Charles Elliott Gill

Boating on the Piney, ca. 1910

  

Five teenage girls outside a wood frame building, 1900-10

 

Portrait of four men and four women, ca. 1910

 

Thomas Gill family with house and new car, Portland, Oregon, ca. 1914

 

Twelve young women at Guthoerl's cave, ca. 1910

 

Source: Charles Elliott Gill Photograph Collection, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City

Vintage Missouri

 Annual Swope Park picnic for Urban League of Kansas City, ca. 1930

  

 Group posing with threshing machine, ca. 1908

  

 Independence High School, 1901 graduating class. Harry S. Truman is 

4th from left in back row; 2nd row, far right is Elizabeth Wallace (Bess Truman); 

front row, far left is Charles Ross (Truman's Press Secretary).

 

 Missourians from Greentop travel to 

Keokuk, Iowa, for a dam opening, 1908

  

Ruth Law and three men pose with car and plane used in 

Flying Circus act at the Missouri State Fair, August 1921

 

Source: Missouri State Archives

Vintage Missouri

 A group of young women eat at the counter of 

drugstore soda fountain, October 23, 1945

  

 Bee Creek School, ca. 1920

  

 Family Store, ca. 1950

  

 Line of trucks filled with corn going to 

elevator, Sikeston, September 8, 1949

  

 Parade in St. Joseph, 1947

  

Women sit at long row of sewing machines in a garment factory, ca. 1945

 

Source: Missouri State Archives

State Parks

Missouri State Parks, to be exact. 

 A woman stands on a wooden bridge, Wallace State Park, ca. 1960

  

 Four women hold a formation on water skis 

during a pageant, Lake of the Ozarks, 1960

  

Group of children fishing at Pershing State Park, ca. 1960

  

 Group of people on walkway near Chain of Rocks Bridge 

north of St. Louis on Mississippi River, ca. 1960

  

 Rides at the State Fair, ca. 1960

  

Ruins of castle at Ha Ha Tonka State Park, ca. 1960

  

 Two women and a man pose on rocks 

at Johnson Shut Ins State Park, 1961

  

Visitors swim, play and relax at Public Beach #1, 

Lake of the Ozarks State Park, ca. 1960

 

Courtesy of Missouri State Archives

Vintage Missouri

 Group of young men in western wear pose with 

instruments in front of Dry Goods store, ca. 1915

  

J. W. Spencer steamboat docked at Jefferson City, 1896

  

 Large group of people of various ages pose in wooded area. 

School was located near Shamrock, Missouri, ca. 1900

  

Murray Family Orchestra from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, ca. 1925

  

Woman making soap, ca. 1915

 

Source: Missouri State Archives

Vintage Missouri

More from the 1950s.

 Students board school bus parked outside steps of Missouri State Capitol, 1954

  

 Two boys walk down path at Milan Reservoir 

with long fishing rods over their shoulders, ca. 1955

  

 Two women paddle their way across the lake on water bikes, ca. 1955

  

 Two young ladies ride horses through a field, ca. 1955

  

Young boy watches group of piglets, McPearson Farm, 1955

 

Source: Missouri State Archives

Adair County

The first three photos show the aftermath of a large ice storm that hit Kirkville, Missouri on January 23, 1897.

 Robert & Ella (Shoop) Lorenz had this new home built during the summer and fall of 1896. The couple along with their children, and possibly a son-in-law, are standing among the ice-damaged trees on their front lawn after the January 23, 1897 ice storm.

   

The tremendous ice storm that hit Kirksville Saturday evening,
January 23, 1897, presented residents with, according to local papers,
“the severest touch of winter that has been felt for many years.”

 

Tree damage in the ice storm of January 23, 1897

  

 Richard Ringo, seated in the rocker on his front lawn, was cashier, then president, of Kirksville Savings Bank. The young ladies at the porch railing are their daughters, Eugenia & Althea.

  

 This home, known as the B.F. Heiny House, was rental property
until after the turn of the century. Joseph S. Conner and his family
were tenants in 1900 and the Heinys moved in sometime later.

 

Unidentified house

 

Source: Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library

Charles Elliott Gill

Musicians gathered at the Russell home, 1905-10

  

 Portrait of Maude and Grandma Hannah Gunnett, 1900-10

  

Sunday afternoon music in the Ozarks, December 9, 1906

  

Teacher leans against a school house door, 1900-10

  

The Harvey Gill family seated on pumpkins in a pumpkin patch, ca. 1912

 

Source: Charles Elliott Gill Photograph Collection, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City

1950s Missouri

 Large group of people gather in river, including several 

groups in canoes, for pole races, ca. 1955

  

Man collects sap from maple trees, ca. 1955

  

 Missouri family vacation, 1956

  

 Playing Croquet, ca. 1955

  

Stephens College students, ca. 1950

  

Source: Missouri State Archives