the State Historical Society of Missouri
Maxine J. Christensen was a teacher, homemaker, and staff member at Missouri University of Science & Technology.
![In this undated photograph, Mary Margaret McBride (right) interviews Goldena Howard, a local Missouri historian, during a broadcast from the University of Missouri library. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Mary Kathy Dains Photographs, P0300-014950]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2024-03/1.-mary-margaret-mcbride.jpg?itok=jiaEP6Hr "In this undated photograph, Mary Margaret McBride (right) interviews Goldena Howard, a local Missouri historian, during a broadcast from the University of Missouri library. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Mary Kathy Dains Photographs, P0300-014950]")
Described as neurotic and ample, Mary Margaret McBride became a great success on network radio while…
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![Marlin Perkins holding a bison calf. [Marlin Perkins Papers (S0516), State Historical Society of Missouri]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2024-02/1.-marlin-perkins.jpg?itok=vCLKOCLZ "Marlin Perkins holding a bison calf. [Marlin Perkins Papers (S0516), State Historical Society of Missouri]")
Marlin Perkins served as director at three zoos during his career: the Zoological Gardens in Buffalo, New York; the…
![Elizabeth Seifert in 1938. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Pearl Boucher Matthews Scrapbook, C4587]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2024-09/1.-elizabeth-seifert.jpg?itok=7U8J6qxu "Elizabeth Seifert in 1938. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Pearl Boucher Matthews Scrapbook, C4587]")
Elizabeth Seifert published her first book in 1938 when she was forty-one years old. As one of thirteen…