Holdings:
* UM-System
* Columbia
Call Number:
(C:22/8/21)
Box 1-UMLD1
OSF 1-MC
Tube 1-Ellis
Record Group: 22 C
Record Sub-Group: 24
Records Title: UMC; Student Life and Activities; Memorabilia; Clay Troxell Davis Collection
Dates: 1920-1929
Volume: 1/6 cubic foot, 0.21 linear foot
Scope and Content Note
(A00-57; A23-45)
This Sub-Group was assembled by Clay Troxell Davis, alumnus of University of Missouri-Columbia Agricultural Short Course, (1920-1922). The collection consists mainly of black-and-white photographs of campus scenes. Also included in the Sub-Group are a View Book, postcards, a pennant, a photocopy of "Our Rights and Duties", the 1899 alumni oration at the University of Missouri, and a photocopy of a newspaper clipping of Clay T. Davis's obituary.
Note to Researcher: Photographs in this collection range in size from 9 1/2" x 7 1/2" to 4 1/8" x 2 5/16".
Inventory
Box 1
FF 1 (A00-57) - Clay Troxell Davis - Personal (includes photocopy of March 4, 1954 newspaper obituary and photocopy of "Our Rights and Duties", the 1899 alumni oration at the University of Missouri delivered by Louis Theilmann, University of Missouri professor and father of Gertrude Thielmann Davis, wife of Clay T. Davis)
FF 2 - Photographs and Postcards
(A23-45)
Sleeve 1 - Postcard - Memorial Student Union, University of Missouri-Columbia, Mo. 3-100, n.d.
Sleeve 1 - Postcard - Stadium, University of Missouri-Columbia Missouri (photo by Massie - Missouri Resources Division) 3-97, n.d.
Sleeve 1 - Photographic print - Clay Davis and John Duncan in front of rooming house (2.75 [w] x 4.25 [h]"), 1920
Sleeve 2 - Photographic print - Missouri 8-Week Short Course students standing in snow in front of house (4.5 x 3.25"), ca. 1920-1921
Sleeve 2 - Photographic print - Clay Davis [?] standing on Balance Rock [?] (2.75 x 4.25"), ca. 1920-1921
Sleeve 2 - Photographic print - Clay Davis in Short Course sports uniform in front of gymnastics apparatus (2.75 x 4.25"), 1920
Sleeve 2 - Photographic print - Clay Davis in Short Course sports uniform holding basketball in gymnasium (2.75 x 4.25"), 1920
Sleeve 3 - Photographic print - Clay Davis in front of rock formation (2.75 x 4.25"), ca. 1920-1921
Sleeve 3 - Photographic print - Carl Schowengerdt and Clay Davis (2.75 x 4.25"), 1929
Sleeve 3 - Photographic print - Clay Davis in front of building (2.75 x 4.25"), ca. 1921
Sleeve 3 - Photographic print - Clay Davis in cow pasture (2.75 x 4.5"), n.d.
Sleeve 4 - Photographic print - Men sitting on rock formation (2.75 x 4.25"), ca. 1920-1921
Sleeve 4 - Photographic print - Two men overlooking Hinkson Creek [?] (2.75 x 4.25"), ca. 1920-1921
Sleeve 4 - Photographic print - Clay Davis and others on Balance Rock [?] (2.75 x 4.5"), ca. 1920-1921
Sleeve 4 - Photographic print - Clay Davis and John Duncan in front of rooming house (2.75 x 4.25"), n.d.
Sleeve 5 - Photographic print - Unidentified man and Clay Davis [?] in front of farm house and automobile (2.75 x 4.25"), n.d.
Sleeve 5 - Photographic print - Clay Davis sitting in upper-story window of building (2.75 x 4.25"), 1921
Sleeve 5 - Photographic print - Carl Schowengerdt, Bernice [Coughlin] Schowengerdt, Clay Davis holding his daughter Marjory Ann Davis (2.5 x 3.5"), 1929
Sleeve 5 - Photographic print - Clay Davis sitting on Balance Rock [?] (2.75 x 4.25"), ca. 1920-1921
Sleeve 6 - Photographic print - Clay Davis [?] with binoculars and unidentified man in front of automobile and farm house, (2.75 x 4.25"), n.d.
