Research Vertical Files: Carthage History Collection Topics
(Updated Summer 2005 by summer intern Catherine Zellmer of Missouri Southern State University)

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A — B D — F P — R
C — Ca G — K S — T
Ce — Cz L — O U — Z

Pictures and Illustrations


A – B

African-Americans in Carthage
Agriculture (US and Jasper County)
Agricultural Implement Stores
Agricultural Fairs/Pre-Knell Fair
Airdome Theater
Airport
Allen Family (pre-1900)
Almshouse (Fair Acres County Home)
Amsden Farm & Family
Anderson Home; 311 E 13th (See Sweet Home)
Ankeney, J S
Architects in Carthage
Architecture; Building Lists
Architecture; Commercial
Architecture; Pre-Civil War
Architecture; Residential
AR-MO League (Baseball)
Arlin, Harold
Arlington Hotel (See Hotels)
Armory Building (formerly skating rink)
Arnosti Marble Company
artCentral
Artists of Carthage; Contemporary
Artists of Carthage; Historic
Ash (Byron) Home (1055 S Garrison)
Astra Products (See also Bottling Works)
Atlas Powder Company or Atlas Chemical Company
Attorneys (See Law Profession)
Authors in Carthage
Automobiles & Auto Dealers
Aylor Family

Bailey Family
Bakeries & Baking Companies
Ball Building
Bands & Orchestras
Bank of Carthage
Banks in Carthage; Misc. (See also individual company names)
Barnes Family
Barns & Farm Buildings
Bartlett - Goodwin Family
Bartlett Block, 420-426 S Main
Baseball in Carthage (See also KOM League, AR-MO League, team names, etc.)
Basketball in Carthage
Battle of Carthage
Battle of Carthage State Park
Battle of Carthage; Accounts from Ft. Scott, KS
Battle of Carthage; Accounts of
Battle of Carthage; Civil War Soldiers
Battle of Carthage; Re-Enactments
Baxter, Annie (See special file drawer for Annie Baxter)
Beimdiek Family
Benschoter Family
Benton School
Benton, Thomas Hart (Joplin Mural)
Bethel Baptist Church
Bethel Church
Bicentennial Celebration in Carthage
Big Smith (See also Smith Bros Mfg)
"Bill Spivens"
Birds-eye Views of Carthage
Birkhead Family
Bissell, Elliott
Bistline, Simon
Blair Family
Blair, Emily Newell (See special file drawer on subject)
Block & Brothers Grocery & Block Family
Bloomers
Board of Realtors
Board of Trade (prior to Chamber of Commerce)
Boarding Houses
Bodenhamer, J.A.
Boggess Family & Home (1218 S Maple)
Boon Family & Home (226 W 4th)
Boots Drive-In (120 S Garrison)
Boots Motor Court or Boots Motel (107 S Garrison)
Bottling Works
Bowling Alleys & Bowling Leagues
Boy Scouts
Boyd Family
Boylan Family
Bright, H L
Briles, B S
Brinker, Clyde
Brinkerhoff Family & House (1141 S Grand)
Brinkley Family
Broadview Country Club
Brooks (Miss Sarah) School
Brown Lumberyard
Browns (Baseball team); 1890s
Browns (Baseball team); 1940s
Brownsill Family
Bryan Family
Bryant Garage
"Buffalo Tracks" (See Marvin Van Gilder; Writings & Columns by)
Building Trades
Bullmoose Party
"Bunion Derby" (1928 & 1929; Pyle's Inter-continental Foot Race)
Burch (Dr E J) Home (1803 S Maple)
Bureau of Public Welfare
Burkett-Andrews Dry Goods
Burlingame & Chaffee Opera House
Burlingame, W L
Business Men's League
Businesses [Organized by Decades]
Businesses; Women Owned - Contemporary
Businesses; Women Owned - Historic
Butcher, Sam (See also Precious Moments)

