the State Historical Society of Missouri
![Red’s Giant Hamburg sometime after it closed in December 1984. [State Historical Society of Missouri, David Eslick Photograph Collection, SP0088, 1976-2001]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2024-03/1.-reds-giant-hamburg.jpg?h=cb1fa88b&itok=MzxABlva "Red’s Giant Hamburg sometime after it closed in December 1984. [State Historical Society of Missouri, David Eslick Photograph Collection, SP0088, 1976-2001]")
The original Red’s Giant Hamburg on Route 66 in Springfield, Missouri, was a legendary roadside spot for…
![Charles G. Ross. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-hec-20327]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Charles-Ross.jpg?h=6924a192&itok=0AxT_vHV "Charles G. Ross. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-hec-20327]")
Born in Independence, Missouri, on November 9, 1885, Charles G. Ross attended…
![Nellie Tayloe Ross. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ggbain-29524]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Nellie-Tayloe-Ross.jpg?h=efb5bc87&itok=My8xv_Wc "Nellie Tayloe Ross. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ggbain-29524]")
Nellie Tayloe Ross was the first woman in the United States to serve as a state governor…
![Saukie and Fox on the St. Louis waterfront by Karl Bodmer, 1834. [State Historical Society of Missouri Art Collection, 1958.0010c2]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2024-10/1.-sac-and-fox.jpg?h=aa59a2db&itok=1y6DpE0c "Saukie and Fox on the St. Louis waterfront by Karl Bodmer, 1834. [State Historical Society of Missouri Art Collection, 1958.0010c2]")
The Sac and Fox were not native to Missouri, but were significant in Missouri’s territorial and early…
![Carl O. Sauer. © Chicago Maroon. [University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center, apf7-01181]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-06/1.%20Carl%20Ortwin%20Sauer.jpg?h=6c625ccc&itok=a1XrS63T "Carl O. Sauer. © Chicago Maroon. [University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center, apf7-01181]")
Carl Sauer probably had a more profound effect on American geographic thought than any…
![Dan Saults. [Courtesy of the Missouri State Archives, RG103, Department of Conservation Photograph Collection]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Dan-Saults.jpg?h=fbb74155&itok=5Cih8Mos "Dan Saults. [Courtesy of the Missouri State Archives, RG103, Department of Conservation Photograph Collection]")
Charles Daniel Saults was a leading voice in Missouri conservation for forty years. Trained…
![Elizabeth Seifert in 1938. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Pearl Boucher Matthews Scrapbook, C4587]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2024-09/1.-elizabeth-seifert.jpg?h=812ea0fa&itok=5McMPfpL "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…
![Floyd Calvin Shoemaker. [State Historical Society of Missouri Photographs Collection, P0137-014054]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Floyd-Calvin-Shoemaker.jpg?h=aa138b63&itok=2zUm8Emt "Floyd Calvin Shoemaker. [State Historical Society of Missouri Photographs Collection, P0137-014054]")
When Floyd Calvin Shoemaker retired as secretary, librarian, and editor of publications of…
![Edgar Snow. [University of Missouri–Kansas City Special Collections, KC.19.2.9-11-00002]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-07/1.%20Edgar%20Snow.jpg?h=4cbe348b&itok=yI7zx-KA "Edgar Snow. [University of Missouri–Kansas City Special Collections, KC.19.2.9-11-00002]")
Edgar Snow grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, where he was born on July 17, 1905. After a…
![St. Louis Browns players and owner Donald Lee Barnes celebrate the team’s lone American League pennant in 1944. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N45028]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-St_Louis_Browns.jpg?h=2409fecb&itok=zmo6EN3t "St. Louis Browns players and owner Donald Lee Barnes celebrate the team’s lone American League pennant in 1944. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N45028]")
The St. Louis Browns were a professional baseball team that played in the American League…