Kirksville Photos by Drake, 1893, is a collection of 35 images of Kirksville buildings, businesses and people created by "Drake, Fotografer" and originally owned by Clifford Elmore Henry. For more information about the "Kirksville Photos by Drake, 1893: The Clifford Henry Album" at Pickler Memorial Library's Special Collections and University Archives at Truman State University in Kirksville, MO, see https://manuscripts.truman.edu/repositories/2/resources/149.
The 1892-93 Normal School faculty on the steps of the Normal Building (later called Baldwin Hall) are (from left) Front Row: Francis Asbury Swanger, Mathematics; Benajah Pitts Gentry, Latin; Charles S. Sheldon, Science; Rippy...
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Kirksville (Mo.)--Photographs
Creador:
Drake
Contribuidor:
Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and Museums (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
These students on the school steps are members of the 1892-93 student body, but the reason this particular group is together is unknown--a specific class or organization? "MS" wrote two names on the border but didn't say where...
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Kirksville (Mo.)--Photographs
Creador:
Drake
Contribuidor:
Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and Museums (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
This picture of the Normal School Band appears in the school's 1892-93 Catalogue--without identifying the individual members, unfortunately. The two drummers have been tentatively identified as students Claude S. Brother (bass)...
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Kirksville (Mo.)--Photographs
Creador:
Drake
Contribuidor:
Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and Museums (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
This home has beautiful leaded, art glass window treatments. The double-width "picture" window in the front has a border of art glass across the top and the large square window on the right side appears to be entirely of art...
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Kirksville (Mo.)--Photographs
Creador:
Drake
Contribuidor:
Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and Museums (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
Kirksville Mercantile College students & faculty are posed on the steps of the school at 210 E. Washington (corner Washington & High). The College was founded in 1881, occupied this building from 1882 until 1894, and...
Tema:
Kirksville (Mo.)--Photographs
Creador:
Drake
Contribuidor:
Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and Museums (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
The Democrat, one of Kirksville's three weekly papers, occupied this building from March 1890 until November 1893; from the time its old home on the south side of the Square burned down till it moved into the new Spencer Block...
Tema:
Kirksville (Mo.)--Photographs
Creador:
Drake
Contribuidor:
Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and Museums (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
When Albert Dutcher died in October 1892, Charles M. Harrington, his nephew and sales clerk, continued running his jewelry store then purchased it from the estate and reopened as Harrington Jewelers the following May. Charles...
Tema:
Kirksville (Mo.)--Photographs
Creador:
Drake
Contribuidor:
Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and Museums (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
This house is one of several similar homes around town; it must have been a very popular style in the early 1890s. Unfortunately, we've been unable to identify the couple relaxing in the hammock on the front porch so don't know...
Tema:
Kirksville (Mo.)--Photographs
Creador:
Drake
Contribuidor:
Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and Museums (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
Benjamin Franklin Henry was a partner in F. A. Grove & Co. Drug Store when the south side of the Square burned in March 1890, totally destroying their building and stock. Henry bought out Grove's interest and rebuilt at the...
Tema:
Kirksville (Mo.)--Photographs
Creador:
Drake
Contribuidor:
Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and Museums (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
Clifford E. Henry is seated 2nd from left at the 2nd table in this student lab at the St. Louis College of Pharmacy where he was a student during the 1892-93 academic year. Clifford completed the program as a Ph.G. (Pharmacy...
Tema:
Kirksville (Mo.)--Photographs
Creador:
Drake
Contribuidor:
Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and Museums (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
