Cullen Krieg
Dr. Smith
CODES
29 January 2024
St. Louis Mercantile Library
The library is currently still working on their mission, but they are displaying their work to the public in forms of books. They have more than 400 different collections of archival readings. The archive was founded in 1846 and it was chartered by the State of Missouri. It is the oldest library in continuous existence West of the Mississippi River.
Within the archive there are: historic newspaper titles, presidential letters, early travel diaries and civil war era letters, fur trade records and the newspaper and printing morgue of the St. Louis Globe Democrat. It is holding archives from artists: George Caleb Bingham, Thomas Hart Benton, Oscar Berninghaus, Charles Deas and Harriet Hosmer. The members of the archive have benefits including: special lectures, openings of special exhibitions of the collections, receptions, informal talks and discounts on library services and publications.
The archive can serve whomever wants to invest their time in there. It is open to members and individuals online. There is amazing access to millions of different reads. Other stakeholders may be the ones who brought the certain reading or article into the archive and donated it or the members themselves.
All in all, the St. Louis Mercantile Library has a lot for an individual to look into and enhance their learning capabilities.