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Title: Cyclone View, May 27,1896
Date: 1896-05-27
Description: The debris and structural damage of a barn, building, and wagon caused by a tornado on May 27,1896 in St. Louis, Missouri,

Title: Frankie Baker
Date: 1899, 1942-02-13
Description: At left is the way Frankie Baker appeared back in 1899 when she shot Allen (Johnny) Brit, the murder on which she claims the famous Frankie and Johnny ballad was based. At the right is the way Frankie appeared yesterday when she arrived in St. Louis to press her $200,000 character defamation suit against a film company for a movie version of the murder. (Feb. 13, 1942), Unheralded then and unknown today, a turn-of-the-century black St. Louis musician took the Targee Street boarding house shooting of Albert (or Allen) Britt and created an epic tragedy-ballad of star-crossed lovers. (Feb. 20, 1979)

Title: Competitive Design for the Missouri Building, 1904 World's Fair
Date: 1892-05-28
Description: A competitive design submission for the Missouri Building planned for the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis. The design was submitted by architect Isaac S. Taylor and the illustration was printed as no. 857 on May 28,1892 in American Architect and Building News.

Title: 12th St. From Washington Ave. South, 92'
Date: 1892
Description: 17x14 in photograph of Twelfth Street from Washington Avenue looking south.

Title: MATTIE LIFE
Description: Photograph of the "Center-wheel ferryboat, MATTIE LIFE, 104 tons. 1881-1894. Miami, MO. Owned by Burruss Bros."

Title: Anheuser-Busch Brewery - Celebratory Arch
Date: 1899, 1964-02-29
Description: A decorative arch, put in place for the visiting Elks, as pictured at Anheuser-Busch Brewery in 1899. Image from St. Louis Mercantile Library collections.

Title: Anheuser-Busch Brewery - Elks Clebratory Arch
Date: 1899, 1964-02-29
Description: Two original captions: "This is the Anheuser-Busch brewery, photographed in 1899, with a decorative arch in place in honor of visiting Elks, who held their national convention in St. Louis in June of that year. Malt house and grain elevators may be seen in the background." "The Anheuser-Busch brewery in 1899. The decorative arch welcomed visiting Elks who held their convention in St. Louis in June of that year. The bank partly visible at right is the Old South Side Trust Company."

Title: CHATTANOOGA
Date: 1895
Description: Steamer "Chattanooga", at wharf, Chattanooga Tenn. 1895.

Title: Washington Avenue Loop 1890
Date: 1890
Description: Photograph of the Washington Avenue streetcar loop in St. Louis in 1890.

Title: A. L. Mason
Description: A. L. Mason under construction in Madison, Indiana. Men are visible on deck.

Title: Adam Jacobs
Description: Adam Jacobs (built 1885 in Brownsville, Pa.) at port. Vessel had electric lights and an arc searchlight (seen at far right), one of the first see in the region.

Title: Evansville
Description: Sternwheeler Evansville after rebuilding at Madison, 1896.

Title: Evansville
Description: Sternwheeler Evansville at Bowling Green wharf.

Title: Evansville
Description: Aboard the Evansville on the Green River.

Title: Image 12: September 1892
Date: 1892-09
Description: Cyanotype print. Description on reverse: I. & M. Canal. Construction of concrete abuts. for dams. Filling last form of abutment north shore Rock River September 1892

Title: Image 11: October 1892
Date: 1892-10
Description: Cyanotype print. Description on reverse: I. & M. Canal. View of the back of abutment south shore Carr’s Island. October 1892

Title: Image 4: November 1892
Date: 1892-11
Description: Cyanotype print. Description on reverse: View of a blast in the pit at the Guard Lock. November 1892

Title: Image 13: February 1893
Date: 1893-02
Description: Cyanotype print. Description on reverse: I. & M. Canal. Excavating and driving piles at Lock #37, outlet lock into the Miss. River. A. J. Whitney – Contractor F.S.H. – Engr. in charge Taken Feb. 1893

Title: Image 2: September 1892
Date: 1892-09
Description: Cyanotype print. Description on reverse: Construction of concrete abutments for dams. Putting up form for middle section of abutment on north shore Carr’s Island. September 1892

Title: Image 6: November 1892
Date: 1892-11
Description: Cyanotype print. Description on reverse: Excavation in Lock #36 nearly done and pile-driving (with horses) begun. John Killeur – contractor. A. O. Rowse – Engr. in charge Taken Nov. 1892

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