Name/Title
Missouri River Scenery Photo Album, c. 1930Entry/Object ID
P612.14384.1Description
Missouri River Scenery Photo Album, c. 1930. About 60 b/w photos, various sizes pasted into black photo album, bound with cord. The album was too accompany a request to the State of Missouri to designate this region near St. Joseph a State Park to be known as Lanowa Park. The park was norrhwest of the City from Paris Avenue to the south property line of the Water Co. then to County Line with Andrew County, into Andrew County, bounded on the west by the C.B.&Q. RR, on the east by the bluffs.
Captions by St. Joseph Historical Society. Also pasted on the pages is correspondence between St. Joseph citizens and the State, blueprint of proposed area, a brochure about the park. Includes a list of local citizens of the Ad Club who endorsed the project.
Story of Indian child, Luchetah who was separated from her people and after 2 trips across the plains was brought to St. Joseph and cared for by a squaw.
Some photos by Prawitz Studios, others by Busch, or Shultz
Photos include those labeled:
--Council Hill
--Luchetah's Eerie
--Luchetah's Mourning Place
--Luchetach's Falls
--Tomahawk Hill
--The place where the last bear in NW Missouri was killed.
--Sun-vow Hill
--Wildcat Bridge
--Face in the StoneMade/Created
Date made
1930Place
City
St. JosephState/Province
MissouriLexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Secondary Object Term
Album, PhotographNomenclature Primary Object Term
AlbumNomenclature Sub-Class
MemorabiliaNomenclature Class
Documentary ObjectsNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication ObjectsLOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
ParksSearch Terms
Wyeth Hill, Wyeth Park, Council Hills, Missouri River, Lanowa Park, Native American, Sacred HillsDimensions
Dimension Notes
Printsize: Various
Black, cardboard covers, bound by cord. Black photo pages onto which photos are pasted. 15 3/8" x 11ΒΌ" x 1"Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
LuchetahPerson or Organization
C. K. SoperProvenance
Notes
C,S, Soper took photos of scenes surrounding the Missouri River in the St. Joseph area. He headed a movement in the 1930's to have this region made into a State Park to be known as Lanowa Park.
