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R Mark Twain National Forest (Mo.).
485 Historical photographs, ca.
1900-1985.
719 views.
These are photographs copied from
holdings of the Mark Twain National Forest in Rolla, Missouri.
Topics include National Forest facilities and projects; forest and wood
industries; water mills; lakes, rivers, and springs; mines; dams; and the
Civilian Conservation Corps and Youth Conservation Corps.
Over the years the Mark Twain National Forest, at its headquarters building in Rolla,
accumulated a large collection of general historical materials and
miscellaneous photographs. Selected
items from the former group were microfilmed earlier as collection
R471. The collection described here was selected
from the photograph files, and the Forest’s
folder numbers have been included on the Shelf List as an aid to
researchers. The photographs were copied
on 35mm black-and-white film and printed on contact sheets only. The resulting negatives and contact prints
are intended as guides for researchers and should not be considered to be of
professional copy quality. Although
researchers are welcome to use these negatives to produce enlargements, they
are reminded that the original prints (and, occasionally, negatives) are
available for public use at the National Forest headquarters. The Western Historical Manuscript
Collection’s standard fees for the use of images from its holdings have been
waived for this collection.
The images included in this collection
were selected for their historical importance and research value. In large part the original photographs were
not acquired, retained, and organized systematically by the National Forest,
but instead represent an often haphazard accumulation of images from a number
of sources. Additional information
concerning many of the photographs can be found on the file envelopes
containing the original prints at the National Forest headquarters.
This collection includes a number of
images donated in the early 1980s by former members of the Civilian
Conservation Corps, and were created when the camps were active in the 1930s
and 1940s. Both exterior and interior
views of buildings at several camps are available.
There are many views associated with the
major steams which flow through the Forest. Particularly important are photographs of
Turner Mill and Falling Springs Mill, water mills located in the watershed of
the Eleven Point River.
There are many views of sawmills
which used logs obtained from National Forest timber stands. Also illustrated are associated industries
such as charcoaling, chair-making, basket-making, and the manufacture of
railroad ties and wooden flooring. There
are also views of mines and smelters associated with southeastern Missouri’s lead industry.
With minor exceptions these photographs
are of scenes in southern Missouri, in or near the designated boundaries of
the Mark Twain National Forest.
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