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C– Ca

Caffee Drug Company & Caffee Family
Caffee-Wright Wedding
Cahn, Albert & Cahn Dry Goods
Calhoon, W W
Calhoon-Putnam Lumber
Calhoun (William) School of Music
Cameo Theater
Camp Crowder (See WW II; Camp Crowder/Special Files)
Campbell-Wright Mercantile
Campfire Girls
C & W Cafe
Candy or Confectionery Stores
Canning Works (See also Magee, J H)
Cantrell's Seed House
Carmean House
Carmo Shoe (See also Shoe Industry/Shoe Factories)
Carriage or Wagon Shops
Carter (Hardware & Carter C C
Carter (Dr James A) Home; E Chestnut Rd
Carter Park
Carthage Artifacts (Ancient Carthage Artifacts)
Carthage Banner Newspaper
Carthage Business College
Carthage Centennial Celebration (1942)
Carthage Chamber of Commerce
Carthage Charity Union
Carthage Collegiate Institute
Carthage Cornice Works
Carthage Creamery
Carthage Crushed Limestone Company
Carthage Democrat (Newspaper)
Carthage Dimension & Flag Stone Company
Carthage Equal Suffrage Association
Carthage Foundry & Machine Works
Carthage Hardware
Carthage High School [Organized by class year and misc. subjects]
Carthage Historic Preservation, Inc.
Carthage Hospital (1906-1929)
Carthage Ice and Cold Storage Company
Carthage Junior High School
Carthage Light & Fuel Company
Carthage Light Guard (Militia)
Carthage Light Guard Band
Carthage Marble & Building Stone Company
Carthage Marble & White Lime Company
Carthage Marble Corporation
Carthage Marble Works/Carthage Monumental Works
Carthage Mattress & Mfg Company/Carthage Bedspring Company
Carthage Monumental Stone Quarry Company
Carthage Music Club
Carthage National Bank
Carthage Patriot (Newspaper)
Carthage Pioneer (Newspaper)
Carthage Planing Mill
Carthage Pottery
Carthage Press
Carthage Printing Company
Carthage Quarry Company
Carthage Sash & Door Company
Carthage Sawmill
Carthage Schools (See Specific School Names)
Carthage Special Road Districts
Carthage Sportsmens Protective League
Carthage Spring Mill
Carthage Stone Company
Carthage Stone -- Miscellaneous Research (Special Research Files)
Carthage Superior Spring Bed Manufacturing Company
Carthage Water & Electric Plant
Carthage Windmill Company
Carthage Woolen Mill
Carthage (Various historical treatments, maps, etc)
Carthage, Spain
Carthage, Tunisia
Carthage, USA (other Carthage towns in America)
Cassaday Block
Cassil House II (also known as Fenimore House)
Cassil Place
Cassil, Gustave & House I
Casteel, Herbert C
Caulkins Family (W. R. & A. L.; see also Sho-to-all Theatre)
Cave Spring School
Caves in Carthage

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Ce– Cz

Cemeteries in Carthage
Center Building
Center Creek Stone Company
Central National Bank
Central Park
Central School
Century Club
Chautauqua in Carthage
Chautauqua Literary & Scientific Circles
Chautauqua; African-Americans
Chautauqua; History (National Movement & NY Info)
Chicago 1933 World's Fair (Carthage Display at)
China Painting
Chitwood Family
Christian Endeavor Societies
Christian Science Church
Christmas in Carthage
Chrysanthemum Shows
Chubb, Ida M
Church of Christ (Grant St)
Church of God
Churches in Carthage
Cigar Industry
Circus in Carthage
City Council & Carthage Government
City Hall; 1883 Bldg
City Hall; 1992 Bldg
Civil Defense
Civil War Monument
Civil War Museum
Civil War in Jasper County
Civil War in Missouri
Civilian Conservation Corps
Claflin House (135 Forest)
Carkson, James Douglas
Cleaners & Laundries
Clinton Family
Clothing & Dry Goods Stores
Coahuila Mine Company
Coal Mining in Southwest Missouri
Cochran, George
Coffield, Eleanor
College of Our Lady of the Ozarks
College Pharmacy
Collier Family
Colonial Theatre
Columbian School
Conard, Kate (Artist)
Congregation of Mother Co-Redemptrix
Congregational Church
Conkling, Roscoe Powers
Consolidated Marble & Stone Company
Cook Books of Carthage
Cooking Schools in Carthage
Coolbrook
Co-op Kitchen
Corn Shows
Cowgill & Hill Milling
Cowgill Home (Lloyd)
Cox - Leidy Wedding (See also Leidy Family)
Crane Theater
Crane Family
Crimes
Crowder Family Genealogy
Cumberland Presbyterian Church
Cunningham, George P

Availability of files is subject to the museum's own use of them as well as some off-site use by government officials, newspaper reporters, National History Day students and other special projects. The museum advises telephone or email contact with the museum prior to your visit if you anticipate using any of these files. Contents of the files represent past research projects of the museum and files may contain one single article or advertisement or may have multiple items. Again, inquiries in advance of your visit are strongly suggested. To contact the Powers Museum by e-mail, click here.


