Guide to Photographs and Print Collections - Missouri History Museum

Kiel Auditorium
In 1932 St. Louis architects Louis LaBeaume and Eugene S. Klein completed
construction on the Municipal Auditorium. The building contained an auditorium for
hosting conventions, expositions, and sporting events as well as an Opera House for
musical performances. In 1943 the building was renamed Kiel Auditorium in honor of the
former St. Louis mayor, Henry Kiel. In 1992 the city turned the building over to a private
development group that razed the auditorium portion to build a multipurpose sports
facility to replace the St. Louis Arena. The new Kiel Center opened in 1994 while the
Opera House theater remained closed. In August 2000 the Kiel Center was re-named the
Savvis Center.
The Kiel Auditorium file contains construction progressives for the Municipal
Auditorium project as well as interior and exterior views from the 1930s. See also the
LaBeaume Collection.
1 box ca 1932 - ca 1965
Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition (Portland, OR, 1906)
The Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition file contains three souvenir viewbooks of the
exposition that was held in Portland, Oregon in 1905. The viewbooks are titled "Lewis
and Clark Centennial Exposition" published in 1906 by The Official Photographic
Company, "Sights and Scenes at the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition, Portland,
Oregon" published by Robert A. Reid, and "180 Glimpses of the Lewis and Clark
Exposition, Portland Oregon and the Golden West" published by William H. Lee of Laird
and Lee Publishers in 1905.
Subjects include: Forestry Building; Oriental Exhibits Palace; European Exhibits Palace;
Agricultural Palace; sculptures; statues; Palace of Manufacturers, Liberal Arts, and
Varied Industries; state buildings; Machinery, Electricity and Transportation Palace;
Mines and Metallurgy Building; Government Building; totem poles; Sunken Gardens;
YMCA building; the American Inn hotel; human flag; Fair Japan; the Trail; dancers;
Temple of Mirth; views of nature, mountains, lakes; logging; fishing; Native Americans;
United States Government Building; Grand Stairway; Exposition Park; California sites.
1 folder 1905 - 1906
Log Cabins
The Log Cabins file contains photographs of the interiors and exteriors of log buildings in
Missouri. Many of the photos date to the 1950s and some are identified on the reverse.
The file also includes nineteenth century photographs and engravings
Subjects include: Gordon Cabin on Stephens College campus; Bishop Rosati Chapel at
Vincentain Seminary; the first Concordia Seminary Building, Altenburg, Missouri;
(more).
1 box 1906 - ca 1961
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