Photographs

Margaret Vickery Photograph Collection, 1896-1986 (P0610)
12 photographs

Copy photographs of Dent county homes, businesses, and buildings.

Vietnam War Photographs, 1968 (C3324)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Photographs of Vietnamese villages, Marine artillery, and water buffalo.

Jonas Viles Photograph Collection, 1853-1933 (P0080)
1 folder

BUST VIEWS of Missouri Governors (Bates, Boggs, Gamble, Lisa, and McNair). Photos of the Royal Gorge, Iron, and tombstone in Cape Girardeau. Bagnell Dam in Miller. Newsclippings from the James Harrison house; photos of Defiance area homes. Missouri State Capitol, 1911, and North Frieze, 1930. McKendree Chapel before 1930 (Cape Girardeau). Madison Mine La Motte. Textile industry, spinning wheel in operation. Photos and postcards of Ozark Scenes. Scenes from Parks, Levees, Riverfronts, Prairie, and other Rural Views from Andrew, Carter, Crawford, Jackson, Schuyler, Taney, and Wheat.

John Diedrich Voerster Collection, 1802-2002 (S1115)
0.5 cubic foot

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The John Diedrich Voerster collection includes family tree data for the Voerster family. Also included in this collection is family tree data from the descendants of John Diedrich Voerster (1802-1878), Engelbert Voerster (1842-1908), and John Voerster (1870-1936). The collection also includes forty-six photographs of Voerster family members.

Herb Waeckerle Photograph Collection, 1875-1902 (P0110)
8 photographs

8 glossy prints of sites related to Jesse James and family, including the James Farm, graves, and historic markers.

Herb Waerckle Papers, 1942-2000 (S1008)
1 cubic foot, 6 photographs

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The papers of Herb Waerckle contain family histories and a scrapbook pertaining to Waeckerle's career as a journalist for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat and as well as his career in public relations working for the Schnucks and Monsanto.

Helen Graves Wagner Postcard Collection, no date (P0611)
5 postcards

Postcards of P.F. Graves, his residence, Doe Run Lead Co, the first building in Doe Run, and Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, Doe Run.

Lillian M. Wagner Photograph Collection, no date (P0255)
3 photographs

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

Wainright Building Photographs, 1890-1891, 1982 (P0817)
4 photographs

Photos of the Wainwright Building, St. Louis, in 1982, and one photo of its construction.

Reverend L. Walk Photograph, no date (P0256)

Photo of Reverend Mark Rich.

Ann Bracken Walker Tintype, 1860 (P0292)
1 photograph

One encased tintype of Ann Bracken Walker, circa 1860.

Josephine Snyder Walker Portrait, 1873 (P0570)
1 photograph

Photo and biography of Josephine Snyder Walker (1842-1914).

Ralph Walker Photographs, 1861, 1950-1980 (P0108)

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Photographs by Ralph Walker, produced for the state of Missouri.

C.T. Wallace Album, 1877-1912 (P0309)
64 photographs

64 black and white matte photographs, mostly 5x7, showing views of mainly Pettis, Lafayette and Saline counties. Includes images relating to the Methodist church, cats, farming, the Missouri Pacific Railroad, rivers and creeks.

Mildred Wallhausen Papers, 1949-2002 (CG0050)
2.1 c.f.

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The Mildred Wallhausen Papers is a collection of various articles, correspondence, pictures, programs, and newsletters with a primary focus on local African American peoples of Southeast Missouri. There are many negatives and photographs of Black churches and church leaders, integrated youth sports leagues, integration protests and projects, Lincoln High School before it was demolished, and assorted individuals; programs from funerals and churches; and newspaper clippings from the 1950s-1990s from papers like The Enterprise-Courier, which Mildred helped run, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Standard Democrat, the Chicago Defender, the Southeast Missourian, the Charleston Spokesman, and others. The collection also contains scrapbooks with clippings from Millie's Soap Box column, with dates from 1970-2002.

