Guide to Photographs and Print Collections - Missouri History Museum

Purchase Exposition, 1904." This album contains approximately 30 snapshot photographs
of the 1904 World's Fair and a photo of the Ackert's Horton Place residence.
Subjects include: Adirondack Sportsmans Camp display in the New York Forest, Fish
and Game exhibit; Observation Wheel (Ferris wheel); aerial views; Louisiana Purchase
Monument; the lagoon; state and country buildings; Philippine village; Japanese garden;
nighttime views of the Fair; (more).
1 volume 1904
Ackert, Harold Scrapbook: World War II
Harold Chester Ackert, son of Cyrus and Grace Rees Ackert, lived in University City,
Missouri and practiced law at Ackert, Giesecke, and Waugh. During World War II he
went to the Army Air Force Officer Training School in Miami Beach, Florida and
finished with the rank of captain. He served in an aircraft engineering department and
was stationed in England. He was later promoted to the rank of major.
The Harold Ackert Scrapbook is a scrapbook of World War II postcards, newspaper
clippings, mimeographed newsletters, club membership cards, certificates, telegrams,
programs, letters and photographs compiled by Ackert and his family. Some photos are
identified on the reverse. The scrapbook also holds two fabric patches.
Subjects include: England; Florida; California; uniforms; soldiers; military; WWII; Sioux
City, Iowa; Rome, New York; offices; airplane accident; articles on London air raids;
postcards of Norwich, England; (more).
1 folder 1942 - 1947
Adams Dairy Collection: Civil War
The Adams Dairy Collection contains 23 black and white photographs of Civil War
battlefield and historic sites in Missouri made in 1958. Each photo is identified on the
reverse.
Subjects include: stone jail; site of Fort Wyman near Rolla, Missouri; Danville, Missouri;
automobiles; site of Battle of Gosling's Lane; site of Elston House hotel; Jefferson City,
building used as a hospital and Confederate prison; Capitol Corner Café, Jefferson City,
Missouri; Mount Zion Church in Hallsville, Missouri; Booneville, Missouri; cannon by
the courthouse at Hermann, Missouri; Sturgeon Christian Church in Sturgeon, Missouri;
Easley, Missouri; High Hill Methodist Church in High Hill, Missouri; Priest Field at
Westminster College Campus in Fulton, Missouri; Second Baptist Church in Jefferson
City; residences; religious buildings; Thespian Hall in Boonville, Missouri; State
Hospital #1 in Fulton, Missouri; St. Peter's Catholic School in Jefferson City, Missouri;
battle site near Centralia, Missouri; camp site near Richland, Missouri; Captain Joseph
Kinney's residence, Riversene, built in 1869 in Boonville, Missouri; scenic views;
Missouri River views; Easley Store with large Coca-Cola advertisement painted on the
side.
1 folder 1958
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