Memory & Legacy:

Missouri in the Great Warby Ben Divin & Gary Larsen

The Great War 1914 - 1918

Missouri on the Border

America Goes Over

The War’s End

The First Memorializations

The Honor Rolls

County and City Banners

Liberty Memorial

Liberty Memorial Tower, Dedicated November 1, 1921. In the Presence of Marshal Foch,

Admiral Beatty, General Pershing, General Diaz, General Jacques, Vice President Calvin

Coolidge, Robert Alexander Long (President of the Liberty Memorial Association) Guest of

the American Legion

Soldier’s Memorial

Soldier’s Memorial, Dedicated October 14, 1936

City and County Memorials

Pettis County, MO Bates County, MO Scotland County, MO

Memorial to Missouri Soldiers, Cheppy France

A Lasting Legacy

1930 1932 1940

2008 2011

Remembering the Forgotten War

Over There: Missouri and The Great War

Collaboration

Project Scope

• Assessment

• Rating System

• Targeting Collections

Digitizing Collections

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Digitize

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Scanning Collections

• Scanning Standards

– Resolution

– Format

• Post-editing

• Transcribe/Metadata

• Quality Control

Photographing Collections

Missouri History Museum State History Museum Missouri National Guard Museum of Military History Soldiers Memorial STL

Missouri State National Guard Museum of Military History The Ron Leverenz Collection

Publishing Collections

Missourioverthere.org

Articles

Collections

Artifacts

Service Database