John J. Buse, Jr. (1864-1933), Collection, 1860-1931 (C3884)

4 linear feet; and 2.4 linear feet on 3 rolls of microfilm

INTRODUCTION

The John J. Buse, Jr. Collection consists of photographs, scrapbooks, historical notes, correspondence, and personal reminiscences of a St. Charles, Missouri, historian and collector. Photos by St. Charles photographers Rudolph Goebel, John Gossler, and A. Ruth are included.

DONOR INFORMATION

The John J. Buse, Jr. Collection was donated to the State Historical Society of Missouri by John L. Buse on 2 August 1991 (SHS Accession No. 2886).

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

John J. Buse, Jr. was the older of two children born to John and Rosena (Mueller) Buse. John Buse and Rosena Mueller immigrated from Germany with their parents when both were young children. John Jr. was born on 8 April 1864; his sister Josephine was born three years later. The family lived with Buse's parents on the family farm near Cottleville, St. Charles County, Missouri. Grandfather Casper Buse died in April 1866, and his wife died a few years later. Then, in December 1876, both John, Sr. and Rosena died within seven days of each other, leaving John, Jr. and Josephine to the guardianship of John B. Thro, a St. Charles businessman. John attended school at St. Peter's, a local Catholic school, and went on to attend St. Marys College in St. Marys, Kansas.

In 1881 Buse became an apprentice carpenter at the St. Charles Car Company (later the American Car and Foundry Company) in St. Charles. Buse continued working for American Car and Foundry until his death in 1933. In 1885 he married Agnes Salland, with whom he had six children: John L., Robert, Edward, Alois, Edmunda, and Immelda.

In his later years Buse spent his spare time investigating the history of his hometown and collecting and preserving that history in photographs, reminiscences, and newspaper articles. He spent much time conducting research at the library of the Missouri Historical Society in St. Louis, reading old books and rare newspapers from which he copied entire articles to supplement his collection of historical notes. Early in his life Buse became acquainted with St. Charles photographer Rudolph Goebel, a man who was also keenly interested in the world around him from an historical perspective. Through the years Goebel gave Buse some 1,500 photographic prints of St. Charles buildings and people. In the 1920s Buse wrote his personal memoirs of life on the family farm in the years before his parents died.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

The John J. Buse, Jr. Collection is arranged into five series:

• Correspondence
• Buse Family History
• Historical Notes
• Photographs
• Scrapbooks

The Correspondence series dates from 1879 to 1905, and contains letters written mostly by and to John J. Buse, Jr. These are arranged chronologically. Early letters are from Annie Graf and Agnes Salland, hometown sweethearts, to John, who was attending St. Marys College in St. Marys, Kansas; and relate Buse and Salland family comings and goings, St. Charles happenings, train wrecks, Christmas festivities, parties, weddings, and amusements. Topics of post-marriage letters include the sale of Salland family property in St. Charles; the Chicago World's Fair of 1893; the marital problems of Buse's sister-in-law and her husband; the scandalous case of an illegitimate child in Sedalia, Missouri; Buse's 1902 trip to Mexico; and letters to and from sons attending St. Francis Solanus College in Quincy, Illinois. Included in these is a letter to son Robert from a former Quincy classmate who had gone to Austria to continue his studies; he describes the trip over, sightseeing, and student life for an American abroad in 1904. There are also several letters dealing with business at the American Car and Foundry Company, touching on cutting production costs, job openings, and nepotism.

The Buse Family History series is arranged by subject matter and consists of deeds, loan agreements, miscellaneous documents (including a World War I Catholic prayer book "Dedicated to Our Solders and Sailors and to the Honor and Glory of the Cross and Flag"), and a handwritten family history. This account describes Buse's grandparents' voyage from Germany; their life near Cottleville, Missouri; his parents' courtship and marriage; his early life; farm life and agricultural practices in the 1860s and 1870s; folk remedies; log cabin building; the role of women on the farm; reminiscences of wagon trains passing through St. Charles in the 1870s; and a detailed account of butchering hogs and cattle to make sausage.

