The Kirksville Photo Album, 1897, is comprised of 28 images of homes, places and events in the northeast Missouri town taken by an unknown photographer. For more information about the original album housed in Pickler Memorial Library's Special Collections and University Archives at Truman State University, see https://manuscripts.truman.edu/repositories/2/resources/144.
The Methodist Episcopal Church's old building was razed in the spring of 1898 and this new one completed at the same location in March of 1899. The lack of landscaping indicates this picture was taken not long after...
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Kirksville (Mo.)--Photographs
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Unknown
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Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and Museums (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
This large home with a wrap-around porch would later be known as the Nurses' Cottage located diagonally from the American School of Osteopathy (ASO). The photo was likely taken in the spring or summer, as the sign on the porch...
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Kirksville (Mo.)--Photographs
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Unknown
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Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and Museums (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
Real estate agent Thomas J. Dockery was active in city government and was elected to the Kirksville City Council several times in the late 1800s and early 1900s. He served his first term as Mayor in 1897 and held the office...
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Kirksville (Mo.)--Photographs
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Unknown
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Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and Museums (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
Looking north from the Washington & Elson intersection is the Bee-Hive Restaurant & Rice Mercantile, 101; Halladay Grocery, 103; Fout Drugs, 105; Eckert's Dry Goods, 107-111; Robert Clark Hardware, 117; Steer, Robinson...
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Kirksville (Mo.)--Photographs
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Unknown
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Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and Museums (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
Real estate dealer and entrepreneur John L. Porter owned numerous commercial and residential properties in Kirksville. He also organized the Porter Coal & Mining and Pennsylvania Coal & Mining companies, owned...
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Kirksville (Mo.)--Photographs
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Unknown
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Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and Museums (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
Richard M. Ringo, seated in the rocker on his front lawn, was cashier and later president of the Kirksville Savings Bank from the time of its organization in 1873 until his death in 1908. He and his wife Quintilla Haynes Ringo...
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Kirksville (Mo.)--Photographs
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Unknown
Collaboratore:
Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and Museums (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
Newt Winn, 1897 graduate of Kirksville Mercantile College and newly hired bookkeeper for the John Storm Axe Handle Company, is pictured with his sisters Minnie and Lucy on the front porch of their family home. Newt left Storm's...
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Kirksville (Mo.)--Photographs
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Unknown
Collaboratore:
Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and Museums (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
James Martin, M.D., came to Kirksville in 1884 and was in medical practice here for many years. As did many families with large homes, the Martins rented out rooms and frequently had single or young married couples from the...
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Kirksville (Mo.)--Photographs
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Unknown
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Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and Museums (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
William Thomas Baird, President of First International Bank (formerly First National Bank), and his wife Martha Hannah Baird, built this home at 304 South Franklin Street, two blocks south of the bank, in 1893. William was...
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Kirksville (Mo.)--Photographs
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Unknown
Collaboratore:
Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and Museums (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
This home located at 703 North Franklin Street, known as the B.F. Heiny House, was rental property until after the turn of the century. The original owner is unknown. Joseph S. Conner and his family were tenants in 1900, and...
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Kirksville (Mo.)--Photographs
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Unknown
Collaboratore:
Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and Museums (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
