Wright-Powers Correspondence Collection

Overview of Wright-Powers Family Correspondence Collection

This single archival collection is the largest holding in the Powers Museum Archives and was bequeathed in two sections — one from the Marian Powers Winchester Estate (1981) and a second grouping from the Elizabeth Wright Estate (1993).

The collection contains over one hundred and twenty years of correspondence between members of the Wright and Koogler families and their descendants represented by the Powers, Hench, Briggs, Wright families and their descendants of a third generation. The collection has been named in honor of Mr. & Mrs. Curtis Wright and Dr. & Mrs. Everett Powers, grandparents and parents of Marian Powers Winchester, the Powers Museum's benefactor.

All members of the Curtis Wright family were prolific writers and letters written by adults, children and young adults are included in the collection making it unique. Through lengthy letters, written on a daily basis during some periods, there is the opportunity to learn about daily life of an upper middle class Victorian family living in the Midwest states of Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, then moving to southwest Missouri in the late nineteenth century. As the family grew up, that look is expanded to school life in Carthage and out-of-state, starting new businesses, participating in major historic events such as the San Francisco earthquake, world's fairs and expositions, World War I and World War II. There is almost no aspect of daily life left unobserved in this collection.

Summary for archival boxes with letters dated 1865 to 1904

Summary for archival boxes with letters dated 1905 to 1939

Summary for archival boxes with letters dated 1940 to 1981

Total number of boxes (subject to additions with further processing) for all dates above: 115

Note: Individual boxes are numbered by year and by number of boxes within that year. For example: AR Box 1900-01, AR Box 1900-02, AR Box 1900-3 would mean there are 3 standard-size archival boxes holding letters for 1900. All boxes in this collection are identified as Founding Collection, Marian Powers Winchester Estate and are part of the 84.001 gift series.

In order to summarize the overall family letter collection represented above, a division of dates was selected to divide the collection into smaller portions for purposes of this initial MHRAB grant finding aid and general subject lists. It should be noted that each box has a catalog record sheet associated with it and a container list with a summary of letters by number, writer, location and general description of letter content per folders within a box. Selected letters within a file folder may also have short excerpts given and/or additional subjects cited within the container list printouts.

Shortly before the end of the MHRAB grant project deadline in 2002, the Powers Museum received its Past Perfect software update; therefore, not all box lists created by the grant processors have been attached to their box catalog sheets within the software program due to concerns on changes in information placement with the new software and some compatibility issues between new and old computer. These box lists are being edited by the MHRAB project director and are being attached throughout this year (2006). Once attached, container lists will be searchable for additional subjects than represented here by using teh Past Perfect software on-site at the Powers Museum.

For information on the family genealogy of the persons involved especially in the pre-1910 boxes, see Curtis Wright's 1915 book entitled Genealogical and Biographical Notices of Descendants of Sir John Wright of Kelvedon Hall, Essex, England; In America Thomas Wright of Wethersfield, Conn. And Deacon Samuel Wright of Northampton, Mass 1610-1670, 1614-1665; Compilation and Annotations. The Powers Museum has two copies of this book and the Carthage Public Library has one copy.

For family members after 1915, consult the Carthage Vertical File holdings of the museum's Reference Library; however, information is not complete through third and fourth generations.

In addition to letters, the museum holds scrapbooks, photographs, daybooks and journals, and other types of documents concerning Wright-Powers family activities. These are slated for computerization in the next three years (2004-06) as the collection management project continues.

The museum has a limited amount of information on other relatives that appear in the collection: Koogler, Huston, Crook and Fox families. Powers and Winchester family genealogy is very limited at this point and needs further investigation.

Prior appointment necessary for use of all archival collections. This material is not available for walk-in, on-demand use. Consultation by phone or email prior to your visit, will result in a more successful research visit and allow museum staff to prepare materials and also a work space for your use on site.

