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1994-26-7
Black and white photo of nurse Ethel Bly, classmate of Helen Davies Bryant at Springfield Hospital Training School for Nurses at 440 S. Market St. Taken outside in front of the hospital or nurse's quarters.

2001-439
A black and white photo of the Charles Haden home between Springfield and Gallaway. Joel Haden (center) was the first registrar if the Federal Land Office in Springfield. Seated right of Joel is his son: Charles Haden who was a prominent farmer and businessman. Back row left: Newt Roundtree - owner of Reet-Roundtree drygoods store. Other prominent members of Spingfield are present.

 2003-17.1
pencil 2.5" long with cover. Pencil cover is pink and advertises Springfield Southwest Commission Company Union Stock Yards. Phone 2175, Springfield, MO. Ray Gayer, Rex Roy, Velma Owen, Secretary, J. C. Potts, Orville Brown, Leonard Boehne, K. C. Smith

1999-278
Black and white exterior photo of Springfield's old power house located at the northeast corner of Main Ave. and Mill St. aAsign on top of the power house building reads " Springfield Has It " . There are two chimneys on top of the building. There is a elevated water tank. The building is of brick construction. There are street car tracks along Main Avenue. Main Avenue is still a dirt street. Along the stone curb on Main Avenue is a matched team of horses. Along Main Avenue ils a barber shop. The sign that you can take a bath here. On the window of the barber shop, it reads J.J. Dil. There is a barber pole next to the curb. Next to the barber shop is a one story brick building.

 1994-17-3
Letter, in Swedish, to Hilda Gustafson from Maya Stina in Sweden. An English translation of the letter is with the original. It was made by a Swedish exchange teacher in Springfield, ca 1995.

1999-466
Black and white photo of four Frisco trains with diesel engines #'s 5006,5014,5015 and 5013 on railroad tracks, possibly in North Springfield. Footbridge in background over tracks may be the Jefferson Ave. footbridge.

 1998-245-4
One partially knitted Kiltie sock, made by Mary Lee King, mother-in-law of the donor. Mrs. King knitted socks for the Kilties, the Springfield High School Drum Corps, during the second world war when it was difficult to order the socks from Canada.

1999-357
Black and white photo of what may be the interior of the Springfield Mill and Lumber Company, 517-531 North Campbell Avenue. The building's interior shows wooden posts with iron buckles to support the flat wooden roof. The building is equipped with electric lights. The building is of brick construction with windows all along one side. There are several piles of lumber.

1999-92
Black and white photo of streetcar #82 on Springfield public square. Brick street in foreground, people disembarking streetcar. In background are autos and Holland building.

1999-41
Black and white photo, side view of the Old Springfield Normal School on Pickwick and Cherry. Photograph was taken by J.W. Lee. Later moved to S. National and renamed State Normal School. Became Southwest Mo. State Teachers College and SMSU.

1999-51
Black and white photograph of streetcar on Springfield public square. 'Electric Theater' sign in background; streetcar in background.

 1992-232.1732 a
Black and white photo of 12 men and one woman at a Springfield Public Schools meeting. See also 1992-232.1732 b, c. b5 f 37.

 2000-114-1
Black & white photo, mounted on cardboard, of the Springfield High School graduating class of 1900. Superintendent of Schools Jonathan Fairbanks is seated in the center. The donor's grandmother, Nellie Jane (Brassfield) Clark (b. 12/27/1979) is seated 4th from right, holding a bunch of flowers. Too large to scan.

 1994-8
Springfield Leader & Press newspaper, July 5,1948, describing a visit to Springfield by Harry Truman and Pres Rolu.o Gallejos of Venezuala, enroute to Bolivar, MO to dedicate a statue of Simon Bolivar. The party was traveling on the Frisco R.R.

1997-182
Color postcard of old St. John's Hospital on north Main Ave. in North Springfield. Started by the Sister of Mercy, it was the first hospital in Springfield. It is now low-income housing for the elderly, called the Franciscan Center.

1999-165
Black and white photo of construction workers standing on the construction site of the new Carrington Hall , then known as Academic Hall on the Springfield Normal School campus. This was the first building built for the school on National Ave.

2001-402
A black and white photo of Crystal Cave entrance. The front right reads: "Entrance, Crystal Cave Grounds, Highway 65, 8 miles N.E., Springfield, MO." The left reads: "Harry Morgan Photo."

1997-250-1
Black & white photo of the James Abbott house, 511 W. Walnut. Built ca. 1870. James Abbott was Secretary of the Springfield Iron Works in 1878.

1993-150
Black and white photo of the Springfield Symphony on stage at Central High School auditorium, Conductor Charles Hall at podium.

 2006-137-127
A cabinet photograph of an unidentifed African American man wearing a suit. The picture was taken by Sweet and Longmore on Boonville in Springfield, Missouri. He has a mustache and is looking to the left. The photograph was not scanned.


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