Guide to Photographs and Print Collections - Missouri History Museum

Stephens graveyard; Eureka Springs, Arkansas; New York; Susquehanna River;
Pennsylvania; (more).
4 boxes 1905 - 1930
Access to the glass plate negatives requires curatorial permission and staff handling.
Stephens Lithographing Company Vignette Album: Sample
Book of Engravings
The Stephens Lithographing Company Vignette Album is a sample book of
approximately 200 pages containing hundreds of engravings. An incomplete general
subject index is pasted on the inside front cover. Most images show building exteriors of
Missouri, Illinois, and other regional businesses, but trademarks, emblems, and product
images are also included. Some images are printed backwards, and many have
handwritten notes or ink slashes across them (images are still visible).
Subjects include: Buck's Stove and Range Company, St. Louis; Green Tree Brewery;
Mound City Distilling Company; Yellow Pine Lumber Company of Kansas City,
Missouri; factory buildings; trains; horse and wagons; transportation; Harrison-Switzer
Milling Company in Belleville, Illinois; William J. Lemp Brewing Company; Spring
Brook Distillery in Louisville, Kentucky; interior of First National Bank in Wichita,
Kansas; Nebraska City Starch Company; grain elevators; Peters Shoe Company; Samuel
Cupples Envelope Company; St. Louis Syrup Refining Company; Campbell-Thorpe
Grocer Company in Mammoth Springs, Arkansas; Star Brand Shoes buildings; state
capitol buildings; Missouri Glass Company; Green River Distilling Company of
Owensboro, Kentucky; St. Louis Union Station; banks and financial institutions; high
schools; German American Bank Building; office buildings; Funsten Brothers; Bemis
Bag Company; Faust Spaghetti box made by Maull Brothers; Native Americans; birds;
eagles; barrels and kegs; beverage bottles; fruits, vegetables, and plants; tobacco
companies and plants; sailing ships; horses; cows; animals; pigs; deer; miners; scenic
views; view of Colorado Springs; machinery; genre portraits or men, women, and
children for advertising purposes; George Washington; (more).
1 volume ca 1890 - ca 1930
Stewart Collection: Louisiana Purchase Exposition
The Stewart Collection contains four small snapshot photographs of the 1904 World's
Fair.
Subjects include: LPE; exhibition palaces; Tyrolean Alps exhibit; Eskimos totem poles.
1 folder 1904
Stix Family Collection
The Stix Family Collection contains about 40 carte de visite portrait photographs, mostly
made in New York City or Cincinnati, ten posed group photos of the Stix and Rice
families, and one photo of a residential parlor interior. Almost all of the photos are
uncaptioned.
4 May 2003 page 181