GENERAL DESCRIPTIONS & SUBJECTS

AR Boxes representing the dates 1865 to 1904

Content Covers: Curtis Wright musters out of Civil War service to Cincinnati, OH; works with several railroads including the Indianapolis, Cincinnati & Lafayette Rail Way Company and the White Water Valley Railroad; marriage to Nira Koogler in Connersville, IN; association with Cooley-Morrison Furniture Company; starts family; assists widowed mother in Toulon, IL; travels for Cooley-Morrison in the Midwest; investigation of career options in Missouri or central plains region, 1888 move to Carthage, MO to invest in lead/zinc mines and form Carthage Stone Company; activities in Presbyterian Church, Carthage women's clubs, local and regional musical performance; building home at 304 W Macon and domestic activities of all family members; development of slate quarries in Big Fork, AR and Slatington, AR (near Mena AR); early years of children, their schooling and eventually marriages; traveling for business and leisure; and spiritual and political views of Curtis and Nira Wright. Activities of other Wright, Koogler and Huston family members discussed for Texas, Illinois, Ohio and various Indiana towns/cities, especially Connersville, IN where some family members continue in the furniture business (i.e. Connersville Cabinet Co.).

Principal writers:
Curtis Wright
Curtis Wright, Jr. (son)
Nira Koogler Wright
Nira Wright (daughter)
Anne Matilda Creighton Wright (CW mother)
Ellen Koogler (sister of NKW)
Nathaniel Webster Wright (brother of CW)
Nathaniel Fox Wright (son of CW)
Bessie Wright
Bessie Wright Briggs
Anne Matilda Wright (usually found as Tyd Hench)
Anne Matilda Wright Hench
Marian Lucy Wright
Marian Wright Powers
Everett Powers
Judge William Wilberforce Wright (brother of CW)
William Wilberforce Wright (son of CW)
Robert Crook Wright

Principal locations of writers above:
Big Fork, AR
Eureka Springs, AR
Slatington, AR
San Francisco, CA
Canton, IL
Chicago, IL
Toulon, IL
Connersville, IN
Hanover, IN
Carthage, MO
Rolla, MO
St. Louis, MO
Greenville, OH
Taylor, TX
See also: Powers Honeymoon, 1903-04 for European locations

General subjects (unless noted otherwise, located in Carthage):
American Red Cross
Associated Press (MO & IL)
Sadie Bonfoy (IN)
Briggs Family (TX)
William L Calhoun
Calhoun School of Music
Carthage Collegiate Institute
Carthage Choral Society
Carthage High School
Carthage Stone Company
Carthage Stone Company; Kansas City Yards
Central School
Chautauqua Events & Grounds
Christmas & Christmas Decorations/Celebrations
Christian Endeavor Society
Church Activities
Circus Performances
Laurie Richards Clagett (TX)
Clothing & Fashion
Cooley-Morrison Furniture Company (IN)
Connersville, IN; Businesses in
Connersville, IN; Holiday Celebrations in
Connersville, IN; Social Activities in
Connersville Cabinet Company (IN)
Connersville Presbyterian Church (IN)
Creighton Family (IL)
Crook Family
Elk's Fair
Elk's Fair; Queen 1900 (Marian Lucy Wright)
Fairs & Carnivals
First Presbyterian Church
Fox Family
Ground Family & Home (Ground Place)
Guthrie, OK
Hanover College (IN)
Hench Family
Holidays & Celebrations
Huston Family (IN)
Illinois
Indian Territory
Indiana
Indianapolis, Cincinnati & Lafayette Railway
Jasper County Courthouse; Stone for
Jasper County Mine Operating Company
Johns Family & Home
Knell Fair
Koogler Family (IN & OH)
Lakeside Park
Lead Mining
William R Logan & Family
Mantor & Briggs, Lawyers (TX)
Market Fair
McFarland Family; Connersville, IN
Mena, AR
Mining in Jasper County
Music Performance; Carthage & Joplin
Music Performance; Chicago, IL
Music Performance; Europe
Music Performance; Kansas City, MO
Music Performance; New York City, NY
Music Performance; Texas
Mygatt Family (NY)
Ohio
Oklahoma
Opera and Opera Personalities/Performers
Park College; Parkville, MO
Pets
Anna Powers; Death 1904
Powers-Wright Wedding
Powers Honeymoon, 1903-04
T J Rittenhouse & Family
School of Mines; Colorado Springs, CO
School of Mines; Rolla, MO
Sewing & Needlework
Sports & Outdoor Activities
Stores & Shopping
Southwest Light & Fuel Company
Southwest Slate Manufacturing Company (AR)
Theatre Performance; Carthage & Joplin
Theatre Performance; Chicago
Theatre Performance; Kansas City, MO
Theatre Performance; Europe
Theatre Performance; New York City, NY
Transportation; Ocean
Transportation; Railroad
Transportation; River
Transportation; Trolley or Interurban Railroad
University of Illinois; Champaign-Urbana, IL
Weddings
Senator Edgar West (OK?)
Western Female Seminary (OH)
Wickersham Family
White Water Valley Railroad
World's Fair; Chicago, IL
World's Fair; St. Louis, MO
Curtis Wright; Business Affairs
Curtis Wright; Civil War Service
Curtis Wright; Political Views
Curtis Wright; Religious Views
Curtis & Nira Wright; 25th Wedding Anniversary
Nira Koogler Wright; Church Work & Religious Views
William Wilberforce Wright; Death & Civil War Service (father of CW)
Wright Family; Connersville, IN
Wright Family; Canton, IL & Toulon, IL
Wright Family; Chicago, IL
Wright Family Travels
Wright Home (304 Macon, construction & remodeling)
Wright-Briggs Wedding
Wright-Hench Wedding
Wright-Herrin Wedding
Wright-Powers Wedding
Wright-Wickersham Wedding
Zinc Mining

