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Title: Anheuser-Busch Brewery - Celebratory Arch
Date: 1899, 1964-02-29
Description: A decorative arch, put in place for the visiting Elks, as pictured at Anheuser-Busch Brewery in 1899. Image from St. Louis Mercantile Library collections.

Title: Anheuser-Busch Brewery - Elks Clebratory Arch
Date: 1899, 1964-02-29
Description: Two original captions: "This is the Anheuser-Busch brewery, photographed in 1899, with a decorative arch in place in honor of visiting Elks, who held their national convention in St. Louis in June of that year. Malt house and grain elevators may be seen in the background." "The Anheuser-Busch brewery in 1899. The decorative arch welcomed visiting Elks who held their convention in St. Louis in June of that year. The bank partly visible at right is the Old South Side Trust Company."

Title: 1958 Map of Jefferson Barracks
Date: 1958-04-23
Description: "A map of the Jefferson Barracks area shows the present boundaries of Jefferson Barracks Historical Park and and adjoining 232.4 acres urged for acquisition by St. Louis County. Grant road divides the two areas. Two powder magazines, a stone laborer's house and a carriage building built in the 1850s will be restored to their original condition. The buildings are marked on the right side of the map, prepared by Layton & Valenti, architectural consultants, for the St. Louis County Parks Department."

Title: Residential Unlimited Cost- 04
Date: 1959-12-29, 1960-01-01
Description: Judged best in the Residential Unlimited Cost Classification was the home of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond T. Percich... The Percichs, who were runnersup a year ago, will be awarded an engraved tray and their home will be entered in General Electric's National Outdoor Christmas Lighting competition.

Title: Residential With $50 Limit- 03
Date: 1959-12-29, 1960-01-01
Description: Using special indoor and outdoor lighting effects, Mr. and Mrs. George T. Cline Jr.... won in the Residential Class With a $50 Limit in The Globe-Democrat Outdoor Christmas Lighting Contest. They will receive an engraved tray. Judges said competition was keener than ever before in the 19-year-history of the contest.

Title: Winner Our Lady of Lourdes Church
Date: 1959-12-29, 1960-01-01
Description: Taking honors among churches which entered the Christmas lighting contest is Our Lady of Lourdes Church at... University City. A plaque emblematic of the honor will be awarded.

Title: Winner Peabody Coal Company
Date: 1959-12-29, 1960-01-01
Description: Winner in the Commercial and Industrial category was the Peabody Coal Company display... Its simplicity impressed the judges. A plaque will be awarded [to] the firm.

Title: Missouri Farmer's Association Hog Market
Description: Image depicts the New Missouri Farmers Association Hog Market facility. The modern new facility has a state approved sewage system, concrete floors, continuous watering as well as numerous holding and sorting pens.

Title: Shopping with Food Coupons
Description: Mrs. Marva Rucker, divorcee of 1534 N. 16th St., is shopping with food coupons under the Food Stamp Program. Her monthly income is $231--$156 of it from her Aid to Dependent Children and $75 from husband in support of their five small children. Monthly she is required to buy $30 worth of food coupons, and is given an additional $54 in free coupons, netting her total of $84 worth.

Title: Christmas Store Stock Cookies and Cookie Cutter
Description: Black and white image of stock Christmas cookies.

Title: Christmas Stock Photos and Pastries
Description: Black and white stock image of assorted Christmas cookies and pastries.

Title: Broadway Street
Date: 1890s, 1938-04-12
Description: Place: Broadway and Chestnut street. Time: The gay nineties [(1890s)], when this arch of gas lamps bridged Broadway. Oldtimers say this old print looks north on Broadway. A Broadway cable car is in the foreground and a Pine street trolley car has just crossed (to the right) behind it. The horse (left) is waiting in front of the Ohio & Mississippi Railway ticket office, now a parking lot. The buildings on the right are the Clifton House, a furniture store; Mills & Averill, tailors, and, beyond Pine street, the old Post-Dispatch building and the American Central Building. The Telegraphers' National Bank now stands on the site of Mills & Averill. The gas-lamp arch bears portraits of all the Presidents up to and including Benjamin Harrison and Grover Cleveland...

Title: "Grim-Faced Fortress"
Date: 1968-05-22
Description: Convent of Good Shepherd at 3801 Gravois, is a grim-faced fortress that houses love and understanding that has reclaimed thousands of St. Louis girls in the last 100 years.

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