Included is a 200 page detailed narrative of Buse's trip to Cordoba, Mexico, in 1902, to assist the Cordoba and Huatusco Railroad in refitting American Car and Foundry cars to the narrower Mexican gauge. Buse relates the trip to and from Cordoba, bits of Mexican history (especially as it pertains to the cathedrals he visited), his interactions with the people, the weather, and the differences between American and Mexican business practices. References are made to specific photographs throughout this account, which were evidently intended as an accompaniment to a photo album. However, we do not possess these photographs.

Buse's Historical Notes contain personal memories, transcripts of newspaper articles, and short essays detailing St. Charles's history from its early settlement through the Civil War, the coming of the railroads, World War I, Prohibition, and the beginnings of the Great Depression. These are arranged by topic.

Subjects related to World War I include recruiting, the Red Cross, troop send-offs, funerals, rationing, food prices, and the use of the German language in the daily life of St. Charles residents. Most of this material consists of transcripts of articles appearing in the St. Charles Daily-Cosmo Monitor.

Other topics include railroad accidents, bridge building, bridge disasters, St. Charles churches and schools (including Lindenwood College), the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, weather, storms, industry in St. Charles, merchants, and travel on the Missouri River in and around St. Charles.

Also included in this series are two published guides to St. Charles. The first is To Manufacturing and Mercantile Interests and Real Estate Investors, a 49 page illustrated guide published by Kolf and Solomon, c. 1905. The second is similar, published c. 1915.

The Photographs Series consists of approximately 2,000 photographs dating from c. 1865 to the 1920s with the majority from 1880 to 1905, most of which were taken by Rudolph Goebel or one of his assistants. These photographs were originally glued in photo albums by Mr. Buse, with handwritten captions underneath. There appeared to be no order to how these photos were placed in the albums, except perhaps in the order in which Buse acquired them. For conservation and processing purposes, these photographs have been removed from the albums and arranged alphabetically by subject. Photocopies of the original photo album pages are located in folders 198 to 208.

Subjects include railroads; the building of the Wabash Railroad bridge at St. Charles (and the subsequent collapses and rebuildings thereof); steamboats; St. Charles people; churches; schools; city streets; the 1909 St. Charles Centennial parade; the 1918 Victory parade celebrating the end of World War I in Europe; parks; fairs; clubs; agriculture; and the effects of tornadoes, floods, wind storms and ice storms.

Of particular interest is the extensive documentation of the development and production of railroads and railroad materials in the St. Charles area, with pictures of the building of the various bridges over the Missouri River, derailments, the American Car and Foundry Co. shops, and many of the special cars produced by that company at the turn of the century.

Rare photos include an 1874 photograph of the St. Charles Browns baseball team; the aftermath of an 1876 tornado; images of the town of Brotherton, a small town across the Missouri from St. Charles which fell into the river after a flood in 1882; and three views of the August Chouteau home in St. Louis County as it appeared in the 1870s.

There are also snapshots taken by Buse in the 1920s of buildings in St. Charles that detail the changes the town was undergoing at that time.

The last series, Scrapbooks, is made up of 41 volumes of newspaper clippings dating from 1899 through 1930. The scrapbooks have been microfilmed. Buse's clippings show an interest in advances in science, aviation, archeology, automobiles, and motion pictures. However, the majority of the clippings deal with St. Charles: civil government; the paving of roads; railroads; new buildings; city utilities; churches; World War I; schools; obituaries of friends and associates; natural disasters; crime; Prohibition; agricultural prices; tourism; and Missouri history. They are arranged chronologically, and each volume is indexed by the titles of the news articles.

In 1975 this material formed the basis of the John J. Buse Historical Museum, a privately supported institution located in St. Charles, and "dedicated to the preservation of our heritage." In 1977 author and historian Lori Breslow drew on these materials for her book Small Town. Materials relating to the historical museum are located in the collection's information folder.