D– F

Dairy Industry in Carthage
Dale, E L & Robert (Families of)
Damon Building & Family
Daughters of the American Revolution, Rhoda Fairchild Chapter (Now NSDAR)
Daugherty Family
Davey Home (1st - 631 S McGregor)
Davey Home (2nd - 1130 Grand Ave)
Davis & Murphy Store
Davis, Lowell
Deal & Garver Drugs
DeArman, Emma
Decker, Perl
Del Monte Apartments
Delphus Theater
Dent Family
Dentists in Carthage (Also check in Physcians file)
Department Stores (See also Clothing Stores or individual store names)
Depression in Carthage (Numerous folders & most federal programs)
Description of Carthage (Arranged by decades; also some focus years)
Deutsch, Albert B & Deutsch Clothing Store
Dickey Family
Disasters (Arranged by decades)
Doctors (See Physicians; also individual doctor names)
Drake, Alfred M & Drake Hardware
Drake Hotel
Dressmakers in Carthage
Drive-Ins in Carthage
Drug Stores in Carthage
Dry Good Stores in Carthage
Dumars, Charles (See also Carthage Light Guard Band)
Dunkard Church
Durham Family
During, H T & During Dry Goods

Eagle Mills
Eagle's Lodge
Early Settlers of Carthage and Area
Eastridge Family & House
Edgewater Park
Ehlers, A
Elections (Arranged by decades/years)
Elections; Women In
Electricians
Elite Theatre
Elk's Club
Elk's Fair
Ellis, Jerry
Elmhurst Hospital (of Webb City)
Emerson (Oscar & Etta) Home
Empire Electric Power & Supply Company
Enterprise Wagon Works
Epworth League
Equal Suffrage Association (See also Carthage Equal Suffrage Assn)
Esterly, B H
Eugene Field School
Events (Arranged by decades)
Extension Clubs

Factory Buildings in Carthage (See also individuals company names)
Fadler House (Olive Street)
Fair Acres [County Home]
Fair Acres Family YMCA
Fairview Christian Church
Fairview Greenhouse
Faith Lutheran Church
Famous Carthaginians
Famous Jasper County People (non-Carthage)
Famous Visitors to Carthage
Famous Missourians
Farmers & Drovers Bank (Wilbur Bldg)
Ferguson, Richard
Films of Carthage
Fire Department
First Assembly of God
First Baptist Church
First Christian Church
First Church of Christ, Scientist
First Methodist Church
First National Bank (See also Banks)
First Presbyterian Church
First United Meth Church (See also First Methodist Church)
Fishing (See also Carthage Sportsmen Protective League)
Fitzer Family
Flanigan Family (See also Law Profession)
Flexo-Lators
Flower Parade
Flowers Family & House (Dr F W & Mrs Mary)
Food Manfacturers in Southwest Missouri
Food Preparation
Foor, Lucy
Football
Ford Family
Fourth of July Holiday in Carathage
Fox Family Genealogy
Frank, Sarah
Franklin School
Fraternal Organizations in Carthage (See also individual lodges by name)
Free Methodist Church
Frisco Railroad (Saint Louis & San Francisco Railroad Company; known locally as "Frisco")
Fruit Growers & Sellers in Carthage
Fry Lumberyard
Fullerton Cemetery & Family
Fulton, Dr L W
Furniture Factories in Carthage
Furniture Stores in Carthage

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G– K

Galbraith (Karr) Home (S Maple & Miller)
Gammon Building
Garland Center
Garland House & Family (Henry)
Garrison Street
Garrison, Benjamin
Gas Stations in Carthage
Gas Stations; Rt 66 locations only
Gas Service Company
Gerkey Family
German Baptist Convention
Germans in Carthage
Gladden & Mix Building
Globe Flour Mill (Cowgill & Hill)
Goettel's Dairy Creme
Golden Remedy Company
Goldstein, A H
Golfing & Golf Clubs in Carthage
Good Roads Movement (See also Clarkson, J.D.)
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
Goodman Manufacturing
Goucher (David) House (1309 S Main)
Grace Episcopal Church
Grain Dealers in Carthage
Grand Army of the Republic
Grand Avenue
Grand Opera House
Gratz Clothing
Gray, Carl R
Gray, Howard
Greenback Party
Greenhouse or Floral Industry in Carthage
Greenwood, Franklin
Grieb Family
Grill-Aid (W L Winchester)
Griswold Grocery
Grocery Stores in Carthage
Ground House (1128 S Garrison)
Guinn Family & Home
Gun Club