Sleeve 6 - Photographic print - Clay Davis [?] and others on Balance Rock [?] (2.75 x 4.5"), ca. 1920-1921
Sleeve 6 - Photographic print - John Duncan and Clay Davis in front of tree (2.75 x 4.25"), 1920
Sleeve 6 - Photographic print - Clay Davis hanging by his hands from a bridge support (Noted: "Taken by Chas. D. Peterman") (2.75 x 4.25"), 1921
Photographic print - Men's Methodist Sunday School Class in front of the Methodist church on Broadway and Orr Street (10 x 8"), 1920
Photographic print - Men's Methodist Sunday School Class and the Short Course class in front of the Methodist church on Broadway and Orr Street (Noted: "There are 32 'Shorthorns' in the class") (10 x 8"), 1921
Photographic print - Stock Judging Class (Address for Clay T. Davis noted as 905 College Avenue) (10 x 8"), 1920
Photographic print - Three unidentified men and Clay Davis churning butter (10 x 8"), 1920
Photographic print - Short Course basketball team with Clay Davis seated on right (10 x 8"), 1922
Photographic print - Short Course graduating class of 1922 in front of the north entrance to Waters Hall (10 x 8"), 1921
Photographic print - Short Course class members in front of the north entrance to Waters Hall (Noted: "The Shorthorns who went to Chicago. All were in the picture except one." (10 x 8"), 1921
Photographic print - Short Course class of 1921 and 1922 in front of the south entrance to Waters Hall (10 x 8"), 1921
Photographic print - Short Course class of 1921 and 1922 in front of the south entrance to Waters Hall (9 x 7.75"), 1921
Photographic print - Short Course class in front of the west entrance to Schweitzer Hall (10 x 8"), 1921
Photographic print - Short Course class in front of the west entrance to Schweitzer Hall (10 x 8"), 1920 [5 copies]
Photographic print - Short Course students for January to March 1922 session (9.75 x 6.75"), 1922
Photographic print - Short Course basketball team with Clay Davis second from left in back row (6.75 x 4.75"), 1920
Envelope 1 - Photographs of Campus Scenes
(A00-57)
Stock Judging Class, 11/10/1920
Swine Judging Group in front of Beef Cattle Shed, n.d.
Men of MU in front of Broadway Methodist Church, 11/21/1920
The Men's University and Short Course Sunday School Class, 12/04/1921
Unidentified group of women in front of Broadway Methodist Church, n.d.
Missouri University Agriculture Short Course, n.d.
Unidentified large group of men, outdoor winter scene in front of Schweitzer Hall, n.d.
Unidentified small group of men, outdoor, n.d.
Short Course Class, 11/1920
The Second Year Men of the Short Course, 01/13/1922
Unidentified group, outdoor, 12/15/1921
Graduating Class of 1922, 12/05/1921
The Long Course Students and Half of the Shorthorns, 01/11/1922
Shorthorns who went to Chicago, 12/05/1921
The Short Course Students of January - March 1922, 01/13/1922
Unidentified large group of men in front of and in upper windows of Agriculture Building, 12/05/1921
Missouri University Agriculture Short Course Basketball Squad, 11/23/1920
Farm Construction Class - making forms for garage in Braymer, Missouri, 11/09/1920
Students making butter, 12/14/1920
Missouri University Agriculture Short Course, 1920-1921
Judging Jerseys Stock Judging Class, 11/10/1920
Bovine Stock Judging, n.d.
