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R         Nelson family.

252                  Collection. 1879‑1973.

                                    Five volumes, eight folders, and 104 photographs.

 

MICROFILM

 

 

 

These are scrapbooks, miscellaneous papers, and photographs of the Nelson family of Leba­non, Laclede County, Missouri.  Absolom, Arthur T., and Frank R. Nelson operated a com­mer­cial ap­ple orchard and a tavern and motel on U.S. Highway 66.  Arthur T. Nelson served various Mis­souri state commissions and boards.  The photographs in the collection have been copied on 35mm negatives and slides.

 

 

Volumes 1‑5:  Nelson family scrapbooks, l881‑l966.

 

                                Volume 1: Scrapbook, 1881‑1962 (86 pp.).

                                Volume 2: Scrapbook, 1899‑1917 (7 pp.).

                                Volume 3: Scrapbook, 1899‑1965 (33 pp.).

                                Volume 4: Scrapbook, 1906‑1938 (18 pp.).

                                Volume 5: Scrapbook, 1963‑1966 (19 pp.).

 

                Folders 1‑2:  Nelson family papers, 1879‑1973.

 

                                Folder 1: Miscellaneous papers, 1879‑l933 (26 items).

                                Folder 2: Newspaper clippings, 1895‑1973 (35 items).

 

                Folders 3‑8:  Laclede County, Missouri, promotional material, ca. 1890‑1947.

 

Folder 3: Ozark Plateau Land Company, “A Description of Laclede County, Mis­souri,” distributed by agent Absolom Nelson, ca. 1890 (12 pages, illus­trated).

Folder 4: “The Gasconade, Lebanon, Mo.,” ca. 1890 (36 pages, illustrated).

Folder 5: “Premium List.” Lebanon Street Fair, 1904 (28 pages).

Folder 6: Lebanon Chamber of Commerce, “Our Town, Your Town,” 1928 (l0 pages, il­lustrated).

Folder 7: Laclede County Horse Show & Fair Association, program, June 7‑8, 1945 (12 pages).

Folder 8: Jane Louise Osborne, “Trinity [Episcopal] church, Lebanon, Missouri,” The Diocesan Bulletin, XVI, No. 6 (March 1947), 6‑10.

 

 

Photograph collection, ca. 1890‑1950 (76 black and white negatives, 28 color slides on 35 mm. film)

 

The views have been copied from Nelson family photograph albums and postcards.  Subjects in­clude family members and their businesses, apple‑growing in Laclede County, Missouri, and commercial establishments, depots, churches, and organizations in Lebanon.  Descrip­tions of the photographs follow.  Captions taken from the photographs are noted in quotation marks.

 

 

Black-and-white photographs:

 

Numbers 1 through 25 are on contact sheet "A"; numbers 26 through 37 are on con­tact sheet "B"; numbers 38 through 58 are on contact sheet "C"; numbers 59 through 76 are on contact sheet "D".

 

01. Ozark Plateau Fruit and Cooperage Company, Lebanon, Mo. (interior of cooper­age).

02. Ozark Plateau Fruit and Cooperage Company (truck).

03. Ozark Plateau Fruit and Cooperage Company (similar to No. 2).

04. Model "T" Ford, 1908.

05. Arthur T. Nelson and Frank R. Nelson on New York trip, 1915.

06. Nelson Apple House and employees.

07. “Apple Pickers.”

08. “Apple Pickers.”

09. “Apples to storage and market.”

10. “Spraying apples.”

11. “Apples damaged by hail.”

12. “It’s apple time at Lebanon, Mo.”

13. Apples being packed in boxes.

14. “Medals won at the late expositions,” 1918.

15. Nelson apple house and wagons.

16. “Home of the Big Red Apple.”

17. “The Lincoln [railroad] car.”

18. “Tayman, Nelson, Spiller,” in U.S. Army uniforms, Tarlac, Philippines, 28 May l901.

19. Snow scene [Commercial Street?], Lebanon, Missouri, 1914.

20. “Bank of Lebanon” (interior view).

21. “Old Nelson Home,” Lebanon, Missouri.

22. “Old Nelson Home,” (similar view).

23. First house of Frank and Dorothy Nelson, Garwood Avenue, Lebanon, Missouri.

24. Robert D. Walkinshaw seated in County Clerk’s office, Lebanon, Missouri.

25. “Dam at Hahatonka, Mo.”

26. “Counterfeit Cave,” ca. 1910.

27. “Swinging Bridge,” Lebanon, Missouri.