FOLDER LIST

Correspondence Series

f. 1	1879-1884
f. 2	1885-1889
f. 3	1890-1893
f. 4	1894
f. 5	1895-1899
f. 6	1900-1901
f. 7	1902
f. 8	1903
f. 9	1903
f. 10	1904
f. 11	1905

Buse Family History Series

f. 12	Tax bills/receipts, 1893-1927
f. 13	Loan agreements, 1890-1894
f. 14	Deeds, 1867-1895
f. 15	Land transactions, c. 1900
f. 16	Miscellaneous family mementos, 1860-1917
f. 17-20	Buse family history, n.d.
f. 21	J. J. Buse, autobiography, n.d.
f. 22-25	J. J. Buse, Mexico trip, 1902

Historical Notes Series

f. 26	Railroads
f. 27-28	World War I
f. 29-38	St. Charles
f. 39-41	History of St. Charles
f. 42-43	Churches
f. 44	Schools
f. 45	Industry
f. 46-47	Miscellaneous historical notes
f. 48-49	Promotional booklets, St. Charles
f. 50	Business cards
f. 51	Penmanship exercise book
f. 52-54	St. Charles newspapers

Photographs Series

f. 55	Animals
f. 56-58	Automobiles
f. 59	Banks
f. 60-67	Bridges
f. 68-70	Buildings, Miscellaneous
f. 71	Buse family
f. 72-87	Churches
f. 88-89	Convents
f. 90-91	Fairs and festivals
f. 92-93	Farms and farming
f. 94	France
f. 95	Goebel, Rudolph
f. 96-98	Hospitals
f. 99-100	Hotels
f. 101-102	Houses
f. 103	Lumber yards
f. 104-106	Manufacturers
f. 107	Mills
f. 108-109a	Miscellaneous
f. 110	Missouri River
f. 111	Municipal buildings
f. 112-117	Natural disasters
f. 118-127	Parades
f. 128	Parks
f. 129	People--Amusements
f. 130	People--Blacks
f. 131	People--Dramatists
f. 132	People--Firemen
f. 133	People--Groups
f. 134-135	People--Men
f. 136	People--Musical groups
f. 137	People and their vehicles
f. 138-142	Public utilities
f. 143	Railroads
f. 144	Railroads--Accidents
f. 145	Railroads--Depots
f. 146	Railroads--St. Charles Car Company
f. 147-159	Railroads--American Car & Foundry Company
f. 160	Restaurants, bars, etc.
f. 161-168	Schools
f. 169-170	St. Charles County
f. 171	St. Charles County Courthouse
f. 172	St. Charles County Jail
f. 173	St. Charles--Panoramic views
f. 174	St. Charles--Riverfront
f. 175-176	St. Charles--Streets
f. 177	Stables, blacksmiths, & liveries
f. 178	Steamboats
f. 179-180	Stores
f. 181	Theaters
f. 182	Transportation, Miscellaneous
f. 183	World War I--Armistice anniversaries, 1920-1921
f. 184	World War I--Homecoming parade
f. 185	World War I--Homefront
f. 186	World War I--Military funerals
f. 187	World War I--Miscellaneous
f. 188	World War I--Recruiting
f. 189	World War I--Victory parade
f. 190-197	Lindenwood College exhibit, 1976
f. 198-208	Photocopies

Scrapbooks Series

v. 1	1899-1920 May
v. 2	1914 July-1921 October
v. 2a	1925 March-1926 February
v. 3	1920-1922
v. 4	1921
v. 5	1921 December-1922 May
v. 6	1922 May-July
v. 7	1922 July-November
v. 8	1922 December-1923 March
v. 9	1923 March-June
v. 10	1923 June-September
v. 11	1923 September-November
v. 12	1923 November-April
v. 13	1924 April-August
v. 14	1924 September-December
v. 15	1924 December-1925 April
v. 16	1925 March-July
v. 17	1925 July-November
v. 18	1925 November-1926 February
v. 19	1926 February-May
v. 20	1926 May-July
v. 21	1926 July-September
v. 22	1926 October-December
v. 23	1926 December-1927 February
v. 24	1927 February-April
v. 25	1927 April-June
v. 26	1927 June-August
v. 27	1927 August-November
v. 28	1927 November-1928 February
v. 29	1928 February-May
v. 30	1928 May-July
v. 31	1928 July-October
v. 32	1928 October-1929 January
v. 33	1929 January-April
v. 34	1929 April-July
v. 35	1929 July-October
v. 36	1929 October-1930 February
v. 37	1930 February-April
v. 38	1930 April-July
v. 39	1930 July-September
v. 40	1927-1929

INDEX TERMS

These index terms are the subjects, people, places, etc. under which this collection is listed in all available indexes at the Western Historical Manuscript Collection-Columbia. If you are interested in a specific index term, please contact the reference staff.

