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
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.
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.
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.
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
"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.'"
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.