Charles van Ravenswaay (1911-1990), Papers, 1841-1990 (C3873)

21.8 linear feet, 1 audio cassette

INTRODUCTION

Correspondence, research notes, photographs, and literary manuscripts of historian and author Charles van Ravenswaay, former director of the Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis; Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, Massachusetts; and the Henry Francis duPont Winterthur Museum and Gardens, Wilmington, Delaware.

DONOR INFORMATION

These materials were donated to the State Historical Society of Missouri by Charles van Ravenswaay over the course of several years. The bulk of the collection was given to the society on 10 September 1990 by Lynn Williams, executrix of the Charles van Ravenswaay estate. Complete donor information is available in the collection's information folder.

RESTRICTIONS

Some of the materials in this collection are copyrighted and may not be used for publication without written permission from the parties holding those copyrights.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Charles van Ravenswaay was born in Boonville, Missouri, 10 August 1911 to Cornelis and Betty (Lionberger) van Ravenswaay, the second of three sons. His father, a native of Holland, came to Missouri after completing his medical and surgical training in Europe; his mother was a granddaughter of Colonel William Talbot, who helped to settle Loutre Island, Missouri.

Besides attending Boonville public schools, Charles van Ravenswaay attended the Kemper Military Academy in Boonville for a number of years before moving on to Washington University in St. Louis to pursue his undergraduate and graduate studies in the liberal arts. Although his primary interest was in history, van Ravenswaay also attended all the art history classes then offered by the university, a study that was supplemented by a "leisurely tour" through Europe in Summer 1931. He received his B.A. in 1933 and M.A. the following year.

Surrounded by the artifacts of Boonville's Civil War history, van Ravenswaay called himself a "serious collector" from the age of fourteen. His reading of East Coast antique magazines gave way to independent study of both the architecture and the decorative arts of the Mississippi Valley. While in college van Ravenswaay studied not only the library resources available in St. Louis, but also many primary sources, such as personal interviews and the family letters and diaries of St. Louis's oldest families. In 1933 van Ravenswaay joined with St. Louis photographer Auguste Piaget (and after Auguste's death in 1937, with his brother Paul Piaget) to make a photographic survey of early Missouri buildings. This collaboration continued into the 1970s and eventually totalled more than 8,000 research notes and photographs of buildings, regional art, cemetery markers, and household items. This collection of photographs was donated to the Historic American Buildings Survey (H.A.B.S.) / Library of Congress in 1984.

Following graduation van Ravenswaay moved back to Boonville to become the business manager of his father's medical and surgical clinic from 1934 to 1949. From 1938 to 1941 he also acted as State Supervisor of the U.S. Work Projects Administration's Federal Writers Project and co-authored Missouri: A Guide to the "Show Me" State. In 1942 van Ravenswaay entered the U.S. Navy and served four years in the North Atlantic and the South Pacific, achieving the rank of Lieutenant Commander. During this time he continued his independent study of Missouri history, wrote numerous articles for magazines and professional journals, and became the leading authority on Missouri Creole decorative arts.

After his release from the service van Ravenswaay was offered the post of Director of the Missouri Historical Society in St. Louis, where he remained until January 1962. In this capacity van Ravenswaay expanded the Society's museum holdings and its public outreach programs, while continuing his study of regional architecture, art, and the decorative arts. This work resulted in pioneering studies of eighteenth-century Creole furniture, early nineteenth-century cabinetmakers, silversmiths, print makers, photographers, and glass manufactories. At the same time he became active in encouraging, and often assisting, the preservation and restoration of historic buildings, particularly in the St. Louis area. Among these accomplishments were the restoration of the Louis Bolduc House, St. Genevieve, Missouri, and the formation of the St. Louis County Historic Building Commission.

In 1962 van Ravenswaay accepted the post of President of Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, Massachusetts, a position he held until 1966. In that year he was named Director of the Henry Francis dupont Winterthur Museum and Gardens, in Wilmington, Delaware, where he remained until his retirement in 1976. In these positions van Ravenswaay expanded his understanding of American decorative arts and enlarged a growing interest in horticulture and botany.

