Guide to Photographs and Print Collections - Missouri History Museum

Spring Avenue viaduct; Mill Creek Area; Millbrook-Forest Park Expressway
construction; disasters; weather; civic and political topics; charities; medical; schools;
strikes; protesters; buildings; Forest Park; fires; Gateway Arch; Mississippi River and
riverfront; pickets; strikes and demonstrations; urban blight; sites outside St. Louis;
demonstrations; housing rehab; Negro groups; African-Americans; arts; baseball;
Lambert St. Louis Field; airport; churches; religious buildings; crowds; groups;
celebrations; picnics; fairs; performances; pollution; riverboats; steamboats; civil rights;
racial topics; handicrafts; faces; public school bussing; Black Panthers; politics and
political topics; Bi-State Development Agency; state government; St. Louis City
government; St. Louis County government; St. Louis Zoo; charity functions; medical
topics; winter snowstorms; riverfront; bridges; tornado damage; (more).
32 boxes 1950 - 1971
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch still maintains copyright to all photographs in this collection.
The Post-Dispatch granted the Missouri Historical Society a license to allow third-party
reproductions for editorial purposes and text illustration. The photographs may not be
used for commercial, advertising, publicity or political purposes. All photographs must be
credited to the photographer and the Post-Dispatch and acknowledge the Post-Dispatch’s
copyright ownership. Captioning must accurately represent the time and context of the
events depicted. Photographs may not be cropped without permission of the curator or the
Post-Dispatch.
St. Louis Symphony Collection
The St. Louis Symphony Society was formed in 1890 when the St. Louis Choral Society
joined with the St. Louis Musical Union. The new group was named the St. Louis Choral-
Symphony Society. In 1907 when Max Zach assumed the leadership of the orchestra its
choral section was dropped and it became known as the St. Louis Symphony Society. The
orchestra has performed in five buildings. The first concerts were held in the Mercantile
Library Hall and the St. Louis Grand Exposition Hall. Near the turn of the century the
symphony performed at the Odeon and moved to Kiel Auditorium in 1934. In 1968 it
moved to its first permanent home, the newly renovated Powell Symphony Hall.
The St. Louis Symphony Collection contains photographs, negatives, slides, and proof
sheets most of which show either events held by the St. Louis Symphony Society at
Powell Hall or the musicians and conductors of the orchestra. Many of the images are
from the 1960s and 1970s. The collection also contains some group photos of the
orchestra members from the early 1900s.
See also the St. Louis Symphony Society Papers in the MHS archives.
Subjects include: Leonard Slatkin; conductors; formal social events; rehearsals; Powell
Symphony Hall; Rudolph Ganz; Vladimir Golschmann; (more).
3 boxes, 1 oversize folder ca 1909 - ca 1975
St. Louis Zoological Society Collection
The St. Louis Zoological Society Collection contains an album of photographs of
animals, buildings, and grounds of the St. Louis Zoo and related mounted photos of zoo
animals made by O.C. Conkling. The album documents the construction and early years
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