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Title: Report on the Fire Departments of Cincinnati and St. Louis and the Use of Steam Fire Engines
Date: 1858-03
Description: Report detailing the benefits of steam fire engines, as well as the process of transitioning to using them as primary engines.

Title: Pomarede's Original Panorama of the Mississippi River
Date: 1849
Description: 1849 description of Leon Pomarede's Mississippi Panorama. Mississippi panoramas were a phenomenon of the mid to late 1840s where artists would travel the length of the river taking sketches and compile their efforts into a single rolling canvas which would be displayed on a stage behind them as they presented scenes from their journeys. Pomarede's panorama was considered of higher quality as it was based off original detailed oil paintings rather than quick sketches.

Title: Views of the Vine Growing Resources of St. Louis and Adjacent Counties of Missouri
Date: 1858
Description: A report on the role of viticulture in Missouri's economy.

Title: A Gazetteer of the States of Illinois and Missouri
Date: 1823
Description: Containing a general view of each state--a general view of their counties--and a particular description of their towns, villages, rivers, &c. &c.

Title: The Federal Reserve Bank With Special Reference to District No. 8
Description: This booklet treats briefly of the Federal Reserve Act, but it gives in detail facts and figures that show the vastness of the resources and the diversity of products of a great and growing section—this Eighth Federal Reserve District, including parts of Missouri, Illinois, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana and Mississippi.

Title: Discourse on Congregationalism
Date: 1852-01-11
Description: And the Expediency of Forming a Congregational Church in the City of St. Louis

Title: Dangers of Jesuit Instruction
Date: 1846
Description: Comprising: I. Sermon on Jesuit Instruction, by W. S. Potts II. Review of Dr. Potts' Sermon, by O. A. Brownson III. Reply to Brownson's Review by W. S. Potts

Title: Sequel to Apostolical Succession Examined
Date: 1843
Description: Being an Answer to an Episcopalian's Comments Upon the Apostolic Succession

Title: "The Rejected Packet" of the St. Louis (Mo.) Repeal Association
Date: 1843-11-23
Description: A collection of documents on the subject of slavery in the United States.

Title: A Statement of Facts in Reply to the Certain Presbyters of St. Louis Against the Rev. E. Carter Hutchinson, and his Friends
Date: 1847

Title: The Whole Story Told: The Dark and Mysterious Places of St. Louis
Date: 1885
Description: A salacious look at the people and places of Saint Louis that at the time carried a less than sterling reputation. Includes entries on the morgue; the levee; Kerry Patch; Clabber Alley; Morgan Street; opium joints; Biddle Street; confidence men; crap playing; the boodle racket; cheap lodging houses; turf exchanges; pawnbrokers; gilded sin; lottery ticket sellers; doing the slums; Clark Avenue dives; sharks at the (Union) Depot; street fakirs; mock auctions; suggestions (for travel in the city); places of interest; and showing up the dives.

Title: The charter of the Ohio and Mississippi Rail Road Company
Date: 1848
Description: 1848 charter of the Ohio and Mississippi Rail Road Company granted by the General Assembly of the state of Indiana. This group was led by Abner T. Ellis and included such figures as Robert Campbell, James E. Yeatman, and John O'Fallon among its directors. 23 pages ; 22 cm

Title: An Address to the Working Men of the City and County of St. Louis, 1857.
Date: 1857-01-26
Description: An Address to the Shipwrights, House Carpenters, Bricklayers, Wheelwrights, Finishers, Tailors, Shoemakers, Blacksmiths, Printers, Stonecutters, Moulders, Machinists, Saddlers, Pavers, Stonebrakers, Cartmen, Draymen, Wagoners, Woodsawers, Hodcarriers, Pasterers, Sawyers, Millers, all Classes of River Men, Cooks, Firemen, Deckhands, Mates, Engineers, Carpenters, Pilots, Coopers, Milliners, Sempstresses, Housekeepers, and Washerwomen of the City and County of St. Louis

Title: Mysteries of Saint Louis
Date: 1880
Description: Giving particulars of bunko, bucket shops, mysterious disappearances, the tin can brigade, taking in the town, ways that are dark, life among the lowly, dandies and damsels, night in the streets, crimes of a great city, grave robbers, &c.

Title: St Louis Terminal Operating Information from 1983
Date: 1983, 1983
Description: Operating Data for St. Louis Terminal in 1983

Title: The Railroads of St. Louis.
Date: 1959, 1959

Title: Finance docket no. 14553 : Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis securities.
Date: 1944-05-30, 1944-05-30

Title: Finance docket no. 15070 : Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis bonds.
Date: 1945-10-25, 1945-10-26

Title: Finance docket no. 17942 : Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis purchase.
Date: 1952-11-18, 1952-12-08

Title: Haydn Orchestra, Third Concert, Third Series, Season of 1873-4.
Date: 1874, 1874
Description: This is a program for a concert held by the Haydn Orchestra on February 13th, 1874 in the Mercantile Library Hall of the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association. It was directed by S. R. Sauter. It is bound with a program for a concert of the Caledonian Society and the Orpheus Quartette Club held on March 3rd.

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