In addition to the official duties related to his directorships, van Ravenswaay was also President of the American Association of Museums from 1961 to 1968 and served on national historical and horticultural committees, including the University of Delaware Library Associates; the National Trust for Historic Preservation; the Advisory Committee of the Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation; and the Carostead Foundation (Tudor Place) in Washington, D.C.

Van Ravenswaay's list of awards and honorary degrees includes: an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Maryville College of the Sacred Heart, St. Louis, 1968; an honorary Doctor of Humanities from the University of Missouri, 1980; and the Conservation Service Award, granted by the U.S. Secretary of the Interior for "significant contributions to the preservation of this Nation's heritage," 1987.

In many ways Charles van Ravenswaay's retirement years were his most productive and personally rewarding. For the first time in his adult life he had the leisure to pursue topics of interest without the daily demands of the professional world. In these years van Ravenswaay published three books: The Arts and Architecture of German Settlements in Missouri: A Survey of a Vanishing Culture (University of Missouri Press, 1977); A Nineteenth Century Garden (Main Street Press/Universe Books, 1977); and "Drawn from Nature." The Botanical Art of Joseph Prestele and His Sons (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1984). These last two derived from an interest in gardening which van Ravenswaay had nurtured since his Boonville, Missouri, days. One book was published posthumously in 1991: St. Louis: An Informal History of the City and its People, 1764-1865 (Missouri Historical Society). Three manuscripts remain unpublished: Old Missouri, a collection of photographs from the Piaget-van Ravenswaay Collection donated to the Library of Congress, with text by architectural historian Frank L. Peters, Jr., Andre Parmentier: America's First Professional Landscape Architect, and Those Wonderful Old-Time Apples: The North American Story.

Charles van Ravenswaay died 20 March 1990 after battling lung and eye ailments for several years.

SCOPE AND CONTENT

The Charles van Ravenswaay Papers consist of personal and professional correspondence, research notes, drafts of published and unpublished manuscripts, photographs and slides, and family genealogies. The material is arranged into five series:

• General Correspondence
• Manuscripts
• Photographs and Slides
• van Ravenswaay Family
• Miscellaneous

The General Correspondence Series includes incoming and outgoing mail, both personal and professional. Though this material dates from 1959 to 1990, the bulk of it dates from the 1980s. These files are arranged alphabetically by correspondent and, with only minor changes, retain their original order. Some files have been combined to save space. Correspondence dealing directly with van Ravenswaay's directorships has remained in the possession of those institutions.

Professional topics include historic preservation of Missouri's German and Creole buildings, van Ravenswaay's resignation as Director of the Missouri Historical Society, donation of the Piaget-van Ravenswaay photograph collection to the Library of Congress, his time-to-time editing of his St. Louis manuscript, and speaking engagements in Missouri and around the nation. His work with the University of Delaware Library Associates, including the donation of his horticultural library to that institution, is also in this series.

Personal correspondence touches upon gardening, travel, antiques, and health, as van Ravenswaay's friends sent not only letters and cards, but newsclippings and research papers of interest to both parties. In this way, he was able to "keep up" with happenings in Missouri and became acquainted with horticultural societies and booksellers around the world.

The Manuscripts Series contains books and articles written by van Ravenswaay, speeches and lectures given at various historical and horticultural symposiums, and research notes accumulated throughout a lifetime. The series is arranged by medium, and then alphabetically within each grouping. Books and articles are arranged by title, first books, then articles.

Speeches are arranged by subject matter, as are the research note cards.

Included in the series are draft versions of van Ravenswaay's books: The Arts and Architecture of German Settlements in Missouri; A Nineteenth Century Garden; Drawn from Nature; and St. Louis: An Informal History; as well as the unpublished Those Wonderful Old-Time Apples: The North American Story, and material on Andre Parmentier, America's first landscape architect, and American frontiersman Christopher "Kit" Carson, whose family pioneered the Loutre Island, Missouri, region with van Ravenswaay's maternal ancestors. There is also a carbon copy (with some marginal notes) of van Ravenswaay's Master's thesis on frontier poetry in the Louisiana Territory.

