Created by: Pickler Memorial Library, Special Collections and University Archives
Last Updated: 2026-01-14
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These are early photographs of the campus grounds and buildings around the normal school now known as Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri. The originals are held in Pickler Memorial Library's Special Collections and University Archives.
Undated photo of an unidentified man at the college farm in Kirksville, MO.
Fach:
Northeast Missouri State Teachers College, Kirksville (Mo.), Teachers colleges--Missouri--Kirksville, College campuses--Missouri--Kirksville, College facilities--Missouri--Kirksville und School farms--Missouri--Kirksville
Schöpfer:
Unknown
Mitwirkender:
Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and Museums (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
Normal Building (later called Baldwin Hall) with Normal Lake in the foreground around 1880 on the campus of Missouri State Normal School of the First District.
Fach:
First District Normal School (Kirksville, Mo.), Kirksville (Mo.), Teachers colleges--Missouri--Kirksville, College campuses--Missouri--Kirksville und College facilities--Missouri--Kirksville
Schöpfer:
Unknown
Mitwirkender:
Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and Museums (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
Built in 1873, the Normal Building was renamed Baldwin Hall in 1905 in honor of the school's founder Joseph Baldwin. This photo was taken about 1880.
Fach:
First District Normal School (Kirksville, Mo.), Kirksville (Mo.), Teachers colleges--Missouri--Kirksville, College campuses--Missouri--Kirksville und College facilities--Missouri--Kirksville
Schöpfer:
Unknown
Mitwirkender:
Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and Museums (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
A scenic view of the Normal Campus with the Normal Lake in the foreground. From left to right the buildings are Library Hall, Baldwin Hall, and Science Hall. Photo taken before the January 1924 fire that destroyed Baldwin and...
Fach:
First District Normal School (Kirksville, Mo.), Kirksville (Mo.), Teachers colleges--Missouri--Kirksville, College campuses--Missouri--Kirksville und College facilities--Missouri--Kirksville
Schöpfer:
Yale Studio
Mitwirkender:
Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and Museums (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
The garden with a variety of plants on the campus of the Missouri State Normal School of the First District in Kirksville, circa 1905.
Fach:
First District Normal School (Kirksville, Mo.), Kirksville (Mo.), Teachers colleges--Missouri--Kirksville, College campuses--Missouri--Kirksville und College facilities--Missouri--Kirksville
Schöpfer:
Unknown
Mitwirkender:
Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and Museums (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
A photograph of the North Missouri Normal School and Commercial College, housed in the Cumberland Academy building in Kirksville, the year it opened, 1867.
Fach:
North Missouri Normal School and Commercial College, Kirksville (Mo.), Teachers colleges--Missouri--Kirksville, College campuses--Missouri--Kirksville und College facilities--Missouri--Kirksville
Schöpfer:
Ratten, Thos.
Mitwirkender:
Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and Museums (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
Faculty member Ophelia Parrish teaching seven students in Library Hall. Photo taken sometime between 1903 and 1915.
Fach:
Northeast Missouri State Teachers College, Kirksville (Mo.), Teachers colleges--Missouri--Kirksville, College campuses--Missouri--Kirksville, College facilities--Missouri--Kirksville, Academic libraries--Missouri--Kirksville und Academic librarians--Missouri--Kirksville
Schöpfer:
Unknown
Mitwirkender:
Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and Museums (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
A panoramic view displaying three of the campus buildings with the lake and two bridges taken around 1907-1923 before the fire that destroyed Baldwin and Library Halls in January 1924.
Fach:
Northeast Missouri State Teachers College, Kirksville (Mo.), Teachers colleges--Missouri--Kirksville, College campuses--Missouri--Kirksville und College facilities--Missouri--Kirksville
Schöpfer:
Unknown
Mitwirkender:
Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and Museums (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
Pickler Memorial Library's help desk with stacks filled with books behind it, estimated date 1931.
Fach:
Northeast Missouri State Teachers College, Kirksville (Mo.), Teachers colleges--Missouri--Kirksville, College campuses--Missouri--Kirksville, College facilities--Missouri--Kirksville und Academic libraries--Missouri--Kirksville
Schöpfer:
Unknown
Mitwirkender:
Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and Museums (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
The location where books were processed in Pickler Memorial Library, estimated date 1931.
Fach:
Northeast Missouri State Teachers College, Kirksville (Mo.), Teachers colleges--Missouri--Kirksville, College campuses--Missouri--Kirksville, College facilities--Missouri--Kirksville und Academic libraries--Missouri--Kirksville
Schöpfer:
Unknown
Mitwirkender:
Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and Museums (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
