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.
The art reading room most likely on the second floor of Library Hall taken before the fire destroyed the building in January 1924.
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 original Baldwin Hall covered in snow during the winter on the campus of Missouri State Normal School of the First District in Kirksville. The building burned in January of 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)
The stage and balcony seating in Baldwin Hall Auditorium.
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)
View from the back of the original Baldwin Hall auditorium sometime before it burned in January of 1924 on the campus of Missouri State Normal School of the First District in Kirksville.
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)
View from the back of the original Baldwin Hall auditorium sometime between 1891-1893 on the campus of the Missouri State Normal School of the First District in Kirksville.
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)
The stage and main floor seating in the newly built Baldwin Hall Auditorium around 1959.
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)
Photo of the southwest side of the barn at the Missouri State Normal School of the First District demonstration farm in Kirksville, MO. This barn would later be painted red and referred to as the Red Barn.
Fach:
First District Normal School (Kirksville, Mo.), Kirksville (Mo.), Teachers colleges--Missouri--Kirksville, College campuses--Missouri--Kirksville, College facilities--Missouri--Kirksville, Barns--Missouri--Kirksville und School farms--Missouri--Kirksville
Schöpfer:
Alexander
Mitwirkender:
Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and University Archives (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
Three members of the cafeteria and kitchen staff in 1924. The man is possibly Walter T. Chevalier, which would make one of the women photographed his wife, Jeanetta.
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)
Professor James Edwards Weatherly standing in a chemistry laboratory in the original Baldwin Hall building.
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)
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)
