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  • Jean Pierre Chouteau Sr. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N22207]
    Jean Pierre Chouteau (1758–1849)
  • This 1806 map was reproduced from William Clark’s original map that traced the expedition’s journey across the Louisiana Purchase to the Pacific Ocean. [State Historical Society of Missouri Map Collection, 800.4 C549m 1804-1806]
    Lewis and Clark Expedition
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    Auguste Chouteau (1749?–1829)
  • This eighteenth-century map shows the mouth of the River Des Peres (unnamed, below St. Louis) and the Kaskaskia village to the south on the opposite side of the Mississippi, where the River Des Peres mission resettled after abandoning the site in what is now south St. Louis. [Frederick Charles Hicks, ed., A Topographical Description of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and North Carolina, 1778]
    Jesuit Mission on the River Des Peres, 1700–1703
  • Nathan Boone. The date of the photo is unknown. [State Historical Society of Missouri, R. L. Hosman Collection (P0925)]
    Nathan Boone (1781–1856)
  • Bess Truman’s official White House portrait by Greta Kempton. [Harry S. Truman Library and Museum, 2008-149]
    Elizabeth “Bess” Virginia Wallace Truman (1885–1982)
  • Prison photographs of Cleo Wright. [Courtesy of Missouri State Archives]
    Cleo Wright (1916–1942)

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