Business History
Within the Local History Collection are a few St. Louis-based company archives, including Monsanto (now Bayer – Crop Science), the St. Louis Car Company (manufacture of trolleys, buses, commuter trains, and other vehicles, which closed in 1973), and Harland Bartholomew and Associates HBA (an urban planning firm, which merged with Parsons Corporation).
Business history, primarily added in the 1980s, is no longer a subject actively collected by the WashU archives.
St. Louis Car Company Records
Selections from this large collection are available online, including a PCC sales brochure, specifications for PCC construction 1941 and 1947, and a Cardinal Aircraft Sales brochure. Images from the collection are also available on Flickr (less than 2% of the thousands of images in the collection).
Access these Materials
Search the Monsanto Company Records, 1901-2014 on ArchivesSpace
Search the St. Louis Car Company Collection on ArchivesSpace
Search the Harland Bartholomew and Associates (HBA) Collection on ArchivesSpace
Contact
- Department
- Administration
- Name
- Special Collections Department
- Email Address
- spec@wumail.wustl.edu
- Phone Number
- (314) 935-5495