Sep 28, 2023 - Sale 2646

Sale 2646 - Lot 213

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(MISSOURI.) Papers of St. Louis historian George William Tucker. More than a thousand typescript and manuscript pages interspersed with clippings and printed ephemera, bound in 11 looseleaf notebooks; generally minor edge wear. St. Louis, MO and elsewhere, circa 1904-1957
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George William Tucker (1876-1964) was a St. Louis attorney and amateur historian. In the early 1930s he set out to write what the St. Louis Globe Democrat called "a history of St. Louis during the period between 1840 and 1880 . . . written from the standpoint of the common man . . . to depict the social, economic, political and religious aspects of the period he has selected" (21 May 1933). He worked on this project through the 1950s, but it was never published.

Tucker's typescript notes for his History of St. Louis and related articles fill most of these 11 binders. They include biographical and genealogical essays, as well as essays on social history topics. Some more personal material is included, such as typescript extracts from his diaries from 1904 to 1957. One volume consists mostly of Tucker's correspondence from 1909 to 1945.