For those of you just tuning in, I’ll repeat that a little over a year ago I made a visit to the archives belonging to the Missouri History Museum in Forest Park. There I met the archivist Lauren Sallwasser who it turned out is a fellow Maplewoodian. She showed me their collection of documents and photographs that had been donated by Margaret Sappington Townsend. She was kind enough to provide me with digital copies of two of the photo albums from that collection. It was a mind-blowing experience. I’ve been trying to get back ever since. Although, I have posted many of the images from those two albums that I consider solid gold nuggets from the rich vein of Maplewood history. There are many more that are worth a look. Last post we took a look at the first ten pages from Album One Click on this if you would like to see the First Ten Pages from Album One again. Still from Album One, here are ten more pages beginning with page 11. Page eleven. The address on this house is very clearly 7177. From other images in this collection, I have learned that it was on Manchester, west of Sutton even though the address would have you think otherwise. Images added to the album later show that the address had been changed to 7477. This is a fairly common problem for historians. As the population increased, it was sometimes necessary for the post office to change the addresses. Page twelve. Philip’s page. Since I have had much enjoyment from having the whole of the two albums to examine, I thought that the only way for the followers of this space to experience that was to post all of the images contained within the albums. That is a tall
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