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."
"Veteran employees of The Walter Freund Bakery Co. were honored at a party last night at the plant. Three men in the front row received $100 Govt. bonds. They are from left to right, August Dietrich, John Schneider, Frank Thornhill, 30 Years service. Second row left to right received gold watches for 25 years service Ed. kemper, Edmund Zobel, Arthur Stosberg, Conrad Furman, Arthur Finke."
Early undated photograph shows the exterior building with signage reading The International Fur Exchange. In the street can see the electric trolley lines and tracks. Early model cars and on the corner is signage on the window for S. Merrill Drug Co. On the corner of the building appears to be a boy selling newspapers.
Exterior view of the main building erected in 1877 of the group that house the German Protestant Orphan's Home. There is a large clock in the tower, and a historic German inscription on the tablet below.
George Robert Marcum is three and a half years old and an entry for the Dennis the Menace Contest. He lives in Villa Ridge, Missouri. This was published in the newspaper but the date was not stamped. The contest entries were received in 1955.
Part of the Western Union equipment in the new building is these automatic sending and receiving machines which perform the work once done entirely by the telegraph operator. Messages are received on a moving tape just as if they had been written on a typewriter. An attendant clips the tape to copy paper size, pastes it into a running story--and it is ready for the editor. Messages are also sent from this office over an automatic machine.
Newspapers were delivered by horse-drawn wagons in St. Louis long before trucks were used in the business. This photo from Globe-Democrat files was not identified or dated. Records at the Missouri Historical Society indicate that in 1854, three years after this newspaper was started. St. Louis had 21 newspapers, including weeklies, and 12 magazines. The industry employed 585 persons then and the daily newspaper circulation totaled 19,300.
These Bradley wash fountains, one of which is pictured here, are available for all members of the various mechanical departments. There is an ever ready flow of water and soap is supplied from the ornamental dome. Ten men may be accom[m]odated simultaneously at each fountain.