St. Louis Publications Photograph Collection

Several accessions occurred between 1987– July 2013 due to donations from Frank Absher/St. Louis Media History Foundation.

The first accession was 51 photos taken by Art Witman during his time at the Post-Dispatch (1932-1969). The photos were donated by Mr. Witman in 1988.

The second accession was donated by John Dengler in 1988. Dengler donated photos featured in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat; it is unclear which specific photos due to a lack of accession records before 2013. 

The third accession was a donation of 34 photos depicting the PostDispatch exhibit at the Mid-America Jubilee, September 1956. The photos were donated on March 18, 1991.

The fourth accession of 2 photos was donated by Verna Smith on June 24, 1991: Ferman News Team and Milton Ferman, latter was taken by Peter Ferman Photographers.

The fifth accession of the Pulitzer Prize winning photo that was featured in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch of a fireman giving CPR to a child (photographer: Ron Olshwanger) was given on July 30, 1991 by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

The fifth accession, a photo of Sigma Delta Chi members, was donated by Verna Smith on April 1, 1994.

The sixth through eighth accessions were donated by Frank Absher/St. Louis Media History Foundation on February 12, 2014; March 18, 2014 and March 20, 2014, respectively. 

The ninth accession (MA uu:123), two Sigma Delta Chi photos, was donated probably sometime in the 1990s by Jim Flagg. 

The tenth accession (MA uu:124) came as a donation from KMOX radio sometime in the 1990s. The photo was one of 15 photos donated, but was the only photo that was not a KMOX radio personality; thus was placed into this collection.

Individual item (MA 02:02) donated by Amour Krupnik on March 21, 2002.

The collection contains photos of professional organizations related to

St. Louis publications, photos of staff and the physical buildings of St. Louis publications, as well as other miscellaneous photos related to St. Louis publications. The collection is organized into two subseries, the bulk of which consists of photos of newspaper staff from the St. Louis Globe-Democrat and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Note: The St. Louis Sun photographs are in their own collection. See the Thomas Birkenmeier/St. Louis Sun Collection (MA 90:08; 91:35;  93:20; 13:04).  

Collection organized into subseries.

Subseries 1: Newspapers
Subseries 2: Professional Organizations

Arrangement within subseries is alphabetically (by newspaper title and then alphabetically by the photo descriptor/last name in series 1).

Jean Gosebrink accession numbers included with appropriate items.

See Pictures of Post-Dispatch operational departments. St. Louis postdispatch. RB-M 071 (16 B&W photographs & 14 negatives). 

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, exhibit at the Mid-America Jubilee,

September 1-30, 1956 (46). Pr-086, Ph-63, Ph-64, Ph-65, Ph-66,

Ph-67, Ph-68, Ph-69, Ph-70, Ph-71, Ph-72, Ph-73, Ph-74, Ph-75, Ph-76, N86; MA 91:38

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Arthur Witman photos, 1930s-1940s (46); chiefly of Pulitzer family, St. Louis Post-Dispatch staff. Ge-

001099-1-41, Ge-001099-46-48; Ge-001099-17 missing 5/17/14

St. Louis Star-Times, staff members (7). Bruce Boehle (Ph-10);

James Flagg (Ph-13); Reed Hynds (Ph-12); Edward Maxwell (Ph-11);

Frank Mueller (Ph-14); Will Sandeson (Ph-9); Bill Burchfiel, Arthur Buck, Bernard Walsh, Edward Mills (Ph-15). Ge-001103/Ph-9, Ph10, Ph-11, Ph-12, Ph-13, Ph-14, Ph-15.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Art Witman. “A political situation -- FDR,

‘Happy’ Chandler and ‘Dear Alben’”

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Art Witman. Harry S. Truman, Winston

Churchill, and Governor Donnelly at Westminster College, Fulton,

Mo., March 5, 1946 [framed]. Ge-001099-45