AR Boxes representing the dates 1905 to 1939

This period covers major life events in the Powers family as well as other Wright family members in other locations in the states of Indiana, Oklahoma, Illinois and Texas. Such events include the birth of daughter Marian Louisa Powers in 1905, growth of medical practice of Everett Powers and continued education for specialty of ear, eye, nose, throat medicine and interaction with other physicians and druggists in the Carthage and four-state region eventually becoming Chief of Staff at McCune-Brooks Hospital in 1929 through the 1930s. Also covers Dr. Powers' World War I military service in the US Army Medical Corps.

Marian Wright Powers, after giving birth, returns to her musical training and performance career as a coloratura soprano. Her trials and tribulations of balancing home, child, husband and career are very evident in the letters of all three family members. [See Hardship and Hope: Missouri Women Writing about Their Lives, 1820—1920 edited by Carla Waal and Barbara Oliver Korner and published by the University of Missouri Press (1997) for portions of Marian Wright Powers' journal "Talks on Self" that expresses the difficulties of pursuing "heart and home."]

Marian Louisa Powers begins school in Paris while accompanying her mother on her musical studies then returns home to begin an educational journey that includes over seven schools in four states, returning home in 1927 to begin a life filled with social obligations and club meetings.

Like her mother, daughter Marian was a supreme hostess and parlays this into a brief career with some Joplin, MO restaurants/caterers but also continues to assist in her father's office which leads to a volunteer career as Secretary of the Carthage Chapter of the American Red Cross continuing through the outbreak of World War II. Her dealings with cousins, business associates and dating partners consume her letters in great detail.

Principal Writers:
Curtis Wright
Curtis Wright, Jr.
John Wright
Nira Koogler Wright
Nira Wright
Nathaniel Fox Wright
Bess Wright Briggs
Marian Briggs
Marian Briggs Ford
Nina Bartlett Goodwin
Florence Powers Haden
Anne Matilda Wright Hench (usually found as Tyd Hench)
Helen Matilda Hench
Lois Wright Hench
Nira Caroline Hench
Alice Parker
Everett Powers
Florence Powers Hayden
Marian Louisa Powers
Marian Wright Powers
William Wilberforce Wright
Robert Crook Wright
Emma Whitfield Wright
Donald Fox Wright
Katherine Josephine Wright
Willington Lafayette Winchester

Locations of writers above:
Austin, TX
Camp Dodge, IA
Calistoga, CA
Carthage, MO
Coconut Grove, FL
Columbus, OH
Connersville, IN
Corpus Christi, TX
Forest Glen, MD
Galion, OH
Guthrie, OK
Houston, TX
Joplin, MO
Kenosha, WI
Miami, OK
New York City, NY
Pine Bluff, AR
Oakland, CA
Philadelphia, PA
Pine Bluff, AR
Saint Mary's-of-the-Woods, IN
St. Louis, MO
Slatington, AR
Paris, France
See also subjects: Powers Family European Tour, 1927
Nira Wright Middle East Tour, 1929

