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Title: JB I (9)
Date: 1949-11-06
Description: For many years starting in 1842,the Barracks was the Los Alamos of the United States Army.

Title: Sp-Am War I (2)
Date: 1949-11-06
Description: Camp Stephens Battery A. when mustered from the National Guard into the United States service, Battery A was officered by Capt., later Col. Frank M. Rumbold, who later fought in the Philippines, 1st Lt. John E. Weber, 1st Junior Lt. Edwward Bates Eno, and Murray.

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Dedication Program
Date: 1974-10-20, 1974-10-20
Description: "Part of the military at the Dedication program at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri. The ceremony in which General Charles M. Kiefner, Adjutant General of Missouri spoke briefly was held at Jefferson Barracks Sunday, October 20, 1974 at 1:00 p.m."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Anti-Aircraft
Date: 1943-12-03, 1943-12-26
Description: Military members dressed in civilian clothing, including "Hank the Handsome," inspect an anti-aircraft machine gun at Jefferson Barracks.

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Union Army Captain Reenactor
Date: 1985-04-20, 1985-04-26
Description: "Union Army Captain Don Calvin reads an 1862 army ordinance manual before a demonstration of Union and Confederate artillery at Jefferson Barracks Sunday."

Title: JB II (4)
Date: 1949-11-06
Description: By late summer of 1898, mustering in date for the 7th Regiment, U.S.V. "Immunes", the Army was convinced the woolen uniforms worn at Gettysburg in 1863 were not suited to tropical warfare in 1898.

Title: JD II (9)
Date: 1949-11-06
Description: Camp Stephens, Jefferson Barracks, August 1898. Inspection in the quarters of the 7th Regiment, "Immunes".

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Houses for Sale
Date: 1960-09-07, 1960-09-08
Description: "Houses for Sale at Barracks: Houses on Sherman road in Jefferson Barracks are among 22 residences on "officers' row" which will be offered for sale by the General Services Administration. The houses will be auctioned off as separate units with the date for the sale set tentatively as Oct. 20. Those to be sold have been rented by the government to private individuals in recent years."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Brick Apartments
Date: 1964-01-21, 1964-01-25
Description: "After: Modern brick apartments like these are a part of a 304-unit project being built on a 30-acre site at Jefferson Barracks by a private developer. Some are now occupied. Rents range from $70 to $100."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Naturalization
Date: 1964-01-03, 1964-01-25
Description: "After: The old bathhouse was torn down this past summer and excess dirt from the cemetary is being used to fill in the swimming pool. Eventually, this site will regain its natural beauty."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Display Cannons
Date: 1962-06-20, 1962-06-20
Description: Image of historical cannon barrels on display at Jefferson Barracks.

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Flooded Apartments
Date: 1953-09-20, 1953-09-20
Description: "Several apartments were flooded yesterday at Jefferson Barracks because tenants opened their faucets when service failed, and forgot to turn them off. When service was restored many furnishings were water-soaked, forcing several to spend the day drying out. Here neighbors are drying rugs and other furnishings for Mrs. Robert Schroeder, 1029 Kilner st., who is in the hospital. Tenants upstairs left their faucet open, and her husband, a trucker, was out of town."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Seventh-Day Adventist Ministers
Date: 1948-06-08, 1948-06-08
Description: "Ministers of the Seventh Day Adventist Church began work yesterday on the demolition of nine buildings at Jefferson Barracks to obtain building materials for their preperatory school at Centralia, Mo. In charge were Elders Carl Sundlin (kneeling), Jesse Marshall (at Sundlin's left), and Miles Kellogg (at Sundlin's right)."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Discharged Veterans
Date: 1945-09-21, 1945-09-21
Description: ""That's all, civilans!" was the last command that sent these discharged veterans racing toward the building where tickets and busses awaited them, at Jefferson Barracks."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Centennial Service 1967
Date: 1967-05-30, 1967-05-31
Description: "Veterans of American military service were urged Tuesday to lead the nation toward "an attitude of strength" that will bring about victory in Vietnam, in a Memorial Day address by Richard H. Amberg, publisher of the Globe-Democrat. Mr. Amberg was principal speaker at the 100th anniversary Memorial Day services at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, sponsored by the 10th District, American Legion, Department of Missouri. Other veterans organizations, civic, religious and service groups participated. Hundreds braved rain that varied from a light mist to a steady downpour to watch athe solemn services on a platform near the cemetery flagpole, on which the American flag was hanging at half-staff to honor the 43,000 veterans and their families buried there."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Reenactment Union Artilleryman
Date: 1985-04-20, 1985-04-26
Description: Two original captions: "Clarence Landgraf wears the uniform for Corporal, Union Army, First Missouri light artillery." "Union and Confederate replica cannons, above, were fired during a Civil War program Saturday at Jefferson Barracks. Clarence Landgraf, left, wears a corporal's uniform from the Union Army. Scott Martin, 3 1/2, below, checks out the barrel of a cannon."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Decaying Building
Date: 1962-06-20, 1962-06-24
Description: "One of the decaying frame buildings that greet the eyes of visitors to the beautiful Jefferson Barracks National Cemetary, final resting place for over 30,000 honored dead. This building was used as a dressing room for the swimming pool on the army post, no longer in use, and is located just outside gates to cemetary where about 100 are buried monthly."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Checking a Cannon
Date: 1985-04-20, 1985-04-26
Description: Two original captions: "Scott Martin, 3 1/2 years, checks out the barrel of a cannon on display at Jefferson Barracks for a demonstration of Civil War artillery." "Union and Confederate replica cannons, above, were fired during a Civil War program Saturday at Jefferson Barracks. Clarence Landgraf, left, wears a corporal's uniform from the Union Army. Scott Martin, 3 1/2, below, checks out the barrel of a cannon."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Public Housing
Date: 1960-02-11, 1960-02-14
Description: "Old army barracks provide St. Louis County's only public housing."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - All That Remains
Date: 1964-01-03, 1964-02-29
Description: "All that remains of the once great Jefferson Barracks is shown in this photograph taken this year. More than 1700 acres had been acquired for the site of the famed military installation." Marked as "Birthday Edition."

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