Photograph of fleet of Ford Model T automobiles in front of St. Louis city hall. Drivers are in each car, several men are standing in front of the cars holding a banner that reads "These 14 cars sold to the city of St. Louis, watch the Fords go by."
A photograph of Washington Avenue looking west. Automobiles, pedestrians, electric streetcars and horse-drawn wagons are visible., This is a wider view of another photograph in the collection.
p. 1071 - on Upper Mississippi River, believed to be '1902-1910' Davenport, Iowa. First as sternwheel 'J.S' J.S. 'first ' J.S. excursion boat built at Jeffersonville, Indiana. 1901 - size 175'x33'x5.5'. engines 18"x7' stroke, built for Captain John Streckfus Sr. Originally placed in Davenport - Clinton, Iowa daily trade, offering "moonlight excursions". In this trade she was found to be too large and heavy to run the rapids every day. She was withdrawn and operated exclusively as an excursion boat, and made great success as such. She was lost by burning, on June 25, 1910 at "bad ax bend," near Victory Wisconsin. It is said that the fire which caused her destruction was touched off by a passenger who was confined in the jail located in hold.
14x11 in photograph of the old Boatman's Bank building in March of 1900. A sign for Shapleigh Hardware adorns the building and there is an advertisement in the foreground for recreational boating on the Meramec River.
Photograph of a pair of smokestacks, one of which is being worked on by a group of men near the top of the stack. The upper stories and roofs of 901 and 911 Washington Avenue are visible in the background., 901 Washington Avenue is the Bankers Lofts building. 911 Washington is the Lammert Building. Note the eagle sculptures, which have been removed, along the top of the cornice.
Photograph of the German Pavilion at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis. This pavilion was best known for its bells which could be heard from a great distance.
Photograph looking along city sidewalk with major street on one side and vacant lot on the other. Horse-drawn carriages and electric streetcars are visible in the street. A surveyor is working in the vacant lot and a couple of men on the sidewalk are looking towards the camera., There is a building in the background with "W. J. Lemp Brewing Co." on the front.
pay" $2.80 a week, at the end of the week I had my $2.80. She was short and sweet, had to be short to get through the Green River locks. She coined the money for her owners. Her dimensions were 122' X 32' X 5' not overall. She had two boilers, with brooms in them ever hear of that? Well, I will explain to you sometime, I helped to operate them. Her engines were 4" X 6' stroke. This picture
Photograph of the intersection of Second Street with another street with men working in the middle of the intersection. The workers are putting a ladder down a manhole. A man is visible in the background with his foot on an automobile and appears to be lighting a cigarette. Other people are visible in the background and midground watching the workers and the photographer., Notice the woman looking out of the second story window of the Saloon building in the background.
Members of the Sokol women's gymnastics team, circa 1900. The group was under the direction of instructor A. Tesar. This photograph was donated to the St. Louis Mercantile Library by the Gymnastic Association Sokol.
Photograph of tree along South 11th Street with signs attached to it. The tree is in front of Lami Pharmacy, which was at the intersection of South 11th Street and Lami Street.
Photograph of site where house has just been demolished in the midst of an urban area. Piles of large foundation stones are visible on the site and part of the foundation is still in place. Horse-drawn carts are visible on the site.
copied from the one you see in this picture. A section of the wire railing with its fanciful rosettes is used on the little steamer LADY GRACE. One of the gilded acorns surmounting the hogchain posts today is in the River Museum, Marietta, Ohio.
We don't know the identity of the lady with the nice white shawl thrown over her shoulders, nor of her companions, but they are having a nice time sailing