General Subjects (all Carthage unless noted otherwise):
American Automobile Association
American Medical Association
American Red Cross, Carthage Chapter (or Eastern Jasper County)
Automobiles
Aviation & Airplanes
Berkley, CA
Blair Family
Emily Newell Blair
Harriet Blair
Blakenship Family
Sadie Bonfoy
Briggs Family (TX)
Brown's Business College; St. Louis, MO
Calhoun School of Music
William L Calhoun
Canaday Family (IL)
Firman Carswell & Firman Carswell Manufacturing Company
Carthage Chapter, American Red Cross
Carthage High School
Carthage Stone Company
Caulkins Family
Chautauqua Events
Circus Performances
Clothing and Fashion
Conner Hotel, Joplin MO
Co-operative Kitchen
Creighton Family (IL)
Crowder Family (VA)
Daughters of American Revolution
Drug Stores in Carthage
Elections
Fairs & Carnivals
First Church of Christ, Scientist
First Methodist Church
First Presbyterian Church
Franklin School
Galion Iron Works Manufacturing Company (OH)
Grace Episcopal Church
Greensburg, IN
Hench Family (OH, OK, MO)
Highway 66 (aka Route 66)
Highway 71
Ed Holbrook & Holbrook Drug Store
Holidays & Celebrations
Hospitals in Carthage
Hotels
Iowa during World War I
Jefferson Medical College (PA)
Johns Family
Junior Shakespeare Society
Kemper Hall (WI)
Emma Knell
Knell Fair
Knell Family
Lakeside Park
Madame Lamperti (France)
Joseph P Leggett
Leggett & Platt Manufacturing Company
W R Logan & Family
Mena, AR
McCune Brooks Hospital
McFarland Automobiles
McFarland Family (IN)
McElroy Family
Miami Building & Loan Association (OK)
Shell Mitchell
Movies & Movie Theaters; Carthage & Joplin
Movies & Movie Theaters; Chicago, IL
Movies & Movie Theaters; New York City, NY
Movies & Movie Theaters; Washington, DC
Music Performance; Carthage & Joplin
Music Performance; Chicago, IL
Music Performance; Europe
Music Performance; New York City, NY
Music Performance; Paris, TX
Music Performance; Washington, DC
Music Performance of Marian Wright Powers
National Park Seminary (MD)
National Parks
Newell Family
NNC
Ozark Region & Early Tourism Development
Ozark Wesleyan College
Pacific Bed Spring Company (CA)
PEO
Physicians in Carthage
Powers Family; Warrensburg, MO
Powers Family; Travels & Vacations
Powers Family; Travels & Vacations — European Tour 1927
Powers Home (314 Euclid)
Powers Home; Remodeling
Everett Powers; Medical Education — United States
Everett Powers; Medical Education — Europe
Everett Powers; Medical Conventions
Everett Powers; Medical Practice in Carthage
Everett Powers; World War I Military Service
Marian Louisa Powers; Birth 1905
Marian Louisa Powers; Education — Carthage Elementary School [Franklin]
Marian Louisa Powers; Education — Carthage High School, Class of 1923
Marian Louisa Powers; Education — Kemper Hall, Kenosha WI
Marian Louisa Powers; Education — National Park Seminary, Forest Glen MD
Marian Louisa Powers; Education — Ozark Wesleyan College
Marian Louisa Powers; Education — Paris, France Day School
Marian Louisa Powers; Education — University of Texas, Austin
Marian Louisa Powers; Jobs — Maxwell Restaurant, Joplin MO
Marian Louisa Powers; Jobs — Carthage Chapter American Red Cross
Marian Louisa Powers; Women's Clubs
Marian Wright Powers; Musical Education & Teachers
Marian Wright Powers; Musical Performance — Carthage & Joplin
Marian Wright Powers; Musical Performance — Kansas
Marian Wright Powers; Musical Performance — Oklahoma
Marian Wright Powers; Musical Performance — Texas
Marian Wright Powers; Musical Performance — United States, Misc. Locations
Marian Wright Powers; Musical Performance — Managers & Booking Agents
Marian Wright Powers; Women's Clubs
Marian Wright Powers; World War I Home Front Service
Walter Proschowski
Radio Broadcasts
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
San Francisco Earthquake
San Francisco Earthquake; Accounts by Curtis Wright, Jr.
Sarcoxie, MO
Sarcoxie, MO; Curtis Wright Farm (also Bob Wright Farm)
Sports & Outdoor Activities
Stores & Shopping; Carthage & Joplin
Stores & Shopping; Chicago, IL
Stores & Shopping; Europe
Stores & Shopping; New York City, NY
Southwest Missouri Electric Railway
Southwest Slate Manufacturing Company
Southwestern Supply Company; Guthrie, OK
Texas Oil Investments
Alfred Tharp
Theatre Performance; Carthage & Joplin
Theatre Performance; Chicago, IL
Theatre Performance; Europe
Theatre Performance; Kansas City, MO
Theatre Performance; New York City, NY
Theatre Performance; Washington, DC
Ed Thomas
Topsy Turvy Jigsaw Puzzles
Transportation; Automobile
Transportation; Ocean
Transportation; Railroad
Transportation; Trolley or Interurban Railway
United States Army
United States Army Medical Corps
University of Texas, Austin
University of Missouri, Columbia
Updegraff-Rittenhouse-Wright House
Guilda Valda
George Washington Bicentennial
Weddings in Carthage
Dr. W W West (Monett, MO)
Western Union
Veterans Day
Wickersham Family (MO, OR)
Women's Clubs in Carthage
World War I
World War I; Bond Rallies
World War I; Home Front in Carthage
World War I; Influenza Epidemic - Carthage & Joplin
World War I; Influenza Epidemic - Iowa & Camp Dodge
World War I; Red Cross
Wright House (304 W Macon)
Curtis Wright; Business Affairs
Curtis Wright; Death 1919
Curtis Wright; Genealogy Book 1915
Etha Wright
Wright Family; Canton, IL & Toulon, IL
Wright Family; Chicago, IL
Wright Family; Connersville, IN
Wright Family Travels
Harold Bell Wright
Helen Wickersham Wright; Death 1920
Nira Koogler Wright; Death 1910
Nira Koogler Wright; Church Work & Women's Clubs
Nira Wright; Middle East Tour 1927
Nira Wright; Musical Education Career
Nira Wright; Musical Education & Teachers
Nira Wright; Musical Performance
Sophia Wright
Wright-Caffee Wedding
Wright-Hobson Wedding
Wright-Whitfield Wedding

