Photographs

Robert L. Elgin Photograph Collection, circa 1950s-1990s (R1015)
0.75 cubic foot (44 folders)

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These are black and white photographs, color slides, plans, and detail drawings of historic structures in the northern Ozarks of Missouri. Several counties are represented, but especially Crawford, Franklin, Gasconade, Maries, Phelps, Osage, and Washington. The primary topics are vernacular architecture, log structures, churches, and cemeteries.

Robert L. Elgin Photographs, 1961, no date (P0414)
19 photographs

Photos of Rolla and St. Joseph areas, Charles Van Ravenswaay, ca. 1961, and Elizabeth (Mrs Joseph O.) Shelby. Also, Missouri postcards.

Robert L. Elgin Research Collection, 1960-1993 (R1261)
2.1 cubic feet (65 folders)

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These are the research files of a civil engineer, surveyor, and historian from St. James in Phelps County, Missouri. The colletion includes reports, scale sketches, and photographs concerning the restoration of various historic sites in Missouri, charcoal iron furnace sites in Missouri, and prehistoric petroglyphs and pictograph sites in the Missouri Ozarks.

Elmer Ellis "My Road to Emeritus" Photograph Collection, no date (P0644)

Copy photos used in the book "My Road to Emeritus" by Elmer Ellis.

Jennie Ellis Postcard Collection, 1905-1917 (SP0075)
.2 cubic foot (2 folders, 62 postcards)

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The Jennie Ellis Postcard Collection contains postcards sent to Jennie (Raymond) Ellis and her family between 1905 and 1917. The postcards include images of various cities and landmarks throughout Missouri and the United States.

William P. Elmer Photograph Collection, 1928 (P0602)
7 photographs

Photographic postcards of Salem, MO (Dent County), ca. 1928

J. Pitts Elmore Photograph Collection, 1890-1976 (P0415)
11 photographs

Photos, bulk ca. 1976, and postcards of Monett, Monark Springs, Seneca Women's Social Club, and Fairview.

Patricia Shively Elmore Papers, 1878-2015 (CG0013)
2.4 c. f.

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The Patricia Shively Elmore Papers contain diaries, correspondence, genealogy, scrapbooks, and photographs related to the donor’s family. This collection also contains diplomas, commencement programs, military documents, photographs, souvenir postcards, films, and funeral memorabilia of the donor’s second husband, William “Bill” Elmore.

Elmwood Park Photograph Collection, 1926-1960 (S0584)
0.01 cubic foot

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The Elmwood Park photograph collection consists of photographs of an African-American community in St. Louis County, featuring images of dance recitals, school children, and the First Baptist Church of Elmwood Park.

William Emerson Photographs, no date (P0714)
11 photographs

Photos of Jefferson County historic homes, Byrnes Mill, and monuments, 1959.

Francis English Photograph Collection, 1925, no date (P0896)
2 photographs

Copy prints of Francis English.

David Eslick Photograph Collection, 1976-2001 (SP0088)
0.1 cubic foot (2 folders, 89 slides)

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The David Eslick Photograph Collection contains 35-millimeter photographic color slides of people and landmarks in Springfield and southwest Missouri taken by historian and photographer David J. Eslick.

Evans Postcard Collection, no date (P0147)
926 postcards

926 picture postcards of various scenes across Missouri.

William L. Fambrough, Sr. Photograph Collection, 1940-1970 (K0642)
2 c.f.

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Negatives and prints recording events and people taken by Fambrough, a Kansas City African-American professional photographer.

Oscar Farmer Collection, 1940-2005 (S0585)
0.5 cubic feet, 1 tape, 37 photographs

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The Oscar Farmer Collection documents Farmer’s career working for the Saint Louis Police Department. It also contains an oral history interview and photographs related to his work at Club Riviera, a supper club that hosted prominent entertainers and served as a base for local politician Jordan Chambers.

Sophia Eubank Featherston Photograph Collection, no date (P0764)
6 photographs

Six photos by Miller of Moberly of the Florida, MO, area ca. 1920s. Includes photos of Mark Twain cabin and statue and the Salt River.

Adah Redden Ferguson Photograph Collection, 1913, no date (P0948)
2 photographs

Images of James and Lucy Ward Love.

Rev. William W. Ferren Photograph Collection, 1900 (P0530)
2 photographs

Copy photos of St. John's Lutheran Church, Jefferson City, ca. 1900

Roswell Martin Field Photograph Collection, 1870, 1912 (P0986)
5 photographs

Images of and relating to Roswell Martin Field, taken from "Roswell Field, Poems & Biographica: His Personal Collections"

William Hill Field V Photograph Collection, 1878, 1981, no date (P0911)
4 photographs

Images of William Hill Field I and William Hill Field IV

Arnot M. Finley Photograph Albums, 1913-1919 (C3422)
3 volumes

 Digitized Materials

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Photographs of the University of Missouri campus, sports events, student activities, and individual students. Includes scenes of Columbia, MO.

First Baptist Church, Grandview, Missouri, Photographs, no date (P0676)
2 photographs

Photos of First Baptist Church in Grandview, MO

First Christian Church Photographs, 1875-1960 (P0851)

Photos of and relating to First Christian Church

First Unitarian Church, St. Louis, Photographs, 1974-1977 (P0818)
9 photographs

Copy photos of First Unitarian Church, St. Louis.

