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![Cardinal Baseball Player George [Whitey] Kurowski with young fans](/sites/default/files/styles/mt_portrait_image/public/2019-12/sports-P0030-0819.jpg?itok=Bgswfx69)
![DeVerne Calloway. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Mary K. Dains Photograph Collection, P0300-018642]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_carousel/public/2021-03/1-DeVerne-Calloway.jpg?h=0d5c9c8f&itok=v6TK29Ps "DeVerne Calloway. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Mary K. Dains Photograph Collection, P0300-018642]")
![Ernest Calloway. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Ernest Calloway Papers (S0011), S540.267]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_carousel/public/2021-03/1-Ernest-Calloway.jpg?h=55359d8e&itok=gynw2ltX "Ernest Calloway. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Ernest Calloway Papers (S0011), S540.267]")
![Francois M. Guyol de Guiran created this portrait of Marie Therese Bourgeois Chouteau, the “founding mother” of St. Louis, in 1810. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, MHS Objects Collection, 1950-084-0002]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_carousel/public/2021-03/1-Marie-Therese-Bourgeois-Chouteau.jpg?h=6dc95c09&itok=mXfGs8vI "Francois M. Guyol de Guiran created this portrait of Marie Therese Bourgeois Chouteau, the “founding mother” of St. Louis, in 1810. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, MHS Objects Collection, 1950-084-0002]")
![Joan Crawford in 1928. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-133571]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_carousel/public/2021-03/1-Joan-Crawford.jpg?h=bd907a81&itok=xXt6GkqK "Joan Crawford in 1928. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-133571]")
![Jane Darwell in a photo taken in 1918. [University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections, J. Willis Sayre Collection of Theatrical Photographs, 22471]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_carousel/public/2021-03/1-Jane-Darwell.jpg?h=5704d344&itok=-WHlJFlC "Jane Darwell in a photo taken in 1918. [University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections, J. Willis Sayre Collection of Theatrical Photographs, 22471]")
![John Wesley Emerson, circa 1880. Photograph by John A. Scholten. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, P0233-2542]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_carousel/public/2021-03/1-John-Wesley-Emerson.jpg?h=39e1f2c3&itok=E69KkxLq "John Wesley Emerson, circa 1880. Photograph by John A. Scholten. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, P0233-2542]")
![William Jewell. [Walter Williams, ed., A History of Northeast Missouri (Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1913)]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_carousel/public/2021-03/1-William-Jewell_0.jpg?h=439baca8&itok=9fZbK-Py "William Jewell. [Walter Williams, ed., A History of Northeast Missouri (Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1913)]")