Haas, Mabel
Hackett, Karl (Actor)
Hackney, B F
Hair Dealers
Hall, Dr Elizabeth (Mrs Elizabeth Ketchum)
Hall Family & Livery
Hall, John
Halloween in Carthage
Hangings in Carthage
Hannum Building
Hardaway Family
Harding, Horace
Hardware Stores in Carthage
Hargis & Chapman Store
Harrington Business Block (125-127 E 3rd)
Harrington Company
Harrington Hotel
Harris Family
Harrison, D A
Harrison, Ella (See special research file)
Hatch, W H (& Store)
Haughawout Family
Havens Family & Havens Livery
Hawthorne School
Health Issues
Hench Family
Hercules Explosion (1966(
Hercules Powder Company
Herrin Family & Home (728 W Central)
Hesselberg, Rhetia
Heston, Watson
Higdon (A A) Family & House
Highway 60
Highway 66 (See also special research files)
Highway 71
Highway 71 Bypass
Highway 71 Viaducts
Highways & Roads; Misc. history & movements
Hill House
Hill, Peter
Hillcrest Addition in Carthage
Hispanic Community in Carthage
Hoag Family
Hodges, E C Family
Hodges, Leigh Mitchell & Hodges Family
Hodson (Fred) Clothing
Holbrook Drug Store
Holiness Church
Holman, Mrs
Holt Electric
Holt Family
Home Federal Savings & Loan Association
Home Lumber
Hometown Bank
Hood Family
Hooker, Ralph
Hoppin, Ruth
Hornback, Samuel & Family
Horse & Mule Breeders in Carthage
Horse Racing in Carthage
Hospitals in Carthage
Hotels in Carthage (See also individual names)
Houdini in Carthage & Joplin
Houser, S H
Hout Family
Howell, Bea
Hubbell, Carl
Huggins, Frank
Hunter, Ralph
Hunting, Hunt Clubs & Hunters
Huntley Family
Hyde House & Family
I

Ice Plants in Carthage (See also individual company names)
ICI Explosives
Ihlseng Family
Immigration (1860s - 1870s)
"In Society" Column
Incandescent Gas, Light & Fuel Company
Independent Gravel Company
Independent Powder Plant
Industry in Carthage (Arranged by decades; also see individual company names)
Insurance Companies in Carthage
Interstate Vending Company
Inventors/Patents (who lived in Carthage)
Iraq War (See also Library of Congress Veterans History Project Files)
Iron Mountain Railroad Company
Irving School

Jackson Drug Company
Jacobs, B F
Jacobs (E B) House/Family
Jasper County
Jasper County & Marion Building & Loan Association
Jasper County 4-H & Fair (see also F F A)
Jasper County Bank
Jasper County Bar Association
Jasper County Courthouse
(NOTE: following folders are in chronological order NOT alphabetical)
Jasper County Courthouse; 1st Log Bldg 1841
Jasper County Courthouse; 1849-1854 Bldg
Jasper County Courthouse; 1866-1893 NO Bldg
Jasper County Courthouse; Elections (to build courthouse)
Jasper County Courthouse; 1894-1895 Bldg
Jasper County Courthouse; Architect
Jasper County Courthouse; Builder
Jasper County Courthouse; Superintendent
Jasper County Courthouse; Cornerstone Laying Ceremony 1894
Jasper County Courthouse; Construction
Jasper County Courthouse; Dedication 1895
Jasper County Courthouse; 1895 Press-Women's Edition
Jasper County Courthouse; Directories/Officers
Jasper County Courthouse; Lights
Jasper County Courthouse; Museum
Jasper County Courthouse; National Register Nomination/Award
Jasper County Courthouse; Clock
Jasper County Courthouse; Peace Star
Jasper County Courthouse; Souvenirs
Jasper County Courthouse; Cornerstone Centennial 1994
Jasper County Courthouse; Opening Centennial 1995
Jasper County Courthouse Quilt; 1895
Jasper County Courthouse Quilt; 1995
Jasper County Historical Society
Jasper County History & Founding of
Jasper County Horticulture Society
Jasper County Jail
Jasper County Maps
Jasper County Medical Society
Jasper County Mine Operating Company
Jasper County Mines (See special research files on MINING)
Jasper County Old Settlers Association
Jasper County Rural Schools & Teachers
Jasper County Sesqui-centennial
Jasper County Song Convention
Jasper, William (county's namesake)
Jaycee Organization
Jefferson City; Carthaginians (working in)
Jefferson Highway (Various states along route & misc. information; see also special research files and James Douglas Clarkson)
Jewelry Stores & Watch Makers in Carthage
Jewish Citizens of Carthage
Johns Family & Homes (See also Ulmer Funeral Home)
Johns, Emma (See also DeArman, Emma)
Junior Shakespeare Society
Juvenile Shoe Company

