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Special Collections, SC#6, Shember Collection. Photographs from the 1920s of miners and mining in the Tri-State area and of relatives of the Shember family.

Collection Information

Collection Number: SC#6

Title: 
Shember Collection

Dates: 
1920s


Collection Size: 
1 Box

Scope and Content

Photographs from the 1920s of miners and mining in the Tri-State area and of relatives of the Shember family.

Acquisition Information

Donated by Myra "Carlene" and James Shember in 1999.

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Collection Inventory

  • The Big Oil Pipe at Drumright
  • Papa Perry Colmin Crusher Feeder
  • Hoister and Screen Room La Noe Mine, Joplin, Missouri
  • The Old Baltimore Mine North Of Chitwood
  • Everett driving a team
  • D.M. Oberman Manufacturing Company - Shirt Division, Joplin, Mo 6-22-1920
  • Picture of girls at Schifferdecker Park
  • Guy, Goldie, and Thelma

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