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.
Mrs. Irene Fitch, widow of shoe store owner John T. Fitch, sold her home to Burr Jackson Trowbridge in 1893 and he built this new house on the lot that summer. It was located at 315 East Pierce Street. Burr served several terms...
Soggetto:
Kirksville (Mo.)--Photographs
Creatore:
Unknown
Collaboratore:
Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and Museums (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
The style of this home was very popular in Kirksville in the 1890s; there are numerous houses of similar design that still exist around the city. This one has an interesting recessed side or "back" porch with attractive trim...
Soggetto:
Kirksville (Mo.)--Photographs
Creatore:
Unknown
Collaboratore:
Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and Museums (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
In another popular style of the period, this home has a front door in the angle of the L-shaped front porch and steps off the porch to the both the side and front yards.
Soggetto:
Kirksville (Mo.)--Photographs
Creatore:
Unknown
Collaboratore:
Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and Museums (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
This family experienced tree damage in the ice storm of January 23, 1897. The house number above the front porch of this small home appears to be 205 (or maybe 209), but the street is unknown.
Soggetto:
Kirksville (Mo.)--Photographs
Creatore:
Unknown
Collaboratore:
Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and Museums (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
Valentine and Margaret (Class) Miller's impressive home located at 415 North Franklin and remodeled in 1892, was definitely good advertising for V. Miller Lumber, his retail lumber yard and contracting business. Dee Riley...
Soggetto:
Kirksville (Mo.)--Photographs
Creatore:
Unknown
Collaboratore:
Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and Museums (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
George C. Farmer, Sr., and his son George C., Jr., were partners in the G.C. Farmer & Son Hardware Store on the Kirksville square in the late 1890s and owned this home at 411 East Harrison Street. There are too many people...
Soggetto:
Kirksville (Mo.)--Photographs
Creatore:
Unknown
Collaboratore:
Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and Museums (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
William Fred Englehart, a Kirksville real estate and insurance agent who also served as deputy tax collector, was elected Adair County Tax Collector in 1896 and held that post for four years. After leaving office, he studied...
Soggetto:
Kirksville (Mo.)--Photographs
Creatore:
Unknown
Collaboratore:
Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and Museums (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
