Guide to Photographs and Print Collections - Missouri History Museum

Carrington, James Collection
James Carrington worked as a photographer for the St. Louis Argus and St. Louis
Defender newspapers before starting work as a free-lance photographer for the St. Louis
Globe-Democrat in 1963. He also served as a Missouri State Representative from St.
Louis from 1972-78.
The James Carrington Collection contains professional photographs taken by Carrington
for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat newspaper, some of his freelance photographs, and
family photographs. A few of the Globe-Democrat photos are unidentified, but most of
the photos published in the newspaper are identified and matched to their corresponding
news articles. Family subjects include about 200 unprocessed photos of or related to the
James M. Carrington family. Photographs relating to Carrington's careers show City
Products Company, the St. Louis Globe Democrat, and his tenure as a state
representative. Some of his personal photographs, including those that were in his exhibit
at the Wellston Branch Library, are also housed in this collection. Additionally, the
collection also contains copies of the St. Louis American and the Defender newspapers
with photos by Carrington and a few clippings from other newspapers including the Post-
Dispatch, Globe Democrat, and St. Louis Argus.
Subjects include: automobile; a series on "winos;" events; political; African-American;
Sumner High School; school groups; high school reunions; political figures; (more).
22 boxes 1917 - 1971
Cates Collection
The Cates Collection contains about 125 photographs including many photographs
showing interiors and exteriors of Evangelical Lutheran churches, portraits, and groups.
The Richard Gruss Studio took most of the photos. The collection also includes
snapshots, an oversize composite photo showing members of the German Theatre
Society, and a 1916 monthly report from Salem Public School in Salem, Missouri for
Archie Arnott.
Subjects include: Jim Siebert, automobile salesman; closets; family portraits; interior of
Evangelical Lutheran Salem Church; cast of church play; confirmation group with pipe
organ in background; church interiors; machinery at American Tar Products Company
plant; boating trophy prizes awarded to William Grossmann; storefront window of
William Grossmann's boating store; river; cyclamen plants growing inside a greenhouse;
view of Jefferson City from capitol dome; dessert stand; woman with fencing trophy;
man in coffin at a viewing; wedding photos; congregation of St, Paul's Evangelical
Lutheran church in Kimmswick, Missouri; protestant churches; tin factory; grave marker
monument store; cemeteries; headstones and flowers; Stanze Thomas monument store;
residences; E.F. Frie Realty Company on Gravois; Jantzens Pharmacy building on Olive;
Peters Dyeing and Cleaning Company; Clovelly apartment building; Wands apartment
building; gardens; Shellabarger Lumber; horses; (more).
1 box ca 1911 - ca 1935
Catlin, George Collection
The George Catlin Collection consists of:
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