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Title: To the People of Missouri
Date: 1832, 1832
Description: A report on activities from the 1832 Congressional Session by the Missouri Territorial Representative to the Congress.

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: 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: 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: A Sermon, Preached in the First Presbyterian Church of St. Louis, Missouri, on the First Sabbath of 1839
Date: 1839-01-06
Description: Described within as a "Historical Account of the Temporal Spiritual Interests of the First Presbyterian Church of St. Louis, from its organization to the present period."

Title: The Merchants Laclede National Bank of St. Louis
Date: 1906
Description: Contains an overview of banking in the city of St. Louis and the state of Missouri at around the turn of the 20th century, as well as a detailed description of the Merchants-Laclede Bank., "Reprinted from the daily papers of St. Louis, with historical notes."

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: Constitution and By-Laws of the Mechanics' Institute of St. Louis
Date: 1839
Description: This published constitution and by-laws for the Mechanics' Institute of St. Louis contains the list of officers, the board of managers, and the officers of the board.

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: 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.

Title: Grand Vocal and Instrumental Concert of the Combined Vocal Societies...
Date: 1874, 1874
Description: This is a program for a concert held in the Mercantile Library Hall of the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association in December of 1874. It was put on by the combined vocal societies of the Arion des Westens, Germania Saengerbund, Orpheus, and St. Louis Saengerbund. It was directed by Carl Froehlich.

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