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Title: Mercantile Trust Co.
Date: 1951-08-31, 1951-08-31
Description: Plenty of reading materialism is available for employees and officers of the bank in the bank's library, which features financial books and records, but also has fiction. From left, Mrs. Theodore van Ravenswaay, assistant librarian, and Mrs. Elizabeth Owens, librarian.

Title: Gold Service Pins--Mercantile Trust Co.
Date: 1955-03-23, 1955-03-23
Description: Gold service pins for 21 years or more of service are awarded to 325 veteran staff members of the Mercantile Trust Company at a dinner at the Statler Hotel. From left: Sidney Maestre, chairman of the board, watches Hord Hardin, chairman of the executive committee, give a pin to Claude Cour, former head teller who retired last August after 52 years of service.

Title: Awarding Of The 50-year Pin And Watch--Mercantile Trust Co.
Date: 1956-03-13, 1956-03-13
Description: Awarding of 50-year pin and watch to Arthur W. Reiter at the Mercantile Trust Co. first anniversary dinner of the 21 Club. Pictured from left to right: Gale F. Johnston, vice president of the board, Arthur W. Reiter, recipient of the 50-year pin and watch, Sidney Master, chairman of the board, and Kenton R. Gravens, president.

Title: Boatmen's Bank - Lindbergh Flight 40th Anniversary
Date: 1967-04-25, 1967-04-25
Description: "Postcards congratulating Lindbergh on his historic flight in 1927 are viewed in Boatmen's lobby by (left) Artur F. Boettcher, Chairman of the Executive Committee, Boatmen's Bank, and George R. Brooks, director, Missouri Historical Society. The Lindbergh postcard collection is being exhibited in connection with the Society's celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Lindbergh flight. The Society will honor Charles A. Lindbergh at its 101st annual meeting to be held Friday, April 28, 1967. A highlight of the meeting will be the first American presentation of "Der Lindberghflug," a musical tribute by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht. Boatmen's Lindbergh postcard display was provided through the courtesy of a local resident, Mrs. Russell Splettstosser. The display will continue through the month of May."

Title: Boatmen's Bank - Doll Contest Winners
Date: 1964-12-10, 1964-12-11
Description: "Doll Contest Winners: Winners of the fifteenth annual doll dressing contest at Boatmen's National Bank are congratulated by Harry F. Harrington, board chairman. They are (from the left), Joy Fox,who took honors in the casual, leisure and street category; Carolyn Keevin, most charming high-fashion doll dressed with purchased clothing; Alvera Dahoda, formal or costume; Sandy Janesko, adorable baby with purchased clothing; Loraine Schild, infant, and Margaret Goza, young child. The 82 dolls entered in the contest will remain on display in the bank lobby until Dec. 23 and then will be distributed to children from various welfare agencies at a party in the bank that afternoon."

Title: Boatmen's Bank - Political Art Exhibit
Date: 1964-10-12, 1964-10-13
Description: "Politics Through the Years is the title of exhibit which opened Monday in the lobby of Boatmen's National Bank. Present for the opening, from left, were Congresswoman Leonor Sullivan; Don Hesse, Globe-Democrat editorial cartoonist; Congressman Frank Karsten; Howard Ohlendorf and Theodore Fischer, both GOP congressional candidates. The exhibit consists of original drawings by Don Hesse and other well-known cartoonists. Also on display are photographs of candidates. History of political campaigning from the 1850s is depicted. The exhibit will be shown through Monday, Nov. 2."

Title: Boatmen's Bank - Third and Washington At Time of Spanish-American War
Date: 1949-09-11, 1960-02-12
Description: Two original captions: "This is the city's famed Third and Washington loop as it appeared during the war with Spain. Building on the right is the old Perkinsand Herpel's Mercantile College. Beyond that is old Boatmen's Bank building, which housed Missouri Athletic Club." "Third and Washington in Spanish-American War times. At Taylor avenue car is starting to round the loop. The building on the north side of Washington between Third and Fourth housed Perkins & Herpel's Mercantile College which offered day and night school classes in all branches of commercial studies; the prospectus said that 'students may join at any time, as there are no vacations and no classes, each receiving personal attention from the seven professors who assist Messrs. Perkins & Herpel.' Behind it rises the ill-fated Boatmen's Bank building which housed the Missouri Athletic Club until the disastrous fire of 1914."

Title: Downtown Section
Date: 1951-01-21
Description: Sight of Downtown section space before it was built into a bank.

Title: Boatmen's Bank Building - Nighttime
Description: Image of Boatmen's National Bank building at nighttime.

Title: Boatmen's Bank - Doll Contest Winners Lineup
Date: 1965-12-10, 1965-12-11
Description: "Winners of doll-dressing contest at Boatmen's National Bank and the categories they led are (from the left) Sue Rapp, baby doll; Loraine Schild, infant doll; Laurie Buckles, high-fashion doll in formal attire or costume; Roma Wood, high-fashion doll in casual attire, and Carolyn Keevin, most adorable. The dolls are among 77 entered in the bank's sixteenth annual competition. They will be on display in the lobby through Dec. 23, when they will be distributed to needy children at a Christmas party."

Title: Boatmen's Bank - Evacuation
Date: 1961-03-20, 1961-03-21
Description: "Evacuating Boatmen's Bank building are customers of the Boatmen's Coffee Shop (due to leaking ammonia fumes), who hurried from the ground floor annex, using the Locust street entrance of the building."

Title: Trekker The Horse Grazes In A Pasture At Jefferson Barracks
Date: 1980-03-24, 1980-04-25
Description: A horse grazes near the stable at the Jefferson Barracks Historical area.

Title: Jefferson Barracks Sixth Infantry
Date: 1937-07-24, 1937-07-24
Description: The Six Infantry (above) passing in review before its commanding officer, Col. Joseph A. Atkins, yesterday afternoon at Jefferson Barracks after the post had been inspected by Maj. Gen. Charles D. Herron, commanding the Sixth Corps area.

Title: Jefferson Barracks Sixth Infantry
Date: 1938-06-04, 1938-06-04
Description: Buttons got a special shine yesterday at Jefferson Barracks, where Secretary of War, Harry H. Woodring inspected the Sixth Infantry. He is shown looking over one of the companies of the regiment with commanding officers of the barracks.

Title: Officers Play Golf On The Jefferson Barracks Course
Date: 1935-05-12, 1935-05-12
Description: One of the newly-constructed grass greens on the course with (left to right) Capt. McCowan, Mrs. Van Zee, Lieut. O'Connell and Lieut. Van Zee holing out.

Title: Illustration Of The Jefferson Barracks
Date: 1983-07-02, 1983-07-02
Description: A drawing of the Jefferson Barracks.

Title: Decorated For Bravery--Jefferson Barracks
Date: 1938-05-28, 1938-05-28
Description: In the morning, Corp. George Williams was decorated by Maj.-Gen. Drum for bravery. Afternoon found him busy in maneuvers.

Title: Jefferson Barracks Training Camp
Description: Members of the Citizens Military Training Camp at Jefferson Barracks

Title: Jefferson Barracks
Description: Aerial view of the Jefferson Barracks.

Title: Jefferson Barracks Museum Guide
Date: 1980-03-24, 1980-03-24
Description: Blanche Allen, museum guide at Laborers' House, built in 1851. The picture was taken in one of two bedrooms in the house on the second floor.

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