AR Boxes representing dates 1940 to 1981

Mostly representing the adult years of the Wright siblings and their descendants, this period reflects the post-Depression years to the very early 1980s. Dr. Powers continues his medical practice until an injury at an American Medical Association annual meeting handicaps him to the extent that he retires from practice. His last years are spent confined to a wheel chair and hospitalized in McCune-Brooks Hospital until his death in 1954.

Marian Wright Powers continues with her club and church work while her musical performance career winds down and finds her "marrying and burying half of Jasper County" singing at weddings and funerals. Among her clubs: Daughters of the American Revolution, PEO, Junior Shakespeare Society and various musical groups. Mrs. Powers' sister, Nira Wright, has a limited performance career and focuses more on teaching, seeing several students move into the public performance arena.

Marian Louisa Powers continues as the Executive Secretary of the American Red Cross, Carthage Chapter, a position that escalates in activity with the outbreak of World War II in 1941. Her activities take her to Camp Crowder near Neosho, MO and there she meets Lt. Colonel William Linn of the Signal Corps. They marry in 1943 as he is shipped overseas and the couple does not set up housekeeping as Mrs. Linn continues to live with her parents when not traveling to visit cousins and other associates. However, married life to Linn is short-lived when he dies aboard ship returning home from the Italian and African theaters on a period of leave.

Yet to be processed in this grouping of letters, is several hundred V-mail letters from Lt. Colonel Linn to his wife. Also during this time, in part to entertain Linn, his mother-in-law transcribes her 1927 trip diaries of the family's European trip since Linn was traveling to, or stationed in, many of the Mediterranean locales the Powers visited. While stateside letters contain many comments on the war (inside news of military foibles and opinions on homefront issues such as rationing), the V-mails due to their abbreviated nature, do not contain much news. However since Linn was a censor, occasionally information does slip through when letters are self-censored.

Another interesting series of letters prior, during and post Linn-Powers marriage are from another suitor of Marian Powers' — George Gayou of the St. Louis, MO area. Among his many professional activities, Gayou was on a rationing board and sends many advance warnings of ration lists. He also comments on the necessity of the rationing system and its effects during and post war concluding it may not have been necessary. Widowed from Linn in 1945, Marian continues her Red Cross work but resigns in 1946 when she marries lifelong boy friend Willington Lafayette Winchester of Joplin (son of Dr. Albert N Winchester of Joplin). Winchester takes his wife to Columbus, OH where he works for Ebco Manufacturing and at least for a short time, Marian Powers Winchester continues working with the American Red Cross of Franklin County. Disliking the big city combined with continuing health issues with her parents, especially with Dr. Powers, Marian convinces her husband to return to Carthage and the couple moves in with her parents at 314 Euclid Boulevard.

