Columbia Manuscript Collections

Copy photos of the Henry County Courthouse and a fox hunt in Henry County.

Two photos of Jens Christian Bay.

Photographs by J. Robert Hall of Linneus, Missouri, of the laying of the cornerstone of the Laclede, Missouri high school building on May 2, 1936, including photographs of General Pershing.

Several copy prints of alleged Civil War guerrillas.

Studio photographic portrait of Thomas D. Clark

A collection of photographs of and relating to the work of Sidney Larson, art curator for the State Historical Society of Missouri. 15 b/w photos, photocopied news clipping feat. Thomas Benton, artist (MO State Fair 1990). b/w photo of Truman, Benton, and Larson (artist; donor) (with negatives). 3 35mm b/w slides, State Capitol restoration. b/w of Rolla mural. b/w Shane Drawings exhibit, 1964. 2 b/w photos of paintings with notes on figures depicted. 4 colour photos of Larson's artwork shown at Columbia College, August 1999.

Snapshots of the parade for Winston Churchill and Harry S. Truman's visit to Fulton, MO.

Photographs of Missouri mills and covered bridges by Charles Bell.

A collection of cabinet cards and carte de visit from the Civil War era, many of military officers.

Photos of historic sites and properties in Missouri, especially St. Joseph.

Postcards related to Bagnell Dam, including construction, and other photos from Lake of the Ozarks area.

12 sepia color postcards of St. Louis Zoo, color postcard folder from Grant's Farm; two b/w real photo postcards of highways through Missouri Ozarks.

Portraits of members of the Missouri General Assembly, 1871-1941.

A collection of US postcards.

Photographs documenting Albert Sarosky's experience while working at Brandview Orchard and Livestock Co., Brandsview, Missouri, in 1914.

Slides by Burnell of Missouri historic sites, including one room school houses, covered bridges, and historic homes.

11 photographs of St. Patrick's Day celebrations at the University of Missouri (1920-21).

Images of St. Albans Barn, Franklin Co.

Original photos of the "Early Freak Movement in Columbia" and Vietnam War protests.

Photographs of Missouri State Highway Patrol operations and employees.

Photographs relating to Southwestern Bell Telephone and of several Missouri locations, including the state capitol, St. Louis, Unity Farms, and Forsyth Dam.

5 cabinet cards showing images of cadets from the Marmaduke Military Academy in Sweet Springs, Missouri.

Photographs of the family of Melville Pinkston Moody, an editor of the Johnson County Democrat. He was born and died in Warrensburg, Mo.

Various images of Glenwood and Lancaster, Missouri including street scenes, churches, schools, train wrecks, and gatherings.

Photographs of the American West in the late 19th century, including Colorado, New Mexico, and Yellowstone and Yosemite National Parks.

66 unidentified cabinet cards and carte de visites of Missouri families and individuals.

Black and white photo, Pershing addressing troops at Colorado State Rifle Range in Golden, Colorado in 1924. Renamed to Camp George West in 1934.

Photos of Columbia homes in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Photos of and related to the works of the sculpture Frederick C. Hibbard, including several photographs of Hibbard at work.

13 photos taken of images of Charles Lindbergh and the Spirit of St. Louis. 32 postcards of various subjects: public buildings, street scenes and scenery in Columbia, Missouri, St. Louis, Kansas City, Omaha, Washington, Tucson, Panama, Ontario and New Hampshire.

1 photograph of Camp Dix, NJ Army Base; 12 photos of Dixon Mining Co., circa 1900; 2 photos of Mr. and Mrs. O.H. Henderson; 3 photocopies of Henderson family Bible.

56 postcards pertaining to western and southwestern Missouri, specifically the Joplin and Kansas City areas and a few postcards of Southwest City.

Large postcard collection showing various tourist areas in Missouri as well as places outside Missouri. Other images include photos of Virginia Mayo, the Boone County Fair, St. Louis, and Columbia images.

Three unidentified photos, possibly Greene County area. Winter scenes, picnic, church group and buildings.