• "Old Blue" Presbyterian Church, St. Charles, MO
• Advertising, 1900s
• Advertising, 1910s
• Advertising, 1920s
• Aeronautics
• African Methodist Episcopal Church, St. Charles, Missouri
• Agricultural laborers
• Agricultural machinery, 1900s-1920s
• Agriculture associations
• Agriculture, 1900s-1920s
• Airplanes
• Alexander family
• Alexander, Percy
• Alexander, Walter
• Amateur theatricals
• American Car and Foundry Company, St. Charles, Missouri
• American Red Cross--World War, 1914-1918
• Amusements, 1870s-1920s
• Apples
• Auctions--Missouri, St. Charles, 1870
• Averbeck, Aloysius
• Ayers, George F.
• Bakeries, Missouri, St. Charles
• Baldwin family
• Balloons
• Baltimore Bridge Company
• Bands (Music)
• Bandstands
• Banks--Missouri St. Charles
• Barbecues
• Barwise Presbyterian Church, Portage des Sioux, Missouri
• Baseball, 1870s
• Baseball, 1890s
• Basketball, 1910
• Bates family
• Becker, A.
• Beer
• Beimdick, August
• Benoist Hydro-Aeroplane
• Berrang, J.C.
• Beverages
• Bicycles and bicycling, 1890s
• Bielen, John
• Billiards
• Birds
• Black Churches--Missouri, St. Charles
• Black Schools--Missouri, St. Charles
• Blacks, 1870s
• Blacks, 1880s
• Blacks, 1900s
• Blacks, 1920
• Blacks--Missouri, 1860s-1900s
• Blacks--Missouri, St. Charles, 1900s
• Blanchette Park, St. Charles, Missouri
• Bland, John
• Bleakley, F.
• Blebaum, Oscar
• Blossom House (Hotel), Kansas City, Missouri
• Blue Label Bakery, St. Charles, Missouri
• Bluff City Excursion Company, Bluff City, Missouri
• Boarding houses--Missouri, St. Charles
• Bode, Hochen
• Boggiano family
• Boone, Daniel
• Boone, Daniel, House, Defiance, Missouri
• Boon's Lick Road--St. Charles, Missouri
• Borgmeyer, David J.
• Borklage, Edwin
• Boschert, Gilbert
• Bradshaw's Orchestra
• Brass, Joe
• Brayton, Nell
• Bredensteiner, Martin
• Breweries--Missouri, St. Charles
• Bricks
• Bridge construction
• Bridges, Railroad
• Bridges--Maintenance and repair
• Bridges--Missouri, St. Charles
• Bridges--Missouri, St. Charles County
• Brockhagen, H.
• Brockhagen, Rev.
• Broeker, Henry
• Brucker, Adolph
• Brucker, Louis
• Brucker, Raymond
• Bruere, Theo. C.
• Bruns Machine Company, St. Charles, Missouri
• Bruns, Dick
• Bruns, Henry
• Bruns, Wm. J.
• Bryan, William Jennings
• Bull, Frank
• Buse family
• Buse, Agnes Salland
• Buse, Imelda
• Buse, John J., Jr.
• Buse, Robert
• Butchering
• Capital punishment, 1870s
• Capital punishment, 1908
• Carriages and carts
• Carrs, Leonora
• Cattle
• Cemeteries--Missouri, St. Charles County
• Chautauquas
• Chickens
• Children, 1890s
• Children, 1900s
• Children, 1910s
• Children, 1920s
• Children--Costume, 1890s
• Choral societies--Missouri, St. Charles
• Chouteau family--House--St. Louis County
• Christmas, c. 1900
• Church schools--Missouri, St. Charles County
• Churches--Missouri, Augusta
• Churches--Missouri, Dardenne
• Churches--Missouri, O'Fallon
• Churches--Missouri, Portage des Sioux
• Churches--Missouri, St. Charles
• Churches--Missouri, St. Charles County
• Churches--Missouri, Troy
• Churches--Missouri, West Alton
• Cigars
• Civil War--Blacks
• Civil War--Missouri--Veterans
• Civil War--Soldiers
