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1989-210-5
7-1/4" x 12-3/4" (including mount) black and white photoprint of group of 15 men and women in formal portrait, Drury Scientific Association. Includes: 11- Vera Brereton, 12- Jessie Minor, 13- Otto Nicholson, 14- Alice Ione Bennett, 15- Edward Hall (father of donor).

1988-31-13
Photograph of two young women by a brick building. Juanita Jackson is the taller one. The other young woman is not identified. Juanita Jackson is wearing a black pin-striped suit and a long orange Spanish lace shawl or scarf (1988-31-12). The other young woman is wearing a similar long scarf and they are both wearing hats.

 1997-26-619-632
These are editorial pages, front and back. There may be advertisements on the back. Additional keywords are Ozark Playgrounds,pubic health,Baptist Bible College,Joe Ben Wann,economy,milk production,L E Meador. These are full newsprint sheets.

1994-138
Black and white aerial Photograph of northwest corner Public Square. ( Park Central Square), visible are the central park, Heers, Landers buildling,Barths, Evans drug store, and National Shirt Shop.

 1998-536-1
Pocket watch #1343542 that belonged to Jacob Warren Garton, made of silveroid. Garton was born in Greene Co. in 1862 on his parents farm in Wilson township. He attended township schools and high school in Springfield. He later went to the Marionville Collegiate Institute and a business school in Springfield. He farmed in Greene Co, his farm called The Rainbow Farm.

2002-84
Photo of 6 young women posed for Newspaper photo. Drury fashion show. They are identified as Betsy Anderson, Susie Anderson, Bobbi Prater Springer, Katy Ermes Hogan, Frances Carmichael Crawford, JoAnn Brown Buckner.

 1999-7-6
Scrapbook from the career of Mayor Harry Carr, made by his Secretary Mrs. Powell, 6/4/1945-11/17/1946. Topics include Water Plant, parking meters, park and street worker's strike, unions, Japan, extension of city limits, widen city sreets, power rates cut, African-American, Cardinal Baseball, traffic, Liquor laws, City museum, Jaycees, hotel owners, fire escapes, cigarette tax, parks, city dump, liquor to minors, movie taxes, poverty, doling site naval college.

1999-281
Black and white photo, side view of the old livery stable and Springfield Gas and Electric Co. manufactured gas storage tank. There is a base which the tank was fitted into. Along the side of the metal base are stair steps that lead up to a walkway around the base. The sign on one of the storage tanks reads, " Cook with Gas " The cement block building reads " Seaman Coal, Cement and Sand, Phone 579 " On the storage bins are several advertisements that read, " Faultless Starch, Yeast Foam, K C. Baking Powders, and Celuloid Startch" Near these storage bins is a corrigated iron building. The Missouri Pacific Railroad tracks can be seen along the Seaman Coal Company.

1998-436
Snapshot taken at 7:00 am , looking west on St. Louis St. at the Trans-Continental Foot Race (or Bunion Derby) participants. This section of the race was from Springfield to Conway, MO. Stoplight in center of intersection with man leaning on it, possibly controlling it. Missouri US 66 sign attached to stoplight and an oval sign under it with number 16 on it. The stoplight may be a portable one brought in for the race on Route 66. Sign on Gillioz marquee says: "TONITE/THURMANS/ORCHESTRA". Numbers on back of picture 1-13/p8-273/CP8-272. Colonial Hotel on left of photo.

1991-16-3
Black and white photo mounted on crumbling cardboard frame. Photo shows white house with family members standing on porch and in front yard. Railroad tracks run in front of house. Writing on back says, "1415 Benton Avenue - Springfield, Missouri. Left to right Alice Kearney (by the bay window); Gen Kearney Mrs. Mary Delaney Kearney on the porch; Mayme Sheeran (a friend of the family); Ted Kearney (in the buggy); Tom Kearney; Mary Kearney, the youngest of the family, is asleep inside the house"

1996-82-1
Springfield Public Square looking west toward College Street. "Pie" in foreground. Old Court House. Identifiable businesses include: Big 3 Clothes, Brown Bros. Books, Grand Theater, T. J. Fielder Barber Supplies, Morrison Clothing, F. W. Woolworth, Schneiders, C. A. Clement Jewelry.

