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Images
of Missouri's Past
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Images
of Kansas City-collection
of about 14,000 items. The photographs primarily pertain to
Kansas City, MO; buildings, bridges, streets, and other
landmarks. The photographs span a time period from the 1870s
up to the early 1990s, with an emphasis on the 1920s through
the 1950s. |
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Taking
the Long View: Panoramic Photographs, 1851-1991 -
nice selection of richly detailed panoramic views of such
places as Penn Valley Park, downtown Kansas City, and the
stockyards. |
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Hargrave
Collection-a
set of 173 photographs which depict scenes primarily in and
around downtown Kansas City, Missouri. They were originally
created to document accident sites for later use as evidence
in lawsuits |
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Architecture
and Interior Design for 20th Century America: Photographs by
Samuel Gottscho and William Schleisner, 1935-1955 |
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Touring
Turn-of-the-Century America: Photographs from the Detroit
Publishing Company, 1880-1920 |
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Panoramic
Maps -
bird's eye views of 39 different towns in Missouri dating
from 1847-1929 |
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Photo
Album Civil War Sites Cape Girardeau |
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Color
Photographs from the Farm Security Administration and the
Office of War Information, ca. 1938-1944 |
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American
Landscape & Architectural Design 1850-1920 -
collection of approximately 2,800 lantern slides represents
an historical view of American buildings and landscapes
built during the period 1850-1920. |
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Mark
Twain Gallery
- provides a visual record of different periods in
Mark Twain's life, the places he lived, his family, and
close associates |
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Zeldin
Collection - comprises nearly 400 glass photographic
negatives. The collection was donated to the Special
Collections Department by Mr. Richard Zeldin in July, 1998. |
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Kansas
City Streets of the 1920's -
Collection from the Black Archives of Mid-America. |
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Missouri
Department of Transportation -
Photo archives of past featured photographs.
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Agencies
with Photographic Collections
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Missouri
State Archives -
four major groups of photos: the Vanishing Missouri
Collection, the Portrait Collection, the Commerce and
Industrial Development Collection, and the Gerald R. Massie
collection |
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J.
C. Strauss Portrait Collection - The collection
consists of approximately 250 studio portrait photographs of
St. Louisans prominent in government, business and industry,
and professions, taken by J. C. (Julius Caesar) Strauss |
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Missouri
Botanical Garden - collection consists of more than
9,000 printed biographies relating to botanists,
naturalists, horticulturists, and
Garden associates |
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State
Historical Society of Missouri -
has over 100,000 original photographs, postcards, copy
photographs and photographs of drawings, engravings, maps,
paintings, political cartoons. |
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Historic
American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Historic American
Engineering Record (HAER) - document achievements in
architecture, engineering, and design in the United States |
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Maries
County Photo Collection - photographs copied from
Volumes 1-9 of the scrapbook collection at the Old Jail
Museum at Vienna, Missouri featuring significant locations,
buildings, events, and individuals. |
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Missouri.
Historical mining photographs, ca 1880s-1910s
- Collection of photographs concerning mining industries in
Missouri, with an emphasis on the Old Lead Belt of
southeastern Missouri, and the Tri-State Mining District
centered around Joplin in Jasper County, Missouri.
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Virtually
Missouri:
Missouri Digitization Planning Project (MDPP) coordinates
access to digital collections and exhibits created by the
cultural & scientific heritage institutions of Missouri.
The project brings together representatives from the
archives, historical society, library, and museum
communities.
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Photographs
and Prints Collections:
The Photographs and Prints Collections
contain more than 430,000 images representing a thorough
pictorial history of St. Louis. Highlights include:
- Works of St. Louis
commercial and amateur photographers and photo
journalists
- Daguerreotypes by
Thomas Easterly
- Charles Lindbergh
photograph collection
- Louisiana Purchase
Exposition (1904 St. Louis World's Fair) photographs
- Lithographs,
engravings, postcards and advertising cards
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Photographic
Care & Preservation
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