Can I Get That In Print? - Boone County History & Culture Center

About

This exhibit highlights Columbia’s rich history of printing and publishing through its people, businesses, and institutions. Explore newspapers, books, magazines, and sheet music created here in Columbia. Discover stories from the first newspaper west of St. Louis to the founding of the world’s first School of Journalism, and Columbia’s once-largest private business, the E. W. Stephens Publishing Company.

Special thanks to those who edited, executed, and supported this exhibition, including Laurel & Howard Wilson, Nancy W. Thomas, Vicki Russell, Chris Campbell, Mary Creach, Andy Waters, Brian Flanigan, Haille Norris, Keith Clayton, Patrick Earney, The University Of Missouri Archives, Chad Stebbins Of The Missouri Press Association, David Rosenbaum Of The University Press. Exhibit Written, Researched & Curated by Matt Fetterly.

Thanks to the presenting sponsor, Witt Print Shop. Additional funding provided by Columbia Office Of Cultural Affairs, Boone County Government, Columbia Convention & Visitors Bureau, Boone County Historical Society Members & Donors Like You.

Photos of the exhibit pieces

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Blind Boone’s Southern Rag Medley No. One: Strains FromThe Alleys (1908), Accession 1994.0003.0001, Donor: Arvarh E. Strickland

Movable Type, Accession 2025.1.30, BCHS Collection

Large Wooden Type, On Loan from the Missouri Press Association

William Switzler, Editor & Publisher of the Missouri Statesman, and author of book “History of Boone County”, 1882

Missouri Press Heritage Prints, Accession 2019.0014.0001, Donor: Missouri Press Association Richard / Doug Crews