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Title: Coliseum Debris
Date: 1962-08-11, 1962-08-12
Description: "Remanants of cave under the old Coliseum. Washington and Jefferson (this view is looking west parallel with Washington)"

Title: Crane Outside Coliseum Demolition
Date: 1953, 1962-08-12
Description: Picture of a crane during the demolition of the St. Louis Coliseum

Title: Coliseum Cornerstone Opening
Date: 1953-11-20
Description: "John J. Griffin-holding Globe-Democrat. Harry Hochman-holding Sunday Magazine. Paul A. Schlafly-holding card. Judge Geo H Moore, between Hochman & Schlafly"

Title: Condemned Sign at Coliseum
Date: 1953-01-29
Description: Picture of a man by a sign, "Danger this building is unsafe and has been condemned All persons are warned to keep away" at the St Louis Coliseum.

Title: Coliseum Demolition
Date: 1953
Description: Picture of the inside of the Coliseum during demolition.

Title: Ruins of St. Louis Coliseum
Date: unknown
Description: Picture of the remains of the Coliseum during demolition.

Title: ACF LOT 4740 IMAGE 1

Title: Samuel Cupples House
Date: 1968-10-14, 1969-03-23
Description: Picture of the Samuel Cupples house on the campus of Saint Louis University.

Title: Commonwealth Loan Employees
Date: 1948-02-13
Description: "These employes of a loan company were held up yesterday by an armed bandit. From left: Ambrose Bryant, manager, and Misses Virginia Jennings, Dolores Nathan and Henrietta Madden." "An armed bandit who kept a handkerchief over the lower part of his face, herded four employes of the South Side office of Commonwealth Loan Company, Inc., 3555 Arsenal st., into a washroom yesterday escaping with $100. After instructing the employes not to come out for five minutes, the robber, who flourished an automatic pistol, took the money from the cash drawer. The safe was open but empty, its contents having been banked earlier."

Title: West African Art at the Cupples House
Date: 1980-01-05
Description: "An 'antelope headdress' and Bambara figures from Mali, West Africa" "Sound the drums. West African art has staked a claim in the basement gallery of Cupples House, 3673 W. Pine Blvd. on the St. Louis University campus, through January. Subject and setting have more in common than first meets the eye. Both the house and its current exhibit date from the 19th century and as such are endangered species."

Title: Samuel Cupples House
Date: 1890, 1969-03-23
Description: "Samuel Cupples, who in 1851 established the firm which became the largest woodenware company in the United States, built this home at 3673 Pine in 1890, about which time was taken. The building is now in St. Louis University's well known 'Chouteau House.'"

Title: ACF LOT 4739 IMAGE 1

Title: Container Corporation of America
Date: 1963-08-17
Description: "Architect's rendering of plant to be built by Container Corporation of America at St. Louis Air Park, 1100-acre industrial development and airport on Highway 40 west of Chesterfield. The plant will manufacture corrugated shipping containers. Leo H. Schoenhofen, president of the firm, said here Friday (Aug. 16) that construction will start immediately on the 45,000-square-foot facility. Provision has been made for expanding the plant as developments require."

Title: Cupples House and Gallery
Date: 1968-10-14, 1975-10-14
Description: "Cupples House and Gallery on the St. Louis University campus held its first benefit exhibition in a show of more than 60 contemporary Italian works seen by about 400 friends and patrons. The 85-year-old building at 3673 West Pine bl. is being restored."

Title: Picture of a Man at Community Services Center
Date: 1980-01, 1980-01-08
Description: "Walter Betts, who has had heating bills totaling more than $400 in the last two months, applied for aid at the Community Services Center, 1408 N. Kingshighway."

Title: Turret on Samuel Cupples House
Date: 1977-03-17, 1977-04-17
Description: Picture of one of the turrets of the Samuel Cupples house.

Title: Community Services Center
Date: 1980-01, 1980-01-08
Description: "Persons seeking heating aid give workers information for applications."

Title: Silver Monstrance at the Cupples House
Date: 1981-04-11
Description: "A silver monstrance used by Father Jacques Marquette" "There was a time when religious art was a major influence in Western culture. For examples, one has only to look back to the Byzantine art of the fifth and sixth centuries, with its incredible mosaics at Ravenna and Constantinople, or to the stained glass and carved stone of the Gothic period. Through April 30, you can see an extraordinary collection of religious art at Cupples House, 3673 West Pine Blvd. on the campus of St. Louis University."

Title: Continental Boiler and Sheet Iron Works
Date: 1968-11-30
Description: "Construction has started on a new 10,000 square foot office building on a one-acre site at 5620 West Park ave., for Continental Boiler and Sheet Iron Works, according to an announcement by Mayor Alfonso J. Cervantes. Continental has been in continuous operation in St. Louis since it was founded in 1903. The company has been at the West Park location since 1948, and presently employs approximately 450 people."

Title: Samuel Cupples House 1973
Date: 1973, 1977-04-01
Description: "Cupples Mansion 1973 Formerly Chouteau House"

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