These manuscript drafts graphically document the creative processes that go into the creation of a finished literary work, with not only textual variations (with editors' and readers' notes), illustrations (in the form of photographs, photocopies, slides, and color transparencies), and endnotes, but also voluminous research notes which van Ravenswaay began accumulating in college. These research notes take the form of photocopies of rare published material, newspaper transcriptions, and lists of tradesmen and craftsmen taken from various newspapers, directories, and census reports. Roughly half the research notes are filed with the specific manuscripts, while the rest are note card files that are found at the end of this series. The foldered notes retain their original order and are arranged not just by topic, but by correspondent as well. In this way, van Ravenswaay could ensure proper credit was given to major contributors to his projects.

Within these drafts are a set of folders that revolve around the Federal Writers Project of the late 1930s. Included in these files is correspondence between van Ravenswaay, who was "in the field" collecting data, and Billie Jensen, van Ravenswaay's associate who coordinated that information in their St. Louis office. Most of this material concerns the editing of the Missouri State Guide text and the gathering of suitable photographs with which to illustrate the book, all under the pressure of a constantly changing deadline. Reviews of the finished book and correspondence concerning a 1984 re-issue by the University of Kansas Press are also included. For this re-issue, van Ravenswaay was asked to provide a new "Forward" and drafts of this essay are included.

A collection of articles van Ravenswaay produced in the 1930s for the Boonville Daily News exists in photocopy form. These essays deal primarily with Cooper and Howard County history (including both factual accounts and folktales van Ravenswaay collected), and include such topics as the Civil War in Missouri, frontier cooking, a trip from Missouri to the goldfields of California in 1849, early Boonville industries, slave sales, and ghosts. There is also a series of letters Charles wrote to the Daily News while on a 1931 tour of Europe with his father. Topics include the voyage over, seeing the Alps, and impressions of Mussolini and Hitler. Printed copies of articles dealing with St. Louis history (written by van Ravenswaay for trade and popular magazines) include such topics as regional architecture, glass manufactories, steamboats, and dueling. There are also two short stories van Ravenswaay wrote for a college English class.

In his capacities as historian, director, and author, Charles van Ravenswaay was often called upon to make presentations to university students, collectors, and fellow horticultural historians. Many of these talks exist in outline and draft form, and range from topics of historical interest such as the German and Creole influence in Missouri and the development of horticultural nurseries in New York State, to personal topics of antique collecting in the 1930s and developing new programs at the Missouri Historical Society.

In the early 1930s van Ravenswaay also collected local folklore and folksongs from area schoolchildren and blacks, which he often used to embellish his historical writings. An alphabetical listing of these songs by first line and title (when known) is provided at the end of this inventory.

The Photographs and Slides Series is arranged alphabetically by topic. The bulk of the series consists of photocopies of the photographs and notes van Ravenswaay donated to the Historic American Buildings Survey (H.A.B.S) / Library of Congress in 1984. These photos captured the Upper Mississippi Valley's architectural heritage before the wrecking ball moved in to "progress" Missouri's cities. Notes contain location of building, construction date (when known), historical significance, photographer's name, and date of photograph. Early photos concentrate on buildings in the St. Louis/St. Charles area. As van Ravenswaay and his partners, St. Louis photographers Auguste and Paul Piaget, began work on the WPA publication Missouri: A Guide to the "Show Me" State, the scope of their survey widened to include the central part of the state. In 1962 van Ravenswaay began a survey of German decorative arts and architecture in Missouri for the Archives of American Art. This study eventually led to the publication 15 years later of van Ravenswaay's ground-breaking book titled The Arts and Architecture of German Settlements in Missouri. Photos from this portion of the H.A.B.S. material include buildings in western Illinois and southeastern Iowa, as well as Missouri. The material retains its H.A.B.S. arrangement, being ordered by county and H.A.B.S.-appointed number.

A series of 35-mm slides, used to illustrate van Ravenswaay's many lectures on antiques and horticulture, presents images of German-American, Creole, and Anglo-American buildings in the upper-Mississippi River Valley; German-American and Creole furniture; and nearly five hundred botanical drawings of flowers, fruits, and vegetables used in 19th-century nursery catalogs and agricultural magazines. Van Ravenswaay owned one of the largest collections of these catalogs in the U.S., and most of these slides were made from items in his personal possession. Charles van Ravenswaay donated his horticultural materials to the University of Delaware Libraries.