• Civil War--St. Charles Homeguards
• Clark, Champ
• Clay Street Methodist Church, St. Charles, Missouri
• Coal
• Collier, Catherine
• Collins, Lizza
• Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893
• Concerts
• Confectionery
• Convents
• Convents--Missouri, O'Fallon
• Convents--Missouri, St. Charles
• Cook, Frederick A.
• Cookery
• Corn
• Covered wagons
• Dairying, 1920s
• Dallmeyer, Henry C.
• Dance bands
• Darnell, R., Photographer, St. Charles, Missouri
• Daudt, Carl
• Decker, Joseph
• Decker, Thomas
• Delger, Jacob
• Denker family
• Denker Grocery Company, St. Charles, Missouri
• Denker, Henry B.
• Denning, William
• Depots--Missouri, St. Charles County
• Diekmann, Francis H.
• Dierker family
• Dinners and dining, 1880s
• Dinners and dining, 1920s
• Dinners and dining, c. 1890s
• Dolls
• Drug stores--Missouri, St. Charles
• Eads Bridge, St. Louis, Missouri
• Edwards, Carr
• Edwards, J.C.
• Ehrhard, Joseph
• Ehrhard, Robert
• Elderly--Institutional care
• Election, 1908, Presidential
• Electric Express Company, St. Charles, Missouri
• Electric industries
• Electric lamps
• Electric railroads
• Electrocution
• Ell, Louis F.
• Ellwenger, Dr.
• Enoch, John
• Faber family
• Fairs--Missouri, St. Charles County
• Farm produce--Marketing, c. 1900
• Farms--Missouri, St. Charles County
• Fences
• Ferries
• Ferries--Mississippi River
• Ferries--Missouri, St. Charles
• Festivals--Missouri, St. Charles
• Feuerstein family
• Fire fighters
• Fire fighters, 1900s
• Fire fighters, 1920s
• Fire fighters, c. 1910
• Fires--Missouri, St. Charles, 1916
• Fishing
• Floods, Missouri, St. Charles County, 1882
• Floods, Missouri, St. Charles County, 1903
• Floods, Missouri, St. Charles County, 1908
• Floods, Missouri, St. Charles County, 1922
• Floods, Missouri, St. Charles County, 1927
• Floods, Missouri, St. Charles County, 1929
• Floods, Missouri, St. Charles County, c. 1870
• Fort Zumwalt, MO
• France, 1918
• Francis Howell Normal School, Howell, MO
• Freeman, W.L.
• Fruit culture, 1910s
• Fuerhoff, C.H.
• Funeral rites & ceremonies
• Furniture
• Gadell, John L.
• Galt House (Hotel), St. Charles, MO
• Garden ornaments & furniture, 1870s
• Gardens
• Gas & oil engines
• German Catholic Benevolent Society, St. Peter's Catholic Church, St. Charles, MO
• German Evangelical Lutheran Immanuel Church, St. Charles, MO
• German Immigrants--Missouri
• German Methodist Church, St. Charles, MO
• Glennon, John J.
• Goebel, Rudolph (Photographer), St. Charles, MO
• Goellner, F.J.
• Golden, James
• Good Hope Baptist Church, St. Charles, MO
• Gossler, John H. (Photographer), St. Charles, MO
• Gossow, Geret
• Grand Army of the Republic--Veterans
• Gray, Wm. M.
• Grothe, John
• Gruenberg family
• Gut Building, St. Charles, MO
• Gut, Edward
• Gut, Edward
• Guyre, George T.
• H.G. Rauch Commission Company, St. Charles, MO
• Haenssler, R.C.
• Hafer family
• Hafer, Henry
• Hallway, Edward
• Happy, Albert
• Happy, Henry C.
• Hardin, Doctor
• Hardin, T.L.
• Harris Lumber Company, St. Charles, MO
• Hatching, Hubert
• Hats, 1916
• Hats, 1920s
• Hauenstein & Langstadt Meat Market, St. Charles, MO
• Hauenstein, George
• Hayward family
