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R         Elgin, Robert L., collector.

623                  Travel and tourism collection, ca. 1930s-1960s.

                                    Fifteen folders.

 

 

 

This is a miscellaneous collection pertaining to travel and tourism in Missouri.  The collec­tion consists of maps, postcards, and ephemera, and a series of promotional booklets produced by the Missouri State Division of Resources and Development.

 

This tourism assemblage was collected by Robert L. Elgin, Phelps County Surveyor and for­mer historian of the Route 66 Association of Missouri.  One of the earliest items in the collec­tion is the “Tourist Map of Phelps County,” one of the series of Missouri county maps for tourists pro­duced during the 1930s by the Federal Emergency Relief Administration and the Missouri School of Mines (now the University of Missouri-Rolla).  Also in the collection are several items con­cerning U.S. Highway 66 including a souvenir fan produced by the Pierce Petroleum Corpora­tion in the 1930s which features advertising for “Pennant” petroleum products and automobile service centers.  Other Route 66 items include postcards and souvenir booklets of Missouri, northern Ari­zona and New Mexico.

 

There are also eleven promotional booklets which were produced by the Missouri Division of Resources and Development in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s.  These booklets, regional in scope, cover geographic regions in Missouri including the “Ozark Playgrounds,” “Central Ozarks,” “Big Springs Country,” “Old Settlement Playgrounds” (eastern Ozarks), “Meramec Valley,” “White River Country,” “Land of the Osage,” “Lake of the Ozarks,” “Mark Twain Re­gion,” “Delta Area” (Bootheel), and “Metropolitan St. Louis” areas.  The booklets feature text along with photographs of scenic areas by photographers such as Gerald Massey.

 

 

 

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