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"Bolivar Herald-Free Press Photo Collection"

 

 

04-ANP-02 Bolivar Herald Free Press Photo Collection 3A-2-1
 
Folder Contents

1

Handwritten article by Mary McKinney on the "building of a community" VanTown. Some names mentioned in the article are Rufus and Charley Chesser, Bud Brown, Harvey Ankrom, Van Burns, Uncle Billy Burns, Dr. Matt Haralson, Bill Smith, Frank Enyart, Andy Davis and Sylvester Smiley.

2

1976 "My Town" by Mrs. Mary A. Owens

A history of the Human family and Humansville.

3

Typed article on "Railroading Through Polk County: Author unknown.

Names mentioned in the article are ---Campbell and ---Dodson, Tom Burns, A. W. Liffee, --Staples. Dan Duden, C. A. Rutherford, M. L. Stone, "Peck Worth", Monk Evans, Pete Stewart, Gil Sidebottom, Sam Griffith and George Lunceford

4

Photocopy of a letter written by Elijah Collyer while in the Union Army to his wife at Mercer, MO, June 1862

5

Photocopy of Civil War Discharge Papers for Luwallyn M. Newland

6

Notes from interview with Frank Stufflebam

7

Copies of photos and articles about Goodnight Mill

8

Typed article on History of St. Wenceslaus Parish in Karlin, MO written by Rev. C. J. Francka 1 Mar 1917 Many names are listed including those present at the first meeting.

Typed article about Karlin in 1905 and "train time". Author unknown.

9

"The History of Aldrich" article handwritten by author unknown. Names included in article include Hensley, Powell, Roy Neil

Article about "Bobtown Store" handwritten by author unknown Edgar and Belva Rymer main people in article.

Article about "Simpson’s Molasses Mill" handwritten by Nancy Hale

10

"Eye on Nixon" magazine excerpt from

First Monday

June 1972 Special Edition

Published by Republican National Committee

11

Polk County Historama No. 1, 2, 3, 4

12

Centennial Articles and photographs including articles on Centennial Fashions, Polk County Bank, and Schools by Linda Engleman and an article on the Slave Riots

Photographs include

  1. Ozark School in 1911
  2. Old Days at the Herald Office
  3. Southward School
  4. Northward School
  5. Southward School
  6. The Kroger Grocery and Baking Co.
  7. Old Court House 1841
  8. New Court House
  9. Polk County Milling Co.
  10. 1924 Fair at Fairgrounds
  11. Polk County Bank, 1873-1892 (advertisement)

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Miscellaneous pictures from Humansville including a program of the Graduating Class of the Humansville Grammar School Wednesday, April 15, 1908.
  1. Unidentified
  2. Aerial view of Humansville
  3. Parade photo including Karleen McNeely in car
  4. Unidentified parade
  5. Aerial view of Humansville
  6. Humansville Baptist Church Members—no date
  7. Unidentified
  8. Humansville Community Center Building
  9. Humansville High School Graduation Class 15 April 1908

14

Miscellaneous photos
  1. Bolivar Basketball team 1929-30 no identification
  2. Sports team—unidentified
  3. Hargis Refrigerator Service Truck
  4. Unidentified building
  5. Storm damage—no date
  6. Bible School at First Baptist Church—no date
  7. Musical ensemble—no names or date
  8. Unidentified women—no date
  9. Unidentified women sign above them says Mathetropean
  10. Maupin women’s basketball team 1920
  11. Anna Stufflebam’s Country School in Polk County
  12. Kate Copeland, Bernie Morgenson, Anna Stufflebam, Miss---Jacobs Commerce teacher
  13. Stufflebam, Shady Grove School
  14. Unidentified

15

Miscellaneous photos from SWBC taken from a photo album

Page

  1. Unidentified group of women
  2. Two photos—unidentified one with women only, one mixed group
  3. Two photos—pencil lines running through top photo of men, bottom photo also contains pencil lines, group of women with one male
  4. Unidentified group of men with banner proclaiming Athenian
  5. Unidentified group of women with banner proclaiming Maupin
  6. Two photos with pencil lines running through them. Both photos are of a mixed group. No identification
  7. Unidentified group of men
  8. Unidentified group of men with banner proclaiming Philomathen
  9. Philomathean Band—no identification

