St. Joseph Museum News Article, "Aid to State Culture", 1954
Entry/Object ID
AM1980.1.446
Scope and Content
St. Joseph Museum News Article, "Aid to State Culture", 1954. News Article, undated, but indicates six year location in Wyeth-Tootle Mansion. (The museum had moved there in 1948.) Roy Coy was the Museum Director. The article praises Mr. Coy's efforts and gives a short history of the museum since its beginnings in 1927 as a Children's Museum. It discusses the purchase and gifting of the Wyeth-Tootle mansion by William L. Goetz and the M.K. Goetz Brewing Company in 1947. The article mentions the Harry L. George Native American collection and the Kenyon V. Painter big game and natural history artifacts, as well as the bird egg collection numbering 1700 eggs.
The article goes on to describe Bartlett Boder's contribution to the Museum Graphics magazine and profiles his "Little Dixie and the Mystic Land of Poosey" article.
The article was originally mounted on a stablizing board and cut into the shape of Missouri. Having separated from its original mounting, the news article has been encapsulated for its preservation.
Lexicon
LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
Museums, Civil wars
Search Terms
Harry L. George Collection, Kenyon V. Painter Big Game Animals, Civil War in Missouri, Little Dixie, Museum Graphics, Grundy County, Missouri, Land of Poosey, St. Joseph's Children's Museum, Wyeth-Tootle Mansion, St. Joseph Museum, Missouri History
