In today’s world, we are inundated with pictures and everyone has a camera on their phone.  It wasn’t always that way.  Taking pictures was a much bigger deal, and keeping them from being damaged or decomposing with age has been a challenge for historians for many years.  Here are a few Missouri photos that have survived to show us a glimpse of what once was.

1. Aunt Dort and Sputnick, 1958
Flickr/ ROBERT HUFFSTUTTER
2. Guy and His Car, Late 1920's
Flickr/ freeparking
3. Andy F. Scott and the Anderson Special Race Car, Kansas City, Missouri 1915
Flickr/ William Creswell
4. Old Court House. 11 North Fourth Street, St. Louis. Photograph by Joseph Hampel, 1946.
Flickr/ Missouri History Museum
5. Family Portrait, date unknown
Flickr/ freeparking
6. Boys of Summer, 1950, Exploring Jesse James Cave near Missouri River
Flickr ROBERT HUFFSTUTTER
7. Four men in an old automobile - T.D. Martin, C.J. Hammons, H.P. Hyde and E.L. Dickerson, Springfield, 1908
Flickr/ Named Faces from the Past

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8. Title: Newsboy. Little Fattie. Less than 40 inches high, 6 years old. Been at it one year. May 9th, 1910. Location: St. Louis, Missouri. Creator(s): Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer. Date Created/Published: 1910 May 9.
Flickr/ Children’s Bureau Centennial’s
9. Joseph Moffet in Ridgeway Missouri - 1920’s or 1930’s
Flickr/ Jo Naylor
10. Ghosts of 50 Years Ago
Flickr/ ROBERT HUFFSTUTTER
11.May 27, 1896 Tornado hits South Broadway, St. Louis, Mo.
"St. Louis, Mo. tornado May 27, 1896 south broadway" by Westkentuckygenealogy - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
12. Walnut St., Downtown Kansas City, Mo. 1906
Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
13. Child shoe workers in Kirksville, Missouri, 1910
Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
14. Frank (right) and Jesse James in 1872
"Jesse and Frank James" by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, photographer not specified or unknown - U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Digital Visual LibraryImage pageImage description pageDigital Visual Library home page. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
15. Irish immigrants in Kansas City, Missouri, c. 1909
"Irish immigrants 1909" by Deceased family member - Family photo scanned by User:Jeanne boleyn. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

So much history, and it’s important to keep these treasures alive.  Feel free to share your own photos in the comments below!

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