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Miscellaneous photos
  1. Fireman—unidentified
  2. Bolivar High School graduating class of 1909 with names
  3. Large group of men standing in front of a building—unidentified
  4. Picture of cars parked along street—damage to trees and houses in background
  5. Negative—caption says "Appears to be camp meeting at "Old Jefferson" Bridge"
  6. Negative—caption says "Looking west on Broadway near beginning of World War I
  7. Negative—First National Bank built around 1907
  8. Superior Oil Co.—building and truck
  9. Generating plant
  10. Same as number 4
  11. "Junk Matinee" children’s scrap drive for WW II
  12. Unidentified building
  13. Dedication of Simon Bolivar statue—unveiling of statue
  14. Winter scene of bridge
  15. Unidentified building
  16. Unidentified person playing tennis
  17. See above
  18. See above
  19. See above
  20. East side of Bolivar Square
  21. Railroad cut
  22. Unidentified
  23. Canning factory
  24. Oil derrick (drill) Karlin area?

17

Miscellaneous photos of Bolivar Buildings
  1. Lake at Dunnegan Park
  2. Old Courthouse
  3. Cedar Grove Station
  4. Sid Hutcheson Tourist Court
  5. West Side Square, Bolivar
  6. Bolivar High School
  7. Polk County Jail Museum
  8. Unidentified
  9. Present Courthouse
  10. Post Office Block
  11. Unidentified
  12. View of Bolivar
  13. Southward School
  14. Unidentified church
  15. Construction of present court house
  16. Same as above
  17. Present Polk County Courthouse
  18. Two photos pieced together to show west side of square
  19. Unidentified

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Miscellaneous Political Pictures
  1. Unidentified
  2. John Ashcroft visiting with people
  3. John T. Russell
  4. Gerald Ford campaign rally
  5. Kit Bond
  6. Gene Taylor and others
  7. Emery Melton and John Russell
  8. Gene Taylor and others
  9. Negative for school board Loren Laird, Dr. Ben Koon and Bernard Francka
  10. Tom Eagleton
  11. Carolyn Bond and others
  12. Carolyn Bond
  13. Same picture as #11
  14. Gene Taylor
  15. Two girls putting a Taylor bumper sticker on car
  16. Carolyn Bond
  17. Gene Taylor and others
  18. Gene Taylor
  19. Gene Taylor
  20. Gene Taylor
  21. Gene Taylor
  22. Negative Pitts missing Willoughby on right
  23. Unidentified
  24. Negative unidentified
  25. Negative—Frank Willoughby for Presiding Judge
  26. Negative—Cecil Pitts for Presiding Judge—picture missing
  27. Willoughby
  28. Unidentified
  29. Negative—unidentified
  30. Unidentified
  31. Unidentified
  32. Tom Curtis
  33. Mildred Huffman
  34. John Ashcroft

19

Miscellaneous Pictures of People at Their Jobs
  1. Unidentified lady at sewing machine at the garment factory
  2. Garment factory
  3. Unidentified
  4. Photo board
  5. Peyton Schaffer
  6. Peyton Schaffer
  7. Two boys hauling hay
  8. Police stop
  9. Bill Marshall and Bob George
  10. Row of trucks
  11. Men standing in front of building—unidentified
  12. Bill Marshall
  13. Roy Bruce
  14. Old printing press
  15. Same as above but larger size
  16. Old printing press
  17. Working on a tractor

20

Civil War veterans in 1920s sitting in front of Watson Café: Joe Higginbotham, T.H.B. Dunnegan, William Lower Gid Higginbotham, Deardorf, Jum Pinter, Joe Howe, Dick Watkins And George Erwin.

