Destruction of the "Queen of the West" by Union Gun-Boats. Engagement at Butte la Rose. Bank's campaign in Louisiana.-Sketched by Ms. H. Holtz.-[See page 357.]
This document contains the eighteenth annual report for the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association and the thirteenth annual report of the Board of Directors of the Mercantile Library Hall Company.
This document contains the 1863 annual report for the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association and the 1863 twelfth annual report of the Board of Directors of the Mercantile Library Hall Company.
This document contains the 1862 annual report for the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association and the 1862 eleventh annual report of the Board of Directors of the Mercantile Library Hall Company.
This series of sketches, a visual autobiography of "Little Shield, Chief of the Arrapohas," shows his exploits of valor and historical enemies in pictographic form. Little Shield's figure is riding a horse into battle in each sketch. This journal is one of the earliest extant examples of Plains Indian ledger art, this series of sketches was created by Little Shield, an Arapaho Chieftain, who recorded his own exploits in a pictorial journal sometime in the 1860s. The work contains 23 pencil sketches, colored on lined tablet paper.
This document contains the nineteenth annual report of the board of directors of the Mercantile Library Association and a summary of the fourteenth annual meeting of the Mercantile Library Hall Company. The contents of this report were assembled in January of 1865 for the year 1864.
This document contains the 1861 annual report for the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association and the 1861 tenth annual report of the Board of Directors of the Mercantile Library Hall Company. The cover is labeled ninth report, but the tenth is within. It discusses the bust of Thomas Hart Benton, the portrait of Alexander von Humboldt by George Caleb Bingham, and various other affairs of the library on the eve of the Civil War.