Ground Breaking of the Andrew County Museum

Name/Title

Ground Breaking of the Andrew County Museum

Entry/Object ID

2023.ACM.41

Description

This is a photo of the groundbreaking ceremony of the Andrew County Museum Harry F. Duncan building. The groundbreaking happened at the end of April 1988. The people in this photo are members of the Andrew County Historical Society, the mayor of Savannah, and Harry Duncan. They are standing in the spot where the museum would be built. The area they are standing in is dirt and dead grass. There is a brown pickup truck behind the man in the tan coat to the far right. 14 people are in this photo, and there are some houses in the background of the left side of the photo. The construction site is now the location of the Andrew County Museum.

Photograph Details

Type of Photograph

Scan

Subject Person or Organization

Andrew County Museum and Historical Society

Subject Place

Location

Andrew County Museum

City

Savannah

County

Andrew County

State/Province

Missouri

Country

United States of America

Context

The ground breaking of the Andrew County Museum

Made/Created

Date made

Apr 1988

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Photograph, Color

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Photograph

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Color

Blue, Brown, Black, White

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Kenneth Rosenauer, Diane Dewey, Roy Coy, Harry F. Duncan

Provenance

Notes

This is the ground breaking of the Andrew County Museum which happened in April of 1988. The ground breaking was done by the Historical Society president Dianne Dewey, Savannah's mayor Ken Rosenauer, and museum director Roy Coy. Other members of the historical society where also there.

Exhibitions

Exhibition

Andrew County Museum and Historical Society History

Notes

B8