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This building was intended to store the archives of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company, the collection of the Missouri Historical Society, and historical artifacts associated with the territory the U.S. acquired in the Louisiana Purchase.</figcaption></figure> <p>The <b>Missouri Historical Society</b> was founded in <a href="/wiki/St._Louis" title="St. Louis">St. Louis</a> on August 11, 1866.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Founding members created the historical society "for the purpose of saving from oblivion the early history of the city and state".<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Organization">Organization</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Missouri_Historical_Society&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Organization"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Missouri Historical Society operates the <a href="/wiki/Missouri_History_Museum" title="Missouri History Museum">Missouri History Museum</a> in St. Louis' <a href="/wiki/Forest_Park_(St._Louis)" title="Forest Park (St. Louis)">Forest Park</a>, as well as the Library and Research Center. Admission to the museum and library are free to the public. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Library_and_Research_Center">Library and Research Center</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Missouri_Historical_Society&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Library and Research Center"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Library and Research Center <sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> houses a regional history collection documenting St. Louis, the Mississippi and Missouri Valleys, the Louisiana Purchase Territory, and the American West. The Library and Research Center collections include: </p> <ul><li>Library Collections</li> <li>Manuscript Collections</li> <li>Photographs and Prints</li> <li>Architecture Collections</li> <li>Broadcast Media Archives</li> <li>Museum Collections</li></ul> <p>No appointment is needed to view the library and manuscript collections, but might be needed for other collections. Among its unique collections are the 301 <a href="/wiki/Freedom_suits" class="mw-redirect" title="Freedom suits">freedom suits</a> of the 19th-century St. Louis Circuit Court Records, the largest group of such case files in the country. These have been scanned into a searchable database that is online for researchers. They document the <a href="/wiki/Slaves" class="mw-redirect" title="Slaves">slaves</a>' petitions for freedom under state law before the <a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Circuit_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Circuit-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The research library is housed in a historic 1927 <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_revival" class="mw-redirect" title="Byzantine revival">Byzantine revival</a> synagogue building erected by the <a href="/wiki/United_Hebrew_Congregation_(Chesterfield,_Missouri)" title="United Hebrew Congregation (Chesterfield, Missouri)">United Hebrew Congregation</a> on Skinker Boulevard. (The congregation has moved to Chesterfield where it erected a new building.) </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Programming">Programming</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Missouri_Historical_Society&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Programming"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Missouri Historical Society offers programs and outreach services, including traveling exhibitions, tours, theatrical and musical presentations, programs for school classes and youth groups, family festivals, special events, workshops, and lectures. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Missouri_Historical_Society&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span 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London: Scala Publishers. 2007. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-85759-340-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-85759-340-2"><bdi>978-1-85759-340-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Forest+Park%2C+St.+Louis&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Scala+Publishers&rft.date=2007&rft.isbn=978-1-85759-340-2&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMissouri+Historical+Society" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.mohistory.org/content/HomePage/OverviewAndMission.html">"Overview and Mission"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071225070519/http://www.mohistory.org/content/HomePage/OverviewAndMission.html">Archived</a> December 25, 2007, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, Missouri Historical Society Official Website</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://historyhappenshere.org/archives/7794">"historyhappenshere.org"</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160827071739/http://historyhappenshere.org/archives/7794">Archived</a> from the original on August 27, 2016<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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title="National Council on Public History">National Council on Public History</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Organization_of_American_Historians" title="Organization of American Historians">Organization of American Historians</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:7em"><a href="/wiki/List_of_historical_societies_in_Michigan" title="List of historical societies in Michigan">Michigan</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Berrien_County_Historical_Association" title="Berrien County Historical Association">Berrien County Historical Association</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_Congress_on_Medieval_Studies" title="International Congress on Medieval Studies">International Congress on Medieval Studies</a></li> <li>Lake Odessa Area Historical Society</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leelanau_Historical_Society_and_Museum" title="Leelanau Historical 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Historical Society</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:7em">Ohio</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:5em">Cleveland</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/American_Catholic_Historical_Association" title="American Catholic Historical Association">American Catholic Historical Association</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Center_for_Public_History_and_Digital_Humanities" title="Center for Public History and Digital Humanities">Center for Public History and Digital Humanities</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Council_for_History_Education" title="National Council for History Education">National Council for History Education</a></li> <li><a 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