Photograph of the towboat DEL COMMUNE. In the lower right corner of photograph are the words,“St. Louis MO. Engineer District Floating Plant / Tow Boat Del Commune Broadside View / MAR 28, 1938 / 3377."
The men of Metal Lathers Local 73 at the St. Louis Zoo, circa 1930. Included in the photo are Harry Hagen, Herman Beermann, Henry Beerman, Brian Frederickson, Tom Frederickson, and Joe Cook. Henry Beerman, who is the son of Herman Beermann, had the spelling of his last name changed. Photograph donated to the St. Louis Mercantile Library by the Gymnastic Association Sokol.
Photo. Steamer, John B. Smith (formerly the U.S.E.D. Alabama, and Burke Line, Capitol) turning into the mouth of the Tennessee River, from the Ohio, 1939.
When beer came back in 1933, Falstaff was the first brewery in the country to receive a U. S. permit for beer production. Firm's founder, Joseph Griesedieck, right, is shown accepting the number one permit from Internal Revenue Officer Louis Becker.
The Knobbe family gets together for a family reunion, circa 1932. The four Knobbe brothers, Joseph, August, Clement, and Benedict, got their families together at August's residence. August, who owned Tower Grove Dairy, and his brothers immigrated from Germany. Donated to the St. Louis Mercantile Library by JoAnne (Knobbe) Behm.
Taken June 1935 for Wilbur Finger from Dick Lemen. L to R Capt. Dan Dipple, R. V. Gerber, Ruth Ferris, Capt. "Billy" Clark in pilothouse of Str. Golden Eagle.