Unions' Public Art Blog

View from East Entrance to Campus, University of Missouri , 1907 "Dear Friend (Miss Sadie Mapes): Am having a good time here this summer. Wish you were here too.--Ida" Academic hall, University of Missouri, Columbia Missouri , 1910s  "Mr. Raymond Cox: Quite a wonderful University here. Glad to get back to Jeff City again tomorrow & possibly on to N.Y. See you soon, Harold." Scene on the Hinkson, University of Missouri, Columbia , 1930  "Miss Elsie Chester: Helo Elsie. This leaves me feeling fine and dandy. Hope it finds you the same.Your Brother, John Chester." Read Hall, University of Missouri, Columbia , 1907  "Miss Vera Barnes: Came here over Sunday with Florence Trotter--great place; will write soon and tell you all about it. Saw a good game yesterday MU. 27-W. 0. Read Hall is where I'm at." The Campus, University of Missouri, Columbia , 1908  "Jessie Wilson: Hello! Jesse, I am having a fine time her

I've been working on a seasonal display for the Memorial Union. For your viewing enjoyment, here are some fun images of Mizzou's snowy past! Click an image to enlarge it: In 1909 a Savitar poet dedicated a few stanzas to the sculptor of a Mizzou ice queen: "Cold, frigid, dead to all that's life/She stands with stately mien./Imploring her to be his wife,/He kneels before his queen." Savitar (1909). Mizzou women show off their snow boots, Savitar (1922). The queen of the winter formal and her attendees sit enthroned on a stage decorated with faux icicles and snow, Savitar (1923). "It is not often that winter comes to Missouri with such force as the pictures show, but when it does the students find great sport in playing in the snow," Savitar (1938). "Tigers bury Seahawks in the snow," Savitar (1943). After World War II, the G.I. Bill provided federal funding for veterans to go to college, surging enrollment at the uni