- Roll 1, Volumes 1-13
- Roll 2, Volumes 14-27
- Roll 3, Volumes 28-40
John J. Buse grew up in St. Charles and worked for American Car and Foundry Company until his death in 1933. He spent much of his spare time investigating the history of St. Charles and collecting and preserving that history in photographs, reminiscences, and newspaper articles. The Scrapbooks series is made up of 41 volumes of newspaper clippings dating from 1899-1930. Topics include: city government, roads, railroads, buildings, churches, World War I, schools, disasters, crime and Prohibition.Copies of the Buse files from the Western Historical Manuscript Collection
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E-Mail: mroper@stchlibrary.org
