Monty RobertsThe Life Archive

Collection · Opening exhibit in preparation

Media Gallery

A curated visual tour of the archive: photographs, advertising artwork, race programs, and ephemera, presented gallery-style as items are digitized and cleared.

Vintage color photograph at a racetrack: a smiling woman in round sunglasses, a man in a white shirt and tie with folded arms, and a man in sunglasses wearing a media credential, beside a race car and transporter under a blue sky.
At the track, from the Roberts family archive. Family records identify the man in shirt and tie as Monty; other identifications and the date are still being documented.
A man in a tuxedo holding a child beside a hot-air balloon basket draped with a Busch Gardens banner, surrounded by children and adults at an evening event.
A Busch Gardens balloon event, from the Roberts family archive. Family records identify the man in the tuxedo as Monty.
Outdoor family portrait in front of a hedge: a woman, a girl in a navy and white dress, two blond twin boys in red shirts, and two men.
Roberts family portrait, from the family archive. Date to be documented.
A man and a woman each holding one of two infant twins dressed in white.
According to family records, Monty and Lora with the twin boys, Timothy and Peter.
A smiling woman and a man in a shirt and striped tie holding drinks at an event.
Monty and Lora at an event, according to family records. Occasion and date to be documented.
A family of five seated on a couch beneath framed pictures.
At home, from the Roberts family archive.
Studio portrait of two smiling blond twin toddlers in matching red shirts.
Studio portrait of the twins as toddlers, identified by family records as Timothy and Peter.
A woman in a polka-dot top holding a blond child wearing a number 24 jersey.
According to family records, Lora with one of the boys. From the Roberts family archive.
Two boys outdoors, one playing a saxophone in a Lions 42 shirt, the other in a striped shirt and cap.
The boys, from the Roberts family archive.
Color snapshot of a smiling woman with red hair outdoors among trees.
Lora Roberts, from the Roberts family archive. Date to be documented.
Portrait of a woman with red hair wrapped in a dark green blanket standing beside a tree-lined river.
From the Roberts family archive.
Three women side by side, the eldest in the middle in a floral top.
Three generations, from the Roberts family archive.
Two women laughing beside a man in a uniform shirt outdoors.
From the Roberts family archive.
A man standing on a ladder holding a camera, with a second camera around his neck.
From the Roberts family archive.
Two smiling women, one blond in gray and one with red hair in a leather jacket, at a restaurant.
From the Roberts family archive.
Two-story house with pale stucco walls, green shutters, arched door surrounds, and a large shade tree in the front yard.
The family home in St. Louis, according to family records.
Recent photograph of five people: a tattooed man in a St. Louis Blues shirt, an elderly woman in a pink sweater, a young blond woman, an older man, and a young boy.
A recent family gathering, from the Roberts family archive.
Black and white photograph of the Roberts family headstone bearing the names Munro, Clementine, and Peter.
The Roberts family memorial: Munro, Clementine, and Peter Roberts.

Currently seeking

  • High-resolution scans of any archive materials
  • Advertising artwork and storyboards
  • Busch Gardens and NASCAR ephemera

Materials are digitized, credited, and returned. Items are published only after family review, with personal identifiers redacted under the archive's privacy policy.

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