St. Louis Globe-Democrat Photographs: General Subjects

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: Globe-Democrat Outstanding Achievement Awards; Globe-Democrat publisher G. Duncan Bauman presents the Outstanding Achievement Award to Spec. 5 Shirley J. Huddleston, of Jefferson City.

: Globe-Democrat Outstanding Achievement Awards; Jefferson City, MO (15 May 1982) part of the military award recipients in the rotunda of the Missouri State Capitol building, Jefferson City, Missouri.

: Globe-Democrat Rolls on Wood Tires; Steel-rimmed wooden truck tires and steel-rimmed wagon wheels rolled into service yesterday at the loading platform at 1133 Franklin avenue when the Globe-democrat inaugurated a new system of delivery to solve the rubber tire shortage. The vehicles are loaded with magazines for today's editions of the Globe-Democrat.

: Globe-Democrat Rolls on Wood Tires; Steel-rimmed wooden truck tires and steel-rimmed wagon wheels rolled into service yesterday at the loading platform at the 1133 Franklin avenue when the Globe-Democrat inaugurated a new system of delivery to solve the rubber tire shortage. The vehicles are loaded with magazines for today's editions of the Globe-Democrat.

: Globe-Democrat Safety Lane; A group of city officials and civic leaders were at the preview of the Globe-Democrat Safety Lane yesterday morning. They were photographed in the Safety Lane just before the first car was officially tested. They included Thomas N. Dystart, president, St. Louis Chamber of Commerce; Walter Ziegenbein, Bendix Products Corporation; Edwin A. Kayser, president, St. Louis Safety Council; R. E. Matthews, manager of the road service department, Automobile Club of Missouri; Capt. Loepker, commanding officer of the Traffic Division of the Police Department; E. Lansing Ray, president of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat; T. E. Doll, Borbein-Young & Co.; Milton B. Strauss, president of the Greater St. Louis Automotive Association, Inc; Fire Chief John J. O'Boyle; George Niekamp of Beck & Corbitt; Joseph A. Schlecht, secretary and manager of the Greater St. Louis Automotive Association, Inc; Alfred Jordan of Hadley Vocational School; Joseph Feuchter, charge of vehicles, Streets and Sewers Division; A. W. Tilley, Bendix Products Corporation; City Judge Joseph Simpson; F. J. Jeffery, assistant superintendent, Board of Education, and Joe Haenny of the Bendix Products Corporation.

: Globe-Democrat Sign; Globe-Democrat sign is being lifted by a crane onto the Globe-Democrat building after a fire that happened last March.

: Globe-Democrat recipients of the Outstanding Baseball-Track Performers; Named the first recipients of The Globe-Democrat trophies as the outstanding baseball-track performers in the St. Louis area this spring are Greg Johnson of East St. Louis (Lincoln) and Bernie Boehmer of St. Dominic High School in O'Fallon, Mo. All Smiles at the presentation ceremonies are (left to right) Lincoln track coach George Holliday, Johnson, Boehmer, and St. Dominic athletic director Ed Crenshaw. St. Dominic baseball coach Jerry Boehmer, Bernie's brother, is the Chicago White Sox's club at Appleton, Wis., and was unable to attend.

: Good Shepherd Convent; Interior View of the Chapel

: Grand Army of the Republic Veterans; "G.A.R. Veterans Honor Comrades - Nine of the 23 G. A. R. veterans who marched in the Memorial Day parade on Riverside Drive shown at the Soldiers' and Sailors Monument in New York during exercises honor the nation's war dead. Left to right: George C. Eldridge, 92; George W. Collier, 94; Robert S. Heilferty, 88; Edward Fleming; Timothy J. Creeden, 96, the oldest veteran in line of march; Albert Morgan, 92; James O'Conner, 90; Christopher A. Farrell, 90, and Josiah C. Read, 90, grand marshal of the G. A. R."

: Granite Building; Granite Building at southwest corner of fourth and Market to be torn down.

: Greatest Newspaper West of the Alleghenies; (1949) The Globe and Democrat (arrow) had just joined to publish the "greatest newspaper west of the Alleghenies" in 1875. Atop building on the left is a gigantic beaver, popular those days, advertising Keevil the Hatter. (1960) The Globe and Democrat had just joined to publish the "greatest newspaper west of the Alleghenies" in 1875 when this photo was made, looking north on Fourth and Pine. The four-story building(arrow) was the publishing plant and offices across the street was Keevil the Hatter who advertised his merchandise by hoisting a gigantic beaver atop his building. (1962) Fourth and Pine looking north on Fourth. The Globe joined the Missouri Democrat to itself in 1875 and shortly published the "greatest newspaper west of the Alleghenies" in the four-story building on the extreme right. Across the street were Keevil the Hatter (William H. Keevil) who advertised his merchandise by hoisting a gigantic beaver atop his roof. Hatters did an immense and elegant trade in the st. Louis of the 1870s, with many more establishments listed in the directory probably then at present. Next door to Keevil's, at the extreme left, was Charles E Mussey's Billard Parlor, one of the three listed in the 1878 directory. The Globe-Democrat Building is still standing (occupied by Mutual Insurors) but the busy click-clack of Mussey's Billard Parlor and the noisy merchandising at Keevil's has given way to the calm... of the Mississippi Valley Trust Company.