• Heinsz, Waldo
• Hellriegel, Marten B.
• Hildebrand, Adolph
• Hillenkamp, Louisa J.
• Historic buildings--Missouri, St. Charles
• Historic buildings--Missouri, St. Charles County
• Hodapp, John
• Hoehn, G.W.
• Hoenig, H.
• Home Milling Company, St. Charles, MO
• Horses
• Horstmeier, Wm.
• Hospitals, 1880s
• Hospitals, Missouri, St. Charles
• Hotel Cadillac, Detroit, MI
• Hotel Guardiola, S.A., Mexico City, Mexico
• Hotels
• Hotels, Missouri, St. Charles
• Hotels, Missouri, St. Charles County
• Hotels, Missouri, St. Louis
• Household employees
• Houses--Missouri, St. Charles
• Huning, A.R.
• Hunters
• Hupe, Charles
• Hupe, Minney
• I.H. Sturgeon (Railroad engine)
• Ice
• Ice cream, ices, etc.
• Ice houses
• Ice storm--Missouri, St. Charles, 1916
• Ice storm--Missouri, St. Charles, 1924
• Indians, Sioux
• International Shoe Company, St. Charles, MO
• Jails--Missouri, St. Charles
• Jasper, A.A.
• Johnson, S.R.
• Kansteiner, Charles
• Keller, John A.
• Kiefer, Theo.
• Kinloch Telephone Company, St. Charles, MO
• Kister family
• Kister, Edward
• Kitchens, 1880s
• Kluesner, Ray
• Kluth, Alex
• Knights of Columbus, St Charles, MO
• Knights of Pythias, St. Charles, MO, 1910s
• Koch, Eduard
• Koeller, Gerhardt
• Koenig Bros. Furniture Company, St. Charles, MO
• Kohl, Edward
• Kroonland (Transport ship)
• Lamps
• Landwehr, Banjo
• Landwehr, Herman
• Lange, R.
• Laundry
• Laundry, 1880s
• Lawler, James G. (1856-1922)
• Lawler, Mrs. James G.
• Lemkes, E.J.
• Lindbergh, Charles A. (1902-1974)
• Lindenwood College, St. Charles, MO
• Link, Mrs. Oliver
• Link, Oliver
• Linneman family
• Liveries--Missouri, St. Charles
• Livestock
• Log cabins & houses--Missouri
• Lorrene (Ferry), 1928
• Lumber & lumbering--Missouri, St. Charles
• Machens family
• Machens, Henry
• Maher, Emma
• Maher, Joseph
• Markets--Missouri, St. Charles
• Marshall, Henry L.
• Marten family
• Marten, Louis F.
• Marten, Mrs. O.J.
• Marten, Steven
• May, Frank
• McClure, Elizabeth
• McCoy, J.D.
• McDearmon, Theo. F.
• McElhiney, George W.
• McGivoney, Rev.
• Meeker, Ezra
• Meller, Jacob
• Men, 1870s
• Men, 1880s
• Men, 1890s
• Men, 1900s
• Men, 1910s
• Men, 1920s
• Men--Costume, 1860s-1880s
• Men--Costume, 1890s
• Men--Costume, 1910s
• Men--Costume, 1920s
• Merten's Cigar Factory, St. Charles, MO
• Meyer family
• Meyer family
• Meyer, Charles E.
• Meyer, Charles E.
• Meyer, Edw. L.
• Meyer, Edw. L.
• Meyer, H.D.
• Meyer, H.D.
• Meyer, Henry
• Meyer, Henry
• Meyer, Mary
• Meyer, Wm. H.
• Military education--Missouri, St. Charles County
• Mills & millwork, Missouri, St. Charles
• Miners, 1870
• Mississippi River
• Missouri River
• Missouri, Boschertown
• Missouri, Gilmore
• Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad
• Missouri, St. Charles
• Missouri, St. Charles County
• Missouri, St. Charles County, Bankers
• Missouri, St. Charles County, County officials
• Missouri, St. Charles County, Courthouse
• Missouri, St. Charles, Businessmen, 1908
• Missouri, St. Charles, Centennial, 1909
• Missouri, St. Charles, Houses
• Missouri, St. Charles, Manufacturers
• Missouri, St. Charles, Stores
• Missouri, St. Charles, U.S. Centennial Celebration