Winchester begins a series of businesses including Grill Aide and Winchester's of Carthage, the latter being the mail order business he owned at his death in 1964 . His wife sells the business and continues to live with her mother as the latter's health declines. Marian Wright Powers dies in 1969 and Nira Wright dies in 1970. All of the family is buried at Park Cemetery in Carthage, MO.

The latter portion of the letter collection deals with late-life issues of medical problems and loosing family and friends but also contains reminiscences with former friends and associates of Marian Powers Winchester especially members of the Carthage High School class of 1923 and other nearby classes. Included in this group of friends was 1923 classmate Marlin Perkins who Winchester often entertained when the Perkins family visited Carthage for various school or civic events. (See artifact collection for other items associated with Marlin Perkins.)

In the last ten years of her life, Marian Winchester spent most of her time planning for the Powers Museum by going through her household goods selecting items for the museum collection. She also worked with friends and family setting up the legal and financial means that would eventually create the museum at her death in 1981. Her estate was bequeathed for the most part to the City of Carthage, for the use and benefit of the Powers Museum which her will instructed the city to create.

This section of collection has some data entry to complete; listings are subject to changes and/or additions.

Principal Writers:
Lois Hench Baldwin
Cullen Briggs
Robert Briggs
Nira Hench Carswell
Katherine Briggs Dennis
Marian Briggs Ford
George Gayou
Everett Powers
Marian Louisa Powers
Marian Powers Linn
Marian Powers Winchester
Marian Wright Powers
William D Linn
Willington Lafayette Winchester

Principal Locations of Writers above:
Carthage, MO
Camp Kohler, CA
Columbus, OH
Houston, TX
Hickman Mills, MO
San Francisco, CA
St. Louis, MO
Africa
Italy

Subjects (all Carthage unless otherwise noted):
American Red Cross; Carthage Chapter
American Red Cross; Columbus-Franklin County Chapter (OH)
Avilla, MO
Bataan March (WWII)
Bessie Wright Briggs; Death 1944
Buena Family (LA & OH)
Camp Beale (CA)
Camp Crowder; Neosho MO
Camp Crowder; Officers Wives Club
Camp Crowder; Salvage & Dismantling
Camp Shelby (CA)
Carthage High School; Class of 1923 Reunions
Cassil Place
Clothing & Fashion
DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution, now NDAR)
EBCO Manufacturing (OH)
Flanigan Family
First Presbyterian Church
Grace Episcopal Church
Grill Aide
Florence Powers Hayden; Death & Estate
Anne Matilda Wright Hench; Death 1944 (Tyd Hench)
Highway 66 (AKA Route 66)
Highway 66; Bypass
Highway 71
Highway 71; Bypass
Holidays & Celebrations
Home Construction
Honeymoon; Powers-Linn
Honeymoon; Powers-Winchester
Hotels
Japanese Internment Camps
Junior Shakespeare Society
Victor and Mary Landreth
General Ben Lear
Helen Leggett
Lt. Colonel William Linn
Lt. Colonel William Linn; Death 1945
Lt. Colonel William Linn; World War II Service - United States
Lt. Colonel William Linn; World War II Service - Overseas
General George C Marshall
Mexico
Office of Price Administration Board
PEO
Pets
Marlin Perkins
Powers Family Travels
Powers Home (314 Euclid)
Everett Powers; Medical Conditions
Everett Powers; Medical Conventions
Everett Powers; Medical Profession & Retirement
Everett Powers; Death 1954
Marian Louisa Powers; American Red Cross
Marian Louisa Powers; Camp Crowder
Marian Louisa Powers; Marriage to Lt. Col William D Linn, 1943
Marian Louisa Powers; Marriage to Willington L Winchester, 1946
Marian Louisa Powers; Medical Conditions
Marian Louisa Powers; Women 's Clubs
Marian Wright Powers; Death 1969
Marian Wright Powers; Medical Conditions
Marian Wright Powers; Musical Performance & Music Clubs
Marian Wright Powers; Women 's Clubs
Rationing
Rogers Family
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Strikes
Alfred Tharp
Transportation; Airplane
Transportation; Automobile
Transportation; Railroad
President Harry S Truman
United Service Organization (USO)
United Steel Workers
U S Army
U S Army; Signal Corps
WAACS
WAVES
Weddings in Carthage
Dr. W W West (Monett, MO)
Wilder Family; Joplin, MO
Winchesters of Carthage (Mail Order)
Albert N Winchester & Hinda Winchester
Hinda Etheridge Winchester; Death
Marian Powers Winchester; Medical Conditions
Marian Powers Winchester; Women 's Clubs
Willington Lafayette Winchester; Business Affairs
Willington Lafayette Winchester; Death 1964
Willington Lafayette Winchester; Medical Conditions
Curtis Wright, Jr.; Death 1966
Etha Wright; Death 1957
George & MaryLou Wright
Nathaniel Wright; Death 1956
Nira Wright; Death 1970
Nira Wright; Music Students of
Robert Wright; Death 1972
William W Wright; Death 1958
World War II
World War II; Home Front in Carthage
World War II; Soldiers

