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Box 1-UMLD1
OSF 1-Ellis

Lowry Street from the Jesse Hall Dome, ca. 1925
Lowry Street from the Jesse Hall Dome, which includes Ellis Library, the Missouri Store, the David Francis Memorial, and Memorial Tower under construction, ca. 1925
(University Archives, C:0/47/2)

Record Group: 0 C
Record Sub-Group: 20
Records Title: UMC; University General; Photographs; Miscellaneous Photographic Collections
Dates: ca. 1876-1960, 2007
Volume: 1/3 cubic foot, 0.42 linear foot

Scope and Content Note

(A86-76; A88-80; A89-22; A91-123; A93-121; A96-104; A96-132; A96-136; A04-126; A05-10; A08-103; A12-21; A12-88)
This Sub-Group consists of photographs and negatives that were taken on the University of Missouri-Columbia campus or in the city of Columbia, Missouri by various photographers. There are some photographs of University buildings on campus between the years 1876 and 1964. There are also photographs of some Columbia, Missouri buildings around 1953 in this Sub-Group. Additionally the Sub-Group includes photographs of agriculture classes and faculty, Law School graduates, military drills, plays, MU presidents, events such as May Day Festivals, and an aerial image (ca. 2007) of campus, focusing on Francis Quadrangle and the southwest area of the main campus.

Series Descriptions:

This Sub-group is not divided into separate record series. The Sub-Group is arranged alphabetically by the topics of the photographs or negatives contained in each folder.

North Entrance to Campus, ca. 1926
North Entrance to Campus with Columns on the Francis Quadrangle, ca. 1926.
(University Archives, C:0/47/2)

Inventory

Box 1

FF 1 - Agriculture - photographs and negatives - Classes and the Painting of "Farmers" on the Smokestack, ca. 1908-1930

FF 2 - Agriculture - photograph - Animal Husbandry Faculty, ca. 1908

FF 3 - Agriculture - photographs and glass negative - Farm Architecture Class, 1908-1909

FF 4 - Board of Curators - photograph - copy of Bingham painting of President James S. Rollins, ca. 1876

FF 5 - Buildings - University of Missouri - Columbia - photographs - Agricultural Experiment Station and Agriculture College (Switzler Hall), ca. 1890

FF 5A - Buildings - University of Missouri - Columbia - photographs - Aerial view, 1932

FF 5B - Buildings - University of Missouri - Columbia - photographs - Francis Quadrangle (elevated, from Jesse Hall), n.d., and Columns Hall, ca. 1940

FF 5C - Buildings - University of Missouri - Columbia - photographs - Memorial Tower, ca. 1940

FF 6 - Buildings - University of Missouri - Columbia - photographs - "Old UMC Buildings" ca. 1915-1935

FF 6A - Buildings - University of Missouri - Columbia - photographs - Jesse Hall, 1956-1964 (includes photograph of flags on Jesse Hall at half-mast following assassination of John F. Kennedy)

FF 7 - Buildings - University of Missouri - Columbia - photographs - calendar prints, ca. 1926

FF 8 - Buildings - University of Missouri - Columbia - photographs - Read Hall, ca. 1905 and Clarissa Start, a graduating coed, 1936

FF 9 - Buildings - University of Missouri - Columbia - color postcard and negative - Campus aerial overview, ca. 1910

FF 10 - Buildings - University of Missouri - Columbia - prints and negatives - aerial overviews of campus: 1875, 1905, and 1910

FF 11 - Buildings - University of Missouri - Columbia - photographs from an album printed by Missouri Store Company, ca. 1926 (includes view from the Jesse Hall Dome east to Memorial Tower which is under construction, ca. 1925)

FF 12 - Buildings - University of Missouri - Columbia - photographs - "Miscellaneous Buildings," ca. 1901 (includes a graduating class in front of one of the buildings and a photo of 3 medical students working on a cadaver)

FF 13 - Buildings - University of Missouri - Columbia - photographs - Buildings and "Miscellaneous Photos," ca. 1901-1915 (includes firing a cannon in front of the Law Building, an MU vs. KU football kickoff in 1903, the same graduation picture that is in Folder 12, and the University Boarders Club, 1901-1902

FF 13A - Buildings - University of Missouri - Columbia - photographs - University Hall, n.d.

FF 14 - Buildings - University of Missouri - Columbia - photographs - inside of University Dining Hall - Lathrop Hall, ca 1907

FF 15 - Buildings - University of Missouri - Columbia - photographs - various buildings and campus sites, ca. 1946-1960 (includes several photographs of the Fraternity and Sorority houses on campus, as well as several different pictures of the Fine Arts Building)

FF 16 - Buildings - University of Missouri - Columbia - photographs - Boarding House on Conley Avenue, Kampustown grocery and the Topic Cafe, Memorial Tower, and photo taken out one of the south openings of Memorial Tower, ca. 1940-1943

FF 17 - Buildings - Columbia, Missouri - negatives - various sites and buildings around town, 1953

FF 17A - Buildings - Columbia, Missouri - photograph - Ellis Fischel Cancer Center, ca. 1950

FF 18 - Football - University of Missouri - Columbia - photographs and negatives - game pictures, 1924

FF 19 - Football - University of Missouri - Columbia - Al Goepel, left end on the football team, and a car called the "Pierce-Arrow Special," 1919-1920

FF 19A - Football - University of Missouri - Columbia - University of Missouri versus Saint Louis University, ca. 1940

FF 20 - Law School - University of Missouri - Columbia - photographs and negatives - Graduating Class of 1883

FF 21 - Military - University of Missouri - Columbia - photographs and negatives - drill, 1894

FF 22 - Plays - University of Missouri - Columbia - photographs - The Magistrate, December 16, 1916

FF 23 - Presidents - University of Missouri - Columbia - photographs - Richard Henry Jesse, Professor of Latin - Tulane University, ca. 1890

FF 24 - Unidentified - photographs - Mining Engineering, Columbia Automobile Company, and a fair (possibly an Agricultural Fair or the Boone County Fair), ca. 1900

FF 25 - Zoological Museum - University of Missouri - Columbia - photographs and negatives - Swallow Hall exterior and interior which features Emperor the Elephant, ca. 1892-1905

OSF 1

Item 1 - Photo album of various University buildings printed by The Missouri Store Company, ca. 1914

Item 2 - Oversize aerial photograph of red campus looking southwest, ca. 2007

Note to Archivist: In 01/2003, FF 26 and FF 27 were renamed FF 24 and FF 25 respectively, due to two folders being removed from the collection and placed into different collections, C:22/8/37 and C:22/8/38. Also, due to this change, the collection volume was reduced from 2/3 c.f. to 1/3 c.f.

Read Hall Covered in Ivy, ca. 1926
Read Hall Covered in Ivy, ca. 1926
(University Archives, C:0/47/2)

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