K D M O
K O A M
Kansas City Southern Railroad
Kansas Oklahoma Missouri (K O M) League
Karbe Grocery
Karr Hotel
Kaut-Reith Shoe Company
Kavandi, Janet (Sellers) -- NASA Astronaut
Kearney-Damon Dry Goods
Keim & McMillan Hardware
Kellogg Family
Kellogg House
Kellogg Lake
Kellogg Monument Company
Kendrick House in Kendricktown
Kendrick Quarry
Keynote (Musical Magazine)
Kilbourne Family
Killgore, Sarah
Killingsworth
Kindergartens in Carthage
King, Dr W H K (Home of)
Kirchner Family
Kiwanis Organization
Knell, Emma
Knell Fair
Knell Family
Knell Mortuary
Knight, Augusta
Knight, Mack
Knight, Rev Dr William
Knights of Pythias
Knights Templar
Koken Family & Home
Koogler Family
Koontz Family
Korean War & Korean Veterans
Korn Family
Kress 5 & 10
Kroger Grocery
Klu Klux Klan

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L– O

Labors Tribune (Newspaper)
Lakeside Park
Lamb, Joe
Lampkin, Alfred Avery
Lang Family
Lanpher Brothers
Lautz Family & Lautz Marble Company (Lautz, McNerney Marble Company)
Lawyers in Carthage
League of Women Voters
Lease, Mary E (speaking in Carthage)
Leggett House
Leggett & Platt, Inc.
Leidy & Company (Furniture)
Lewis Family
Library (Carthage Public Library; Carnegie Library)
Library (Pre-Carnegie Carthage Public Library)
Lincoln School
Lindsey, Rev Lucy
Linn, Lt Col William D
Linn, Marian Powers
Lions Club
Literary Societies
Liveries in Carthage
Locarni Marble
Log City, Missouri (on Route 66)
Logan House & Family
Logsdon Family
Lucas Home
Luke (James) Home & Family
Lumber Yards in Carthage
Luscombe Family
Lyceum in Carthage
Lynchings

Maas & Cahn Store
Magee (J H) Canning Works
Mail Service in Carthage (See also Post Office)
Main Street Presbyterian Church
Main Street; Views & Misc
Malang, B F
Maple Lane Farms
Maple Leaf Festival
Maple Trees in Carthage
Maps of Carthage; 1895
Maps of Carthage; Misc Dates
Marian Days (See also Congregation of the Mother Co-Redemptrix)
Maring, Col Wilbur F
Marion Building & Loan Association (See Jasper County Savings & Loan)
Mark Twain School
Market Fair
Marrs (R E L) Home (1030 S McGregor)
Mason & Platt Furniture Company
Mateer Home
Matrimonial Club
Mattenlee Sanitarium
May Day or May Fete
Mayerhoff, J
Mayes (Roy) Family
McCawley, Alfred L; Family of & Home
McCormick's Grocery
McCrillis & Gilfillan Murder Trial
McCrillis Block
McCrillis Building
McCubbin Store/Family
McCune Brooks Hospital (1929 Bldg)
McCune Brooks Hospital (2006 Bldg)
McDaniel & Morrow Mill (see Morrow Mill)
McDaniel Milling Company
McElroy Family & Home (1301 S Grand)
McGregor, Malcolm G
McMillian Family
McMurtrys Department Store
McNerney (P J) Building
McNerney Family
McReynolds, Allen, Jr
McReynolds, Allen, Sr
McReynolds, Armilda
McReynolds, Sam (and mis. family members)
Meat Dealers & Meat Markets in Carthage
Melugin Family
Memorial Day
Memorial Hall
Mercantile Bank (See Banks)
Methodist Church, South
Mexican Border Wars; Carthage Soldiers in
Midwest Gathering of the Artists
Miller Grocery or Miller (W P) Family & Home
Miller Livery
Miller, W H
Milliners in Carthage
Mills & Milling Industry (Flour Mills)
Milton's Men Store
Mimosa Trees
Mineral Cities Railway
Mining Industry (See special research files)
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Missouri Valley League
Missouri White Lime & Stone Company
Missouri Woolen Mill
Mitchell (J A) Family & Home
Mitchell, Shell
Monett Family
Monitor School
Montaque Family
Montgomery (R H) Home (1500 Grand)
Mooneyham Family
Moore, Robert & Family
Morrow Family
Morrow Lumberyard
Morrow Mill
Moss Family & Moss Cemetery
Moss, Dr & Moss Springs
Motels
Mothers Congress / P T A
Mule Cars (Mule-drawn Street Cars)
Mule Dealers & Sales in Carthage
Municipal Park
Music Teachers (See also: Calhoun, W L)
Musicians
Myers Airfield and/or Airport
Myers Stone Quarry
Myers (A L) Clothing Store
Myers Park
Myers, W B

