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  • Louis Houck visiting one of his rail lines. [Southeast Missouri State University, Special Collections]
    Louis Houck (1840–1925)
  • This steamboat once graced northern Indian Creek in McDonald County, Missouri. [Courtesy of Ric Akehurst]
    Indian Springs, McDonald County
  • The editorial room of the Westliche Post, circa 1870. The paper’s prominent figures included Carl Schurz (fourth from left, seated at table), Emil Preetorius (sixth from left), and Joseph Pulitzer (not pictured). [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N01710]
    The German Press in Missouri
  • Father Peter Joseph Dunne. [Rev. J. W. Gormley, History of Father Dunne’s News Boys Home and Protectorate]
    Peter Joseph Dunne (1870–1939)
  • Spencer T. Banks. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N18254]
    Spencer Thornton Banks (1912–1983)
  • Naomi Brooks. [Hayti (Missouri) Central High School Yearbook, 1958, via Ancestry.com]
    Brooks v. Moberly
  • Josephine Winslow Johnson. [Simon and Schuster, photo provided by the Johnson Estate]
    Josephine Winslow Johnson (1910–1990)

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