Postal workers: Roy McReynolds, Lano Johnson, Heber Standley, Jimmy Loafman, Hobart Spurgeon, Irl Ruckman, Joe McCracken, Gene Moore, Esther Enyart, Willard Puthoff, Anna Stufflebam

21

Photos of James Burkhart prints of Bolivar c82

Courthouse, North Ward, Pavilion at Dunnegan Memorial Park, and Dunnegan Home

22

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Old Post Cards
  1. North Main Street, Bolivar
  2. East Broadway, Bolivar
  3. West Side Square, Bolivar
  4. North Main Street—same as #1
  5. Unidentified
  6. Old Polk County Courthouse, Built in 1841
  7. Bolivar Churches
  8. 2nd Regiment Band, N.G.M. of Bolivar at Aurora, MO 7-16-15
  9. New Stucco Passenger Station Frisco RR, Bolivar
  10. Anna Stufflebam and Polk County school where she taught
  11. Same as above
  12. Baptist Mission Quest Bolivar led by Pearl Stufflebam
  13. Group in front of Baptist Church
  14. Panoramic card of east side square, Bolivar
  15. Unidentified
  16. El Dorado Spgs Lake

23

Polk County Classics

75 photos original and/or copies, 45 negatives

2 postcards

tally sheet of pictures taken/received for book

Not all of these photos/negatives are for the Polk County Classics book. Some of them are for the centennial edition of the newspaper. But all were received in a folder marked "Polk County Classics"

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Miscellaneous pictures of Polk County People
  1. Unidentified magician performing on stage in front of court house
  2. Unidentified group
  3. Unidentified woman making straw wreaths
  4. Dr. Holmes talking to children
  5. Unidentified group
  6. Event at Fair Play High School gymnasium
  7. Bolivar School Board members—1975
  8. Nurse holding newborn in nursery
  9. Unidentified
  10. Polk County Bank Officers
  11. Highway patrolman with two young men
  12. Unidentified
  13. Robert M. McBain
    1. Unidentified
  1. Alvin D. Austin
  2. John Schneider
    1. Unidentified
  1. Mark Wiehe
  2. Senior Attendant—unidentified
  3. Carl Blomenkamp
  4. Unidentified
  5. Paula Pulley and David Smashey
  6. Bob Derryberry
  7. Jones Family
  8. Mark Stepp
  9. Wilma Jean Lower
  10. John Francka
  11. Lisa Forgey
  12. John Willis
  13. Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Stephens
  14. Charles Neuhart
  15. Unidentified
  16. Mark and Christy Hayes
  17. Mary Roberts
  18. Lori Sechler wedding photo
  19. Debra Hutcheson
    1. unidentified
  1. Jean Pufahl Vincent and unidentified lady
  2. Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Standley
  3. Unidentified
  4. Ellen Roweton (3 copies of same picture-numbered all 49)
  5. Bill McCracken
  6. Barbara Seiner and Phil Jones
    1. Unidentified

55. Woodrow and Ernestine Kinsey, Dean and Harlene Easter

25

Miscellaneous pictures of people receiving rewards
  1. Unidentified
  2. Steve Price and unidentified man
  3. Larry and Kathy Drake
  4. Unidentified
  5. Charlie Kruse and others
  6. Johnnie Carson retirement party
  7. Scarlett Mitchell, Serenity Kemp, Barry Isdell and others
  8. Louise Wimberly and others
  9. Livestock Judging contest winners at the 1981 MO state fair
  10. Jane Fullerton, Leslie Fullerton Jerri Sloan, Mark Bishop, Andy Hubbert
  11. unidentified
  12. unidentified
  13. Kevin Brown and David Cribbs
  14. Tom Stark
  15. Newspaper clipping Candy Davenport, Coral Fisher and Thersa Denny
  16. Photo of above newspaper clipping
  17. Ralph Childress retirement party
  18. Unidentified
  19. Unidentified
  20. Unidentified
  21. Larry and Kathy Drake

26

Miscellaneous photos of groups
  1. Unidentified group of boys
  2. Unidentified group at school—bass drums in foreground
  3. Class reunion picture—only one identified Travis Moore
  4. Dedication ceremony at lake ?
  5. 1963 Bolivar High School reunion picture
  6. Marlene Price, Donita Roberts and other unidentified people
  7. Unidentified group of women
  8. Unidentified
  9. Unidentified
  10. Unidentified class reunion picture
  11. Unidentified
  12. Unidentified women at salad luncheon
  13. Students holding globes they had made—no location given
  14. Pet day at school—unidentified
  15. Parade—unidentified

27

Miscellaneous pictures—agriculture related
  1. Old farm truck at gas station—unidentified
  2. Apples on branch
  3. Unidentified person with bull
  4. Jimmy Chastain with calf
  5. Karen Skopec
  6. Pleasant Hope FFA group—members unidentified
  7. Jane Fullerton with cow
  8. FFA members, Gerald Francka and 3 unidentified
  9. Same as above
  10. "This cow given away today"

28

Bridge Pictures

Four pictures all unidentified. One is of a wooden bridge.