N N C (Womans Club)
NationsBank (See Banks)
Nazarene Church
Nesbitt Family
Newell Family & Home (1221 S Garrison)
Newton, Kate
New Years Day Activities
Nucarth Stone Company

Oak Hill Cemetery
Oak Street
"The Oaks" (Morgan Heights)
Oddfellows & I O O F Lodge
O'Keefe Home (Cassil Place or West Central)
Old Cabin Shop
Old Settlers Picnic (See also Moss Springs)
Onstott, Judge John
Opticians in Carthage
Osage Indians
Osborn Bottling & Confectionery
Osborn, E P
Osborn Family
Osborn Grocery
Ott Foods
Our Lady of the Ozarks
Ozark District Fair
Ozark Hatchery
Ozark Junior College
Ozark Monumental Stone Company
Ozark Playgrounds Association
Ozark Quarry Company
Ozark Regional Land Trust
Ozarks Region; Misc.
Ozark Trails Association (Early Highway)
Ozark Wesleyan College

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P– R

Parades in Carthage
Park Board & Parks in Carthage (See also individual park names)
Park Cemetery
Parkell, A B
Pattison, Prof Salem G
Patterson, W W
Pearl Mills (Later Morrow Mill)
Peddycoart Family
Penney Store (J C Penney Store)
PEO
People's Ice Plant
People's Press
Perkins, Judge Joseph D
Perkins, Marlin
Peterson, Fanny
Pfenninger, Albert (stone carver)
Pfifer, Fred House & Family
Phelps House
Phelps, William H (aka Colonel Phelps)
Photographers in Carthage (See also individual names)
Physicians in Carthage
Physicians; Female
Pickel Stone Company
Pierce City, MO; Lynching in
Pioneer Cemetery
Pioneer Club
Pirates Baseball Team
Platt, C B & Family
Platt's Plow Factory
Platt-Porter Grocery
Playgrounds
Pleasant Valley School
Poirot, E M "Gene"
Police Department
Pollard Block I (135-141 S Main)
Pollard Block II (311-315 S Main; Ramsay's Department Store)
Pollard Family
Populist Movement in Carthage
Porter Grocery & Porter Family
Postcards of Carthage
Post Family
Post Office (United States Post Office, various locations)
Post Office Book Store
Poultry Growers & Sellers in Carthage
Pow Wow Events in Carthage
Powder Mill
Powers - Wright Wedding (1903)
Powers Family Genealogy
Powers Family Timeline
Powers Family; Misc
Powers Home, 314 Euclid Boulevard
Powers Museum
Powers, Everett
Powers, Everett; Medical Career
Powers, Everett; World War I Service
Powers, Marian Louisa; Childhood & Young Adult Years
Powers, Marian Louisa; Red Cross Career
Powers, Marian Wright
Powers, Marian Wright; Musical Career
Prather, J A
Pratt, Esther
Precious Moments Chapel
Prigmore Family
Progressive Party in Carthage
Prohibition & Local Option in Carthage
Prospect Street
Prostitution in Carthage
Public Works in Carthage
Putnam Family

Queen City Band
Queen City Brick Yard
Queen Contests
Quilts (See also Ramsay's Quilt Fair)
Quinn & Naughton Wagon Works

Race Relations in Carthage
Rader, George
Radio
Ragtime Festival
Ragtime Music (See also James Scott, Clarence Woods)
Railroads
Rainwater, James
Ralston Family
Ramsay's Department Store
Ramsays Quilt Fair
R & S Chevrolet
Real Estate Dealers in Carthage
Red Cross (or Easter Jasper County Red Cross)
Red Oak II (See also Lowell Davis)
Redmond, Kathryn E
Reed, Bertha
Reed, Terry
Regan Building
Regan Lumber Yard
Republican Party
Rest Center (in Courthouse)
Restaurants & Bakeries in Carthage
Riverside Park
Roach (Cornelius/E B) Family
Roach Family (Joplin)
Roads & Highways around Carthage
Robinson Bros Dry Goods
Robinson Family
Rodeo in Carthage
Roessler Family
Rogers Family
Roller Skating or Roller Rink
Roos, Jacob
Rose, G A & Home
Rose Home (Country Home; also known as Dickie Home)
Rose Mercantile
Rosenthal Family
Ross, J S
Rotary Club
Route 66 (See Highway 66)
Rude's Business College
Ruffin & McDaniel
Ruffin, J T
Rush Family

