Autographs of Interest
E. G. Lewis, founder of University City. Stock certificate for one of his (many) (failed) business ventures.
Love coffee, and C. F. Blanke was the coffee king in St. Louis at the turn of the last century. His awesome building still stands at 1310 Papin just south of downtown. His signature is very hard to find.
Biddle Street on the near North Side? That's this guy. He was from a wealthy Philly family and married one of John Mullanphy's daughters, our own city's wealthiest family. He died young.
William Greenleaf Eliot, founder of Wash U. He signed this 1867 diploma using Latin for his first name.
Gus Pfeiffer, the man who enabled much of Hemingway's life in the 1930s. He's featured in my book Hemingway's St. Louis.
Robert S. Brookings, of Brookings Hall at Wash U and the Brookings Institution in DC. This is from an autographed book he wrote in the 1930s.