Letter signed T.K. Skinker, Jackson, Tennessee, to wife, St. Louis. This town is and for a week has been the scene of festivities called a street fair. Business hours and hotels are decorated with flags, and with electric lights by night. . . . A small Ferriss wheel is in operation. Several persons have told me that such occasions are very demoralizing to the business and labor of the country., 1903 Oct 31

Item — Box: 2, Folder: 2

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Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The collection consists primarily of Skinker family correspondence, the bulk of which is between Thomas K. Skinker and his wife, Bertha Rives Skinker. The collection also contains several folders of tax receipts of Thomas Skinker dated 1839-1886. This finding aid was compiled by keying in the document descriptions on the folder covers. These document descriptions were presumably written by a Missouri Historical Society archivist soon after the collection was purchased in 1978.