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Missouri Times

The Missouri Times, published quarterly and mailed to members, includes information about the State Historical Society, National History Day in Missouri, and the Western Historical Manuscript Collection (WHMC). Each newsletter features articles about recent and upcoming exhibits, conferences, workshops, and programs sponsored by the Society and WHMC and profiles of new acquisitions and selected manuscript collections.

August 2008 (825k)

Features

• Society Receives NEH Grant, Joins National Digital Newspaper Program
  The State Historical Society of Missouri has been chosen by the National Endowment for the Humanities to join a select group of institutions creating a national digital resource of historically significant newspapers. The Society will receive $179,740 to digitize and provide access to 100,000 pages of Missouri newspapers from the period 1880-1920.
• Engelhardt exhibit showcases an exceptional career in the arts and politics
  For thirty-five years, 1962-1997, Tom Engelhardt drew cartoons about contemporary issues and events for the editorial page of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Beginning on September 6, a selection of his cartoons on elections during the last third of the twentieth century will be featured in the Society’s Main Galley exhibition Engelhardt on Elections.
• William Woods University: A 160-Year Legacy
  The evolution and vibrant history of William Woods University (Fulton) is documented in a large collection recently received at WHMC-Columbia.
• The Drawings of Jerome Fedeli
  Jerome Fedeli was one of the most active and respected fresco artists in the Midwest during the later nineteenth century. The Fedeli family donated a collection of more than two hundred drawings to WHMC-Kansas City. The collection consists of 209 sketches, pen and ink, most colored, of designs for murals and interior decorations, forty-six photographs of Fedeli’s work or copies of artwork used for study, various news articles about Fedeli, diplomas and certificates, his marriage record, business cards, a list of correspondence made when he was the Italian consul in Kansas City, a glass plate negative portrait of Fedeli, and the sash and belt from his consul uniform..
• Leonard Hall: Writer, Naturalist, Conservationist, Environmentalist, and Citizen
  As the field of environmental awareness attracts unprecedented attention and consideration, the papers of Missouri’s own Leonard Hall, available at the Western Historical Manuscript Collection-Rolla, offer rich opportunities for study.
• Newly Processed Holdings Highlight St. Louis Labor and Women’s History
  Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union — The Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America helped transform the industrial work environment.
  International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union — In 1900 the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union was formed in New York City in response to deplorable and dangerous conditions.
  Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom — founded on April 28, 1915, when a group of women met in an international congress at The Hague, Netherlands, to protest the atrocities of World War I.

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