Corner of Walnut and Main Street street Scene. Signage shows Fur Exchange Building, Walnut St is Funsten Fouke Fur Co. (100 Walnut St), and on Main Street is F. C. Taylor Fur Co., and Coffee Manufacture Co. There are several trucks with empty cages. The issue citation reads, "When St. Louis was a mere trading post almost 200 years ago, the settlers bartered with teh Indians for furs. Today the same business is followed in St. Louis, not with the Indians, of course, but with the trappers in the north countries who send their pelts here for the auctions which is the largest in the United States. The furriers may be found by the score in the river-front improvement area."
"Here for a time seal skins of U.S. Government caught on Alaskan Coast were auctioned and public auction sales of furs held three times a year. Government seal skins now sold at semi-annual public auctions on top floor are prepared for sale at 1328 S. Kingshighway."
