

Peculiar-looking floating circus docked on town’s riverfront: 1852
Cutline: Artwork From Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, Feb. 19, 1853. Reprinted in Circus Scrap Book, No. 13 (Jan), 1932, pp....


Drum and fife corps helped keep Civil War memories alive
T emporary Arch of the Grand Army of the Republic, constructed at Twelfth and Olive Streets in St. Louis for a grand encampment, attended...


Remembering the Grand Army of the Republic
This undated photo represents the Grand Army of the Republic assembled together in formation. The man standing in front holds a Union...
Silas Osterhout Home In Hannibal Teems With Historical Backgroun
1952, Courier-Post New Home Edition reprinted in the Hannibal Courier-Post (MO) - Sunday, May 10, 2009 Author: Hannibal Courier-Post The...


Court transcript introduces Hannibal man to his ancestor
Dana Riney of Hannibal stands by the graves of his grandmother, Bessie Rhodes Bartlett, and his great-grandparents, Minnie Melson Rhodes...


Journalist chronicled important milestone in Hannibal’s history
Employees of the Hannibal Morning Journal newspaper gather outside the building on East Broadway circa 1900. This building was known as...


Rivalry between Settles, Pettibone carried weight in 1880 Hannibal
This photo, taken from the southeast corner of Main and Broadway circa 1866, shows the Settles & Helms dry good store, located on the...


Dr. Lucke looked over health concerns of Marion County
Dr. Lucke is pictured leaving the Maddox house on Hope Street in Hannibal in 1947. He had affixed a quarantine sign to the front door...


1947: Sister Kenny's treatment plan cured young Hannibal polio patient
Gov. Dwight Green of Illinois, holds 7-year-old Margaret Carenen of Hannibal, Mo., as he visited the recently established Sister...


Picture tells story of business half-block destroyed by fire in 1898
This map, based upon a Sanborn Fire Map of 1899, shows where the businesses that burned were located. ILLUSTRATION BY MARY LOU MONTGOMERY...