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Gateway Arch National Park

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Research Information

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The Gateway Arch National Park (GANP) Research Center is currently under development and closed to the public. However, some reference services are still available via email.

The GANP Archives are charged to preserve records and manuscripts that document the administrative history of the park and its associated themes. As the corporate memory of the Gateway Arch National Park (formerly Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, or JNEM), the Archives also make their resources available to the public in accordance with objectives outlined in the park's Statement for Management:

 

to enhance and enlarge public understanding and appreciation of the significance of 19th century American westward expansion and of the related individual significance of the Old Courthouse, the Arch, and of the early development of St. Louis.

 

Materials may not be checked out, but may be used in the Archival Reading Room once it is open to the public. The archives currently contain 43 individual collections, 22 of which have been processed and are available upon request. Most of the collections relate to the development and administration of the Gateway Arch National Park site, including the construction of the Gateway Arch and its visitor center and museum.

Access to materials may dependent upon physical condition, copyright, and level of processing to date by the park staff. If you would like to inquire about researching the collection or set up a research appointment, please send an inquiry via our online contact form.

 

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  Finding Aids

  Discover and search our processed collections using these finding aids

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  Visual Image Collection

  Over 20,000 slides and 8,000 photographs of Gateway Arch history

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  JNEM Oral History Project

  Audio and transcribed interviews of people connected to the Gateway Arch National Park

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  St. Louis City Directories

  Listings of residents and commercial entities from approximately 1821 to 1937

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  Audio/Visual Collection

  Audiotapes, videotapes, CDs, and other obsolete media being made available

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  Grace Lewis Miller Book Collection

  The complete book and journal collection of historian, writer, and St. Louis socialite Grace Lewis Miller