Availability of files is subject to the museum's own use of them as well as some off-site use by government officials, newspaper reporters, National History Day students and other special projects. The museum advises telephone or email contact with the museum prior to your visit if you anticipate using any of these files. Contents of the files represent past research projects of the museum and files may contain one single article or advertisement or may have multiple items. Again, inquiries in advance of your visit are strongly suggested. To contact the Powers Museum by e-mail, click here.

S– T

Safeway Grocery
Saint Ann's Catholic Church
Saint Catherine's Guild
Saint Charles Hotel
Saint John Family
Saint Luke's Nursing Center
Salesmen and/or United Commercial Travelers
Saloons in Carthage
Salveter, Theodore C
San Francisco Earthquake (Carthage related)
Sayman, Thomas M
Scandinavian Picnic Association
Schlecht Family
Schools (See also individual school by name)
Schools; Rural
Schrantz, Ward
Schreiber Cheese, Inc.
Scott, James (See also Ragtime Music)
Scott, Rev H O & Family
Scotts Women's Wear Store
Seamstresses in Carthage (See also Dressmakers)
Searle, E P
Seed Stores
Segregation in Carthage
Sennett Building
Sesqui-Centennial of Carthage
Seventh Day Adventist Church
Sewall Family
Sewers
Shaffer Family (G W)
Shapley, Harlow
Sharp, Della
Sherman, General William T (Carthage visit)
Shirley Family
Sho-To-All Theatre (Movie)
Shoe Industry
Shoe Stores in Carthage
Shrine Club
Silver Cornet Band
Silver Review (Newspaper)
Six Tackle Company
Sixty Six Drive-In Theatre (66 Drive-in)
Smith Baking Company
Smith Brothers (See also Big Smith)
Smith Building
Smith (W P) Home
Smith, Dr Russell
Smith/Ross Home
Snow, Bill
Snyder, A H
Snyder Building
Soap Makers in Carthage
Social & Special Events in Carthage
Socialists & Socialist Party in Carthage
Social Services Agencies
Society Column (See also "In Society")
Softball
Solar Car (made by CHS students)
Sorosis Club
Southwest Electric Railway
Southwest Missouri Bank
Southwest Missouri District Fair (1926)
Southwest Missouri Fair (See also: Knell Fair~Jasper County Fair~Southwest Missouri District Fair)
Southwest News (1861 newspaper)
Southwestern Band Association
Southwestern Dye Works
Spanish-American War & Veterans
Spencer House & Family
Spiritualists
Spiva, George N
Sports
Sportsman League
Spout Spring
Spradling Family
Spring River
Spring River Packing Plant
Spring River Stone Company
Spring River Valley Fair Association
Square (Note: Various folders)
Square; Window Cards (See also Special File)
Stadium (in Municipal Park)
Stancroft or Ketcham Dairy
Stanley-Thomas Lumber Company
Starr, Belle
Starr, Belle & Judge Isaac Parker
Steadley Building
Steadley Company (See also Steadley, F W & Co)
Steadley Elementary School (1997)
Steadley, F W & Company (Stone company)
Steadley, Kent D
Stemmons Family
Steward's Photography (Steward's Studio)
Stickney Family
Stiffler Family
Stock Farming
Stone Industry in Indiana
Stone Industry in Missouri (See also Carthage Stone file)
Stone, Melville (Wright relative)
Stone Workers
Stoute-Parke Foundry
Straton, Rev John Roach
Strawberry Industry in Eastern Jasper County
Street Cars in 1891 (non-electric; See also Mule Cars)
Streets (See also specific street names)
Stumpf, George
Suffrage (See also Carthage Equal Suffrage Assn & specific individuals, ie. Ella Harrison, Emily Newell Blair, etc.)
Sunday School Conventions
Swede Church
Sweet Family