Short Course Basket Ball Squad, 01/21/1922
Short Course Basket Ball Squad standing, 01/21/1922
Unidentified group of men with a parade float titled "Hot Dog and J.Hawk Meat," 11/25/1920
Unidentified group of men with a parade float created from assorted farm equipment, 11/25/1920
Envelope 2 - Campus Scenes
(A00-57)
Stadium football crowd, Missouri v. Kansas State Aggies, 11/06/1920
Soils laboratory field trip, 02/03/1921
Robert A. Griffiths [?], Clay T. Davis, Charles D. Peterman, Clyde B. Smith, Jimmie Comfort, Gustave Kessler, Moentmann [?], and Alton Huckstep (Noted: "Taken by L. Rodhouse on Academic Building"), 02/13/1921
Brick kiln, 1921
Brick factory, 02/14/1921
Agriculture Short Course Students, 1920-1921
Dairy Calves on M.U. Farm, 12/12/1920
Missouri University tractor, 12/12/1920
Missouri University Duroc boar, 12/12/1920
Missouri University Duroc gilt, 12/12/1920
Veterinary Science Class, 02/1921
Veterinary Class, 02/04/1921
Misssouri Poultry House, time exposed, 12/05/1920
Read Hall from the west, ca. 1920
Lathrop Hall from the west, ca. 1920
Jesse Hall from the southeast, ca. 1920
Benton Hall from the west, ca. 1920
Stock Judging Pavilion, Dairy Cattle Barn, and cattle feeding sheds from the south, ca. 1920
Library building from the southwest (across Conley Avenue) with graduate nurses' home at the left, ca. 1920
Benton Hall from west double exposed with an unidentified Red Campus [?] building, ca. 1920
Envelope 3 - Columbia, Missouri and Other Scenes
(A00-57)
Sinclair Pennant Hotel, ca. 1935
Sinclair Pennant Terminal Building, ca. 1935
Sinclair Pennant Hotel and Terminal Building, ca. 1935
M1917 Light Tank [?] in city street, n.d.
M1917 Light Tank [?] in city street, n.d.
Main Street looking northwest past the Hotel Iowa, Keokuk, Iowa , n.d.
Envelope 4 - Color Print Postcards, Commercialchrome
(A00-57)
Lathrop Hall, University of Missouri-Columbia, n.d.
Entrance to Rollins Field, University of Missouri-Columbia, n.d.
Main Building, University of Missouri-Columbia, n.d.
Veterinary Building, University of Missouri-Columbia, n.d.
Agriculture Building, University of Missouri-Columbia, n.d.
Engineering Building, University of Missouri-Columbia, n.d.
Horticulture Building, University of Missouri-Columbia, n.d.
Dairy Building, University of Missouri-Columbia, n.d.
Physics Building, University of Missouri-Columbia, n.d.
Post Office, City of Columbia, Missouri, n.d.
Stephens College, Columbia, Missouri, n.d.
Boone County Court House, Columbia, Missouri, n.d.
Methodist Church, Columbia, Missouri, n.d.
Envelope 5 - Postcard Booklet: Columbia and Its Educational Institutions
(A00-57)
Broadway, n.d.
New Court House and Columns of Old Court House, n.d.
University of Missouri Before the Fire, 01/09/1892, n.d.
The Quad, n.d.
The Columns, n.d.
Agricultural Building, n.d.
Bible College, n.d.
Memorial Gate, Christian College, n.d.
Christian College, n.d.
Stephens College, n.d.
Columbia High School, n.d.
Welch Military Academy, n.d.
Tube 1 (A00-57) - Pennant - 30" x 14", wool, gold with black lettering "MISSOURI" and small black horizontal diamond in upper quadrant with "U. of M." in gold. Pennant is in poor condition.
OSF 1 - View Book, 12 3/4" x 1/ 1/4", n.d.
(A00-57)
The Quad
Academic Hall
The Library
Agricultural Building
Read Hall
Biology Building
School of Commerce
Law Building
Switzler Hall
Physics Building
East Entrance to Main Campus
Lover's Leap
OSF 1 (cont'd) (A00-57) - College of Agriculture - Certificate of Completion - Two Year Winter Course - Clay T. Davis, 1922
OSF 1 (cont'd) (A23-45) - Photographic print - Short Course basketball team with Clay Davis second from left in back row (14.25 x 8.5"), 1920