29

Miscellaneous Photos
  1. Dubious Brothers musical group
  2. Kenny Haralson
  3. Woodlawn Barbeque Linda Brown and Ruth Dawes
  4. Unidentified musical group
  5. Same group as above
  6. Unidentified musical group
  7. Four snapshots of "The big storm, June 27, 1923"
  8. Mrs. Pearl Hunter of Fair Play w/quilt
  9. Unidentified men checking on foliage
  10. Unidentified group of girls
  11. Unidentified children at their graduation
  12. Unidentified group meeting with Gov. Bond
  13. Robbie Ott and Ralph Brown on sailboat
  14. Unidentified people dressed in old fashioned clothing at school carnival
  15. Unidentified 3 men
  16. At an archeological dig
  17. Unidentified
  18. Wohelo building
  19. Unidentified
    1. Unidentified and badly faded

24.unidentified, dressed up as clown in parade

  1. "Park here $5.oo per hour" sign

30

Springfield-Bolivar Oil & Gas Co. Papers (copies)

5 pages

31

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Negatives and Pictures for Bicentennial Section 1 July 1976
  1. Livery and Feed Stable
  2. Building of present court house
  3. Presbyterian Church
  4. First Court House
  5. Building of present Court House
  6. Oxen pulling a wagon
  7. Bolivar High School Band (10 members listed)
  8. Unidentified man and woman in car
  9. Last jury to be called in the old courthouse (with identification)
  10. Unidentified women in car dressed up in costume
  11. O.G. Teegarden Motor Co.
  12. Unidentified man plus 2 ration coupons for sugar
  13. View of Bolivar
  14. Same as above
  15. West side square, Bolivar
  16. Bolivar High School
  17. West Broadway, Bolivar
  18. Unidentified children in classroom dressed in period clothing
  19. Clipping from Herald of parade (4 views float, soldiers, band, and tank)
  20. Post card—old car decorated advertising flour
  21. Post card—Mamie Nash
  22. Negatives
  23. labeled "New M.E. Church north"
  24. Old Bolivar Milling Company
  25. South side Bolivar square after fire
  26. North side Bolivar square, 1885
  27. 2nd auditorium of First Baptist Church
  28. Old Court House
  29. West and south sides Bolivar square after WW II
  30. Old court house
  31. South Ward School before 1918
  32. View of Bolivar taken atop old college building 1889
  33. Two shots of fires on SWBC campus
  34. A.H. Lewis, First City Drug Store
  35. The Drake Block
  36. View of Bolivar taken atop old college building before 1913
  37. Steam powered train
  38. J.H. Gallihugh’s International parked in front of Polk County Bank near the beginning of WW I
  39. Train—M-18
  40. Motorcade in front of Cary Hotel
  41. Northeast corner of square after college fire of 1910
  42. Republicans gathered for parade and rally 1896
  43. Train—2130
  44. Churches of Bolivar
  45. Old city barber shop operated by John Davis
  46. View of Bolivar business district after brick block on north side burned 1894
  47. Looking west on Jackson Street
  48. Unidentified school
  49. Daniel Richard Murphy, pastor of First Baptist Church
  50. Jim Weaver and Joe Drake at Akard’s Roller Mill 1900
  51. First Bolivar public school building while being torn down 1903
  52. East side Main Street in Fair Play, 2 April 1917
  53. Cover for centennial section

Letter from Jim Sterling to Shapleigh Corporation w/response

Space reservation for ads in Simon Bolivar Commemorative Edition of the Bolivar Herald-Free Press

