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Jefferson Barracks - President Roosevelt
Title
Jefferson Barracks - President Roosevelt
Date
1943, 1976-07-10
Description
Two original captions, from two different publication dates. One is from 1943, when the image was taken, and the other is from a commemoration of Jefferson Barracks in 1976. "This long black touring car carried President Roosevelt, Governor Donnell, General Martin and Colonel Parker G. Tenney, post commander, from the Jefferson Barracks railroad station to the parade grounds, where the massed thousands of troops were ranked, ready for the review. Colonel Tenney, who stepped down from the car as his men began the long parade past their Commander-In-Chief, is shown above left, with the President, General Martin and the governor (hidden by General Martin) seated in the tonneau." "9-Day Commemoration of Barracks' History: The drums and cannons are muted, fields where troops trained for war are fallow - a historic place that once served as an Army home for Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, and Jefferson Davis. The old garrison, carved from the wilderness 150 years ago, is Jefferson Barracks - (cut off) - July 8, 1826, when 1,700 acres of frontier land were ceded to the government by the town of Vide Poche, later to be called Carondelet, for the site of the post."
Shopping with Food Coupons
Title
Shopping with Food Coupons
Description
Mrs. Marva Rucker, divorcee of 1534 N. 16th St., is shopping with food coupons under the Food Stamp Program. Her monthly income is $231--$156 of it from her Aid to Dependent Children and $75 from husband in support of their five small children. Monthly she is required to buy $30 worth of food coupons, and is given an additional $54 in free coupons, netting her total of $84 worth.
Fourth Street STL
Title
Fourth Street STL
Date
1870s, 1949-09-18
Description
Once one of old St. Louis' better known hotels, on Fourth between Morgan (now Delmar) and Franklin, the St. Nicholas began losing its glory in the 1870s when this photo was made. On Jan. 4, 1884, the structure, then occupied by stores, was burned to the ground. Fire department records list it the most difficult in history. It was fought during a "veritable Arctic blizzard" with temperature standing at 26 degrees below zero.
4th and Washington Street
Title
4th and Washington Street
Date
1878, 1949-10-02
Description
Fourth and Washington, looking south. Miss Elizabeth A. Mageon, Milliner right, is listed at 709 North Fourth in 1878 and J.H. Crane, Furniture wholesale and retail, Fourth, cor. of Washington, was one of the big advertisers in the 1878 directory. Crane's name can be made out on the store at the left. The Benton Bellefontaine horse car and Fourth street horse car a renegotiating the busy intersection without help of a traffic officer. The building housing Miss Mageon's ship was the National Guard Armory. To the rivermen, whose steamers delivered the cargo that made St. Louis one of the nation's largest thoroughfare. But to the people who lived in this booming metropolis in the 1870s, Fourth... Fourth street, the commercial artery of St. Louis, had everything- from fancy milliner... the Benton Bellefontaine and Fourth street horse cars negotiating the busy intersection... Fourth was "The Street" to residents of this booming metropolis in the 1870's. This scene, looking south from Washington avenue, shows the busy commercial artery which had everything, from millinery rooms to hack stands.

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