FROM THE ST. LOUIS COUNTY LIBRARY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS DEPARTMENT VOL. 7, No. 1—JANUARY 2014 FOR THE RECORDS St. Louis turns 250 in 2014 As the story goes, in Feb. 1764, August Chouteau and a few dozen others founded a fur-trading post near the site where the Arch now stands, and thus St. Louis was founded. STL250 a volunteer-led, non-profit organization, was formed to commemorate the anniversary year and will act as Master of Ceremonies for a year-long, region-wide celebration throughout the 15-county bi-state region. The STL250 website <http://www.stl250.org/> includes a list of events, pages featuring St. Louis history, and information about how individuals and organizations can get involved . The Special Collections Department is excited to announce Portrait of Auguste Chouteau. Published in Shewey's Picto- that St. Louis County Library anticipates becoming a rial St. Louis, Past and Present (St. Louis: A.C. Shewey, 1892; call no. R 977.866 S554). Celebration partner in STL250. Look for special library events highlighting St. Louis history in the coming year. specific topics on St. Louis history. Check the online PastPorts will feature articles focusing on St. Louis history catalog or contact the Special Collections Department for with suggestions for further exploration in sources held by assistance. The edition of titles listed may differ from those the Special Collections Department. listed on the STL250 website. STL250 recommended reading list 1.0 Historic texts Titles available in the Special Collections Department The STL250 recommended reading list <http:// Clamorgan, Cyprian. The Colored Aristocracy of St. Louis. www.stl250.org/recommended-reading.aspx> is a good way Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1999. to begin exploring the depths of St. Louis history. The R 977.866 C586C following bibliography consists of titles from the list Cox, James. Notable St. Louisans in 1900: A Portrait available in the Special Collections Department. Books with Gallery of Men Whose Energy and Ability Have call numbers beginning with “R” are for use in the library only. Some titles may also be available for checkout from the library’s general collection. Check the online library catalog <http://webpad.slcl.org> for availability. The Special Collections Department has many other items related to JANUARY 2014 | PAGE 2 Contributed Largely Towards Making St. Louis the Francis, David Rowland. The Universal Exposition of Commercial and Financial Metropolis of the West, 1904. 2 vols. St. Louis: Louisiana Purchase Exposition Southwest and South. St. Louis: The Benesch Art Co, 1913. R 977.866 F818U Publishing Company, 1900. R 977.866 N899 and Gill, McCune. Women Prominent in the Early History of circulating copy St. Louis. n.p.: n.d. Cox, James. Old and New St. Louis: A Concise History of Hyde, William, and Howard Louis Conard, ed. the Metropolis of the West and Southwest, with a Encyclopedia of the History of St. Louis: A Review of Its Present Greatness and Immediate Compendium of History and Biography for Ready Prospects. St. Louis: Central Biographical Publishing, Reference. New York: Southern History Co., 1899. 1894. R 977.866 C877O R 977.866 H995E Dacus, J. A., and James W. Buel. A Tour of St. Louis: or, Johnson, Anne Andre. Notable Women of St. Louis. St. The Inside Life of a Great City. St. Louis: Western Pub. Louis: Woodward Press, 1914; reprint St. Louis: St. Co, 1878. R 977.866 D119T Louis County Library, 2005. R 977.866 J66N Devoy, John. A History of the City of St. Louis and Vicinity, Larkin, Samuel T. Who’s Who in Saint Louis. St. Louis: From the Earliest Times to the Present: The Pioneers Civic Union of St. Louis. R 977.866 W628. Library has and Their Successors. St. Louis: John Devoy, 1898. volumes for 1928 – 1929 and 1930 – 1931. R 977.866 D513H Lionberger, Isaac Henry. The Annals of St. Louis and a Brief Account of Its Foundation and Progress. St. Louis: Mound City Press, 1928. R 977.866 L736A Marquis, Albert Nelson, ed. The Book of St. Louisans; A Biographical Dictionary of Leading Living Men of the City of St. Louis and Vicinity, 2nd ed. St. Louis: The St. PastPorts is published monthly by the St. Louis Louis Republic, 1912. R 977.866 B724 County Library Special Collections Department, located North St. Louis Business Mens Association. Who’s Who in on Tier 5 of the Headquarters location. North Saint Louis. St. Louis: North St. Louis Business Current and past issues can be downloaded from the Men‘s Association, 1925. R 977.866 W628 web at http://www.slcl.org/pastports. Orear, George Washington. Commercial and Architectural St. Louis. St. Louis: Jones & Orear, 1888. Contact the Special Collections Department R 977.866 O66C Special Collections Department Scharf, J. Thomas. History of St. Louis City and County St. Louis County Library from the Earliest Periods to the Present Day. 1640 S. Lindbergh Blvd Philadelphia: Louis H. Evrets & Company, 1883. St. Louis, MO 63131 R 977.866 S311 Phone: 314-994-3300, ext. 2070 Stevens, Walter Barlow. St. Louis: The Fourth City, 1764- Email: [email protected] 1909. 