Mrs. B.K. Flanery Photograph Collection, 1875-1929 (P0457)
27 photographs

Copy photos of Poplar Bluff, Butler County, late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Fletcher-Brill Family Papers, 1900-2019 (SP0092)
0.2 cubic foot (5 folders, 59 photographs)

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The Fletcher-Brill Family Papers contain correspondence, photographs, articles, genealogy, and publications on the Fletcher and Brill families of Wright County, Missouri.

Florissant Historical Society Museum Opening Photographs, 1958 (P1169)

Photographs of the Florissant Historical Society Museum, on the occasion of its opening

Mrs. H.D. Floyd Postcard Collection, 1919-1939 (P0531)
15 postcards

Postcards of Boonville area buildings, Arrow Rock Tavern, and Bagnell Dam (Lake of the Ozarks).

Margaret Fogg Photographs, 1921 (S1209)
0.25 cubic foot

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This collection consists of 15 black and white photographic prints of St. Louis scenes from 1921. The photographs were taken by Margaret Fogg's father, aviator Robert Stevens Fogg (1897-1976).

C.F. Forbes Photograph Collection, 1886 (P1005)

Panoramic photograph of George G. Vest's visit to chapel at the University of Missouri, 1886

Frank Stephen Ford Photograph Collection, 1896-1912 (K0712)
2 c.f.

Negatives taken by Ford, a talented amateur photographer. His subjects included outdoor pastoral scenes, streams and rivers, including a number of views of the Missouri River east of the ASB Bridge. Also portraits of family and friends, interiors of his home at 29th and Flora and other houses and buildings, and of a black servant (including some of his home) who worked for Ford's family.

Leone Ford Collection, no date (P0498)
6 photographs

Photos of Seybold Tavern and Excelsior Springs Golf Club, Excelsior Springs, MO

Forest Hill Photograph, no date (P0388)
1 photograph

Photograph of Forest Hill house in Columbia, built by Eli Bass.

Fort D'Orleans Photographs, 1933 (C0786)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Annotated stereoscope photos of the probable site of Fort D'Orleans. Four photos with duplicates.

Fort Davidson Plan, no date (P0329)

Plan of Fort Davidson, Pilot Knob

Mrs. Jesse Fox Photograph Collection, 1886, 1899 (P0707)
2 photographs

Photos of Tipton Farm near Alba, MO, and Sunny Side School students, 1899.

Franke Studio Photographs, 1896-1928 (P0747)
6 photographs

Photos by Franke Studio of Macon: Walker Hardward, Blees Buggy Company, and Lucas Blacksmithing.

Franklin and Binkley Families Papers, 1868-1955 (R1492)
0.06 cubic foot (6 folders, 27 negatives)

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The Franklin and Binkley Families Papers contain photocopies of correspondence, family papers, and photographs. Also included is genealogical information for the Franklin, Binkley, Myers, Herrman, Bray, and other connected families.

Franklin County, Missouri Postcard Collection, circa 1910s (R0628)
0.01 cubic foot (1 folder)

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The Franklin County, Missouri Postcard Collection contains two postcard views of scenes along Indian Creek near Saint Clair in Franklin County, Missouri. One postcard shows an iron truss bridge over the creek, the other is a view of the farm of William E. May.

Franklin County, Missouri, Photograph Collection, 1895-1920 (P1127)

An artificial collection of photographs of Franklin County, Missouri.

Laura Hawkins Frazer Photograph, 1915 (P0252)
1 photograph

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.

Frost Family Photograph Collection, 1930s-1970s (R1294)
0.05 cubic foot (1 folder, 31 photographs)

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This collection consists of twenty-nine black and white and two color photographs showing scenes and businesses in Rolla, Missouri from the 1930s into the 1970s.

Dr. Harold Fruend Photograph Collection, no date (P0978)
3 photographs

Photos of the State Hospital for the Insane No. 1 in Fulton, MO

Richard Fuhrmann Lantern Slide Collection, 1840-1935 (P0048)
702 lantern slides

Lantern slides of turn-of-the-twentieth century St. Louis by local physician Richard Fuhrmann. Includes the area later razed for the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial.

Clarence N. Fultz Photographs, 1950-1958 (P0458)
12 photographs

Copy photos (from slides) of Cape Girardeau County.

Ella Gaffney Photograph Collection, 1898 (P0625)

Photographs of the 4th Missouri US Volunteer Infantry during the Spanish-American war, including soldier Bayard Murray.

Mary Abney Gamble Photograph Collection, 1907-1944 (P0876)
11 photographs

Photos of Naption area, Saline Co. Also of Gamble family ancestors. 35mm color slides depicting travel and farming in Missouri

William J. Gammon Photographs, 1842-1915 (P0039)
1 folder

Photos of Ralls County historic properties by Gammon, a resident of Perry, MO, and postcards of various Missouri views.

Raymond Gant Photograph Collection, 1940-1947 (P0486)
6 photographs

Photos of the Cutoff Club, near Dalton, MO, ca. 1940s.

Joe Gantner Photographs, 1944 (P1185)

Photographs by Joe Gantner, propieter of Deluxe Studio in Boonville, MO, of the 1944 Missouri River Flood in Boonville.