Walling Family Papers, 1895-1993 (R1396)
0.02 cubic foot (2 folders, 15 photographs)

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The Walling Family Papers include family photographs and genealogical research on the Cook, Hutson, and Walling families.

Anna Mae Armer Wallis Papers, 1925-1932, 1971 (CG0032)
0.4 c. f.

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This collection contains Anna Mae Armer Wallis's 1929 Charleston High School yearbook "The Blue-Jay" and scrapbook of her activities in high school.

Frank C. Wallower Papers, 1877-1966 (R0057)
6 folders

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The Wallower papers consist primarily of materials connected with his unfinished autobiography,
"A Review of Sixty Years," which he began writing after his retirement. There are three
separate versions of the autobiography in this collection, each containing both original pages and
carbons. Each version is incomplete and differs slightly from the others. Taken as a whole, they
provide a composite of the intended form of the autobiography

Joseph H. "Jack" Wally, Jr. Collection, 1933-2005 (K0329)
30 c.f.

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Wally was a professional photographer with the Kansas City Journal, a businessman, and an inventor. Photographs of famous local and national individuals. Places and events. Motion picture film of family activities and Wally's interests in trains and aviation. Also materials relating to his interests and the production and promotion of his businesses and inventions.

Angie Walsh Photographs, 1913-1937 (P0284)
42 photographs

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

Virginia Walton Postcard Collection, no date (P0142)
1 folder

A collection of Missouri postcards, including many from the St. Louis and Kansas City areas.

Warren County, Missouri, Photograph Collection, no date (P1141)

An artificial collection of photographs of Warren County, Missouri.

Mrs. A.H. Warren Portrait, no date (P0360)
1 photograph

Oval portrait of Mrs. A.H. Warren

Warrensburg Chamber of Commerce Photograph Collection, 1914-1951 (P0720)
4 photographs

Photos of Central Missouri State University and Lake Cena, Pertle Springs Park.

Washington University Photographs, 1936-1956 (P0194)

Photographs of Washington University, ca. 1936 and 1952.

Arthur Washington Papers, 1929-1995 (S1113)
1 cubic foot, 72 folders, 52 photographs

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The Arthur Washington Papers contains student handbooks, school programs, memos, certificates, and photographs pertaining to Washington's involvement in Sumner High School's academic and athletic programs. The collection also documents Washington's involvement with Alpha Phi Alpha, the Archdiocesan Development Appeal, and the campaign to revitalize the Ville neighborhood.

Waters Family Papers, 1860s-2021 (CA6619)
0.1 cubic feet

Photographs, correspondence, and genealogical material concerning the Joseph C. Waters family of Boone County, Missouri.

B.B. Watson Photograph Collection, no date (P0349)
2 photographs

Portrait of J.C. Penney, waist view, seated; signature in lower right-hand corner; photograph of Methodist Church Board of Extension.

Mark Wavering Photographs, no date (P0985)

five color prints of barns and farm equipment near Paris, Missouri

Webber Family Papers, 1870-1976 (R1502)
0.25 cubic foot (6 folders, 22 photographs, 9 tintypes, 5 cabinet cards, 1 cartes-de-viste)

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The Webber Family Papers contains a family genealogy documents, photographs, and newspaper clippings for the Webber family of Phelps County.

Thomas A. Webster Collection, 1930, no date (P0340)

University of Pennsylvania Pioneer Black Vet[erinarian]s, containing a photograph of Cornelius Vanderbilt Lowe, who worked in the meat inspectiion division of the USDA Animal Husbandry Section and is said to have been employed in Kansas City around 1907.

Weeks' Photographic Studio (Linn, Mo.) Glass Plate Negatives, c. 1880 (C3889)
68 glass plate negatives

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Negatives of portraits believed to be from a photographic studio in Osage County, MO. A photocopy of each image made from prints held by the Osage County Historical Society is included in the inventory.

