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Title: MILL BOY
Date: 1892
Description: Photograph of the steamer MILL BOY 1892; Excursion to Oncken's Grove. Ferry in the foreground.

Title: 4th from Pine Street. North
Date: 1898
Description: Photograph of Fourth Street in St. Louis looking north across the intersection with Pine Street.

Title: Lindell Hotel St. Louis
Date: 1891, 1965-03-14
Description: This Boehl street scene photo was taken looking west on Washington Avenue at Sixth Street in 1891. The building on the northwest corner at right is the Lindell Hotel, which was rebuilt in 1874 after having been destroyed by fire. Spurred by an offer of $100,000 from Washington Avenue businessmen, who felt a major hotel would encourage commerce on the street, reconstruction was started on the Lindell. It opened in 1874 and, as the businessmen had hoped, Sixth and Washington became one of the busiest intersections in the city.1

Title: State of Kansas
Description: The State of Kansas was a big carrier built at Madison, Indiana in 1890. Her dimensions were: 252 x 52.5 x 6.0 feet. She ran in the St. Louis and Cincinnati trade. Captain Don A. Marr was her master. On December 18, 1899, enroute from Memphis to Cincinnati, she burned while lying at the wharf at New Madrid, Missouri. She was a total loss; cause of fire unknown. The vessel was valued at $30,000 but insured for only $20,000. The cargo, valued at $60,000 was damaged about $55,000.

Title: Steamboat Wharf Locations at St. Louis
Date: 1953
Description: This map, plotted out by Norbury Wayman, shows the various locations of steamboat lines and related companies on the St. Louis levee, detailing three periods of time; before 1865; 1865 - 1900; and 1900 - 1953. Lines and companies are donated by name, location and years of operation. Nearby streets are mapped as well, for easy frame of reference. Scale in feet: 100 ft. = 1 inch.

Title: Statue of Liberty Replica
Date: 1890
Description: Photograph of a replica of the Statue of Liberty at Twelfth and Pine in St. Louis in 1890.

Title: Eagle Boat Store
Date: 1895
Description: The Eagle Boat Store in 1895. At that time a large figurehead, seen at the right, stood beside the door. Where the figurehead came from and where it went is a mystery. It may have ben from the Steamer Lady Gay which sank in 1870.

The Eagle Boat Store was founded in 1839 according to lettering on picture of Ward and Brady Boat Store. Lockwood and Wider sold to Capt. James Ward whose name appears first in 1871 directory. Ward and Brady Boat Store until... when Capt. Ward bought out Brady. James Ward and Son, until 1895 (when no longer in directory). Eagle Boat Store Co. 1895. Moved from 517 N. Levee (foot of Vine St.) in the 1939 land clearance for the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial. The new store was located at 805 N. Wharf Street.

Title: Lehigh Valley System
Date: 1893, 1893

Title: 2894, or The Fossil Man (A Midwinter Night's Dream)
Date: 1894
Description: 2894, or The Fossil Man (A Midwinter Night's Dream) is part of the Utopia Collection. The novel specifically belongs to the subgenre of feminist utopias; the story reverses traditional gender roles and inserts the protagonist, Lord Ammonite, into a society of "dominant women and submissive men." --- From "The Bookseller and Newsman, Volume 11" (1894): "2894" or THE FOSSIL MAN, by Walter Browne; G. W. Dillingham publishers, New York; paper, 50cts. 12mo. 298 pages. The adventures that befall this dreamer, when, as a fossil man he is brought to life in the Utopia of A. D. 2894; form most amusing reading. Mr. Browne seems to have absorbed the imaginative styles of Rider Haggard and Jules Verne. He seriously accounts for his many marvels with a plausibility which is almost convincing; and at the same time his lines bristle with a sly undercurrent of wit, which is worthy of "Pinafore" Gilbert. A light love story gives a zest to the book; but the ludicrous incidents arising from the loss of the fossil's right hand; which is broken off before his revivificiation; and the many escapades of the man to-day, forms the bulk of the book. --- This novel is a particularly rare work of the English language, and this is currently the only known copy held in a publicly accessible institution. The book was digitized in 2018 as part of an effort to increase accessibility and preserve the work. Please direct all inquires regarding this and other rare books in the Saint Louis Mercantile Library collection to the library's Reference Services: http://www.umsl.edu/mercantile/research/research-request.html

Title: Agreement re: Norfolk and Portsmouth Belt Line R.R. Co.
Date: 1897, 1897

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: XXXX Circulation Papers
Date: 1896-00-00, 1942-05-19
Description: This old print shows how editions of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat were rushed to the trains at Union Station in 1896.

Title: Image 31: October 1892
Date: 1892-10
Description: Cyanotype print. Description on reverse: Illinois & Mississippi Canal. Commencement of work on her. Flick’s section. Middle of 1st mile looking east. F.S. Hunter – Engr. in charge Taken in Oct. 1892

Title: Image 30: September 1892
Date: 1892-09
Description: Cyanotype print. Description on reverse: I. & M. Canal U.S. Govt camps on Carr’s Island. Quarters for men during construction of abutments and embankments. September 1892

Title: Image 25: October 7, 1893
Date: 1893-10-07
Description: Cyanotype print. Description on reverse: Loading cars with wheel scrapers. 4th & 5th mile, October 7 1893

Title: Image 28: November 1892
Date: 1892-11
Description: Cyanotype print. Description on reverse: I. & M. Canal – 2nd mile section Constructing the large Erub. on North side of Silver Lake. J. S. Leyuch – contractor F.S. H. Engr. in charge Taken Nov. 1892

Title: Immense Tow of Coalboats
Date: 1898-03-15
Description: On Tuesday, March 15, 1898, the largest single shipment of coal ever moved on the Western Rivers was taken out of the harbor of Pittsburgh, Pa., by the towboat Joseph B. Williams, owned by C. Jutte and Co. of that place.

Title: Riverfront Old Pix 1897 Boats
Date: 1897, 1897
Description: View of several boats at the dock. Taken in 1897.

Title: Photograph of Steamer City of Monroe
Description: Page 3 Carpenter-Moore Family Riverboat Scrapbook A -- City of Monroe was part of the Anchor Line and served cities between St. Louis and New Orleans from 1887 to 1905. This page is part of a scrapbook that contains hundreds of photographs of riverboats operating on the Mississippi River from the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries.

Title: Photograph of Steamer City of St. Louis
Description: Page 1 Carpenter-Moore Family Riverboat Scrapbook A -- City of St. Louis was part of the Anchor Line and served cities between St. Louis and New Orleans from 1883 to 1903. This page is part of a scrapbook that contains hundreds of photographs of riverboats operating on the Mississippi River from the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries.

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