28. “Bennett’s Mill Dam.”

29. “Swinging Bridge, Lebanon, Mo.”

30. “Bennett’s Spring.”

31. Nelson Service Station.

32. Nelson Tavern.

33. Lebanon Band Park.

34. Lebanon Community Band.

35. Lebanon Concert Band.

36. Lebanon Baseball Team, 1893.

37. “Mo. State Fair. Arthur T. Nelson in white felt hat.”

38. Funeral procession for Richard Parks “Silver Dick” Bland, Lebanon, Mo., 1899.

39. On Commercial Street next to State Bank, 1900.  Arthur T. Nelson in center.

40. Commercial Street, Lebanon, Missouri.

41. “St. Louis Store” [W. H. Owen], Lebanon, Missouri.

42. “St. Louis Store” [W. H. Owen], Lebanon, Missouri (rear view).

43. “700 Greetings from Lebanon, Mo., 1908” (turkeys in street).

44. “Frisco Depot, Lebanon, Mo.” (color postcard).

45. “Frisco Railroad Depot, Lebanon, Mo.” (color postcard).

46. “Frisco Depot, Lebanon, Mo.”

47. “New [Methodist Episcopal] Church, Lebanon, Mo.”

48. “Baptist and M.E. Church,” Madison Ave., Lebanon, Missouri (color postcard).

49. “Old Christian College. Lebanon, Mo.”

50. “New High School.  Lebanon, Mo.”

51. “Buster Brown and His Dog Tige, Exhibit at Heavner’s.”

52. “Lebanon Street Fair,” 1912.

53. “Residence of Col. W. I. Diffenderfer, Lebanon, Mo.,” 1911.

54. Laclede County Telephone Company.

55. “Old Gasconade Hotel,” 1914.

56. “Laclede County Courthouse,” 1910 (color postcard).

57. “Commercial Street, Lebanon, Mo.,” 1906.

58. “The Old Academy,” Lebanon, Missouri.

59. Arthur T. Nelson.

60. [Lebanon High School] Band, 1940.

61. [Lebanon] “High School Band, 1940.”

62. Aerial view of Nelson’s dream village.

63. Ha‑Ha‑Tonka.

64. Ha‑Ha‑Tonka (interior view).

65. Brice Hotel (Brice, Mo.).

66. “The Dam at Brice.”

67. Nelson’s Store (interior view).

68. Apple packer.

69. Ozark Plateau Fruit and Cooperage Company (truck with apple barrels).

70. Ozark Plateau Fruit and Cooperage Company (similar view).

71. July Fourth parade at Lebanon, Mo.[?].

72. Nelson’s dream village under construction.

73. Cave at Ha‑Ha‑Tonka.

74. Suspension bridge at Linn Creek, Missouri.

75. “Wallace Memorial High School, Lebanon, Mo.”

76. “Laclede County Courthouse.”

 

                Color Slides (from postcard views):

 

1. “Frisco Railroad Depot, Lebanon, Mo.” (color postcard, view to east).

2. Frisco Depot, Lebanon, Missouri (color postcard, view to west).

3. Frisco Depot, Lebanon, Missouri (later view, brick building).

4. “Engine [and wrecking crane] Frisco wreck,” 15 September 1914.

5. “Engine of Frisco wreck,” 1914.

6. “The engine that was in Frisco wreck,” 1914.

7. “Frisco Train Wreck,” 1914.

8. “Frisco Wreck,” 1914.

9. “Frisco Train Wreck,” 1914.

10. “Frisco Train Wreck,” 1914.

11. “Frisco Train Wreck,” 1914.

12. “Where the track was washed out,” 1914.

13. “Electrical and Musical Fountain.”

14. “West Entrance.”

15. “Guest House No. 1.”

16. “Guest House No. 3.”

17. “Home of Arthur T. Nelson.”

18. “Nelson Park and Cottages.”

19. “Nelson Tavern.”

20. “Nelson Tavern.”

21. “Nelson Tavern ... looking east on U.S. highway No. 66.”

22. “Dining Room, Nelson Tavern.”

23. “View of Guest Houses.”

24. “Electrical and Musical Fountain.”

25. “J.C.B. & T. Co.,” Streetcar No. 10 [Jefferson City Bus and Transit Company].

26. “Warden’s Residence,” Missouri State Penitentiary, Jefferson City, Missouri.

27. “Bagnall Dam and Lake of the Ozarks.”

28. “Bennett Spring mill and fish hatchery.”

 

 

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