Guide to Photographs and Print Collections - Missouri History Museum

Album #3 contains about 60 photos taken during July 1899 - January 1900. Subjects
include: rural scenes; farming; threshing; steamboats; N.R. McKnight, Sr.; N.R.
McKnight, Jr.; Archie Cummings; Bessie Baker; Helen Curtis; Bess McDonald;
surveyors; wedding couples; ice skating.
Album #4 contains about 20 photos taken ca. 1900. Subjects include: winter scenes;
construction of Busch Building and University Hall at Washington University; horses;
Gasconade River; man holding watermelon.
Album #5 contains 20 photos taken 1900-1. Subjects include: Busch Hall at Washington
University; University Hall near completion; steam shovel; construction equipment;
students; Alexis X. Illinski; John M. Southgate; Gurdon G. Black; James K. Black; Nora
McDonald; C.R. Black; group with tennis racquets.
Album #6 contains about 34 uncaptioned photos taken circa 1901. Subjects include:
dormitory room interiors; groups; interiors; group wearing blindfolds.
6 volumes 1897 - 1901
Blackburn, Mrs. E.L. Album
This photograph album may have belonged to Mrs. E.L. Blackburn (nee Haskell) of
Hannibal, Missouri.
The Mrs. E.L. Blackburn Album contains about 50 unidentified cabinet card portrait
photographs, most of which were taken in Missouri, and four funeral announcements. In
addition, four unidentified snapshots are pasted inside the back cover.
Subjects include: Samuel Taylor; Ary Oneta Stillons; Ada Garner; portraits; children;
group photos of women; couples; Chauncey Olcott, the Irish Tenor; woman in a
nightgown; four soldiers; lumber yard.
1 volume ca 1875 - 1894
Blackwelder Album
The Blackwelder Album contains 219 numbered and labeled photographs showing the
Washington School, St. Louis sites, construction at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition,
and geological photos from an expedition to the western U.S.
Subjects include: 1904 World's Fair; LPE; schools; classrooms; teachers; school groups;
residences; interiors; St. Louis riverfront; 1903 Flood of the Mississippi River; disasters;
Colorado; Utah; camping; mules.
1 volume 1903
Blattner, Henry Glass Plate Negative Collection
The Henry Blattner Glass Plate Negative Collection contains 86 images taken by Henry
Blattner. About 75 of the images show Washington University events, officials, and
campus exteriors and interiors. The collection also contains a few images of other St.
Louis buildings. Prints of some of the photographs are available in the Schools and
School Group collections.
Subjects include: commencement exercises; graduation ceremony; students; university
semi-centennial celebration in 1907; libraries; architectural drafting room; University
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