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Financial accounting records for museum operations. Categories covered on microfilm are: receipts and disbursements, general ledger entries, history reports, journal entries, trial balance, accounts payable, check registers, distribution reports, trace reports.

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These files document the origin and development of the Friends program at the museum. Subjects covered are Friends Board minutes, committee meetings, financial records, study societies, tribute funds, benefits, travel, Speakers Bureau. Scrapbooks contain clippings, publicity, invitations, etc. relating to Friends events.

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The John M. Wulfing Collection Records consists of donor's index cards of art collection, photographs, and tags arranged in collector’s original boxes, to preserve the collector’s logic. The collection refers to accession numbers 298:1949-670:1949 and relate to the 1949 gift of tsubas/sword guards previously owned by Wulfing.

Scope and Contents The collection consists of collector’s collected newspaper clippings, photos of objects in collection, exhibition, and auction catalogs. Ludlow collection originally owned by Albert S. Ludlow of Waukesha, Wisconsin. The collection was given to the Archives by a member of the Ludlow family and identified as Frederich H. Ludlow archives. Three works in the collection of the Saint Louis Art Museum that were formerly in the Ludlow Collection, 29:1963 The Birth of the Virgin (deaccessioned in...

Scope and Contents The Morton D. May Papers pertain to all aspects of Mr. May's collection of art. Correspondence files consist of letters, invoices, and receipts between Mr. May and artists, dealers, galleries, museums, and universities. The correspondence documents his purchases and exchanges of paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, and objects in the following areas: art of the Americas; Oceanic art; African art; contemporary American art; German art, particularly the work of Max Beckmann. There are also...