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Title: Eddie Plank
Description: Saint Louis Browns pitcher Eddie Plank. Plank played for the Browns in 1916 and 1917.

Title: Lucas Gardens Park And Saint Louis Public Library
Description: Photograph of Lucas Gardens Park looking Southeast towards the St. Louis Public Library building. Christ Church Cathedral is visible to the left of the library.

Title: Welcome To St. Louis
Description: This photograph shows of a truck driving in the snow across the Free Bridge (now the MacArthur Bridge), into the city from Illinois. The exit is now near 6th Street., This is a wider view of another photograph in the collection.

Title: Mogul Sprinkling Truck
Description: Photograph of Mogul Sprinkling Truck. The city contracted with private companies like F. A. Stiers to sprinkle water on the city streets on a regular basis to keep down the dirt., St. Louis was the first city in the United States to use auto-sprinkling trucks like this. One of these Mogul trucks could sprinkle 22 miles of street from curb to curb in 11 hours.

Title: Pasttime Athletic Club of St. Louis
Date: 1916
Description: Drawing of Pasttime Athletic Club of St. Louis. Includes portrait drawings of athletes.

Title: Knobbe Family Portrait, 1917
Date: 1917
Description: The August Knobbe family, circa 1917. Front row, from left: Vincent Knobbe, August Knobbe, Annette Knobbe, Florence (Sturm) Knobbe, Frances Knobbe, Anna Knobbe, and Alphonse Knobbe. Back row, from left: Harry Knobbe, August Knobbe Jr., Sister Salasia, Rose (Wilken) Knobbe, and Anthony Knobbe. Donated to the St. Louis Mercantile Library by JoAnne (Knobbe) Behm.

Title: Cars In Front Of St. Louis City Hall
Description: Photograph of a fleet of cars being photographed in front of St. Louis city hall., This is one of a sequence of photographs in the collection of an event in front of city hall to announce a new fleet of Model T cars purchased by the city. This photograph was taken from Walnut Street looking west towards city hall.

Title: Henry Sackman
Date: 1918
Description: Wreck of the Henry Sackman, railroad ferry owned by Wiggins Ferry Company at Saint Louis. Dismantled 1918.

Title: Jefferson Memorial Building
Description: Photograph of the Jefferson Memorial Building in Forest Park. The view is looking south from the intersection of Debaliviere Avenue and Forest Park Parkway.

Title: National Elimination Balloon Races Held at Priesters Park
Date: 1914-07-11
Description: Panoramic photograph depicting six racing balloons still tethered to the ground at the center of the racing track at Priesters Park. Spectators can be seen in the stands to the right and left. The race was presented by the Aero Club of St. Louis.

Title: National Bank of Commerce Building
Date: 1914
Description: 8x10 in photograph of the National Bank of Commerce in St. Louis in 1914. The National Bank of Commerce was one of the largest banks west of Chicago in its time and was later known simply as Commerce Bank.

Title: Ash Wagons
Description: Photograph of parade of St. Louis city ash wagons. Small businesses are visible in the background. A large warehouse is also visible.

Title: Battery "A"
Date: 1917-06-01
Description: One of the Public Buildings.

Title: Eighth Street Advertisements
Description: A boy in the foreground is reading an assortment of advertisements plastered to the side of a brick building. The advertisements include information about local events like picnics, theater shows, and wrestling matches. In the background of the photograph is Eighth Street, where there are several storefronts, cars, and pedestrians scattered through the street.

Title: St. Louis Sokol Orchestra, 1915
Date: 1915
Description: The St. Louis Sokol Orchestra, circa 1915. The director of the orchestra was K. Trcka. Sokol, an organization similar to a German Turnverein, was started by Czech/Bohemian immigrants in 1865. The St. Louis Sokol organization owned the hall at Ninth and Allen avenues; it is now known as Smile Lofts. Donated to the St. Louis Mercantile Library by the Gymnastic Association Sokol.

Title: North Tucker And Washington Avenue
Description: Photograph of the intersection of North Tucker Boulevard and Washington Avenue. Automobiles, pedestrians and horse-drawn wagons are visible, there are many pedestrians along Washington Avenue. The Ferguson McKinney Dry Goods Company building is visible on the left. The Carleton Dry Goods Company building is visible on the right., The photograph is looking north along North Tucker Boulevard. The Ferguson McKinney Dry Goods Company is now the Bogen Lofts. The Third Liberty Bonds poster dates the photograph to 1918.

Title: Seventh Street and Washington Avenue
Description: Photograph of Washington Avenue looking East from Seventh Street, the old Grand Leader department store at 601 Washington Avenue is visible on the left. There is much bunting visible on the front of the store and American flags flying along the street. There are many pedestrians on the sidewalks and cars and horse-drawn wagons visible in the street., It appears that the old May Company Department store has already vacated 509-523 Washington Avenue just east of the Grand Leader store, May Company moved from this location to the Railway Exchange building in 1913.

Title: Missouri Portland Cement Docks
Description: Photograph of the Missouri Portland Cement Company factory and loading docks on the Mississippi River. A steamboat (the Belle of Calhoun) is visible in the background at one of the docks., This is the full image of a duplicate photograph in the collection, which identifies the steamboat.

Title: Jack Powell
Description: Saint Louis Browns pitcher Jack Powell warming up. Brown played for the Browns from 1902-1903 and again from 1905-1912.

Title: Drummond Factory
Date: 1911-10-29
Description: Drummond Factory, Fourth and Spruce streets, where knitting Mills Will Locate.

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Mercantile Library Collections Directory

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