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*The Mercantile Library continues to build collections that concentrate on Westward Expansion, American rail and river transportation history as well as the history, development, and growth of the St. Louis region, and broadly developed subjects related to the humanities, with a core collection numbering over 250,000 books. The special collections of the library consist of over 400 individual collections with archival materials numbering in the millions, including over 100 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. The Mercantile Library Art Museum contains works by important American artists including George Caleb Bingham, Thomas Hart Benton, Oscar Berninghaus, Charles Deas and Harriet Hosmer, with an emphasis on 19th and 20th century regional artists. As a research library, our mission is to make these book, manuscript and art collections available to the widest number of local and national users through physical and online opportunities. <ref>[http://www.umsl.edu/mercantile/ University of Missouri - Saint Louis Mercantile Library]</ref> | *The Mercantile Library continues to build collections that concentrate on Westward Expansion, American rail and river transportation history as well as the history, development, and growth of the St. Louis region, and broadly developed subjects related to the humanities, with a core collection numbering over 250,000 books. The special collections of the library consist of over 400 individual collections with archival materials numbering in the millions, including over 100 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. The Mercantile Library Art Museum contains works by important American artists including George Caleb Bingham, Thomas Hart Benton, Oscar Berninghaus, Charles Deas and Harriet Hosmer, with an emphasis on 19th and 20th century regional artists. As a research library, our mission is to make these book, manuscript and art collections available to the widest number of local and national users through physical and online opportunities. <ref>[http://www.umsl.edu/mercantile/ University of Missouri - Saint Louis Mercantile Library]</ref> | ||
===Other Libraries at the Mercantile Library | === Other Libraries at the St. Louis Mercantile Library === | ||
*[http://www.umsl.edu/mercantile/Herman%20T.%20Pott%20National%20Inland%20Waterways%20Library/index.html Herman T. Pott National Inland Waterways Library] | |||
*[http://www.umsl.edu/mercantile/Herman%20T.%20Pott%20National%20Inland%20Waterways%20Library/index.html Herman T. Pott National Inland Waterways Library] | |||
*[http://www.umsl.edu/mercantile/John%20W.%20Barriger%20III%20National%20Railroad%20Library/index.html John W. Barriger III National Railroad Library] | *[http://www.umsl.edu/mercantile/John%20W.%20Barriger%20III%20National%20Railroad%20Library/index.html John W. Barriger III National Railroad Library] | ||