• Missouri, St. Louis County
• Missouri, Wentzville
• Moentmann, Herman
• Moerchel, Jacob F.
• Moerschel, Mrs. Otto
• Moerschel, Otto
• Monroe House (Hotel), St. Charles, MO
• Moore, George
• Moore, Valentine
• Morgan, Ida
• Morton, James
• Most Precious Blood Convent, O'Fallon, MO
• Mules
• Nashville (Gunboat)
• Newspapers, Missouri
• Nicolas, A.V.
• Nolte, H.F.
• North Missouri Railroad
• Northern Methodist Church, St. Charles, MO
• Nursing Homes, Missouri
• Oahre family
• Oats
• Ocks-Rohlfing Grocery Co., St. Charles, Missouri
• Oil wells, Missouri, St. Charles County
• Olendorff, Joe
• Olson, John N.
• Oneal, Dr.
• Oser family
• Pallardy, Leo
• Parades, Missouri, St. Charles
• Parks, Missouri, St. Charles
• Parks, Missouri, St. Charles County
• Parks, Robert
• Parsons, Paul (Photographer), Columbia, MO
• Pauk, Antonius
• Paul Leistner & Sons, St. Charles, MO
• Peary, Robert Edwin (1856-1920)
• Pezold, William
• Photographers, Missouri, St. Charles
• Picnics
• Pike's Peak Ocean to Ocean Highway, Sociability Caravan, 1915
• Platte, John
• Postal service, Buildings, Missouri, St. Charles
• Potter, Jake
• Potters & pottery, Missouri, St. Charles
• Preuss, Joseph
• Produce
• Prohibition, 1920s
• Public utilities, Missouri, St. Charles County
• Quade, Julius
• Quarries and quarrying--Missouri, St. Charles
• Railroads
• Railroads, Accidents
• Railroads, Cars
• Railroads, Mexico
• Railroads, Missouri, St. Charles
• Railroads, Missouri, St. Charles County
• Rauch, J.F.
• Rauch, Mrs. Henry
• Rechtern, Charles
• Recter & Becker Building, St. Charles, MO
• Redden, J., Photographer, St. Charles, MO
• Redden, S.G., Photographer, St. Charles, MO
• Redpath-Vawter Chautauqua System, 1915
• Refuse & refuse disposal
• Restaurants, bars, etc., Missouri, St. Charles
• Riaesdorf, Joseph
• Rice, Missouri
• Richardson, Guy
• Rinche, Fred
• Ringe, Henry
• Ringe-Barklage & Company, St. Charles, MO
• Ringling Brothers Circus
• River Travel, Missouri
• Road construction
• Roads, Maintenance & Repair
• Roads, Missouri, St. Charles County
• Roberts, Johnson & Rand Shoe Company, St. Charles, MO
• Robyn Bros. Orchard, St. Charles, MO
• Rocking chairs
• Roemer, John L.
• Roes, R.J.
• Rohlfing, J.M.
• Ruenzi family
• Ruenzi, Joseph
• Rummel, Harry
• Ruth A., Jr., Photographer, St. Charles, MO
• S. Strathman & Company, St. Charles, MO
• Sacred Heart Academy, St. Charles, MO
• Sacred Heart Convent, St. Charles, MO
• Salland, Edmund F.
• Sanitary engineering
• Schaberg, H.
• Schawo, Urban
• Schlueter, Henry
• Schmidt, William A.
• Schneidermeyer family
• Schone, George
• Schools, Missouri, St. Charles
• Schreibe, Barney
• Schulte, Billy
• Schultz, C.H.
• Schultze, John
• Schumacher family, Lafayette County
• Schwenderman, F.
• Sculpture
• Seiling, Joseph
• Sewerage
• Ships
• Signs & signboards, 1870s
• Signs & signboards, 1880s
• Signs & signboards, 1890s
• Signs & signboards, 1900s
• Signs & signboards, 1910s
• Signs & signboards, 1920s
• Skiing
• Snow
• Soft drink industry
• Southern Hotel, St. Louis, MO, Fire
• St. charles Browns, 1874
• St. Charles Car Company, St. Charles, MO
• St. Charles College, St. Charles, MO