This series also includes glass plate negatives, lantern slides, and photographic prints of 1850s to c. 1910 Boonville and Westphalia, Missouri, featuring scenes of everyday life, early automobiles, and an 1896 Fourth of July celebration. Also included are several folders of photographs depicting antiques owned by van Ravenswaay, and publicity photos used primarily to present van Ravenswaay as "the Director of. . . ."

The van Ravenswaay Family Series is divided into two subseries: a section dealing specifically with Charles van Ravenswaay which contains awards, biographical data, household inventories, and his U.S. Navy papers; and a section relating to the van Ravenswaay family consisting of family correspondence, land deeds, and genealogies of the various branches of the family.

Important among this material are the inventories Charles made of his personal possessions. In 1928 van Ravenswaay began listing in a notebook the antiques and "old truck" he was then collecting, writing brief descriptions of each item and the price paid for it. In April 1935 a complete inventory of the van Ravenswaays' Boonville house was begun, listing not only the year and price of purchase, but also the current market valuation of each piece and its location in the house. This list was updated in October 1956. When Betty Lionberger van Ravenswaay sold the family home to the Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church next door in 1967, the possessions then in the house were sold at public auction. A list of items at the sale contains Charles van Ravenswaay's notations as to how much each item sold for. What remained was divided amongst the van Ravenswaay children when Betty died in January 1968. This material concludes with several inventory-appraisals made of the Director's houses at Old Sturbridge Village and Winterthur for insurance and tax purposes, including a list of items donated to Winterthur upon van Ravenswaay's retirement from that museum.

Charles van Ravenswaay's Navy papers document his war record from U.S. Naval Training School to command of the USS Villa Lobos, and include his draft card; letters of application and endorsement for a commission in the U.S. Naval Reserve; enlistment papers dated 1942; carbon copies of duty orders and leave requests; and miscellaneous requisitions, inventories, and reports. Also included is a one-volume journal entitled, "Notes made from the readings of Charles van Ravenswaay, USS Villa Lobos, 1 February 1945." This diary includes short dated entries that sketch van Ravenswaay's naval career, including one entry titled, "Notes on the events of Monday night--13 August 1945 [V-J Day]"; lists of books and articles read, and extracted words and sayings relating to history and the American character, with source notes; a short article on the promises of silicone's future scientific and industrial uses; extracts of works by Thomas Wolfe, Somerset Maugham, Henry Adams, G. B. Shaw, Mark Twain, and John Steinbeck; a poem (not in van Ravenswaay's handwriting) about General Douglas McArthur and the War, told from the enlisted man's point-of-view; notes on the Talbot family and Missouri history; a list of "Purchases during cruise of USS Storm King, Nov. & Dec. 1945," which includes antiques bought and their approximate age; and a list of historical materials van Ravenswaay believed should be acquired by the Missouri Historical Society.

Most of the van Ravenswaay family correspondence is dated 1941 to 1947. There are letters to Charles from his mother in Boonville, in which she discusses family, friends, and everyday life, and letters from Charles to his mother, in which he describes the people and atmosphere of the South Pacific. Also included are censor-approved letters from Dutch relatives in Nazi-occupied Holland. These letters are in Dutch and have not been translated. There is one folder of letters from family and friends concerning the illness and death of Charles's father, Dr. Cornelis van Ravenswaay, in 1940, and one folder of letters concerning the death of his mother in 1968.

Land deeds are dated from 1841 to 1893 and concern lands acquired in Cooper County by members of the Lionberger family. Genealogies exist for the Lionberger, Price, Talbot, Tutt, and van Ravenswaay families. Included in the van Ravenswaay family history is an account of the life of Clementine Neubauer van Hoefen, Charles van Ravenswaay's paternal great-grandmother, who served as a missionary with her husband in the Dutch East Indies during the mid-to-late-1800s.

The final series in this collection is the Miscellaneous Series. Arranged alphabetically by topic, the series contains materials on various Missouri towns, counties, and subjects not directly related to Charles van Ravenswaay's other research. Subjects include modern art; Thespian Hall in Boonville, Missouri; the Carostead Foundation (Tudor Place, Washington, D. C.); Missouri churches; historic cookbooks; Boonville's Hickox family; the Pelster Housebarn in Franklin County, Missouri; and Thornhill, the St. Louis County estate of Missouri Governor Frederick Bates (1777-1825).

