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Title: River Des Peres Construction
Description: Photograph of the River des Peres being enclosed in a concrete tunnel in Forest Park. The Missouri History Museum is in the background.

Title: Cincinnati
Description: Cincinnati, Ohio levee showing Str. "Cincinnati" with "Queen City" outside. New "Island Queen" above. Date about 1925.

Title: St. Louis County - Lambert Field Area
Description: Very early (ca. 1920) aerial view of Lambert Field, looking northeast along axis of what would later be Lindbergh Blvd at center of frame, bottom to top. Fyling field area to right (east) of road is completely unimproved, open, and grassy, and in this view does not even have hangar buildings. Hundreds of autos are parked on edge of field to right of Lindbergh Blvd, with two biplanes visible on ground just to right of autos, apparently for an air show. Many more autos crowd road. Tents and other apparently temporary buildings are on the edge of fyling field, with older farm barns along road. Cluster of buildings at upper left is community of Robertson.

Title: Bald Eagle and Belle of Calhoun
Date: 1926
Description: R.V. Gerber photo. Bald Eagle & Belle of Calhoun 1926.

Title: CHAMP CLARK
Date: 1920, 1920
Description: Str. Champ Clark 1920.

Title: JO HORTON FALL
Date: 1925
Description: Photo. Aground on Head of Billtown Bar, 1925. Cumberland River, sank at Omaha.

Title: Seventh Street and Washington Avenue in the Rain
Description: This photograph shows the corner of Seventh Street and Washington Avenue in the rain. Several pedestrians, including businessmen, are walking down the sidewalk. One woman looking into a store window is taking shelter under an umbrella. There are streetcars, motor cars, and and horse-drawn carriages in the street. Streetcar and telephone wires crisscross overhead. Each of the the buildings are several stories tall and are adorned with advertisements and electric marquees.

Title: Kate Adams
Date: 1925
Description: Photo taken 1925 at Pittsburgh during her last days. The third KATE ADAMS (1899-1927) was built by the Howard Shipyards Company at Jeffersonville, Indiana, for the Memphis and Arkansas Packet Company. Her steel hull was 240 ft. long, 40 ft. beam, 7 ft. hold, having eighteen water-tight compartments. Her over-all width was 80 ft. Each stateroom had a colonial-arched entranceway. She made her first trip on Thanksgiving Day, 1899. Her run was between Memphis, Tennessee and Arkansas City, Arkansas. The "Lovin' Kate" was the principal actress in the movie "Uncle Tom's Cabin" filmed in 1926. She was remodeled to resemble a pre-Civil War steamboat and re-named La Belle Riviere for the movie. Following her film career, her name was changed back to KATE ADAMS. She burned at the Memphis wharf on January 8, 1927. Her roof bell now hangs over the entranceway to the Mariner's Museum, Newport News, Virginia. Her deep-toned whistle which could be heard thirty miles back in the Delta, was later installed on the towboat "Leona" of Cincinnati. She was a way of life for those who knew her and loved her. As she flashed white on the brown river, the moan of her whistle and the splash and slap of her paddles sang the hymn of life on the Mississippi. Howard Robb - 1960 Arkansas City, Ark., - St. Louis, Mo.

Title: Masonic Temple, St. Louis Missouri
Date: 1927-04-05
Description: This image is an excerpt from a publication titled The American Architect and was printed on April 5, 1927. Shown are four different areas within the Masonic Temple which was designed by Eames & Young. The interior views consist of large halls, auditoriums, and meeting areas.

Title: Tennessee Belle
Date: 1925-04-08
Description: No. 195 Muscle Shoals Dock. Photo by G. W. Landrum Florence, Ala. April-8-1925. Capts Ed-, Charles Beard pilots. Capt. B. J. Carragher master. 83rd anniversary renioun of the Battle of Shiloh survivors.

Title: J. S. "Deluxe"
Date: 1920
Description: J. S. "Deluxe" at Chatauqua. Gerber photo 1921.

Title: Tennessee Belle
Date: 1924-08
Description: Tennessee Belle in front of Cherry Mansion at Savannah, Tenn. August 1924.

Title: Anheuser-Busch Brewery - Horse Van
Date: 1925-03-09, 1925-03-09
Description: "For the delivery of valuable horses to the race track, show-ring or home quarters, this motor van is the last word in comfort and safety. It reduces the ever-increasing hazards met with when shipping by rail or leading afoot, and minimizes the danger of bodily injury to the horse, attendants and public, also spares the animal many nervious shocks from fright. On long trips the horse may, if desired, be rested over-night at farm barns. Constructed by August A. Busch for transporting his "Chief Uncas," a highly pedigreed chestnut colt with which Mr. Busch expects to win the 1925 Derby at Louisville."

Title: Missouri (Snagboat)
Date: 1921
Description: At S--sh Point, 1921. U.S. Snagboat Missouri. Sent to me by Mrs Thekla M. Baldwin widow of Capt Baldwin on Jan 23, 1930.

Title: Bald Eagle
Date: 1928
Description: "Bald Eagle" at Ft. Madison, Ia. 1928. Rudolph V. Gerber, photographer.

Title: Ann Arbor Railroad-Photo 3
Date: 1922-05
Description: Boulevard Tower, Toledo. Junction of A. A. lines to Cherry St. Sta. (left) and to PRR Terminals (Right.) This interlocking also controls Toledo Term. Crossing and M.C. (Mich. Belt) connection.

Title: A. O. Ackard
Date: 1929-10-18
Description: A. O. Ackard on river. Passengers and crew are visible on deck and in pilot house.

Title: Flags Up
Date: 1926-07-12
Description: Every Soldier seems to have lost someone, so this is a salute

Title: Queen City and Cincinnati
Description: Steamers Queen City (left) and Cincinnati (right) at New Orleans during Mardi Gras, 1925.

Title: Southland and Princess
Description: Excursion boats Southland (right) and Princess (left) at Louisville in 1928.

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