Copy photos of Pioneer, Newtonia and Stark City, Missouri. Also, copy photo of J.M. Ritchie and an original photo of the Purcell family on steps of home, circa 1910. 35mm slides of southwest Missouri.

Five photos of St. Louis: LaClede's Landing and the Gateway Arch in 1980.

One class photo of Blue Mound School in Livingston County, ca 1938.

Two large mounted photos showing University of Missouri St. Patrick's Day ceremonies with engineering fraternity kneeling before St. Patrick, March 1904.

One large sized photo of Christian College women,

Digital scans of 1884 meeting of the Missouri Press Association in Eureka Springs, Arkansas.

Illustrated postcards, primarily comic in nature, and postcards of the Lake of the Ozarks area; print of signed photo of Will Rogers, photos of the St. Joseph Railway, Light, Heat & Power Company.

Three copy photos of Charles Nagel taken during his term of office as Secretary of Commerce and Labor, 1909-1913. Photo of William Taft meeting with his cabinet.

Three photos of Poplar Bluff tornado damage around 1927. Aerial photo of Piedmont around 1927. Four images of Black River with auto and train bridges. One photo of train in Mill Spring Depot.

Postcards of Columbia, Kansas City, St. Louis, and the 1904 World's Fair.

Photos from prominent Cape Girardeau families including the Oliver family, Mary Watkins Oliver and Robert Burett Oliver.

Various images related to Macon County, specifically the town of Ethel, photos of Kirksville State Normal School, 1919-1924, including the 1924 fire and its aftermath, and portraits of identified and unidentified families and individuals.

Original photo by H. Tomlinson, identified as "Becky Thatcher serving tea in Mark Twain's Home, Nov. 30, 1915." Photo is of Laura Hawkins Frazer, childhood sweetheart of Mark Twain who Thatcher character is supposedly taken from.

Series of 38 digital photographs on the St. Louis September 29, 1927 tornado. Original glass plate negatives held by family.

Photographs of Slater, MO, including images related to Steve McQueen. Also photo and document about television movie called A Family of Children by Tom Butterfield.

Three photographs: Jacob Neely and son, Thomas; Wilson G. Wagner; Wilson G. Wagner with Mr. Swift.

Photo of Reverend Mark Rich.

Carte de visite of James McConathy who owned a distillery in Boone County in 1800s at what is now Rockbridge State Park.

Photographs of the Shrine of St. Joseph, also known as St. Joseph's Jesuit Church, in St. Louis.

Photographs of buildings on the campus of St. Louis University.

Three postcards showing interior of the Carroll County Historical Museum in Carrollton and interior view of the Bank of Tina display in Carroll County Historical Museum.

Scrapbook containing photographs taken 1925-1930 while Arthur T. Bailey was a student at the University of Missouri, Columbia. Various images of the university and students.

Copy photo of Mabel Aeschliman, who served from 1943-1944 in the legislature. She was the first republican to serve in the state legislature from Schuyler County since the Civil War and the first woman to serve from north of the Missouri River.

10 color and 4 black and white postcards, with images from Bellevue Valley, Iron County and Caledonia in Washington County.

6 photographs showing the 1983 American Royal Livestock, Horse Show and Rodeo in Kansas City. Photos are copyrighted by Macklin Photography.

Seven postcards of the University of Missouri showing quadrangle, columns, birds-eye view of campus, academic hall and Broadway in Columbia during busy day.

Assorted slides of buildings and sites in Missouri, particularly St. Louis, Kansas City, Independence, and Springfield.

One print of James F. Antonio, State auditor of Missouri from 1978-1984.

Twelve snapshot color photos taken in 1965 of Armenia, Colombia, South America (sister city of Columbia, Missouri).

Scrapbook and photographs of the University of Missouri taken by Elmon Laurence Collette while he attended the university as an engineering student, 1903-1908.

Copy photos of a carte de visite of Odon Guitar and an older woman, standing, and a carte de visite of Odon Guitar, bust view in uniform. Photographer: N. Brown, St. Louis.

3 8x10 black and white prints of Governor John Ashcroft.

Images of Rocheport, Missouri, and MKT Railroad.

