Education Resources Available for Classroom Use from Powers Museum of Carthage, Missouri

Powers Museum has the following resources available for use by teachers and home school groups. Please e-mail or call (417-237-0456) for further details on their use.

Example of mini-exhibit materials included in Carthage Around the Square  — card on businesses at 100 E 4th through the years.

Themes/Subject Areas: 

• WW I Homefront in Carthage (can be used for other locations, too)

• WW I I Homefront in Carthage (can be used for other locations, too)

• Carthage Stone Industry with sub-theme of Missouri State Capitol (1913–17)  

See also our Missouri Digital Heritage Project: Riches from the Earth and/or our education resource page for Riches.

• Carthage Architecture through the Decades — Residential

• Carthage Around the Square — Businesses around the square (have 1860s & 1870s version and 1880s-1920s version)

• Famous Carthaginians (See also our online resource page on this topic.)

• Highways Through Carthage featuring Highway 66 and early auto trails (Jefferson & Ozarks Trail)

Carthage Visitors & Convention Bureau History Guide written by the Powers Museum.

• R. Marlin Perkins

Some Civil War items (books, display items, banner exhibit, etc.) may be available during 2011-14 depending on use of same by the museum with its own sesquicentennial exhibits or programs.

OTHER EXHIBITS

Lewis & Clark Exploration

U.S. Women's History & Suffrage

MEDIA & MISC. RESOURCES

Holidays

Historic Halloween Celebrations: Teacher Resource Guide/L 
Victorian Christmas Cob Web Party Kit/L
Epiphany Surprise Christmas Cake Story Kit/L
Holiday Victorian Images [for making Christmas decorations]/L
(If you are interested in Holidays, the reference library has other books available to teachers only for Easter, Valentine's Day and other selected holidays.)

Military & Home Front (Civil War, WWI, WWII)

Contact Museum for Civil War media available.

WORLD WAR 1 & 2 (Being reviewed for culling)

World War I Home Front; Teachers Guide and Document Kit/L & E
1944 Molly — Teachers Guide to Six Books about World War II/L
Forties [1940s]/L
Pearl Harbor Warriors: The Bulger, The Pilot, The Friendship/L
Pearl Harbor Child: A Child's View of Pearl Harbor from Attack to Peace/L
Remembering the Home Front/L
Through My Eyes: A Childs View of World War II/L
World War II Days/L
World War II Home Front; Teachers Guide and Document Kit/L & E
We Were There: Letters from the Battle Front (includes CW, WWII & Vietnam)/L
Family Gathering [Japanese Internment/World War II]/V
Pearl Harbor Child Shares Eyewitness Stories of the Pearl Harbor Attack/V
World War II/V
Post War USA/V
America at War: The Home Front (Praise the Lord and Pass the A Ammunition/V
Rosie the Riveter/V
Hollywood at War/V
Aftermath (World War II)/V
Produce For Victory: Posters on the American Home Front, 1941 - 1945/E & CD
World War II/CD
Kenneth Wofford; Tuskegee Airman/V (also have cassette of LofC interview) 
Camp Crowder Celebration/V
World War II Music Video, vol 1&2/V 
NOTE: Recent DVD purchases not included, please inquire.  Some videos may be culled due to lack of classroom equipment. Some videos will be kept for museum use since we have dual DVD/Video players available. 

Missouri History

Vintage Panoramic Maps [includes Carthage MO 1891] featuring Iowa, Kansas, Missouri,   Nebraska maps 1854 - 1921/CD

Jasper County History/CD [includes maps, books, misc.]
Exceptions that Created the Rule [Missouri Women]/Exhibit on CD

Route 66 (Highway 66)

Still have several videos devoted to this theme.  DVDs readily available for purchase on internet. Museum also holds numerous books and notebooks with articles on various 66 themes.

NEW RESOURCE PAGE FOR 66 COMMING SUMMER 2012

Travel & Tourism

Great American Footrace/V [Highway 66 Footrace] V & L (online)
Horatio's Dive [1903 Trans-continental Auto Race] DVD

Twentieth Century

In Their Own Voices: U S Presidential Elections of 1908 & 1912/CD
Samantha's World - 1904/L

Womens History

Votes for Women/V
Fine and Long Tradition/V
Exceptions that Created the Rule [Missouri Women]/Exhibit on CD 
History of Woman Suffrage/CD (contains primary documents)