Name/Title
Edmond Street Coal Fired Power Station Installation, St. Joseph, Snapshots (32), 1950Entry/Object ID
P2003.14.16Description
Edmond Street Coal Fired Power Station Installation, St. Joseph, Snapshots (32), 1950 b/w. Small snapshot photos related to the construction of new power plant in St. Joseph on Edmond Street adjacent to Missouri River. Various views as below:
03.14.16, 30 = Ash Hopper, Square building built on stilts, oval tank on top. Handwritten on back: "Finished piping ash hopper, was used by farms for fertilizer, Edmond St. Coal Fired."
03.14.17, 37, 39, 40-42, 47-48, 50, 55-56 = Piping & Valves, various views
#17: "Front of #17 Boiler, St. Joe.
#37: "Finished 12500 K.W. Westinghouse 650# pressure, 850° heater, Downtown, St. Joe.
#39: "Turbine Driven B.F. Pump"
#40: "Instrument air and air cooler pumps"
#41: "Turbine Room Trans Edmond Sta"
#42: "Air Ejector, 6-1950
#47: "Ash Line Edmond St., St. Joe, Mo."
#48: "H.P. Tans, 3-1950
#50: "Oil Header on Boiler 16 & 17, Edmond St., 6-1950
#55: "Cooling Water Transfer Pumps. 6-1950
#56: "Desuperheater pump"
03.14.18 = Exhaust pump, motor driven. Photo of industrial pump with large pipes ascending. Handwritten on back: "St. Joe, 2-50, BF pump, Edmond file, Motor driven."
03.14.20 = Power plant foremen. Three men, 2 in hats, man in center in Coveralls, taken inside office. Handwritten on back: "Jana, 2 foremen, St. Joe, in Edmond St., Red Jennings, Rex Williams"
03.14.23-25, 33, 35 = Group photo of crew working at Edmond Station. Two different groups. Taken outdoors, men sitting on pipes, with other pipes on ground in front. Residential buildings of downtown area in background. Panel station wagon in background left. Handwritten on back: Crew at Edmond St."
Photo #35 identifies the crew, Mar. 1950 as
D. Stearman, D. Peaslee, C. Carr, S. Greer, H. Hollers
H. Rock, B. Lilly, R. Williams, G. Robbins, J. Anderson, O. Williams
D. Mothy, M. Williams, Bob Republic, J. Cook, F. Tildwell,
L.L. Foster, Red Jenning, Roy Peaslee, S. A. Jana
03.14.26, 31-32, 36 = Construction Superintendent, Foremen & clerk, Three photos of men who worked on this project, variously pictured standing next to railroad trace, industrial buildings behind.
#26: "Red Williams, Foreman, Pres. of Local, & Henry Rock, my clerk."
#31: "Jana in back of shop, Power House in rear."
#32: "Red Williams, Foreman, Red Jenning, Foreman, S.A. Jana, Supt."
#36: "Carl Asmusson Pw Co Eng & Jana.", taken beside fabrication shop
03.14.27 = Crew at Edmond, in same locale as #23 above, but disorganized. Cars parked behind and on street above. Purpose of photo seems to be the "House of ill-repute"
in background. Handwritten on back: "Crew at St. Joe, 3-15-1950, House of ill fame or hotel across road from P.H."
03.14.28-29 = Snapshot of beaver that must have wandered onto site. Handwritten on back: "Beaver in P.H. Basement" & "Apprx 35# Beaver, 5-3-1950, Story how I got carried him out and back to river."
03.14.34, 38, 46, 51, 53, 57 = Workmen photos, various views of crew members in their work settings;
#34: "Crew in rear of shop" 10 men in work attire, on break
#38: "Operating Eng. at Edmond Sta." Two workmen by control panel
#46: "Finishing Ashline, Republic & Dischorne," Two workmen by big pipe.
#51: "Harris & Chief Clvadl, Hurst", men near inside concrete wall
#53: "Mr. Joe Barfield, Mr. Ward, Mr. Harris, ' waiting'" same scene as #51
#57: "Starting 12500 K.W. Turbine, 6-1950" 3 workmen at piece of equipment.
03.14.44-45, 52, 54, 56 = Equipment snapshots, various
#44: "Working on M.D. B.F. Pump, Edmond Sta, St. Joe, Mo"
#45: "Desuperheating pump for city heating to cut pressure and install moisture"
#52: "Fluid Drive ? up I.D. fan motor drive"
#54: "Hayes Tachometer and Drive I.D. Fan"
#56: "Desuperheater pump"
03.14.43 = Management crew boarding airliner at Rosecrans Airport to return home. Mid-Continent Airlines commercial passenger plane. Handwritten on back: "Last man to board R. R. Wischmeyer, me, St. Louis Supercrusier Leave St. Joe, 8-9-1950. 5:10 pm."
Original digital scan located on History CD 20Made/Created
Date made
1950Place
City
St. JosephState/Province
MissouriLexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Secondary Object Term
Print, PhotographicNomenclature Primary Object Term
PhotographNomenclature Sub-Class
Graphic DocumentsNomenclature Class
Documentary ObjectsNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication ObjectsSearch Terms
St. Joseph Light & Power, Power Stations, Edmond Street Road Power StationDimensions
Dimension Notes
Printsize: 2½" x 3½"Provenance
Notes
Photos taken by father of donor who was superintendent on power plant installations at Edmond and Lake Road Stations in 1950-1951