Pre-MHRAB Processed Wright-Powers Family or Business Correspondence

These materials were found prior to receiving and processing the materials now found in Wright-Powers Correspondence (1869-1981). Consult old container lists for further details until information is entered into "Past Perfect" software.

AR Boxes 11/12/13

Curtis Wright 1915 Genealogy Book on Wright Family
Correspondence c1910-1912 on various family groups, historical documents/letters sent to Curtis Wright when researching book, information on Kelvedon Hall in England, and miscellaneous commentary on current events of the period by writers of letters. Also includes information regarding printing of book by Carthage Press Printing, book orders, comments and letters of sympathy upon the death of wife, Mrs. Nira Koogler Wright, 1910.

Selected Subjects:
Crafts Family
Creighton Family
Curtis Family
Dewey Family
England
Kelvedon Hall
Thew Family
Wright Family
Harold Bell Wright
Wilbur & Orville Wright
William Wilberforce Wright; Civil War Service & Death 1964
Curtis Wright; Civil War Service

AR Boxes 14/15/16

Dr. Everett Powers Medical Practice, Carthage MO
Correspondence from 1932 - 1949
Miscellaneous Papers 1917 - 1949

All include correspondence with other four-state physicians who have not been listed below. Patient names not given either. None of Dr. Powers' office ledgers (1902—1949) have been entered into "Past Perfect."

Selected Subjects:
1896/97 Practice in Monett, MO
American Board of Opthalmology
Carthage Creamery
Eagle Pitcher Mining & Smelting
Independent Gravel Company
Internal Revenue Service; Income Taxes
Jasper County Health Department
Jefferson Medical College
Mayo Clinic
McCune-Brooks Hospital
Midwest Association of Ophthalmology & Otolaryngology
Missouri Medical Examiners Certificates
Missouri Selective Service Examiners Board
Missouri Social Security Administration
Smith Brothers Manufacturing
Social Security Administration
U S Department of Agriculture, Farm Security Administration
U S Veterans Administration
U S War Department, Army Medical Museum
Victory Tax
William Volker Medical Clinic, Kansas City, MO
Dr. W W West; Monett, MO

AR Boxes 02—10

Marian Wright Powers Musical Performance & Education
Wide range of materials including performance programs, correspondence with booking agents and managers, publicity materials, class notes with music educators, lesson plans, etc. Also includes similar materials for sister Nira Wright, also a performer and private music teacher. Majority of dates in 1906 - 1925 range. Photographs, sheet music and posters housed elsewhere and have not been entered into Past Perfect software. Container box lists available for most of archival boxes cited above in this grouping.

Selected subjects:
Madame Croy
Hansel & Jones
Ella Harrison
Madame Lamperti
Musical Magazines
New York City, NY
Opera Performances
Opera Personalities
Walter Proschowski
Marian Wright Powers; Costumes & Stage Instructions
Marian Wright Powers; Musical Performance
Musical Performance; Europe
Musical Performance; Illinois
Musical Performance; Missouri
Musical Performance; New York City, NY
Musical Performance; Texas
Richey Photographs
Guilda Valda
John Wright
Nira Wright; Musical Performance
Nira Wright; Music Students of

Note: Both archival and artifact collection contain many programs, promotional materials, magazine clippings, etc., for most of the major operatic personalities of the very late 19th and early 20th century. Researchers should make direct inquiry to museum director while this collection is processed over the next couple years.