Scope and Contents From the Collection: Photographs, gelatin negatives, and glass plate negatives depicting life during the turn of the 20th century. Many of these pictures are of small towns which include: Advance, Bloomfield, Chaonia, Fulton, Harviell, Patterson, Taft, Williamsville, and Brunot; all within Missouri. Brooks took many portraits, sometimes using rural landscapes as his back drop. His pictures include the Bloomfield fire of 1912, the cyclone day in Advance in 1909, and an undated flood along State Highway 82. Many...

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Various scenes from Advance, Mo. including street scenes and businesses with two churches, a school and an image of Guy’s Wreck, a tornado that devastated parts of southeast Missouri in 1909. Also including images of Bloomfield, Mo., including scenes of the town, a fire in 1912, and images of the Stoddard County Courthouse. Images arranged by location.

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Images arranged by location, including the Harviell railroad depot in Harviell, Mo.., and the Taft, Mo. post office and Casebolt Dry Goods and Grocery.

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Image of the Fulton, Mo. railroad depot.

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Images arranged by location, including a Brunot, Mo. Stone quarry, the Chaonia, Mo. Mercantile and Iron Company, Patterson, Mo. Cemetery, and a Williamsville, Mo. Roller Mill Company.

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Images taken along Highway 82 during an undated flood.

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Contains businesses that identifiable by their storefronts although their locations are unspecified. These include C. L. Stevenson Store, Peter’s Shoes, and Payne’s Grill and Groceries.

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Various undated, unidentified photographs, which are arranged by subject, that include aerial photos, scenes from the countryside, unidentified family portraits, and school children.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Photographs, gelatin negatives, and glass plate negatives depicting life during the turn of the 20th century. Many of these pictures are of small towns which include: Advance, Bloomfield, Chaonia, Fulton, Harviell, Patterson, Taft, Williamsville, and Brunot; all within Missouri. Brooks took many portraits, sometimes using rural landscapes as his back drop. His pictures include the Bloomfield fire of 1912, the cyclone day in Advance in 1909, and an undated flood along State Highway 82. Many...

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Images of various scenes thorough the region, including Advance, Mo., Bloomfield, Mo., and Patterson, Mo.. Some of these negatives are damaged. Arranged bylocation, then by subject.