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R         Maries County (Mo.).

587                  Photograph collection, ca. 1880s-1930s.

                                    Forty-six views.

 

 

 

These are photographs copied from Volumes 1-9 of the scrapbook collection at the Old Jail Museum at Vienna, Missouri.  They feature significant locations, buildings, events, and indi­vidu­als, mostly in Maries County, Missouri.  Many of the views are of Vienna, but there are also pho­tographs of Belle, Paydown, Safe, Summerfield, Vichy, the Gasconade River, St. James in Phelps County, Meta in Osage County, and Dixon in Pulaski County.  The views have been cop­ied on 35mm black and white film.

 

These views present a broad sampling of life in Maries County and nearby areas in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.  Many of the views show Vienna, the seat of Maries County.  Local landmarks include the office of the Maries County Home Advertiser, the Vienna and Maries hotels, Maries County courthouse, the Maries County Bank, the Catholic church and school, several stores and busi­nesses, the Felker, Hefti, Hutchison, and Terrell resi­dences, and the Old Jail Museum.  Other items from Vi­enna include views of a Liberty Bond rally in 1918, the town’s baseball team, a mu­sic club, the Bryan-Seward and Free Silver clubs, and road grading with steam tractors.  Among many Maries Countians pictured are Valsain G. Latham, Nate Rowan, and Martha Hyer Bowles.

 

From outside Vienna, the collection includes photographs of Paydown, Indian Ford, and Johnson Ford on the Gasconade River, Coppedge’s steam mill at Safe, the post office and mill at Vichy, the railroad depot at Summerfield, the summer school for teachers at St. James in Phelps County, and a bird’s eye view of Dixon in Pulaski County.

 

Some of the views have been published in Maries County, Missouri (three vols., Vienna, Mo.: Historical Society of Maries County, 1989-1995).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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