Created by: Pickler Memorial Library, Special Collections and University Archives
Last Updated: 2026-01-12
Collection Details
These are early photographs of student life at what is now Truman State University in Kirksville, MO. The originals are held in Pickler Memorial Library's Special Collections and University Archives.
Student Noah Richardson and Clifton Cornwell, instructor of speech, are shown cutting a debate record for the 1935 debate between Northeast Missouri State Teachers College and Kansas State College of Agriculture and Applied...
Subject:
Northeast Missouri State Teachers College and Teachers colleges--Missouri--Kirksville
Creator:
Unknown
Contributor:
Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and Museums (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
Members of the Demosthenonian Debate Club of the Missouri State Normal School of the First District seated on the steps of Adair County Courthouse in Kirksville, MO, around 1907 or 1908.
Subject:
First District Normal School (Kirksville, Mo.) and Teachers colleges--Missouri--Kirksville
Creator:
Unknown
Contributor:
Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and Museums (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
Roomers at the Dodson Boarding House, 1016 South Davis Street, Kirksville, MO. Photo taken January 16, 1905. Front row: Orville Wade, unidentified, unidentified, Charles M. Weyand, Frank C. Fleak. Middle row: Richard W. Powell,...
Subject:
First District Normal School (Kirksville, Mo.), Teachers colleges--Missouri--Kirksville, and Boardinghouses--Missouri--Kirksville
Creator:
Unknown
Contributor:
Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and Museums (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
Eight students at the Missouri State Normal School of the First District in Kirksville, Missouri, around 1890 or 1891. Identified on the back of the photo as #1 - Clifford Burton, #2 - George Burton, #3 - Claude Wheeler, #4 -...
Subject:
First District Normal School (Kirksville, Mo.) and Teachers colleges--Missouri--Kirksville
Creator:
Unknown
Contributor:
Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and Museums (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
Members of the Elizabeth Barrett Browning Club at Missouri State Normal School of the First District in Kirksville, MO, in spring 1912. Front row, left to right: Nola Crandell, Letha Dorsey, Eileen McGuinnis, Bessie Crystal,...
Subject:
First District Normal School (Kirksville, Mo.), Teachers colleges--Missouri--Kirksville, and Literature--Societies, etc.
Creator:
N.P. Wier (Kirksville, Mo.)
Contributor:
Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and Museums (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
Students in an English class taught by Edwin R. Barrett, the man in the bow tie at the right, at the Missouri State Normal School of the First District in Kirksville, MO, sometime between 1905 and 1912.
Subject:
First District Normal School (Kirksville, Mo.) and Teachers colleges--Missouri--Kirksville
Creator:
Patterson (Kirksville, Mo.)
Contributor:
Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and Museums (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
Students in an English class taught by Edwin R. Barrett, the man standing in the back, at the Missouri State Normal School of the First District in Kirksville, MO, sometime between 1905 and 1912.
Subject:
First District Normal School (Kirksville, Mo.) and Teachers colleges--Missouri--Kirksville
Creator:
Patterson (Kirksville, Mo.)
Contributor:
Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and University Archives (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
