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Woman stands on a frozen Mississippi River in St Louis during the “Ice Gorge” in February 1905
via reddit
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Ice storm of January 23, 1897
Kirkville, Missouri
Source: Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library
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Branson MO - Sammy Lane Resort, Lake Taneycomo, Highway 80
Postcard from 1944
via the Curt Teich Postcard Collection of the Lake County Discover Museum
I swear I swam at a pool that looked just like this at a campground outside of Branson in the ‘90s.
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Group of men and boys at Friedman Shelby Shoe Co. The youngest, apparently 11 or 12 is Felber McLaughlin, S. Wabash St. One boy who said he was 14 last month and had been working there a year, was assisting at a mailing machine which seemed to be dangerous to fingers and hands at least.
Location: Kirksville, Missouri. About 1910.
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Destruction of the Catholic church, April 27, '99, Kirksville, Mo., U.S.A.
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Katie Gore - Photograph by N. Brown, ca. 1860
On April 12, 1862, Abijah Fisk Gore, a Union soldier, sent a letter to his sister Katie describing the Battle of Shiloh.
The Missouri History Museum’s Archives contain a letter from Abijah Fisk Gore, a lieutenant in the 2nd Iowa Infantry, to his sister Katie, a teacher in Webster Groves, MO. Written from Shiloh on April 12, 1862, it describes the battle in detail as well as Gore’s weariness with the war.
The numbers of men killed, wounded, or missing for both sides reached an astounding 23,746. Gore wrote, “Oh Katie it is fearful to walk over such a battle field, even after the human bodies are removed, and with them remaining it’s awful. Language is inadequate to express my feelings upon the occasion, and I could not help but wonder, why God would permit such things to be, upon this beautiful Earth of his….” Gore continued, in words that resound in any age, during any war: “I am heartily sick of war and battle and I look forward to the time with longing when peace will once more be restored to all of the American People so I pray that it will not be long before these things will be amicably adjusted.”
Missouri History Museum-http://www.historyhappenshere.org/node/6842 and http://cdm.sos.mo.gov/cdm/ref/collection/CivilWar/id/8368
Colorized by Stacey Palmer @[email protected]
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Helene H. Britton inherited ownership of the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team, following the death of her uncle in 1911.
You can read more about this baseball pioneer here.
#St. Louis#Missouri#Cardinals#st. louis cardinals#helene britton#baseball#feminism#suffrage movement#1910s
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Catcher Roberts of Cardinals
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Octave Chanute – Scientist of the Day
Octave Chanute, a French/American engineer and inventor, was born Feb. 18, 1832.
read more…
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#4 (my hometown)
It’d be better if the coffee shop in town wasn’t closing....
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The Louis Bolduc House or Maison Bolduc in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri
Ste. Genevieve was the first European settlement in Missouri. The village was founded in 1735 by French-Canadian settlers.
In 1792 Louis Bolduc, a successful merchant and trader, who also had lead mines to the west, built a one-story house in the village. The first historic structure in Ste. Genevieve to be authentically restored, the house is a prime example of the traditional French Colonial architecture in North America.
The walls of the house were built with heavy oak timbers set about six inches apart and infilled with bousillage, a mixture of mud, straw, and horsehair that hardened to a cement-like texture. Diagonal timbers on each supporting wall added stability. The steep roof was supported by heavy, hand-hewn Norman trusses held together by mortise and tenon joinery. It extends over the four sides of the house's porches to provide shade and cooling.
The property was owned by Bolduc family descendants until the 1940s and is now a historic house museum.
Read more at Wikipedia
#Ste. Genevieve#Maison Bolduc#Louis Bolduc#Missouri#Missouri history#french colonialism#1700s#18th century#missouri architecture#architecture history
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Ste Genevieve County Farm Scene, 1902
The area hasn’t changed much....except now we have wineries. :)
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Winter in Jefferson City from the Missouri State Archives
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Union Civil War veteran and employee of the Kansas Pacific Railway Company Charles B. Lamborn (center) posing with two friends along the banks of the Mississippi River in St. Louis, Missouri, 1867. By Alexander Gardner.
Source. More information.
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On This Day in History, December 20th, 1820,
Missouri imposes a $1 bachelor tax on all unmarried men between the ages of 21 and 50. The tax was repealed two years later.
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We’re ending the semester and this series full circle - with advice by students for students on how to navigate the environment here at Mizzou. Perspectives in Black was published in the 1980s, and like The Black Book, the LBC publication it replaced, it was meant to provide an orientation to the campus and community. It covered the potential pitfalls and challenges in housing, advising, financial aid, and academic subjects. Each issue also has a list of black faculty and administrators and their contact information. According to our records, Perspectives in Black ceased as a title in 1986/87.
We started this Tumblr series to accompany the digitization of the Legion of Black Collegians publications housed in Special Collections. Now that the digital collection is complete, this series is too. Our aim in this series has been to make our institution’s varied histories more visible and accessible.
As a community, we still have a lot of work to do. We plan to listen, learn, and keep the conversation going. We hope you will too.
- Kelli
See all our Mizzou Monday posts here: http://muspeccoll.tumblr.com/tagged/mizzou-monday
Perspectives in Black. [Columbia, Mo.] : UMC Legion of Black Collegians. MU Ellis Special Collections MU LD3476 .P4 or in the Digital Library: http://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A275435
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