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Title: Steam Flour Mill
Date: 1960-07-17, 1960-07-17
Description: This picture of an early type steam flour mill, which residents called the old Union steam mill, was taken at the foot of Mullanphy shortly after Boehl was mustered out of the Union Army following the Civil War.

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Parade for Visitors
Date: 1941-09-15, 1941-09-15
Description: "Recruits Parade for Visitors at Barracks: Air Corps replacement recruits in training at Jefferson Barracks showed snap and precision yesterday as they passed in review before the post commander and his staff and 15,000 visitors who were present for open-house ceremonies there."

Title: New Jefferson Barracks Reception Center
Date: 1941-11, 1941-11
Description: Image of new Post Exchange Reception Center at Jefferson Barracks.

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Parade Spectators
Date: 1941-09-15, 1941-09-15
Description: "Part of the 15,000 Spectators: Part of the crowd at the open house at the Barracks watching a parade of the soldiers. Well represented in the group are parents, sweethearts and small brothers and sisters of the soldiers."

Title: Breakfast at Jefferson Barracks
Date: 1941-03-02, 1941-03-02
Description: "Breakfast time - 1200 pounds of pork sausage, 32 cases of eggs and 4500 Parkerhouse rolls is just part of the food toll taken every morning by the keen-eyed lads at Jefferson Barracks."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Mess Hall
Date: 1941-03-02, 1941-03-02
Description: "The biggest camp worry is "how soon is chow?" Gone are the days of "corn willie" and "slumgullion." Uncle Sam's soldiers are reputed to be the best fed in the world."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Post and Supply Officers
Date: 1941-01, 1941-01
Description: "New office of Capt. C. D. Stumpf (at left), post inspector, and Capt. M. S. Ferguson, supply officer."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Tent City
Date: 1941-03-02, 1941-03-02
Description: "A City In Itself - This is a partial view of the tented community at Jefferson Barracks, where Uncle Sam has about 4000 of his boys getting their preliminary training in the ground work of the air corps. Compared to pre-conscription days, you'd never recognize the area. With the population of the camp considerably more than tripled, there's a constant buzz of activity as hundreds of eager youths arrive daily to do their bit for the nation's defense program. Coming here unassigned, they are sent on to technical schools, usually within 30 days, where they learn the fundamentals of everything from photography and mechanics to parachute rigging and meteorology."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Christmas Dinner
Date: 1940-12-26, 1940-12-26
Description: "Uncle Sam-ta Claus served a Christmas dinner of turkey, ham, cranberries, vegetables, fruit cake, pie, soup and cigars at his fast-growing army posts yesterday. Jefferson Barracks recruits are getting their dinners at the mess hall assembly line in this picture. They are wearing their raincoats. Christmas Day leave started right after dinner."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Gas Demonstration
Date: 1938-05-28, 1938-05-28
Description: "The ' Gas House Gang' Near Second Base - A Sixth Infantry unit is shown as it charged through a wall of gas, with masks at place and guns at ready. A strong wind complicated the gas demonstration considerably. Center foreground is second base on the barracks baseball diamond."

Title: The Old United States Customs House and Post Office
Date: 1966-01-30, 1966-01-30
Description: The six-pillared building at 216 North Third was erected two years before the Civil War.

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Skating Event
Date: 1941-03-22, 1941-03-22
Description: Skating party put on for soldiers at the Winter Garden. "Mrs. J. E. George, 4918 Clifton ave, one of the hostesses, is skating with Private Melvin E. Boewe from West. Salem, Ill."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - U.S.O. Event
Date: 1941, 1941
Description: Soldiers and hostesses enjoy themselves at a United Service Organization event at Jefferson Barracks.

Title: Home, Sweet Home, For 30 Days
Date: 1939-07-12
Description: These men had finished their registration and were checking over their newly issued equipment as they rested in the tent assigned them. The lad at the left is stamping his number on one of his shoes.

Title: 1958 Map of Jefferson Barracks
Date: 1958-04-23
Description: "A map of the Jefferson Barracks area shows the present boundaries of Jefferson Barracks Historical Park and and adjoining 232.4 acres urged for acquisition by St. Louis County. Grant road divides the two areas. Two powder magazines, a stone laborer's house and a carriage building built in the 1850s will be restored to their original condition. The buildings are marked on the right side of the map, prepared by Layton & Valenti, architectural consultants, for the St. Louis County Parks Department."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Filled In Swimming Pool
Date: 1964-01-03, 1964-01-03
Description: An image of the swimming pool at Jefferson Barracks being filled in with excess soil from the cemetery.

Title: Jefferson Barracks - "Blighted"
Date: 1960-02-11, 1960-02-11
Description: "County Housing Authority itself terms Jefferson Barracks blighted."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Induction Center Opening
Date: 1940-11-17, 1940-11-17
Description: "Capt. John R. Andie (left), in charge of the newly established induction center for draftees at Jefferson Barracks, going over plans for reception of the first 292 next week,with Lieut. Harmon J. Barton Jr. (center), transport officer, and Lieut. Robert L. Kasha, chief surgeon. The center was opened last Tuesday."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Officer Dwellings
Date: 1940, 1940
Description: "Three 2-unit brick dwellings for officers and their families are being constructed at Jefferson Barracks. Two of the houses, architecturally designed to makes the structures spacious as possible, are shown in the photograph. Many similar residences have been constructed in recent months at Scott Field, Ill."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Soldiers on Motorcycles
Date: 1940-06-09, 1940-06-09
Description: "These doughboys of the Sixth United States Infantry at Jefferson Barracks are "mechanized" now and ride motorcycles, trucks or troop carriers instead of just sloshing along through the mud or plodding through the dust."

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