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Title: Convention Center and Plaza Cervantes Center Env. 3
Date: unknown
Description: Interior architectural drawing of the east of expansion of the Cervantes Convention Center.

Title: Fur Exchange
Date: unknown, unknown
Description: 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."

Title: Equitable Building 10 S. Broadway
Date: unknown
Description: Exterior building of Window Washer scaffold.

Title: Fullerton Building
Date: unknown
Description: An early picture of the Fullerton building, built 1897.

Title: Fur Exchange
Date: unknown, Unknown
Description: 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.

Title: German Protestant Home
Date: unknown
Description: 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.

Title: Gilbert Brass Foundry Co- Building
Date: unknown, unknown
Description: Exterior view of the foundry located at 5036 Farlin. A few windows are open.

Title: The Tools Used For a Prisoner's Escape
Date: unknown, unknown
Description: The hack-saw with the three other blades that were used to cut through the bars and the windows. This occurred at the St. Clair County, Ill. Jail.

Title: A Prisoner's Escape
Date: unknown, unknown
Description: The area where five prisoners cut through the bars [at the St. Clair County, Ill. Jail] and escaped early Tuesday morning.

Title: The Window Five Prisoners Escaped From
Date: unknown, unknown
Description: The window where the five escapees leaped out of the jail. This occurred at the St. Clair County, Ill. Jail.

Title: Department of Personnel
Date: unknown, unknown
Description: Entrance to Department of Personnel Room 238.

Title: Phil Esposito
Date: unknown, unknown
Description: Phil Esposito of the Boston Bruins during the 1970-71 season.

Title: They Take the Place of the Old Time Telegrapher
Date: unknown, unknown
Description: 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.

Title: Special Delivery
Date: unknown, unknown
Description: 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.

Title: New Fashioned Wash Basins For Globe-Democrat Workers
Date: unknown, unknown
Description: 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.

Title: U.S Now At War
Date: unknown, unknown
Description: Man holding a copy of The St. Louis Republic newspaper that is titled "U.S. NOW AT WAR".

Title: Man with Typesetter
Date: unknown, unknown
Description: A man with a typesetter machine for the newspaper making process.

Title: Cutting Out Sheets For the Newspaper
Date: unknown, unknown
Description: Man is cutting out sheets for the newspapers.

Title: Man With a Printing Press
Date: unknown, unknown
Description: Man working with a printing press.

Title: Line of Women Donating Dimes
Date: unknown, unknown
Description: Line of women to who will donate to the Globe-Democrat-KMOX Mile o' Dimes drive. Women's names are unknown.

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