FOLDER LIST

General Correspondence Series



f. 1
A
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Abele, D.
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Abell, I.
f. 4
Academy of Natural Sciences
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Adams, W. A.
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Adams, W. H.
f. 9
Alexander, E. P.
f. 10
Allen, G.
f. 11-14
American Antiquarian Society
f. 15
American Assoc. of Dealers in Ancient, Oriental & Primitive Art
f. 16
American Association of Museums
f. 17
American Forestry Association
f. 18
American Institute of Architects
f. 19
American Philosophical Society
f. 20
Amory, D.
f. 21-22
Antiques Magazine
f. 23-24
Archives of American Art
f. 521-532
Archives of American Art Survey
f. 25-27
Armstrong, A. W.
f. 28
Arnold, P. M.
f. 29-30
Arrow Rock, Missouri
f. 31
Athenaeum of Philadelphia
f. 32
Atlanta (GA) Historical Society
f. 33
B
f. 34
Baker, J. H.
f. 35-38
BARRA Foundation
f. 39
Barrett, A. N.
f. 40
Bavaria State Museum
f. 41
Beam, P.
f. 42
Beard, W. G.
f. 43
Becker, R. F.
f. 44
Beckmann, R.
f. 45
Bell, Mrs. J. J.
f. 46
Bell, W.
f. 47
Better Homes & Garden Magazine
f. 48
Bissell, J.
f. 49
Bloch, M.
f. 50
Bolton, J.
f. 51
Boone, Mrs. G. S.
f. 52
Boulton, M.
f. 53
Bowen, B. W.
f. 54
Bowles, E. L.
f. 55
Boyd, J.
f. 56
British Embassy, Washington, D.C.
f. 57
Bulletin of American Garden History
f. 58
Burrison, J.
f. 59
Butler, D.
f. 60
C
f. 61
Campbell House Foundation, St. Louis
f. 62
Canada/Research Council of Canada
f. 63
Carpenter's Company (Philadelphia, PA)
f. 64-66
Carson family
f. 67
Carson, C.
f. 68
Carter, E. C.
f. 69
Chapter for Landscape Architecture
f. 70
Christie's (Auction House)
f. 71
Christmas cards
f. 72
Clapp, A.
f. 73
Clayton, Missouri
f. 74-75
Colonial Society of Massachusetts
f. 76
Columbia University, New York
f. 77
Cooper, R. C.
f. 78-80
Copeland, L. duPont
f. 81
Cotton W. P., Jr.
f. 82-83
Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries
f. 84
Crane, S.
f. 85
Crawford, P.
f. 86
D
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Debo, B.
f. 88
Delaware Bibliophiles
f. 89
Delaware, State of, Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs
f. 90-96
Denny, J. M.
f. 97
Dilliard, I.
f. 98
Dillon, J.
f. 99
Downs, A. C.
f. 100
Duckworth, Mrs. T. A.
f. 101
Duemling, R.
f. 102
Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C.
f. 103
Dunlap Society
f. 104
duPont, Mrs. N. P.
f. 105
Dyer, R. L.
f. 106
E
f. 107
East Central College, Union, Missouri
f. 108-115
Eccles, D.
f. 114-116
Elgin, R. L.
f. 117
Elizardi, L.
f. 118
Erskine, L. M., Jr.
f. 119-120
Ewan, J.
f. 121
F
f. 122
Faust, Mrs. L. B.
f. 123
Follansbee, D. L.
f. 124
Friends of Historic Boonville (MO)
f. 125
G
f. 126
Garnett, A.
f. 127
Genteman, M. F.
f. 128
Gibson, W.
f. 129-130
Graves, T.
f. 131-132
Gregory, R.
f. 133
Greiff, C.
f. 134
Griffin, W. W.
f. 135-137
Grogg, A.
f. 138-142
Grossman, E.
f. 143
Gyer, J.
f. 144
H
f. 145
Hagley Museum and Library
f. 146
Hahne, M. C.
f. 147
Hall, T. B., III
f. 148
Hamilton, E. I.
f. 149
Hamilton, J. T.
f. 150
Hanna, A.
f. 151
Harlan, L.
f. 152
Harkness, Mrs. B. E.
f. 153
Harrison, Mrs. W. F.
f. 154
Harte, E. H.
f. 155-157
