Shelf List

R Rolla (Mo.).

205 Photographs, ca. 1885-1945.

Two folders.

These are photographs and postcard views of Rolla and Phelps County, Missouri, from the family collection of Margaret Isabelle Rauch. Included are views of businesses, public buildings, and street scenes in Rolla, the Phelps County Fairground, and U.S. Highway 66. The photographs have been copied on 35mm black-and-white-film.

Folder 1: Negatives, contact prints, and color slides.

Inventory (An asterisk next to a negative number indicates that the view is also available as a 35mm color slide.).

NEGATIVE SHEET A

## Description

00 Scenes of the Missouri School of Mines at Rolla, ca. 1910, from a "Kodak"

album.

0 As above, different buildings.

1 As above, different buildings.

2 Cover of "Kodak" album.

3 "Dunmoor," home of William James and family, St. James, Mo., later the

State Federal Soldiers Home, ca. 1900.

4 Crandall House, 8th and railroad tracks, Rolla, Mo., ca. 1885. Later known

as the Imperial, the Baltimore, and the El Caney hotels, and, still later, as

the McFarland Hospital.

5 Episcopal Church, Rolla, Mo., ca. 1890.

6 Catholic Church, 7th and State, Rolla, Mo., ca. 1885.

7 Baptist Church, Rolla, Mo., ca. 1885.

8 Railroad depot, Eureka, Mo., ca. 1885.

9* "Main Street, Rolla, Mo.," ca. 1890 (Although identified as such, this view

might not be of Rolla.).

10* Stores on west 8th Street, Rolla, Mo., ca. 1900 (Left to right: Sam Bullock,

unknown, William "Billy" Gerlach, [?] Moore, [?] Meyer, Fritz Parker.

11* Unidentified group, thought to be at Saltpeter Cave near Rolla, ca, 1900.

12 Frisco railroad bridge over Beaver Creek, between Rolla and Newburg, ca.

1920.

13* Unidentified group at Saltpeter Cave, ca. 1900.

14* Rural mail carrier, Bert Fort, near Phelps County Fairground, Rolla, Mo., ca.

1915.

15* "The Cut" ("Coleman's Cut"), near Rolla, Mo., postcard view published by

John W. Scott & Co., ca. 1915.

16* Phelps County Fairground, Rolla, Mo., postcard view published by B. H.

Rucker, ca. 1911.

17* Unidentified man on horseback, Pine Street, Rolla, Mo., ca. 1910.

18* "Federal Highway 66 From Fair Ground Hill, Rolla, Mo.," postcard view, late

1920s.

19* "Post Office, Rolla, Mo.," postcard view, ca. 1900 (Now the Rolla Free Public

Library.).

20* Unidentified man standing in front of the ruins of Fort Wyman, Rolla, Mo.,

ca. 1885.

21 O. C. Campbell, at his meat market on Sixth Street, Rolla, Mo.

22* West side of Pine Street, Rolla, Mo., looking north from 7th Street, ca. 1890.

23* Interior of Mitchell's store, Pine Street, Rolla, Mo., ca. 1900.

24 Unidentified group of young men, said to be Missouri School of Mines

students celebrating St. Patrick's Day, ca. 1880.

25 Interior of Sands store, 6th and Pine, Rolla, Mo., ca. 1910.

26* Rolla Fire Department crew with engine, ca. 1945.

27 Unidentified group, ca. 1885.

28 Unidentified group, ca, 1885.

29 Unidentified group, ca. 1885.

30 Unidentified woman with buggy.

31 Unidentified group.

32 Unidentified man and woman with buggy.

33 Railroad crew on handcar, ca. 1900.

34 Interior of store, Rolla, Mo., ca. 1910.

NEGATIVE SHEET B

## Description

0* "Birdseye View of Rolla, Mo.," postcard view by John W. Scott & Co., ca.

1900.

1* Fire on east side of Pine Street, between 6th and 7th streets, Rolla, Mo., 1

May 1939.

2* Same description as #1, above.

3* Same description as #1, above.

4* Same description as #1, above.

5* Same description as #1, above.

6* Rolla Fire Department No. 1, ca. 1830.

7* Employees and interior of Rolla Printing Co., ca. 1930 (Left to right: Joe

Schultz, Argo Horrom, Frank L. Kauffman, Frank Ayers.).

8* South Rolla Street, looking north from the junction of Houston Road and the

Rolla Cemetery, ca. 1890.

9 Rolla Fire Department, ca. 1945.

Folder 2: Black and white prints.

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