Taaffe, Martha (Mrs Richard)
Tailors
Taylor Hospital
Taylor Tourist Court (site of Powers Museum)
Taylor, Dr C B
Taylor, Gene & the Gene Taylor Museum in Sarcoxie
Taylor, Jerry N
Teachers (See Schools; Teachers)
Teas Nursery
Telephone Companies in Carthage
Temperance in Carthage (not WCTU)
Terry, C W
Thacker Park
Thacker, Jesse
Thanksgiving
Theaters (See specific names)
Thomas, Andy
Thomas (B F) Lumber
Thomas (Ben W) Home (829 Oak St)
Thompson Printing
Thornton, Rachel
Tommey, Bob
Topsy Turvy Puzzles
Tower Home (also known as Irwin Home)
Trademarks of Local Products
Trans-Mississippi Exposition
Trap Shooting (Skeet Shooting)
Trolley Lines; Misc
Tuberculosis
Tucker Seed
Tuckers Ford
Turner Harness and Carriage
Turner, George
Tuttle, T B & Tuttle Building

Availability of files is subject to the museum's own use of them as well as some off-site use by government officials, newspaper reporters, National History Day students and other special projects. The museum advises telephone or email contact with the museum prior to your visit if you anticipate using any of these files. Contents of the files represent past research projects of the museum and files may contain one single article or advertisement or may have multiple items. Again, inquiries in advance of your visit are strongly suggested. To contact the Powers Museum by e-mail, click here.

U– Z

U S O (See W W II; U S O)
Ulmer Funeral Home
(The) Underground (See AmeriCold)
Union Trust Savings & Loan
Unitarian Chapel
United Missouri Bank
United Way
United Wood Heel Co (See also Shoe Industry)
Updegraff Home (also known as Rittenhouse Home)
Utilities

Vandergriff, Sue
Van Hoose Family
VanGilder, Marvin
Vaughan Family
Veterans & Veterans Day in Carthage
Veterinarians in Carthage
Viernow Quarry
Vietnam Memorial & Vietnam War Veterans in Carthage
Vocational & Technical Center

W M B H
Wakefield-Wright Family
Wallace, Susan
Warrington Art School
Washington School
Waterworks
Weather & Storms in Carthage (See also Events)
Webb, Albert C
Webb Home (also known as Sweet Home)
Webster, Dr R W
Webster, Richard
Weddings
Weil, David
Wells Drug Store
Wells Grocery
Wells & Wiggins Grocery
Wesley Chapel
Western Association Baseball
Western Conservatory of Music (See also: Carthage Collegiate Institute)
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Wetzel Home & Wetzel's Folly
Wheatley, Walter
Wheeler, Dr A B
Whistler Drive-up & Family
White Family
White River Railroad
White Rose Bed & Breakfast
Whitney Family
Whitsett, J M
Whitten (J Vilas) Home (Baker Blvd)
Wickersham Family
Wiggins Home (also known as Bader House)
Wilbur Building
Wild West Shows in Carthage
Wild Wood Park
Williams (George) Home
Williams (H E) Mfg & Williams Electric
Williams Buildings
Williams Grocery
Williams House
Wills House (1640 S Garrison)
Winchester, A N & Family
Winchester, Marian (See also Marian Louisa Powers)
Winchester, Willington Lafayette
Winchesters of Carthage Mail Order Business
Wise Family
Wofford, Col Kenneth O
Women of Carthage (Post World War II)
Women of Carthage (Pre World War II)
Women; Contemporary -- Misc.
Women; Jasper County -- Misc.
Womens Christian Temperance Union (W C T U)
Womens Clubs
Women's History
Womens Influence
Wood, Charles
Woodmansee Family
Woods, Clarence
Woodward Family
World War I (Various folders of national, state and local interest)
World War II (Various folders of national, state and local interest)
WPA Projects
Wright Family Genealogy
Wright Home, 304 W Macon
Wright Home; Moving of 304 W Macon
Wright, Curtis, Jr (and Family of)
Wright, Curtis; Civil War Career of
Wright, Elizabeth
Wright, Etha
Wright, Felix
Wright, Mr Curtis
Wright, Mrs Curtis (Nira Koogler Wright)
Wright, Nat (& Family of)
Wright, Nira
Wright, Will (& Family of)
Wright -- Caffee Wedding

YMCA (See also Fair Acres Family YMCA)
YMCA (Pre-1909)
Young, Robert Ellis
Youth Fair (See Jasper County 4-H Fair)
Ytell Family
YWCA

Zane Family
Zerbini Circus

Availability of files is subject to the museum's own use of them as well as some off-site use by government officials, newspaper reporters, National History Day students and other special projects. The museum advises telephone or email contact with the museum prior to your visit if you anticipate using any of these files. Contents of the files represent past research projects of the museum and files may contain one single article or advertisement or may have multiple items. Again, inquiries in advance of your visit are strongly suggested. To contact the Powers Museum by e-mail, click here.