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Eye on UMSL: Rise and shine

The summer sun shines on the atrium of the St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. ...

Remembering the top UMSL Daily stories of 2021

UMSL Daily celebrates some favorite articles of the year and the countless accomplishments and activities of UMSL people. ...

Alumna Elizabeth Eikmann talks St. Louis suffrage history in US Courts video

Eikmann discovered her passion for history and English while taking honors classes at UMSL. Her research on suffragist Virginia Minor was featured in a U.S. Courts production. ...

Old cookbooks, pamphlet binding and Adam and Eve engraving just some of the gems at Mercantile print fair

The St. Louis Mercantile Library at UMSL brought the 12th annual St. Louis Fine Art, Rare Book and Paper Arts Fair to campus this past weekend....

Studio art major’s printmaking expertise comes in handy during grant-funded Mercantile Library internship

Senior Brittany Taylor works primarily in film, but she’s also ventured into oil paints, watercolors, lithography – and now the art of curation....

Mercantile’s ‘Audubon and Beyond’ exhibition showcases 5 centuries of natural history

One of several major exhibitions leading up to the 175th anniversary of the library in 2021, it showcases one of the library’s largest and most significant collections. ...

Print fair a family tradition for father-daughter art dealers

Scott Kerr is president of McCaughen & Burr Fine Arts, where his daughter Sara Kerr, a UMSL art history student, also works full time. ...

Mercantile lends medallion from Lincoln’s hearse for 150th anniversary of president’s death

Julie Dunn-Morton, curator of the St. Louis Mercantile Library’s Fine Arts Collection at UMSL, holds the framed silver medallion....

Mercantile Library maps St. Louis through the centuries

"Mapping St. Louis History" includes a 30-foot-wide mapped view of St. Louis as it appeared in 1875. The exhibit is free, open to the public and on display through June....

Schwantes to discuss pivotal era in St. Louis history

The interconnected history of St. Louis, railroads and commerce has led Carlos Schwantes, the St. Louis Mercantile Library Endowed Professor in Transportation Studies, on a lifelong journey of discovery....