David Burbank Papers

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: WUA-04-wua00002

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This collection is comprised of correspondence, clippings, and 9 reels of microfilm that chronicle labor history, particularly in St. Louis. The publications listed below were removed from this collection and may be found in the University Archives reference collection:

Railroad Strikers in Court. By Elwin Sigmund, 1956.

The First International. By David Burbank, in The Bulletin of the Missouri Historical Society, January 1962

The Labor Movement in St. Louis Prior to the Civil War. By Russell Nolan, in the Missouri Historical Review, October 1939.

The Philadelphia Pilots’ Strike of 1792. By Kenneth Keller, 1977.

The Reign of the Rabble, the St. Louis Strike of 1877. By David Burbank, 1966.

Dates

Creation: 1872-1977

Creator

Burbank, David T. (David Thayer), 1912- (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Open

Conditions Governing Use

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Biographical Information

David Burbank took a few classes at Washington University School of Architecture. Later, he was a library building security assistant at Washington University. His grandfather, Amos Thayer, was a federal judge of the Eighth Circuit, and his mother, Louise January Thayer, was a relative of Mrs. Robert Bookings. Burbank was part of the Labor Movement for a time, and studied the St. Louis general strike of 1877. He wrote Reign of the Rabble, the St. Louis General Strike of 1877 Augustus M. Kelley, Publishers, New York, 1966.