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Title: The Green Eyed Monster
Date: 1879-12-06
Description: Drawing portraying a lady in St. Louis who disguised herself as a man to test her brother's affection for his sweetheart, and almost gets killed by the jealous lover.

Title: MONTANA
Date: 1879
Description: Photograph of the steamer MONTANA. "Carried 1000 tons Pittsburgh to St. Louis on maiden trip. Could have easily carried 500 tons more. Greats carrier on shallow water." "Built at California, Pennsylvania in 1879 of finest Pennsylvania oak. Some of the fine boards were 60 feet long. She was extreme shallow draft - 7" forward - 11" amid ship and 14" on the stern when light. On her maiden trip - Pittsburgh to St. Louis - she brought around 1000 tons and carried it with the greatest ease. She could have easily carried 500 tons more. The Montana, Dacotah and Wyoming were sister boats. The Wyoming was slightly larger in tonnage. Each of these great boats went to Fort Benton, Montana in the Mountain trade, but the came to late to reap the golden harvest in that trade. They were to big for the upper Missouri and the wind up in the country made them very difficult to handle. When they came down they never went back again. The wreck of the Montana lies at the St. Charles bridge. These hulls were as fine as any ever built, and those skilled ship carpenters did it all without any blueprints as sternwheel boats go they ranked as the finest."

Title: Broadway and Pine in 1878
Date: 1878, 1878
Description: The five story building on the corner was a gambling house half a century ago. Next door is shown a portion of a building where "Wilson's Minstrels" held forth. This spot eventually became the location of the Telegraphers National Bank.

Title: The Globe and Democrat Separate Buildings
Date: 1878, 1949-11-20
Description: , drew champaign corks and write puffs--" This picture was taken around 1878. This was taken in the early 1870s when the competing Globe and Democrat erected centrally located offices at the Fair where, as one historian said, representatives "welcome their friends, draw champagne corks and write puffs." Other publications in St. Louis usually set up tents for the Fair which was held in October.

Title: F.Y. BATCHELOR
Date: 1878
Description: Photograph of steamer F.Y. BACHELOR at the Fort Buford Landing, 1878.

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.

Title: Morgan (now Delmar) Street
Date: 1878, 1949-10-09
Description: After the great fire of 1849, which wiped out much of the business district along the levee, the leading merchants of the city began moving "uptown." Following the Civil War the commercial section of St. Louis centered around Third, Fourth, and Fifth Streets. this 1878 photo, north from Morgan (now Delmar), shows some of the business houses of that era. The four-story building on the left is that of the B. Nugent Dry Goods Company, destined for a while to be one of the largest department stores in the city.

Title: A Government of the People, for the People, and By the People - That Cannot Protect the People, Shall Perish From the Earth
Date: 1876-09-30
Description: Political cartoon illustrated by T.H. Nash. "A Government of the people, for the people, and by the people" - that can not protect the people, shall perish from the earth. "GO ON" -- U. S. Grant The constitution of the United States must and shall be preserved - and protected.

Title: The Lion and the Unicorn Fighting
Date: 1876-06-17
Description: "THE LION AND THE UNICORN FIGHTING" - AGAIN (?) British Lion (to Lord D - Unicorn). "What! give up the Fugitive Slave, and not the Criminal Fugitive!" Political Cartoon

Title: The Song of the Kettle
Date: 1875-09-25
Description: THE SONG OF THE KETTLE - AN EVENING REVERIE.

Title: Cover of Globe-Democrat Newspaper
Date: 1875-06-01, 1875-06-01
Description: Cover of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat newspaper from 1875.

Title: Germania Club. 1875
Date: 1875
Description: 14x11 in photograph of the Germania Club in St. Louis.

Title: Fourth Street STL
Date: 1875, 1949-10-02
Description: Fourth and Chestnut, looking west. This is one of the hardest of famous Boehl negatives to date. The Ohio & Missouri ticket office occupied the Old Planters' House basement (right) throughout the 70s and 80s and the Tax Collector's sign on the Courthouse was also a hardly perennial. Best authorities give a date of about 1875 for the picture, the pole (right) probably carrying a telegraph line

Title: Fourth Street STL
Date: 1875, 1949-10-02
Description: The east side of Fourth street between Olive and Locust, showing the Everett House, Pingee & Brown, Prop., with the upper veranda and iron railing which formed a hotel's trademark. The corner building on the far right housed Hall's Bafe and Look Company, J. J. Starr, manager, which is listed at 302 North Fourth in the 1872 directory and had moved to 410 North Third in 1878. Scarritt Furniture, whose sign can be made out at the corner of Locust, was at 400 North Fourth in 1872 and had also moved in 1878, putting the date of this photograph at about 1875. On the east side of the street (photo to left) [(this photo)] is the famous Everett House, with the upper veranda and iron railing, trademarks of hotels in that era. In five years the same scene (right)[(different photo)] changed considerably. The hotel had its front dressed up with additional porches and and awnings. The skyline also changed with the erection of the Goodyear Rubber Co. sign, then considered one of the highest in city.

Title: The Hon. Robert Brown Elliott, of South Carolina
Date: 1874-02-14
Description: THE HONORABLE ROBERT BROWN ELLIOTT, OF SOUTH CAROLINA. From a Photograph by Gardner, Washington, D. C.

Title: Planter's Hotel. 1874
Date: 1874
Description: 14x11 in photograph of the Planter's Hotel in 1874 from the southeast corner looking across Market Street.

Title: Eads Bridge
Date: 1873
Description: Construction of Eads Bridge 1873.

Title: Let Us Clasp Hands Over the Bloody Chasm
Date: 1872-10-18
Description: H. G. "Let us clasp hands over the bloody chasm." "A Great Victory has been won in Georgia..... The verdict in Georgia is certainly conclusive." - New York Tribune, October 3, 1872. Political cartoon illustrated by T. H. Nast.

Title: Mississippi Ku-Klux in the Disguises in Which They Were Captured
Date: 1872-01-27
Description: MISSISSIPPI KU-KLUX IN THE DISGUISES IN WHICH THEY WERE CAPTURED. [From a Photograph.], M-244-1-06a (location)

Title: Wood-sellers, Richmond, Virginia
Date: 1872-01-27
Description: WOOD-SELLERS, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. -[Drawn by W. L. Sheppard.], M-244-1-06b (location)

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