Name/Title
Pike's Peak Highway Ceremony St. Joseph Advantages Placard Photo, 1923Entry/Object ID
P354.18023.20Description
Pike's Peak Ocean to Ocean Highway Ceremony St. Joseph Advantages Placard Photo, c. 1923. Photo of giant book extolling the advantages of St. Joseph with map of St. Joseph at cross roads of this east-west highway and the highway between Winnepeg, Canada and New Orleans. Ceremony held in Troy, Kansas, August 8, 1923
"Facts about St. Joseph--
--Population, 86,000
--Ranks first in the manufacture of school and writing tablets
--Has largest winter wheat mill
--Has largest pancake flour mill
--Has largest mixed alfalfa feed mill
--Has largest importer of Japanese and Chinese novelties
--Largest manufacturer of saddles, harness, collars
--Very large tannery
--Fourth in wholesale dry goods, first per capita
--Fifth in candy, first per capita
--Fifth in hardware, first per capita
--Largest Mfgr of ornamental and white way lamp posts
--Has one Junior College, five high schools and 42 grade schools, attendance 17,112
Original digital scan see History 20 CDMade/Created
Date made
1923Place
City
St. JosephState/Province
MissouriLexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
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Print, PhotographicNomenclature Primary Object Term
PhotographNomenclature Sub-Class
Graphic DocumentsNomenclature Class
Documentary ObjectsNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication ObjectsLOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
HighwaysSearch Terms
Pikes Peak Ocean to Ocean Highway, Pikes Peak Highway in St. Joseph, St. Joseph Statistics, 1920'sRelationships
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Person or Organization
Max HabeckerProvenance
Notes
Photographs taken in c. 1920's by Max Habecker, St. Joseph News-Press Photographer, affixed in photo album.