: Grinon-Graben Sign; This photograph is taken in a trench showing a sign on a tree that reads, "Grinon-Graben", with an arrow underneath it and more locational labels. There is a soldier walking over a bridge above the viewer, and there is a staircase on the right of the photo with a dirt wall to the left.

: Grouping of Photographs of William Ludwell Sheppard Prints; Photographs of William Ludwell Sheppard prints that depict preparations and practices surrounding Christmas and Thanksgiving. Some of these eight photographs are pieces of the same print that did not fit in the photo frame. The visible dates vary between 1858-1866.

: High School Athletes of the Year; The Globe-Democrat's spring High School Athlete of the Year pose with their coaches at an awards ceremony Wednesday night at Stan Musial and Biggie's Restaurant. From the left are Lebanon's Craig Virgin, track, and his coach, Hank Feldt, and Lafayette's Mike Umfleet, baseball, and his coach, Bob Swift.

: Horse-Drawn Carts Carrying Supplies; "Slow Road to Victory/With the slow motion of World War I, a convoy of horse-drawn carts carries French artillery over a road near Ypres in Flanders, Belgium, in August, 1917. The war had started three years earlier, with the German invasion of Belgium in violation of a treaty guaranteeing the country's neutrality. Britain, France and Russia came to their ally's support, and the four-year war was on."

: How to Use the Newspaper in the School Curriculum; Good citizenship starts with the regular reading of a responsible newspaper.

: Industrial Employment for the Handicapped; W. T. Hampton, left, and Ben K. Baumgardner, employers of handicapped workers, watch as employee Frank Seufert operates drill. The partners, both victims of heart attacks, call their firm Industrial Employment for the Handicapped. It is located at 2600 Iowa Ave.

: Internal Revenue Service Office; The deadline is more than two months away, but taxpayers seeking help with their returns are flocking to Internal Revenue Service offices at 1114 market St. About 600 taxpayers dropped by and 6,500 telephone calls were handled Monday at the downtown office, a spokesman said. The office is slightly busier than last year, the spokesman said, with almost 100,000 telephone calls and 3,500 visits so far this year.

: International Business Machine Corp. Building; A $48 million, 31-story office complex in downtown St. Louis, which would be the largest in Missouri, had been delayed again. The reason: the owners are concerned about rising construction prices. The office complex would provide hundreds of construction jobs and could be the key to further downtown development. The building is planned by the First National Bank in St. Louis, International Business Machines Corp. and Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States for two-block area just west of Busch Memorial Stadium.

: International Business Machine Corp. Building

: Interview at Farmington State Hospital; Wilma Foreman talking to the Globe-Democrat at the Farmington State Hospital. Fred O. McDaniel, superintendent of the hospital, is at the right.

: Jam-Pol Conveyer; Shows the Jam-Pol Conveyer which receives the rolls of print [paper] from the cars and loads them on a stacker which may be lowered [or raised] for placing in storage.

: Kermit in the Thanksgiving Day Parade; "New York, Nov. 26 - Kermit Visits the Big Apple - "Kermit the Frog", a popular character from the television program "The Muppets Show," floats overhead near Manhattan's Herald Square Thursday during Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. It takes 25 balloon handlers to manage the 24-foot wide, six-story-tall balloon."

: Lafayette Park Thanksgiving Dinner; "Dinner in the Park - Part of a crowd of 150 people file through a Thanksgiving dinner line in Lafayette Park across the street from the White House in Washington Thursday. The meal was organized by the Community for Creative Non-Violence, whose leader Mitch Snyder said that 500 to 1,000 meals would be served before the day ended."

: Landmark Restored; Workmen from the Federal Sign and Signal Corp. hoisted a new globe to top off the new five-story sign at The Globe-Democrat, 12th and Delmar boulevards, Tuesday. Measuring eight feet in diameter, the globe replaces one that was destroyed by fire last March.

: Large Ammunition Rounds; This photo shows a stationary weapon and six rounds of large-scale ammunition next to it. There's a soldier seemingly working to load the cannon with the round. Around the weapon and ammunition are mesh covering and trees in an otherwise empty landscape.

: Little Miss America in Arlington, VA; "They Are Not Forgotten./Little Miss America decorates the graves of our heroes who sleep the long sleep in the National Cemetery in Arlington, VA."

: Loading a Wagon for the Fast Mail; Loading a wagon for the fast mail.

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