St. Joseph Fair Association Correspondence, 1893-1894
Entry/Object ID
AM2018.18.5
Scope and Content
St. Joseph Fair Association Correspondence, 1893-1894. Several documents in file folder pertaining to the Tootle Estate's interest & activities in the St. Joseph Fair Association, which rented then owned the property between 30th & 34th street off Olive Street knows as the New Era Exposition Grounds (in 2018 the site of Truman Middle School).
The papers deal with Milton Tootle's efforts to lease the land to the City of St. Joseph for a park, and efforts to have the area adjacent railroad tracks fenced.
Also included are the names of the Directors of the Brookdale Land Co, which originally owned the plat are were involved in the ill-fated New Era Exposition in the fall of 1889.
Lexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Primary Object Term
Correspondence
Nomenclature Sub-Class
Other Documents
Nomenclature Class
Documentary Objects
Nomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication Objects
LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
Banks
Search Terms
Tootle Family, Tootle Lemon Bank, Tootle Estate, St. Joseph Fair Association, New Era Exposition