Hermann, Missouri
f. 158
Hesse, A.
f. 159
Hilkemeyer, P.
f. 160
Hill, J.
f. 161
Himmelheber, G.
f. 162-169
H.A.B.S.
f. 170
Historical Society of Delaware
f. 171
Historical Association of Early American Decoration, Inc.
f. 172
Hitch, C. J.
f. 173
Hofer, P.
f. 174
Holden, J. D.
f. 175
Holland, Mrs.
f. 176
Honisher, C.
f. 177
Hortus Magazine
f. 178
Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation
f. 179
EMPTY due to an error in numbering
f. 180
International Repertory of the Literature of Art
f. 181
Iowa trip
f. 182
Irving, Mrs. A. D.
f. 183
EMPTY due to an error in number
f. 184
Janson, H. F.
f. 185
Jefferson, E. G.
f. 186
Jensen, B.
f. 187
Jester, R.
f. 188
Johnson, A.
f. 189
Jones, E.
f. 190
Journal of Garden History
f. 191
Joyce, V. H.
f. 192
K
f. 193
Kabelac, K. S.
f. 194
Kansas City Star and Times
f. 195
Kapsch, R. J.
f. 196
Keune, R.
f. 197
Kingsbury, L. A.
f. 198
Kingwood Center, Mansfield, Ohio
f. 199
Kottenhahn, E.
f. 200-201
Kouwenhoven, J. A.
f. 202
Kuhn, Frau
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L
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Lafond, E. F.
f. 205
Lambert, L. B.
f. 206
Langon, J.
f. 207
Leland, 
f. 208
Lewis, W. S.
f. 209
Libby, V.
f. 210-212
Library of Congress
f. 213
Liffring-Zug, J.
f. 214
Lighty, D.
f. 215
Lionberger, A.
f. 216
Lionberger, F. E.
f. 217
Lionberger, J.
f. 218
Lippincott & Crowell (Publishers)
f. 219
Little, B. K.
f. 220
Lothrop, F.
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M
f. 222
McCue, G.
f. 223
McDermott, J. F.
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McGrew, J. R.
f. 225
Mack family
f. 226
MacPhail, I.
f. 227
Mangione, J.
f. 228
Mansell, A. V. S.
f. 229
Marshall, H. W.
f. 230
Mason, E.
f. 231-234
Massachusetts Historical Society
f. 235
Matson, F. B.
f. 235a
Mauntel, L.
f. 236
Mecker, Mrs. O. S.
f. 237
Meckler, A. M.
f. 238
Mendelson, A.
f. 239
Missouri Arts Council
f. 240
Missouri Botanical Garden
f. 241
Missouri Cultural Heritage Center
f. 242
Missouri Governor's Mansion
f. 243-244
Missouri Heritage Trust
f. 245-260
Missouri Historical Society
f. 261
Missouri Mansion Preservation, Inc.
f. 262-263
Missouri Remembered Project
f. 264
Missouri State Dept. of Natural Resources
f. 265
Missouri State Division of Parks & Recreation
f. 266
Missouri State Park Board
f. 267
Mitchell, S.
f. 268
Montgomery County (MO) Historical Society
f. 269
Montgomery, C. F.
f. 270
Montreal (Canada) Art Museum
f. 271
Morgan, P. M.
f. 272
Mosby Times Mirror, St. Louis
f. 273
Monroe, J.
f. 274
Museum of American Textile History
f. 275
N
f. 276
N.A.F.E.X.
f. 277-280
Nagel, C.
f. 281-282
Nagel, P. C.
f. 283
EMPTY due to an error in numbering
f. 284
National Agricultural Library
f. 285
National Endowment for the Humanities
f. 286-287
National Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Property
f. 288
National Trust for Historic Preservation
f. 289
Nelson, C. B.
f. 290-291
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
f. 292
Newcomb, P. C.
f. 293
Nichols, F.
f. 294
Nickerson, Mrs. C. T.
f. 295
North American Fruit Explorers
f. 296
Nunn, W. R.
f. 297
O
f. 298
Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, Massachusetts
f. 299