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Photos of Bolivar Business Buildings
  1. Polk County Bank
  2. View to south taken from courthouse (public library and Horton’s)
  3. Jim Dandy’s Pizza
  4. Court House 7 Sept. 1924
  5. Methodist Church 3 Feb 1924
  6. Mattinglys
  7. Plaza Shopping Center sign
  8. Northside Market
  9. Southern Hills Baptist Church
  10. Wommack Monument
  11. Woods
  12. Wohelo
  13. Old Wal-Mart
  14. Unidentified
  15. Hutcheson Real Estate sign
  16. Wade’s Super Market
  17. Polk County Health Center
  18. Noblitt Cleaners
  19. Inside Horton’s
  20. Same as above
  21. Sherman Shoe Service
  22. Noblitt Cleaners
  23. J&J Building Supply
  24. H&K Floor Covering
  25. Jim Dandy’s Pizza
  26. Alyce’s Fashion Closet
  27. Frogs and Friends Shop
  28. Towne Colony
  29. Citizen’s State Bank of Polk County
  30. Davison’s Shoes
  31. Braithwait Men’s and Boys’ Store
  32. Bolivar Equipment
  33. Woods
  34. Boss Computers
  35. Old saloon

33

Bolivar at work—people and businesses
  1. Unidentified
  2. Unidentified
  3. Town & Country Building ---, ---, Bob Wright, Derald Isdell
  4. Gordon’s TV
  5. J&J Building Supply
  6. Vesta and Gene Blue, Mrs. Claude Blue
  7. --- Florist
  8. Jim Dandy’s Pizza
  9. Bolivar Color Center—John and Iva Thomas
  10. Unidentified
  11. Gold Rush Restaurant
  12. Unidentified
  13. Bolivar Sewing Machine Shop
  14. Ralph and Mary Chillers, Charlie Early
  15. The Esquire Theatre
  16. Flower Patch
  17. Linda Noble Moore
  18. Unidentified
  19. Corner Closet
  20. Unidentified
  21. Woods’ employees
  22. Bill and Sandy Jones w/employees of Hackers
  23. Rose and Max Rewoven
  24. Steve and Sharon Zidlicky—Steve’s Gun Ranch
  25. Unidentified
  26. Long’s Bolivar Hardware employees
  27. Charlie Miller
  28. Mike and Linda Moore
  29. Unidentified
  30. Gerald Andrews, ---, ---, ---
  31. Unidentified beauty shop
  32. Brenda Owens PAT w/Doug, Linda and Emily Roller

34

Bolivar at work—more people and places
  1. Carter’s Jewelry
  2. Unidentified
  3. Unidentified
  4. Butler Realty
  5. Charlie Miller
  6. Unidentified toddler
  7. Unidentified graduate for ad on senior expenses
  8. Unidentified
  9. John and Mary Ann Smashey
  10. Unidentified
  11. John and Iva Thomas
  12. Candy Stripers—unidentified
  13. Unidentified
  14. Unidentified
  15. John and Iva Thomas
  16. Estill Zumwalt
  17. ---, ---, Elizabeth Campbell, Donna Jones at Horton’s
  18. Unidentified
  19. Unidentified
  20. Aladdin Printing
  21. Oby and Nina Jester
  22. Deanna & Jim Forgey, Bennie Wilson
  23. Bud Chappell
  24. Tom Jenkins, ---
  25. Bob Marsden
  26. Bill Jester
  27. Mr. Dunnegan w/rose
  28. Unidentified boy eating sundae

35

Musical Groups

Four pictures of group including Curtis Voris, Phil Jones, Gary Sherman

36

"Municipal Information for the Residents of the City of Bolivar" a pamphlet published in 1976

"A Message to the Homeseeker" copy of informative booklet about Bolivar in early half of the century

37

Miscellaneous papers from collection
  • Article on the beginnings of the Humansville Star-Leader published 17 May, 1984
  • Funeral memorial card for Ralph Gravely
  • Negative of Wommack Monument
  • Unidentified photograph of river
  • Unidentified photograph of children playing
  • Copy of "Comparative Statement of the Eight Banks of Cedar County"
  • The Virginia Gazette, #1013
  • Clipping about Joe Gravely buying the free Press 1891
  • Flyer of Shipwreck History Interpretation and Preservation Society
  • Article by Jim Hamilton entitled "The Truth about Santa" undated

 