• St. Charles County Farm Bureau, 1910s
• St. Charles Manufacturing Company
• St. Charles Music House, St. Charles, MO
• St. Charles of Borromeo Catholic Church, St. Charles, MO
• St. Charles Stay Company, St. Charles, MO
• St. Charles Tobacco Company, St. Charles, MO
• St. John's Methodist Episcopal (African Methodist) Negro Church, St. Charles, MO
• St. Louis, St. Charles & Western Railroad
• St. Mary's Oil Engine Company, St. Charles, MO
• St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Negro Church, St. Charles, MO
• St. Peter's Catholic Church, St. Charles, MO
• St. Peter's Hotel, St. Peters, MO
• St. Theodore's Catholic Church, Flint Hill, MO
• Stables, Missouri, St. Charles
• Staudinger, Nicholas
• Steamboat, A.J. Whitney
• Steamboat, Delaware
• Steamboat, General Meade
• Steamboat, Hensley
• Steamboat, J.T. Davis
• Steamboat, John L. Ferguson
• Steamboat, Kennedy
• Steamboat, Louisiana
• Steamboat, Monitor
• Steamboat, Montana
• Steamboat, Nebraska City
• Steamboat, Omaha City
• Steamboat, Penguin
• Steamboat, William J. Lewis
• Steamboats
• Steamboats, Accidents
• Steinbrinker, John, Sr.
• Steinbrinker's Furniture Company, St. Charles, MO
• Stohlberg, August
• Stoltz, Mrs. Joe
• Stone
• Stores, Missouri, St. Charles
• Street Railroads
• Strieve, Rev.
• Students, 1890s
• Students, 1900s
• Students, 1920s
• Stupp Brothers Bridge & Iron Company, St. Louis, MO
• Sullentrop, Albert
• Swimming pools
• Swimming, 1900s
• Swimming, 1910s
• Tables
• Taft, William Howard (1857-1930)
• Tainter, F.J.
• Tannrath, J.J.
• Telephone, 1880s
• Terminal Hotel, Union Station, St. Louis, MO
• Theaters, Missouri, St. Charles
• Thro, John B.
• Tornadoes, Missouri, St. Charles County
• Travel, 1880s-1890s
• Trinity Episcopal Church, St. Charles, MO
• Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, Freistatt, MO
• Trucks, 1930
• U.S. Army, Ordnance and ordnance supplies, 1917-1918
• U.S. Centennial, 1876
• Umbrellas
• Vinke, F.A.
• Vogt family
• Wabash Railroad
• Washing-machines, 1878
• Watson Church, St. Charles, MO
• Waulker, Ernst
• Weber Lake Club, St. Charles County, MO
• Weirauch, Moritz
• Wempe, Rev.
• Wenker, Charles
• Wesemann, Ben
• Wessler, Clarance
• Westerfeld, August
• Westphal, W.
• Wheat
• Who Mike
• Willmes, F.X.
• Wills, Walter
• Wilmes family
• Wilsey, Ed
• Winkelman, C.H.
• Winkle, Edward
• Winter sports
• Wolf, John
• Wolf, Professor
• Women, 1900s
• Women, 1910s
• Women, 1920s
• Women--Costume, 1880s
• Women--Costume, 1890s
• Women--Costume, 1900s
• Women--Costume, 1910s
• Women--Societies
• Woodlawn Seminary, O'Fallon, MO
• Woods Bros. Construction Co., St. Charles, MO
• Woodwork
• World War, 1914-1918
• World War, 1914-1918, Blacks
• World War, 1914-1918, Espionage
• World War, 1914-1918, Food question
• World War, 1914-1918, Loan and Bond Drives
• World War, 1914-1918, Missouri, St. Charles
• World War, 1914-1918, Ordnance and ordnance stores
• World War, 1914-1918, Recruiting
• World War, 1914-1918, Uniforms
• Wyss, Joe
• Young Men's Dramatic Club, St. Charles, Missouri
• Zeister, Jacob
• Zeister, Nellie
• Zercher, M. L., Photographer, Topeka, Kansas