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MS/VMF. Vertical Manuscript Files

 Collection Subgroup Term
Identifier: MS/VMF
Found in 248 Collections and/or Records:

James H. Shields Manuscript

 Collection — Box VMF 15, Folder: 9
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf155
Scope and Contents

Autograph manuscript of a speech delivered by Shields on the occasion of the reburial in a stone sarcophagus of the remains of Julien Dubuque, first white settler in Iowa. 16 pages

Wilbur Henry Siebert Manuscript

 Collection — Box VMF 15, Folder: 10
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf156
Scope and Contents

Inquiry concerning the Underground Railroad, printed questionnaire signed, from Siebert to an unnamed recipient, with manuscript revision, seeking information and specific details about the Underground Railroad during the Civil War. 1 page

Samuel Francis Smith Manuscript

 Collection — Box VMF 18, Folder: 3
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf225
Scope and Contents

Autograph manuscript, 1 page by Samuel Francis Smith commenting on his lyrics to "My Country, 'Tis of Thee."

Spanish Land Grant

 Collection — Box VMF 20, Folder: 7
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf240
Scope and Contents

Spanish land grant describing an unknown parcel of land in the Southwestern United States signed by [Fran Cauratez], September 1787. Includes street and town names as well as list of representatives at the signing of the land grant.

Buzz Spector Collection

 Collection — Box VMF 20, Folder: 3
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf236
Scope and Contents

Two cards illustrating An Orthodox Theory and one broadside for "A Picture" by Buzz Spector.

Herbert Spiegelberg Photographs

 Collection — Box VMF 15, Folder: 11
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf157
Scope and Contents

Two black and white photographs of a concentration camp

St. Louis Theater Program Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf145
Scope and Contents

This collection constitutes an incomplete but extensive run of theater programs from the American, Empress, Shubert-Jefferson, and Shubert-Rialto Theaters of St. Louis for the period 1921-1928. It also includes miscellaneous items such as motion picture and vaudeville programs and newspaper clippings from the period, and one program from the 46th Street Theater in New York.

St. Louis Theater Record Scrapbook

 Collection — Box VMF 14, Folder: 2
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf146
Scope and Contents

Scrapbook of theater programs and related memorabilia for plays and musical events in St. Louis, Chicago, and other occasional cities. Items for dates in 1930s laid in. Most pasted-in items are fragments, or clippings from programs, rather than entire programs. Names of persons accompanying compiler to the programs are added in autograph. Imitation brown leather binding, 6 1/4 x 9 1/4". Volume unhinged, very poor condition

William E. Stafford Collection

 Collection — Box VMF 15, Folder: 12
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf158
Scope and Contents 1964 December 26. Typed letter signed from Stafford to William Matheson, enclosing poems (autograph and typescript drafts) and explaining the circumstances of their composition, 1 pageEnclosed poems: 1963 December 12. Maybe Alone on My Bike, autograph and typescript drafts, 1 page1963 December 27. My Aunt, autograph and typescript drafts, 4 pages1964 March 9. A Note for Historians of the Assissination of President Kennedy, autograph and typescript drafts,...

Ruzena Stanley Manuscript

 Collection — Box VMF 15, Folder: 13
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf159
Scope and Contents

Autograph comment on the Animals' Arrival [poem] by Elizabeth Jennings. Stanley points out that "this will always be the Moon Poem" because the poem was supposedly written on the day when the first picture of the moon surface appeared in the papers. Verso, picture postcard, 1 page