Acknowledgements

Project Director: Joe Edwards
Editing: Joe Edwards, Brad Hines, Tom Peckham
Research/Text: Brad Hines, Tom Peckham, Joe Edwards, Karin Steinmeyer,
Carol Conway-Long, Mary Ann Fitzgerald, Phil Carmody
Photographs of Induction Ceremonies: Hope Edwards, Jennifer Silverberg, Drea Stein, Linda Edwards, Teresa Kitchens
Ceremony Music: Original St. Louis River Critters Jazz Band

Inductee Portrait Photo Credits to Institutions

Missouri History Museum, St. Louis: Josephine Baker, Susan Blow, Kate Chopin, Auguste Chouteau, William Clark, Carl & Gerty Cori, T.S. Eliot, Eugene Field, Pierre Laclede, Theodore Link, Charles M. Russell, Willie Mae Ford Smith, Sara Teasdale, Helen Traubel.

St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri-St. Louis: Henry Armstrong, Thomas Hart Benton, Yogi Berra, Lou Brock, Harry Caray, Dizzy Dean, Dan Dierdorf, Katherine Dunham, James B. Eads, Charles Eames, William Greenleaf Eliot, Redd Foxx, David Garroway, Bob Gibson, Betty Grable, Al Hirschfeld, Rogers Hornsby, William Inge, Charles Lindbergh, Marsha Mason, Bill Mauldin, David Merrick, Archie Moore, Marianne Moore, Agnes Moorehead, Stan Musial, Vincent Price, Harold Ramis, Branch Rickey, Irma Rombauer, Red Schoendienst, Dred & Harriet Scott, William T. Sherman, Clark Terry, Kay Thompson, Tina Turner, Mary Wickes, Tennessee Williams.

Herb Weitman/Washington University Archives: Arthur Holly Compton, Howard Nemerov, Mona Van Duyn.

Inductee Portrait Photo Credits to Individual Photographers

Josephine Baker: Richard Martin
Christine Brewer: Christian Steiner
Jack Buck: Larry Sherron
Stanley Elkin: Joan Elkin
Mary Engelbreit: Rich Saal
Walker Evans: Metropolitan Museum of Art 1994.256.391 Paul Grotz (American, b. Germany, 1902-1990), Walker Evans, 1930-34 ©The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Walker Evans Archive, 1994
Lee Falk: Bender Photograph
Charles Guggenheim: Berko Studio
Donny Hathaway: Gilles Pétard Collection
Henry Hampton: Dave Henderson
Johnnie Johnson: Joe Frisch
Scott Joplin: Scott Joplin State Historic Site
Albert King: Wart Enterprizes/David Horwitz©
Rocco Landesman: Michael Eastman
Elijah Lovejoy: Elijah Parish Lovejoy Society
Masters & Johnson: photograph by Buzz Taylor
Tim McCarver: Fox Sports
Nelly: Universal Records ©2004
Gyo Obata: H.O.K.
Mike Peters: Greg Preston
Joseph Pulitzer: St. Louis Post-Dispatch; portrait by John Singer Sargent, photographed by D. Gulick
Judy Rankin: David Cannon/Getty Images
Charles M. Russell: Pollard
David Sanborn: Henry Leutwyler
Henry Shaw: Portrait Collection, Missouri Botanical Garden Library; painting by Fairchild & Rox
George Sisler: National Baseball Library, Cooperstown, NY; courtesy St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame Museum
Jackie Smith: NFL Photos, Prolook/Image, photographed by Herb Weitman
Willie Mae Ford Smith: Jackie Jackson
Henry Townsend: Bill Greensmith Photography
Harry Weber: Bob Pitts

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Special thanks

Special thanks to former University City Mayors Janet Majerus and
Joe Adams, Mayor Shelley Welsch, members of the University City Council, St. Louis City Mayor Francis Slay, Alderwoman Lyda Krewson and the citizens of University City and the City of St. Louis for providing the sidewalks of The Loop as the location for the St. Louis Walk of Fame.