O'Rear, E. O.
f. 300
Orthwein, W. E.
f. 301-303
Overby, O.
f. 304
P
f. 305
William Paca Garden, Annapolis, Maryland
f. 306
Panhorst, H. E.
f. 307
Paustenbach, D.
f. 308
Pearson, M.
f. 309
Pelster Housebarn
f. 310
Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
f. 311
Perrot, P. N.
f. 312
Peterman, G. A.
f. 313-325
Peterson, C. E.
f. 326
Pfeiffer, G. A. 
f. 327
Philadelphia Art Museum
f. 328-332
Piaget family
f. 333
Porter, Mrs. C.
f. 334
Powers, P.
f. 335
Prawl, T. M.
f. 336
Price, A. M. 
f. 337
Price, J.
f. 338
Proetz, A. W.
f. 339
Proetz, V.
f. 340
Puffer, N. H.
f. 341
Pulitzer, J., Jr.
f. 342
Puryear, P.
f. 343
Q-R
f. 344
Richardson, E. P.
f. 345
Riley, S. T.
f. 346
Ripley, D. S.
f. 347
Rogers, M. R.
f. 348
Ross, Mrs. D.
f. 349
Rostenberg, L.
f. 350-353
Royal Society of Arts
f. 354
Ruge, V. F.
f. 355-360
Ryan, R.
f. 361
S
f. 362
St. Louis Art Museum
f. 363-366
St. Louis County Dept. of Parks & Recreation
f. 367
St. Louis Newspaper Guild
f. 368
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
f. 369
Sawyer, C.
f. 370
Schmitz, Mrs. W. D.
f. 371-373
Schowengerdt, M.
f. 374-389
Schroeder, A. E. & R. (f. 381 is EMPTY due to an error in numbering)
f. 390-391
Schulman, R. H.
f. 392
Sedalia Democrat, Sedalia, MO
f. 393
Sherwood, B.
f. 394
Shinkle, F.
f. 395
Skinner, H. T.
f. 396-398
Smith, A.
f. 399
Smith, B., Jr.
f. 400
Smith, J.
f. 401
Smith, T., Jr.
f. 402
Smith, W.
f. 403-415
Smithsonian Press
f. 416-417
Society of Colonial Wars
f. 418
Society for German-American Studies
f. 419
Soucy, P.
f. 420
Southern Illinois University Press
f. 421
Spark, V. D.
f. 422
Sprunt, C. W.
f. 423
Stadler, E. A.
f. 424-425
State Historical Society of Missouri--WHMC
f. 426-427
EMPTY due to an error in numbering
f. 428
Sutter, Mrs. R. A.
f. 429
Steele, P.
f. 430
Stevens, R.
f. 431
Switzerland, Ambassador of, Washington, D.C.
f. 432
T
f. 433
Taggart, R.
f. 434
Tatum, G. B.
f. 435
Thoma, H.
f. 436
Tyng, L.
f. 437
U. S. Army
f. 438
U. S. Dept. of the Interior
f. 439-441
University of Delaware
f. 442-450
University of Delaware Library
f. 451
University of Guelph, Ontario, Can.
f. 452-454
University Press of Kansas
f. 455
University of Missouri
f. 456
EMPTY due to an error in numbering
f. 457-465
University of Missouri Press
f. 466
University of North Carolina Press
f. 467-468
Univeristy of Pennsylvania Press
f. 469
van Ravenswaay, William
f. 470
Venable, C.
f. 471-476
Vieth, V. M.
f. 477
Vitols, A.
f. 478
von Lippe, 
f. 479
Vose Galleries, Boston, MA
f. 480
Vrugtman, I.
f. 481
W
f. 482
Wallace family
f. 483
Wallace, J. R.
f. 484
Warren County (MO) Historical Society
f. 485
Washington University, St. Louis, MO
f. 486
Washington University Libraries, St. Louis, MO
f. 487
Waters, D. D.
f. 488
Westphalia (MO) Historical Society
f. 489
White House
f. 490-495
Whitehill, W. M.
f. 496
Wickes, M.
f. 497
Williams, L. W.
f. 498
Winchester, A.
f. 499-508
Winterthur Museum
f. 509
Winterthur, Friends of 
f. 510
Winterthur, Retirement from
f. 511
Wissmath, F. S.
f. 512
Wood, N. S.
f. 513-515
Woodburn, E.
f. 516
Woolmer, J. H.
f. 517
Wriston, B.
f. 518
Wyck Association
f. 519
Yale University
f. 520
Miscellaneous
f. 521-532
Archives of American Art Survey


