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The Wood and Huston Bank in Marshall has gone against the trends of the banking industry and remained privately owned maintaining its history and character. Business partners Will Wood and Joseph Huston, Jr. started a warehouse, shipping and commission company in Arrow Rock in 1859. Since 1874, the Wood and Huston Bank has continued to provide financial services for Marshall and Saline County.

The businessmen closed that venture and the bank opened its doors before the first trains came to Marshall. Ever since, a member of the Huston family has been at the bank, most working their way up.

The building that currently houses the bank was constructed in 1906. The lobby maintains much of the look of that time while the bank has expanded through closed businesses to the west of its first location. The new expansion, modern in design when compared to the lobby, contains offices for the loan department, central operations and other offices for the bank that has grown to have locations in Springfield, Cape Giradeau and West Plains with a plan to operate long into the future.

Photographs from the 56th Missouri Photo Workshop are available available online through the Year-by-Year page, or through the MPW.56 homepage

History of the Missouri Photo Workshop

The roots of the Missouri Photo Workshop are embedded firmly in a half-century of rich tradition; current workshops carry on principals present from the beginning.

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When the late Clifton C. Edom of the Missouri School of Journalism founded the Missouri Photo Workshop in 1949, he too, looked to the past to map the path for photojournalism's future. Inspired by the gritty, content-rich photographs of the documentary photo unit of the pre-WWII Farm Security Administration, Edom promoted research, observation and timing as the methods to make strong story-telling photographs. FSA director Roy Stryker and photographer Russell Lee worked closely with Edom in the creation of the Workshop and served as faculty members during its early years.

In subsequent years, faculty members have been many of America’s leading newspaper and magazine photographers and photo editors; a roster of faculty and students reads like a Who’s Who of photojournalism. Faculty of today includes some of the most energetic, productive and articulate documentarians currently working. All are experts dedicated to passing on the fundamentals of photo research, shooting and editing to those who hope to carry on these values and techniques in the future.

The workshop still follows Cliff Edom's credo:

"Show truth with a camera. Ideally truth is a matter of personal integrity. In no circumstances will a posed or fake photograph be tolerated."

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