Public Services – Police, Fire Department, Postal Service

Call numbers follow each title. Call numbers beginning with "R" are for use in the library only. Circulating copies are available for some titles, as noted.

Bullinger, Edwin W. Monitor Guide to Post Offices and Railroad Stations in the United States and Canada, 1876. Westwood, New Jersey: Bullinger's Guides, 1976.  Q 385.264 B937M.

Edwards, Edward. History of the Volunteer Fire Department of St. Louis. St. Louis : Veteran Volunteer Firemen's Historical Society, 1906.  R 977.866 E26H.

History of the St. Louis Fire Department: With a Review of Great Fires and Sidelights upon the Methods of Fire-Fighting from Ancient to Modern Times. St. Louis: Central Publishing Company, 1914.  R 614.84 H673.

Israel, Benjamin. Putting Black in Blue: The Struggle to Put Uniformed African American Police Officers on the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department. Ann Arbor, Michigan: UMI, 2011, 2008.  R 977.866 I85P.

Miksicek, Barbara. In the Line of Duty: St. Louis Police Officers who Made the Ultimate Sacrifice. St. Louis: St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, 1991.  R 363.22 M636I and circulating copy.

Missouri State Highway Patrol, 1931-1991: 60th Anniversary. Jefferson City, Missouri: Missouri State Highway Patrol, 1991.

Reichard, Max. Origins of the Urban Police: Freedom and Order in Antebellum St. Louis. St. Louis: Washington University, 1975.  R 977.866 R348O.

Schultz, Robert G. Missouri Post Offices, 1804-1981. St. Louis: American Philatelic Society, 1982.  R 977.8 S387M.

Schultz, Robert G. The Street Railway Post Offices of Saint Louis. Chicago: Mobile Post Office Society, 1984.  R 383.4977 S387S.

Wagner, Allen E. Good Order and Safety: A History of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, 1861-1906.  R 977.866 W132G and circulating copy.

White, Virgil D. Index of U.S. Marshals, 1789-1960. Waynesboro, Tennessee: National Historical Publishing  Co., 1988.  R 929.373 W588I.