October 22, 2013

Pictures of the Past #30

G.D. Fronabarger left the Missourian boxes and boxes of negatives. What he didn't leave were IDs for them. Pictures of the Past features some of Frony's images we've partially identified. We're hoping you can help fill in the blanks. Contact librarian Sharon Sanders at ssanders@semissourian.com, if you recognize a place or a face. Mystery Galleries may still be viewed on our History Page, http://www.semissourian.com/history/

Published Sept. 16, 1948. Boys and ponies are inseparable. Here's Norman "Skippy" Smith of Little Rock, Ark., exercising a Shetland in preparation for the coming event of the big horse show at the SEMO District Fair. (Missourian archive photo by G.D. Fronabarger)

Oct. 1, 1946 Southeast Missourian. A worker stands in a field of sugar cane, on a 5-acre patch southeast of Benton in the Northcut ditch area. H.R. and Curtis Crumpecker operated a sorghum mill and expected a yield of from 125 to 150 gallons per acre from their crop. (G.D. Fronabarger/Southeast Missourian archive)

These boys hoped for blue ribbons for their hogs at the SEMO District Fair. (Missourian archive photo by G.D. Fronabarger)

Butch Meier recognized where this cattle auction was held: "Sale was held at FFA barn on the SEMO Fair grounds. Livestock sales were held there in the 1950s and 1960s."

An unidentified farmer tended one of his animals inside a livestock tent at the SEMO District Fair. (Missourian archive photo by G.D. Fronabarger)

Can anyone help us identify these barbecue masters? (Missourian archive photo by G.D. Fronabarger)

Five Jackson football players were pulled away from practice to have their photo made for the newspaper. Mike Masterson wrote: "The five football players are, from left to right: Tony Kirn, Adolph Sokolowski, Fred Jones, Larry Lewis, Ray Schweain."

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G.D. Fronabarger left the Missourian boxes and boxes of negatives. What he didn't leave were IDs for them. Pictures of the Past features some of Frony's images we've partially identified. We're hoping you can help fill in the blanks. Contact librarian Sharon Sanders at ssanders@semissourian.com, if you recognize a place or a face. Mystery Galleries may still be viewed on our History Page, http://www.semissourian.com/history/

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