Raymond Weeks Photograph Collection, 1896-1901 (P0233)
0.16 linear feet

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

Ruth Cecil Bullard Weeks Collection, no date (K1172)
0.01

Photo of Cecil Weeks

Amelia C. Weier Photographs, 1962-1963 (P0716)
9 photographs

Photos of Jefferson County historic homes and structures, ca. 1963

Reverend Charles A. Weinig Photographs, 1939-1941 (P0973)
2 photographs

Photos of Ste. Genevieve: St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Zell School

Warren D. Welliver Collection, 1900-1975 (P0069)
2 folders

Postcards of Barton County towns, especially Lamar, Rich Hill, Adrain. Additional postcards of Foster and Amoret. Photographs of the Nelson family of Hannibal, MO, and Richard Brownlee.

J.L. Welsh Photograph Collection, 1940, no date (P0740)
3 photographs

Three photographs: men measuring the big cottonwood tree in Pershing Memorial Park, Laclede, ca. 1940, the covered bridge over Locust Creek near Laclede, and a man fishing from the dam at Woodland Mills, Linn County.

Susan Welsh Photograph Collection, no date (P1184)

Copy photos of Mollyjoggers and the Cyrus Patterson house in Springfield, MO.

Ronald Wenger Photograph Collection, 1943-1950 (R1397)
0.02 cubic foot (1 folder, 25 negatives)

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The Ronald Wenger Photograph Collection contains photographs and negatives taken by Ronald Wenger during his service in the Philippines and New Guinea during World War II. Also included is a brief description of his service.

Emma West Collection, 1880-1950 (P0062)
0.16 linear feet

Copy photos and postcards of Missouri, the bulk of which focus on New Cambria, Macon County.

Western Missouri Photograph Collection, 1930-1960 (K0116)
3 cf

The collection contains photographic prints and negatives depicting activities of Kansas City, Missouri, municipal departments, mayors and councilmembers, city events, city buildings and parks, and other sites in the Kansas City metropolitan area.

Ruth Rollins Westfall Photograph Collection, 1838-1937 (P0020)
0.5 cubic feet

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Exhaustive photographic genealogy of the Rollins Family dating back to the 1860s; most photographs with accompanying names and dates.

William Wetherhold Photographs, 1895 (P0369)
4 photographs

Photographs taken by William Wetherhold in 1895 in St. Louis, MO and Piedmont, MO. At the time, Wetherhold was a salesman from Macomb, IL.

Etta Whipple Photograph Collection, no date (P1180)

Four photographs of Sandy Baptist Church in rural Jefferson County, Missouri.

Whitaker Family Collection, 1902-1972 (SP0076)
2 cubic feet (22 folders, 116 photographs, 2 oversize boxes)

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The Whitaker Family Collection contains materials related to Whitaker Printing and Manufacturing Company, a family-owned business that was located in Joplin, Missouri. The collection consists of correspondence, financial records, photographs, publications, and records pertaining to Sar-Tol pharmaceutical products. The collection also contains artwork by Joplin artist Robert Higgs.

Ella White Photographs, no date (P0934)
2 photographs

Photos of the Harrison Long and Martin Ruggles houses, Caledonia.

L. Mitchell White Photograph Collection, 1940-1960 (P0068)
22 photographs

Photos of Mexico, MO including the Mexico Ledger & Simmons Stables, St. Paul's Episcopal, Green, Newton and Robinson homes, Missouri Military Academy, Audrain Co. High School. Photos of Tom Bass, Daniel Fitzpatrick, and James and Clarence Robinson. Additional images of horses, including Rex McDonald at the Mexico Fairgrounds and a photo of Rex's tombstone.

Mahlon N. White Photographs, 1958 (P0051)
5 photographs

Photographs of bridges near Warsaw, Missouri.

Donald R. Whitman Collection, 1874-2008 (SP0079)
2.5 cubic feet (42 folders, 50 photographs, 4 VHS tapes, 5 oversize items)

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The Donald R. Whitman Collection contains the personal papers of Donald Ray Whitman, including correspondence, genealogical records, and photographs. The collection also documents Whitman’s service in the United States Air Force and his work in the Marshall Islands during Operation Ivy in 1952, as well as his career with the National Weather Service in Kansas City, Missouri.