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Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet

Archivist

Catherine Lucy

(314) 678-0320 archivist@csjcarondelet.org

The Sisters of St. Joseph Consolidated Archives contain sources that might be useful to researchers pursuing themes, including but not limited to the following:

Art
Black history
Education
Health care/hospitals/asylums
Indigenous Catholics
Literature
Material culture
Missionaries
Music
Orphans
Refugees
Relics
Segregation
Social justice/activism
War

Location

6400 Minnesota Avenue St. Louis, MO 63111

Policies

Refer to the Access Policy before arrival

Visitation Academy Archives

Archivist

Amanda Gesiorski

(314) 625-9235 agesiorski@visitationmonastery.org

The Visitation Academy Archives contain sources that might be useful to researchers pursuing themes, including but not limited to the following:

Alms
Art
Canonization/saints
Children
Dissidents
Education
Family
Finance
Global networks
Land rights/ maps
Literature
Liturgy
Martyrs
Material culture (artifacts)
Modernity
Music
Orphans
Political movements
Print culture
Relics
Ritual
Secular/secularism/secularity
Segregation
Sex/sexuality

Location

3020 N. Ballas Road St. Louis, MO 63131

Policies

Refer to the Access Policy before arrival

Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet

Archivist: Catherine Lucy

(314) 678-0320

archivist@csjcarondelet.org

6400 Minnesota Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63111

Refer to the Access Policy before arrival

The Sisters of St. Joseph Consolidated Archives contain sources that might be useful to researchers pursuing the following themes:

Art
Black history
Education
Health care/hospitals/asylums
Indigenous Catholics
Literature
Material culture
Missionaries
Music
Orphans
Refugees
Relics
Segregation
Social justice/activism
War

Visitation Academy Archives

Archivist: Amanda Gesiorski

(314) 625-9235

agesiorski@visitationmonastery.org

3020 N. Ballas Road St. Louis, MO 63131

Hours: open by appointment only Monday-Friday

The Visitation Academy Archives contain sources that might be useful to researchers pursuing the following themes:

Alms
Art
Canonization/saints
Children
Dissidents
Education
Family
Finance
Global networks
Land rights/ maps
Literature
Liturgy
Martyrs
Material culture (artifacts)
Modernity
Music
Orphans
Political movements
Print culture
Relics
Ritual
Secular/secularism/secularity
Segregation
Sex/sexuality

Archdiocesan Archives

Archivist: Rena Schergen

(314) 792-7026

renaschergen@archstl.org

20 Archbishop May Drive St. Louis, MO 63119

Hours: open by appointment only Monday through Friday, 9am to 4pm. The archives are closed on holidays and holy days:

January 3 for New Year’s Day
January 17 for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
February 21 for President’s Day
April 15 for Good Friday
May 30 for Memorial Day
July 4 for Independence Day
August 15 for Feast of Assumption
September 5 for Labor Day
November 1 for All Saints Day
November 24-25 for Thanksgiving
December 8 for Feast of Immaculate Conception
December 25-January 1 for Christmas and New Year

The Archdiocesan Archives contain sources that might be useful to researchers pursuing the following themes:

Black history
Indigenous missions
Migration
Missionaries
Refugees
Segregation
Slave trade
Social justice/activism
War

Saint Louis University Archives

Archivist: Caitlin Stamm

(314) 977-3109

archives@slu.edu

Third floor of Pius XII Memorial Library in Room 307. All non-SLU patrons must sign in at the Lindell entrance service desk with a photo ID.

Hours: open by appointment only Monday-Friday

Note: All recipients of the St. Louis Catholic Archives Visiting Research Grant are required to participate in an interview about their project with archivists from all institutions they intend to visit. In advance of this interview, please prepare the following materials:

Project description
List of all archival materials to be consulted with title and call number
Purpose of research (i.e. production of a book, article, dissertation/thesis, etc.)
Signed User Agreement for Researchers