Manuscripts Series



f. 533-583
Arts & Architecture--Research Notes
f. 584-624
Arts & Architecture--Text
f. 625-628
Arts & Architecture--Illustrations
f. 629
Arts & Architecture--Readers' Reviews
f. 630-634
Arts & Architecture--Promotion & Reviews
f. 635-641
Arts & Architecture--Public Response
f. 642-645
"The Carson Family"--Research Notes
f. 646-650
"The Carson Family"--Text
f. 651-711
Drawn from Nature--Research Notes
f. 712-720
Drawn from Nature--Text
f. 721-732
Drawn from Nature--Illustrations
f. 733
Drawn from Nature--Permissions to Publish
f. 734
Drawn from Nature--Dust Jacket
f. 735-736
Drawn from Nature--Promotion & Reviews
f. 737-738
Drawn from Nature--Public Response
f. 739-756
Missouri:  A Guide to the "Show Me" State--Federal Writers Project
f. 757-760
Nineteenth Century Garden--Research Notes
f. 761
Nineteenth Century Garden--Text
f. 762
Nineteenth Century Garden--Illustrations
f. 763-767
Nineteenth Century Garden--Promotion & Reviews
f. 768
Nineteenth Century Garden--Public Response
f. 769-829
Parmentier--Research Notes
f. 830-852
Parmentier--Text
f. 853-858
Parmentier--Illustrations
f. 859-873
Poetry of the Frontier, 1780-1840--Master's thesis
f. 874-882
St. Louis--Research Notes
f. 883-934
St. Louis--Text
f. 935-937
St. Louis--Readers' Reviews, 1979
f. 938-979
St. Louis--Text
f. 980
St. Louis--Readers' Reviews, 1982
f. 981-1024
St. Louis--Text
f. 1360-1364
Those Wonderful Old-Time Apples--Text
f. 1025-1060
Magazine and newspaper articles
f. 1061-1087
Speeches
f. 1088-1092
Folklore, notes and stories
f. 1093-1102
Folksongs, notes and lyrics
Card file 1-6
General research notes
Card file 7-9
Agricultural catalog notes


Photographs and Slides Series



f. 1103-1118
Photographs--A
f. 1119-1156a
H.A.B.S., Piaget-van Ravenswaay Survey
f. 1157-1170
Slides--Buildings
f. 1171-1175a
Slides--Horticulture
f. 1176
Slides--van Ravenswaay house and garden, Boonville
f. 1177-1184
Photographs--Missouri
f. 1185
Photographs--Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis
f. 1186-1187
Photographs--van Ravenswaay, Charles


van Ravenswaay Family Series



f. 1188-1204
van Ravenswaay, Charles--Awards
f. 1205-1210
van Ravenswaay, Charles--Biographical data
f. 1211-1229
van Ravenswaay, Charles--Inventories
f. 1230-1240
van Ravenswaay, Charles--U.S. Navy
f. 1241-1249
van Ravenswaay family--Correspondence
f. 1250-1252
van Ravenswaay family--Deeds
f. 1253-1266
van Ravenswaay family--Genealogies


Miscellaneous Series



f. 1267-1275
Miscellaneous, A
f. 1276-1283
Miscellaneous, B
f. 1284-1310
Miscellaneous, C
f. 1311
Miscellaneous, D
f. 1312-1313
Miscellaneous, G
f. 1314-1323
Miscellaneous, H
f. 1324
Miscellaneous, K
f. 1325-1327
Miscellaneous, L
f. 1328-1337
Miscellaneous, M
f. 1338-1344
Miscellaneous, P
f. 1345-1350
Miscellaneous, S
f. 1351-1356
Miscellaneous, T
f. 1357-1359
Miscellaneous, W


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