A City of Wealth and Industry: Joplin 1913 Moving Pictures

Previously, we brought you views of Joplin from The City that Jack Built: Joplin, 1902.  This time we offer more views of Joplin, this time from Joplin: City of Wealth, Industry and Opportunity, from approximately 1913.  Just like The City That Jack Built, City of Wealth, Industry and Opportunity, was created as a means to advertise Joplin’s attractive qualities to the world at large.  By 1913, Joplin was quickly approaching what might be considered it’s architectural peak, with many of her most beautiful buildings being completed by this decade and the next.  It was the age of Michaelis, Allen and Garstang & Rea, and a time period when Joplinites held no doubt that their city was on its way to bigger and better things.  To get a more static view of the photographs featured in the video below, just follow this link.

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Brown, October 22nd 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , , ,
Posted in Buildings of Joplin, Joplin industry, Photographs of Joplin, Video

The City That Jack Built – Joplin 1902 Moving Pictures

In 1902, business interests in Joplin wanted to promote their city and did so by publishing The City That Jack Built, a photograph booklet that covered Joplin’s business, industry, and the residences that its mineral wealth had built.  Quite a while ago, we scanned in our copy of the booklet and made it available on Flickr here.  However, we thought it might be fun to present the photographs to you in the form of a video slideshow, linked below.  For more information on the photographs featured in the slideshow, check out the Flickr page and select the image to find out the name of the home, business, or industry.

 

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Brown, October 17th 2011 | Tags: , , , , , ,
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Music Video Joplin

For those of you who just want to sit back and look at photographs of historic Joplin and listen to good music in the process, we present to you Patrick McPheron’s work, Presenting Joplin (click here!).  McPheron is a free lance designer in Los Angeles with Joplin roots and crafted this music video using photographs and images from Digital Postcard Collection at the Joplin Public Library’s website.

For a look at the rest of McPheron’s work, including photographs, other videos, and music, just follow this link to Interiorstate.com.

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Brown, August 24th 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,
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