3 vols. Chicago: S.J. Clarke Publishing Website: http://www.slcl.org Company, 1909. R 977.866 S846S and circulating copy Tours Stevens, Walter Barlow. The Building of St. Louis: From Many Points of View. St. Louis: Lesan-Gould Tours of the Special Collections Department are con- ducted on the first Wednesday and third Saturday of the Company, 1908. R 977.866 S846B month at 10:30 a.m. No registration is required. Group Thomas, William Lyman. History of St. Louis County, tours are gladly arranged with advance notice by calling Missouri. 2 vols. Chicago: S.J. Clarke Publishing the Special Collections Department at 314-994-3300, Company, 1911. R 977.865 T463H and circulating ext. 2070. copy JANUARY 2014 | PAGE 3 2.0 St. Louis history Vexler, Robert. Saint Louis: A Chronological and Documentary History. Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: Oceana 2.1 General overview Publications, 1974. R 977.8 V594S and circulating copy Gerteis, Louis S. St. Louis: From Village to Metropolis: Essays From the Missouri Historical Review, 1906- 2.2 Early colonial (1760S - 1850S) 2006. Columbia: Lindenwood University Press, 2009. Ames, Gregory P., ed. Auguste Chouteau’s Journal: R 977.866 S145 Memory, Mythmaking and History in the Heritage of Hagen, Harry M. This Is Our St. Louis. Charlotte: Knight New France. St. Louis: Mercantile Library, University Publishing, 1970. R 977.866 H143T of Missouri-St. Louis, 2010. R 977.8 A923 Primm, James Neal. Lion of the Valley: St. Louis, Missouri, Billon, Frederic Louis. Annals of St. Louis in Its Territorial 1764-1980, 3rd ed. St. Louis: Missouri Historical Days from 1804 to 1821. St. Louis: F.L. Billon, 1886. Society Press, 1998. R 977.866 P953L R 977.866 B599A and circulating copy Stadler, Frances Hurd. St. Louis Day by Day. St. Louis: Christian, Shirley. Before Lewis and Clark: The Story of Patrice Press, 1989. R 977.866 S777S and circulating the Chouteaus, the French Dynasty that Ruled copy America’s Frontier. New York: Farar, Straus and Van Ravenswaay, Charles. Saint Louis: An Informal Giroux, 2004. R 977.866 C555B and circulating copy. History of the City and Its People, 1764-1865, Candace Cleary, Patricia. The World, the Flesh, and the Devil: A O’Connor, ed. St. Louis: Missouri Historical Society History of Colonial St. Louis. Columbia: University of Press, 1991. R 977.866 V274S and circulating copy Missouri Press, 2011. R 977.866 C623W THIS MONTH IN ST. LOUIS HISTORY JANUARY1882 Beginning in January 1882, St. Louis and other cities More about the smallpox epidemic is described in articles across the United States were dealing with a smallpox published in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat for the follow- epidemic. Residents of St. Louis were flocking to be vac- ing dates and pages (available on microfilm in the Special cinated. By then, 80,000 people had been vaccinated Collections Department): and 4,000 deaths had occurred due to the virulent dis- ease. Health Commissioner Francis was in charge of im- Jan. 23, 1882, page 3 Jan. 29, 1882, page 6 plementing the procedures for handling this epidemic. Jan. 24, 1882, pages 3. 9 Feb. 1, 1882, page 11 Most victims and some families of the infected children Jan. 25, 1882, page 9 Feb. 4, 1882, page 9 were removed to the “Pest-house” located south of Jef- Jan. 26, 1882, page 8 Feb. 12, 1882, page 9 ferson Barracks, a facility described in the Feb. 12, 1882 Jan. 28, 1882, page 15 issue of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat on page 3. For more information about the quarantine hospital and The names of those who died from small-pox were listed cemetery, see Michael McDermott, “Quarantine Island: in bulletins published in the newspaper. With few excep- The Search for Quarantine / Arsenal Island” in the St. tions, most of those names do not appear in the St. Louis Louis Genealogical Society Quarterly, 34 (Fall 2001), pp. burial permit listings also found in the Globe. Bodies 69 and 70, call no. R 977.865 S145 V. 34. were interred at the Quarantine cemetery on the western part of the hospital compound. JANUARY 2014 | PAGE 4 Fausz, J. Frederick. Founding St. Louis: First City of the Coyle, Elinor Martineau. Saint Louis Homes, 1866-1916: New West. Charleston, S.C.: History Press, 2011. The Golden Age. St. Louis: Folkstone Press, 1971. R 977.866 F269F R 977.866 C881S Foley, William E., and C. David Rice. The First Sandweiss, Eric. St. Louis in the Century of Henry Shaw: A Chouteaus, River Barons of Early St.