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Title: Cape Girardeau
Date: 1943
Description: Cape Girardeau during flood of 1943. From John C. DeBolt, Corps of Engineers.

Title: Golden Eagle
Date: 1946-07-13
Description: Golden Eagle trip July 13 - 1946.

Title: Atlas
Date: 1945
Description: Sternwheeler ATLAS, 1945. Photograph.

Title: Bedford
Description: Photo S.S. Bedford, Joliet to New Orleans, Skipper Martin DeNash, U.S.N., Pilot Ed. Heckmann, W.W. II

Title: Huck Finn
Date: 1945-05-23
Description: Steamer Huck Finn. 2 coal 3 cargo up. May 23 1945 9:45 clear.

Title: The Zorensky Brothers Store on Easton Avenue
Date: 1948
Description: The Zorensky Brothers store located at 6301 Easton Avenue, which is now known as Dr. Martin Luther King Drive, 1948. Hyme Zorensky, who immigrated from Russia in 1906, founded the store in 1913. Hyme's sons, Louis and Milton, worked in the store and in the 1950s and 1960s, the two developed the Crestwood Plaza Shopping Center and Northwest Plaza Shopping Center. Hyme's grandson, Mark Zorensky would later develop the Saint Louis Galleria. Photograph donated to the St. Louis Mercantile Library by Mark Zorensky.

Title: Golden Eagle
Date: 1946-11-03
Description: GOLDEN EAGLE in mid-stream at New Orleans, La. Starting the return trip to St. Louis, Mo. November 3, 1946.

Title: TOM SAWYER
Date: 1946
Description: Tom Sawyer on Missouri River, Decatur Bend, 1946, Frency Sercu, steersman

Title: Casoloma Ballroom, 1940
Date: 1940-01-20
Description: The Casoloma Ballroom, located at 3453 Iowa Street, lays covered in ice, January 20, 1940. The Casoloma suffered a fire, and after firefighter's put out the blaze, the dripping water froze in the cold winter temperatures. Donated to the St. Louis Mercantile Library by Norbert Rechtien.

Title: The First Groups Of Enlisted Air Force Reservists
Date: 1943-02-16
Description: The first groups of enlisted air force reservists, from schools and colleges, farms and factories, are now arriving at Jefferson Barracks, where they will receive preaviation cadet basic training before going on to a pre-flight schools

Title: Vets Have Made J.B. Apartments Homey
Date: 1947-02-09
Description: The buildings once occupied by soldiers at Jefferson Barracks now house some 250 families of veterans and deceased service men.

Title: Exuberant Blackhawk Veterans
Date: 1945-06-20
Description: Members of the first full unit to return from Europe, arrived last night at Jefferson Barracks.

Title: Caution Children 10 MPH
Date: 1947-02-09
Description: Shot of Jefferson Barracks housing next to the tower.

Title: William Clark and Family
Date: 1947-02-09
Description: Sitting in children's room on bunk beds with children

Title: Mrs. Stauffer and Family
Date: 1947-02-09
Description: Mrs. Stauffer playing with her child and her dog.

Title: Towel Hanging
Date: 1947-02-09
Description: Woman use Warehouse to dry wash in bad weather

Title: Beer Gardens In The 1880s
Date: 1949-12-25, 1949-12-25
Description: Beer gardens got their real start when the great German immigration begain to flow into St.Louis in 1848. In a matter of a few short years, beer gardens were as much a part of St. Louis as the Mississippi. One such garden was at the "Grand Centre" on Gravois.

Title: Camp Stephens in Jefferson Barracks
Date: 1949-11-06, 1949-11-06
Description: Leveling rifles for Boehl's camera is a company of the Seventh Regiment, U.S. Volunteers, a unit authorized by Congress. Idea was to enlist recruits in Missouri and southern states where yellow fever had been severe. Theory was they were immune to disease, which was claiming more lives than guns. The 7th was recruited among Negroes in Missouri and neighboring states for what might very well have turned out to be a deadly assignment, five years prior to Dr. Walter Reed's discovery of the yellow fever cycle.

Title: Servicemen Inspect New Antitank Gun At The Jefferson Barracks
Date: 1940-07-25, 1940-07-25
Description: St. Louisans also seemed anxious to see what they could see about the new 37 mm. antitank gun at the encampment on Memorial Plaza. Soldiers were on hand to answer questions.

Title: A Demonstration At Jefferson Barracks
Date: 1940-07-25, 1940-07-25
Description: Learning about a .30-caliber Browning machine gun, on the plaza at Grand and Washington.

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