04-ANP-02 Bolivar Herald-Free Press Photo Collection 3A-2-2
 
Folder Contents

1

"Impressions of Bolivar" Aug-Sept 1971

Publication from Missouri Photo Workshop held in Bolivar in 1970

Two copies—one is marked with identification of people and places

2

"Rangefinder" 1970

Program and Guidelines for the photo workshop Nov. 8, 1970

Includes list of workshop leaders and participants as well as rules

3

Photos in box with photos from 1970 photo workshop
  1. NASA presentation at Bolivar Elementary School
  2. Copy of students and teacher
  3. Group with following identified: Ralph Buckner, Raymond Sechler, Donald Dunseth, Lendel Voris, Bob Fullerton, Fred Johnson, Glen Breshears, Bill Grant and Bud Thomas

4

"I Broke into the Bolivar Jail"

Article in the 22 Mar 1971 edition of National Geographic School Bulletin

Story and photos by Bianca Lavies, School Bulletin Staff

Complete bulletin enclosed

5

Miscellaneous Papers
  1. Newspaper clippings from Bolivar Herald-Free Press on 1993 Missouri Photo Workshop
  1. "Rangefinder" Oct. 2, 1993 containing list of staff members, participants, and guidelines for workshop.
  2. Handwritten notes from interview Aug. 4, 1993 about workshop—unknown writer
  3. "A letter from photojournalist George Rodger, a founder of Magnum, to his son" dated July 15, 1970
  4. Team story list dated Wed., Oct. 6, 1993
  5. Memo to Judy, Sue, Jim from Dave Berry about workshop
  6. "Thursday Report" September 23, 1993 from ken Legan
  7. Registration form for "The 45th Annual Missouri Photo Workshop"

6

Duplicate prints from Photo Workshop 1993

#90 two workers from Korean House (2 copies)

#91 in the kitchen at Korean House (3 copies)

#94 Bolivar Apco—Harold and Millie Eversoll

7

Duplicate prints from Photo Workshop 1993

#38

#37 two boys playing (2 copies)

#36 children walking down the road

#35 Pat Johnson at the elementary school

#28 unknown

#27 woman giving child a bath (2 copies)

#26 getting a hug—unidentified

#24 getting a haircut—unidentified

#34 unidentified

8

Duplicate prints from Photo Workshop 1993

#1 Bernard Francka

#3 At the Nifty Café (2 copies)

#7 Bernard Francka (2 copies)

#8 Bernard Francka

#10 walking out the book store—unidentified

#13 asleep on the couch—unidentified

#16 officer with prisoner going down steps at courthouse

9

Duplicate prints from Photo Workshop 1993

#40 unidentified—checker game

#41 unidentified—at the counter

#42 unidentified (4 copies)

#49 unidentified (2 copies)

10

Duplicate Prints from Photo Workshop 1993

#50 boy and swan at park (2 copies)

#51 Keith Robinson and unidentified person

#52 Elizabeth Rohrs (3 copies)

#54 Elizabeth and Jaclyn Rohrs (4 copies)

#55 unidentified (2 copies)

11

Duplicate prints from Photo Workshop 1993

#60 at sale barn (2 copies)

#62 unidentified

#63 unidentified (3 copies)

#65 unidentified

#66 praying—unidentified (6 copies)

12

Duplicate prints from Photo Workshop 1993

#74 Kenny Degraffenreid pulling calf

#76 unidentified (4 copies)

#77 two children playing soccer

#78 Patricia Schneider

13

Duplicate prints from Photo Workshop 1993

#80 saw mill

#83 cutting down tree (2 copies)

#85 moving hay bales

#88 cattle

#100 old hands

#102 Bernard Francka and dog (2 copies0

#108 dog looking at poster of dogs

14

Duplicate prints from Photo Workshop 1993

#112 leaving physical therapy—unidentified

#113 checking x-rays (2 copies)

#115 visiting the sick (5 copies)

#116 physical therapy—unidentified

15

Duplicate prints from Photo Workshop 1993

#120 unidentified child swinging on rope

#118 unidentified child w/hat (2 copies)

#117 mother and child

#121 walking up the walls (7 copies)


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Located on the southeast corner of the courthouse square in Bolivar, MO