Missouri to mark 100th anniversary of Capitol's burning

Friday, February 4, 2011 | 4:39 p.m. CST; updated 9:45 p.m. CST, Saturday, February 5, 2011

JEFFERSON CITY — A photo tucked in a basement hallway of the Missouri Capitol shows an old incarnation of the building in a dramatic moment: Flames shoot from its windows and smoke curls off the soil in the foreground, blurring the structure's stately columns at the moment the camera flashed.

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