P0024 SHSMO Glass Negative Collection 363 glass plate negatives, 3 folders This collection is available at The State Historical Society of Missouri. This collection is available online through the Society’s digital collections. If you would like more information, please contact us at
[email protected]. INTRODUCTION The SHSMO Glass Negative Collection is comprised of 317 4x5 glass plate negatives and a selection of corresponding prints. Images depict Missouri in the early 20th century, primarily in Columbia and St. Louis, including the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis parks and city scenes, and the University of Missouri. DONOR INFORMATION The collection was donated to the State Historical Society of Missouri by an unknown donor on an unknown date. SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE The collection includes glass plate negatives and a selection of corresponding prints created by an unknown photographer or photographers. Images depict Missouri in the early 20th century, primarily in Columbia and St. Louis, including the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis parks and city scenes, and the University of Missouri. Also depicted are factories and industrial equipment, agriculture, firefighters, steamboats and river scenes, zoo animals, and parades. Portraits, identified and unidentified, complete the collection. Glass negatives are arranged by identifier. A numbering system applied by the photographer was retained. Numbering of images is not consecutive; previously unnumbered images have been assigned numbers of 24-2### by the processing archivist. The majority of the negatives date from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Prints corresponding to glass negatives are numbered with the same identifier. Use copies are available through the Society’s digital collections.