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R         Beemer, Mary Alice.

496                  Photograph collection, ca. 1885-1955.

                                    Thirty-seven views.

 

 

 

These are photographs of the town of Newburg and vicinity in Phelps County, Missouri.  In­cluded are views of employees, equipment, and facilities of the “Frisco” railroad, businesses, buildings, and street scenes, and miscellaneous photographs of locations near Newburg includ­ing the Dana Lead Mine and Stonydell Swimming Pool.

 

 

1.             Frisco engine 1324 and crowd at Newburg, n. d.

 

2.             Frisco engine 1332 and crowd on turntable in front of roundhouse at Newburg, n. d.

 

3.             Second roundhouse at Newburg, built 1916.

 

4.             Interior of roundhouse art Newburg, showing shop crew in front of Frisco engine

                 1261, n. d.

 

5.             Workmen eating lunch inside roundhouse at Newburg, n. d.

 

6.             Newburg depot, n. d.

 

7.             “Harvey House,” n. d.  Photographic copy of postcard view.

 

8.             Last steam switch engine in Newburg yards, n. d.

 

9.             Coaling tower at Newburg, n. d.

 

10.           Frisco passenger train with diesel locomotive 2005 at Newburg, ca. 1955.  OVERSIZE

 

11.           Bird’s eye view of Newburg.  Postcard, n. d.

 

12.           Front Street, Newburg.  Postcard, n. d.

 

13.           Crowd on Front Street, 1911.

 

14.           Looking west on Front Street, Newburg.  Postcard, August 1911.

 

15.           S. J. Williams hardware store, Front Street, 1922.

 

16.           Main Street, 1924.

 

17.           First store at Newburg, corner of 2nd and Main streets.  Built by John Weckerly in

                 1884, razed after fire in 1973.

 

18.           Blacksmith shop of William A. Grayson, n. d.

 

19.           Frank Spradling building, 1911.

 

20.           Interior of Spradling store, 1911.

 

21.           Interior of Houston House, n. d.   Photocopy.

 

22.           Interior of Houston House, n. d.  Photocopy.

 

23.           Houston House, 1900.

 

24.           Swimming pool and bath house on Little Piney at Newburg, ca. 1918.  Copy print of

                 postcard view.

 

25.           Nativity scene at Newburg, n. d.  Clipping from Rolla Daily News.

 

26.           Sunday crowd at Newburg depot, 1919.

 

27.           Group portrait of employees and factory of Barrett & Hilp, 1941.  OVERSIZE

 

28.           Crowd with cattle in front of W. H. Powell Lumber Co., ca. 1930s.

 

29.           Methodist Episcopal Church.  Postcard view of church built in 1885.

 

30.           Public school building, n. d.  Postcard view of church built in 1886 by public

                 subscription.

 

31.           Newburg grade school., 1924.

 

32.           Newburg High School, freshman and sophomore classes, 1917.

 

33.           Newburg school class photo, ca. 1914.

 

34.           Dana Lead Mine near Newburg, ca, 1908.

 

35.           Mr. & Mrs. Lee Johnson at Johnson Funeral Home, n. d.

 

36.           Ward Minkler portrait, n. d.

 

37.           Stonydell Swimming Pool on Route 66 Arlington, Mo., ca. 1930s.  OVERSIZE

 

 

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