Guide to Photographs and Print Collections - Missouri History Museum

van Ravenswaay, Charles Collection: Missouri Towns
The Charles van Ravenswaay Collection contains photographs of Missouri towns taken
by van Ravenswaay, a noted architectural historian and preservationist, and the executive
director of the Missouri Historical Society from 1946-1962. It also contains a typed list of
information about the photographs and some 35mm negatives.
Subjects include: Arrow Rock, Missouri; Bethel, Missouri; Booneville, Missouri;
Palmyra, Missouri; Starkenburg, Missouri; churches; log cabins; Calloway County,
Missouri; Montgomery County, Missouri; residences outside St. Louis; architectural
details; street scenes; cemeteries; headstones; monuments; Saline County; furniture;
Marion County, Missouri.
4 folders 1960 - 1961
Access to negatives requires curatorial permission and staff handling.
Veeder Collection: Musical and Theatrical Portraits
The Veeder Collection contains about 70 portraits of musical and theatrical celebrities;
most are autographed photographs. Vera Giannini (who later married Dr. Borden Veeder)
assembled the collection. Twenty-one autographed portraits are inscribed to Borden or
Vera Veeder (mostly circa 1953), 19 are inscribed to Herbert W. Cost (mostly 1912-
1927), and about 28 other portraits are autographed with no dedication (mostly 1900-
1940). The collection includes a 1913 group photo of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
standing outside in overcoats and a booklet, "Prospectus of Studies in Musical History
and Endorsements of Famous Composers and Their Works" published in St. Louis by T.
H. Smart, 1907. It contains a list of courses of study and portraits and testimonials of
musicians.
Subjects include: Alexander Brailowsky; Arthur Rubenstein; Yehudi Menuhin; Nathan
Milstein; Alfred Hitchcock; Rudolph Ganz; Dorothy Maynor; Marian Anderson; Ignaz
Friedman; Blanche Walsh; Sara Jane Cahier; Tamaki Miura; Anna Case; Jan Kubelik;
Sarah Bernhardt; pianist Joseph Hofmann; Herbert von Karajan; Helen Hayes; Cole
Porter; Nadine Connor; Vladimir Horowitz; Helen Traubel; (more).
3 folders 1897 - 1954
Views on the Mississippi between St. Louis and New Orleans
taken from an Anchor Line Steamer
This collection contains about 57 partially disbound pages from an album. The title page
reads "Views on the Mississippi Between St. Louis and New Orleans. Taken from an
Anchor Line Steamer, September 1896. Stark, Woodward and Tiernan Printing
Company, St. Louis." The title page and all captions are handwritten. Woodward and
Tiernan probably served as the binder. The flyleaf page reads "Charles M. Berkley, 5813
Clemens Ave., St. Louis Mo."
Subjects include: Brickey's Mill, Missouri; Fort Gage, Illinois; penitentiary at Chester,
Illinois; Cole Milling Company in Chester Illinois; dredger boat "Beta"; Sublette's Bluff
in Missouri; court house at Cape Girardeau; African American workers loading and
unloading barges; Herculaneum, Missouri; government dredge boat "Alpha"; steamboats;
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