12 b/w MARKERS, Old Elm Tree Cemetery, 1975. b/w (negative & slide) of Reed's MILL, Beulah, 1900. MO Civil War MAPS: 2 diagrams of Fort Wyman; 1864 MO-AR border. Postcard of Licking, 1910. 8 b/w photos of Civil War era busts. Sketch of "Uncle Phil" from Pioneers of the Ozarks (1944).

Six postcards from 1916 showing images of the British Remount Depot in Lathrop, Missouri.

19 color postcards of Kansas City and Excelsior Springs, MO.

portraits

Photographs of damage following an 1896 tornado in St. Louis, including many by Samborsky Photo. Some of these images were published in Julian Curzon's The Great Cyclone at St. Louis and East St. Louis, May 27, 1896.

Photographs of Mexico, Missouri, including A.P. Green Fire Brick Company operations, local buildings, and monuments.

Photographs by Edd Ingram of Edgar Springs, Missouri, primarily in glass plate negative format. Ingram captured early twentieth-century individual and group portraits, school portraits, and images of rural activities, industries, and agriculture. Identified locations pictured are in south central Missouri and cover portions of Phelps, Pulaski, Dent, Texas, and Crawford counties.

Photographs of Kansas City, ca. 1939 and 1954, with a focus on views of the city and local attractions.

11 postcards from the early 20th century with scenes of various places in Missouri including Joplin, Springfield, and St. Louis.

Three photographs: staff of the University Argus at the University of Missouri (1890), dentist's office in Kansas City (ca 1940s), and Jesse Hall at the University of Missouri.

Photographs include: wreck of train, Engine #313 Missouri Pacific; the Gehlken Mill in Morgan County; the Curry Farm and farmhouse in Morgan County; the Gehlken Store in Pettis County, and the Gehlken and Penning families.

42 photographs from/of students at Howard Payne Junior College in Fayette, MO ca. 1900.

Late 19th century photographs of Montgomery City, Matson, and St. Louis, portraits and group photographs.

Images of various rural areas around Rockport and Point Lisa ca 1904. Images might be also be Rock Port, Missouri.

Unidentified portraits from the estate of Mary Rose.

One ink jet copy print of Puls family at Noser Mill Dam in 1922.

Two color slides showing the storefront of the John Wall's Moving and Storage Company. Located at either 908 Truman Road or 2021 Forrest, Kansas City MO, circa 1950s.

Two photos, one showing the Poplar Bluff tornado damage and another of a man named Robert Parker sitting in automobile.

snapshots from 1996 of the sites of Harmony Mission and Papinville in Bates County, Missouri

One encased tintype of Ann Bracken Walker, circa 1860.

One image of the interior of the Conley-Myers Bank in Columbia, MO, circa 1920.

Copy photos of Laura & Almanzo Wilder and their home in Mansfield, MO.

1 b/w bust and negative of Henry Martyn Cheavens

1 b/w bust and negative of H.M. Bledsoe (1825-1899), taken at Pleasant Hill.

b/w drawing of New Palace Hotel, Fulton, MO, 1907. b/w photo of Cockrell Family, 1890. b/w photo with negatives of General Cockrell, Confederate Army, Civil War.

Images depicting Chillicothe, MO in the 19th century. Photographs of Missouri State Guard veterans from Chillicothe, including men who served under General Sterling Price.

Images of and relating to Moberly, MO, mainly in the 1960s.

Photographs of Columbia, MO, the University of Missouri (1978-1986, including extensive coverage of Ellis Library construction in the 1980s), and historic sites and structures across Missouri. Also includes portraits taken or acquired by Dains.

Photo of Boone Spring House in Matson, St. Charles County. Also known as Flanders Callaway home.

Photos by Katherine Ann Robertson of the James Hicklin home east of Lexington, MO in 1949.

Various photos of Anheuser-Busch company and grounds.

17 scrapbook photos of 9/29/27 tornado in St. Louis. Various views of family home on 5327 Arsenal Street along with grandfather's cabin in Times Beach, Missouri.

Postcards of the University of Missouri, ca. 1910.