Guide to Photographs and Print Collections - Missouri History Museum

Lafayette-South Side Bank of St. Louis Albums Collection
Lafayette Bank was founded in 1876 after a merger between the Lafayette Savings Bank
and the Carondelet Avenue Bank. Adolphus Busch founded the South Side Bank in 1891.
In 1916 the two banks joined to become Lafayette-South Side Bank of St. Louis.
The Lafayette-South Side Bank of St. Louis Albums Collection contains one album and
one scrapbook containing photographs and some printed information. One album gives a
brief history of the bank, listings of its directors, and interior views of the bank. The
scrapbook contains photographs of advertising billboards for the bank with the location
of each billboard, window displays, and Christmas decoration in the bank lobby.
Subjects include: offices; entrance to safe deposit area; financial institutions; commercial
buildings; advertising; unidentified motorcade.
2 volumes 1927 - 1930
Land Family Glass Plate Negative Collection
Charles H. Land, a grandson of Ephraim Land, moved from Canada to Detroit, Michigan
where he worked as a dentist. His daughter, Evangeline Lodge Land, married Charles
August Lindbergh, a lawyer and Congressman (1907-1917) from Little Falls, MN. Their
son, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, gained fame as the first aviator to fly non-stop across
the Atlantic in 1927.
The Land Family Glass Plate Negative Collection contains 125 unidentified negatives
showing Land family members. Some negatives are copy images of other portraits, but
most are snapshots of family members at home.
See also the Charles A. Lindbergh Collection (collection 55 in this guide).
See also the Charles Augustus Lindbergh Papers and the Lindbergh Collection in the
MHS Archives.
Subjects include: young woman holding a diploma; man seated at kitchen table with food
on it; man and woman by a large lake or ocean; men in snowshoes and skis; woman in a
hammock; two women on a see-saw; family groups; backyard scenes; bison at a zoo;
buffalo; woman feeding deer; residences; palm trees in a conservatory building; woman
at writing desk; parlor interior; rural scenic views; parks; cows; fields; Ferris wheel;
riverboats; steamer "City of Toledo"; river views; river bluffs; street scenes; horse and
wagons.
3 boxes ca 1895
Access to the glass plate negatives requires curatorial permission and staff handling.
Leadville, Colorado Mining Collection
The town of Leadville, Colorado in the Rocky Mountains was incorporated in 1878 and
was the center of a silver mining boom in the 1880s. The Leadville, Colorado Mining
Collection contains 35 undated mounted photographs and one oversize panoramic
picture, mostly showing Leadville, Colorado, the surrounding countryside, and associated
mining activities.
Subjects include: mines; mountains; residences; Upper Twin Lake; Uncompagre
Mountain; Grant Smelter; Little Pittsburgh; Denver, Colorado; main street views with
stores and horse and wagons; Grand Central Theater.
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