2004-19.8
Photo copy of of a copy of the marriage license of Edward Byrney Staley and Helen Ramona Black which took place in Springfield on October 23, 1937. The minister was C.F. Green, Loyd I. Miller was recorder of deeds and Doris Steury was deputy. The marriage license was filed on November 5, 1937. The official copy, from which this photo copy was made, was made February 2, 1972, Russell H. Keller was recorder of Deeds and Evelyn Ball was deputy.

1996-52-2
Black and white photo of Marx Book Store, a new addition to Marx Clothing Co. at 311 St. Louis Street Caption reads " Marx adds book store. The Marx Clothing Co., 311 St. Louis Street, Springfield, Mo., has added a book, record, and stationery department to supplement its College Shop, designed as an appeal to the students and faculty of the city's three liberal arts colleges. Besides reference works and best sellers in hard cover, the store boasts 1,800 paper back titles. " Signed George A. Wallis, Springfield, Mo., May 5, 1961 Photograph belonged to father of donor, George A. Wallis.

 1999-294
Autobiographical memories of Reuben T. Peak published by his son. See Jacob Lippman,Berry School,Woolen Mill,Phelps pond,Smallpox,pest camp,Normal School,willipus-wallopus,lynching,Charles Spurgeon,High School,Drury College,Jesse Mays,Seeley's Camera Store,Bruce May,Arch Lowe,Helen Trenary,John Goad,railway strike,Lindenlure,depression. Oscar Peak and his wife viola were physicians who practiced together in Springfield.

 1999-504
Scrapbook of Alex (Allesandro) Fellini, Italian American in descent, who had Ford dealership in Springfield for many years. Also see Larry Sansone, Charles Sansone, Gillioz Theatre, Colonial Hotel, Pepperdine School, Chamber of Commerce, Ass. Retailers Assn., vocal music, drama, Shrine Mosque, Kentwood Arms, autumobile, WPA, minstrel, Better Business Bureau, songs, Anchor Broom Mfg. Co., tractors, Frisco Railroad, Allen Foster, Bias, public square, Henry Ford, Lester E. Cox, Ernest Breech, Lincoln, Keet Curran, John Dukewits, Agnes Reeves, Fremont Ave.

1995-45-4
5" x 7" black and white photoprint on students and teacher standing on the steps of Lincoln School. Lincoln School was the segregated school built in 1931 in Springfield by the Rosenwald Foundation. It currently houses the Ozarks Technical College. The donor, Edith Lucille Brewer Spenser, stands in the 2nd row from right, next to teacher Juanita S. Bland. Row 1, l-r: Johnny Richardson, Howard Denton, Roswell Reed, Noble Clay, Everett Carter, R.L. Hoosier, Claude C. Patterson. Row 2: Emma Logan, Pat Logan, Betty Herndon, Esther Ferguson, Helen Campbell, Velma Tolliver, Lucille Brewer, Juanita Bland. Row 3: Mary C. Patterson, Clarice Johnson, Genevieve Johnson, Joe Looney, Raymond Nearguard, Ralph Richardson, Leatrice Wilburn, Charlene Jarrett. Row 4: Lawrence Harper, George Givens, Vincent Foster, Stella Culp.

1994-118
black and white photograph of the northwest and northeast corners of the public square. There is a good view down Boonville Street. There is a good view of the concrete '' Pie " which occupied the center of the square. The square is paved with paving bricks. The street car tracks go around the "Pie" There are two electrilc street cars on the square at this time. There is controlled automobile parking on the square. At the northwest corner of the square is Heer's, Baker building, and the Lander's building. As we go across Boonville Ave. At the northeast corner of the square there is the Nathan Clothing Co, the Electric Theatre in the corner, Rep's store, the Holland Building. Going across St. Louis Street we have the Holland Bank Co. and Levy Wolf clothing store.


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