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Title: Anheuser-Busch Brewery - Landmark Ceremonies
Date: 1967-04-14, 1973-08-26
Description: "Historical landmark ceremonies at Anheuser-Busch Brewery - In front of the Brew House which dates to 1891."

Title: Famous Label - Grim Race for Food Series
Description: A small child stands in the cold with a box of nonfat dry milk, donated by the people of the United States.

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.

Title: Christmas Store Stock Cookies and Cookie Cutter
Description: Black and white image of stock Christmas cookies.

Title: Christmas Stock Photos and Pastries
Description: Black and white stock image of assorted Christmas cookies and pastries.

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.

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: Disregard for Fragile Packages
Date: 1974-06-17
Description: "Visits to several post offices revealed that packages, even those marked 'fragile,' are still being thrown."

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