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
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