Guide to Photographs and Print Collections - Missouri History Museum

This collection contains many study prints of items from other institutions which may not
be reproduced.
Newspaper Buildings
The Newspaper Buildings file contains images of commercial buildings used by
newspaper firms. The file is arranged by the name of the newspaper.
Subjects include: Amerika building; Anzeiger des Westens building; A.N. Kellogg
Newspaper Company; Missouri Gazette; St. Louis Republic; Missouri Republican; St.
Louis Post-Dispatch; St. Louis Daily Journal; St. Louis Daily Times; St. Louis Globe-
Democrat; St. Louis Star Times; Westliche Post.
1 box
Newspaper Illustrations
The Newspaper Illustrations file contains engravings from various illustrated newspapers
including Frank Leslie's Illustrated, Illustrated War News, Gleason's Pictorial Drawing
Room Companion, Judge, Um die Welt, and Scientific American.
Subjects include: Spanish-American War; Cuba; boats; naval engagement; winter
carnival in New York; soldiers; Major General Nelson A. Miles; M.B. Brady's
photographic gallery in New York City; engraving of men in purgatory with poem in
French on reverse; balloon ascension in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; aeronautics; Pilot
Knob; Joseph Thornton shooting Mr. Charles; tornado damage in Brownsville, Missouri;
Iron Mountain route in southeast Missouri; house in St. Joseph, Missouri where Jesse
James was shot; Civil War; Confederate attack under Freeman at Salem, Missouri; tin
industry in St. Louis; St. Louis Stamping Company; Turner festival in St. Louis 1881;
Edward Bates; Harrington Lead Mines in Missouri; Hannibal, Missouri; Peoria, Illinois;
masthead from the Daily Organ newspaper with a St. Louis waterfront view (1847).
2 boxes, 5 oversize folders 1857 - 1930
Objects
The Objects contains photographs, engravings, and lithographs of household and other
objects arranged by subject.
Subjects include: Blickensderfer typewriter; irons; commercial buildings; interior of a
furniture store; homeowners show: kitchen appliances, furnaces, washing machines and
Ediphone dictation machines in a showroom interior; showroom interior of N.O. Nelson
Manufacturing Company, 1929; bath tubs; sinks; toilets; chairs; baby carriages; prams;
advertisement for Franz Schwarzer musical instruments; Busch beer bottles and cans;
wine glass with Michelob logo; Grossenbacher Steel Furnace and Manufacturing
Company furnaces and air conditioners; Elizabeth Landau fashion dresses; clothing;
lamps; street lamps; interior of the Laclede Gas Light Company, with poster promoting
National Gas Lighting Week; furniture in Gaius Paddock House near Edwardsville,
Illinois; upright and grand pianos in a showroom interior; house interiors 1700-1840;
advertising billboards, signs and posters from the 1940s; ads for automobiles, Central
Hardware, Ritz Crackers, Hyde Park beer, Stag Beer, Coca-Cola, movies; cigar store
Indians; pages showing fences and residence floor plans from "Rural Affairs: A Practical
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