"Jefferson City, Missouri (15 May 1982) One of many…Major General Charles M. Kiefner, Adjutant General of Missouri and G. Duncan Bauman, Publisher St. Louis Globe-Democrat present an Outstanding Achievement Award to Army National Guard recipient SP4 David P. Smith. Smith was one of 84 men and women to receive the award at the Missouri State Capitol building Saturday morning."
"Jefferson City, MO. (15 May 1982) State Capitol Rotunda…The sceen of the Missouri State Capitol rotunda Saturday as the St. Louis Globe-Democrat presented 84 awards to Army National Guard and Reserve and Air Nation Guard and Air Force Reserve."
"St. Louis, MO (10-17-82/01): Globe Awards -- 5 of the 6 St. Louis Globe-Democrat Achievement Awards presented Naval and Marine Corps Reserve folks. L-R are Sr. Chief Machinist Mate Howard J. Dietmeyer; Senior Chief Machinist Mate Robert W. Heidenreich; Electrician Mate 1st Class Terry J. Adams; Lance Corporal Scott M Goedecke; and Senior Chief Hospitalman Robert G. Kolb."
"Mae Duggan chats with her husband, Martin, and other notables before the ceremonies. From left are Duggan; F. M. Wilson, director of public safety; Brig. Gen. Bill C. Branson; Mrs. Duggan; Brig. Gen. Jeremiah J. Brophy and Maj. Gen. Robert E. Buechler."
"Platoon Sgt. Kenneth C. Robinson of Warrenton gets a second award, this time from his wife, after receiving his Globe-Democrat citizen-soldier award."
House to far left - Al Blankenship home. Blacksmith shop very close - little building (here is where Holly Griffin learned to play the violin). 4 people on lift.
1. John Blankenship (Al's brother)
2. Basil Blankenship (Al's son)
3. Allen (Al) Blankenship - "Boom tender"
4. Jim Blankenship (Al's son)
Man at front of boom - Joe Smith - Martin (boy) fishing. No name for other two men., A log boom is a collection of timber tied together, designed to catch logs cut from forestlands nearby.
Photograph of city sidewalk with woman and child walking away from the camera. A man leans against a pole. Two horses are emerging from a cross street. A leaflet for Michael J. Gill for Congress is visible in the foreground on one of the poles., Gill was elected to the 63rd Congress representing the old Missouri 12 congressional district and served from 1914 through 1915.
Cyanotype print. Description on reverse: Illinois & Mississippi Canal.
Commencement of work on her.
Flick’s section. Middle of 1st mile looking east.
F.S. Hunter – Engr. in charge
Taken in Oct. 1892
Sternwheeler Big Kanawha, built 1887. She encountered heavy ice at Maysville, Kentucky, in 1906 and was sunk. Her roof bell wound up in the belfry of the Trinity Church in Point Pleasant, West Virginia.
Side-wheel excursion boat Alton at port. Most days, this steamer ran St. Louis to Six-Mile Island on the Illinois River, stopping both ways at Alton and Chautauqua. One day a week she ran St. Louis to Kampsville, Illinois. Daily evening trips were run at St. Louis. Fourteen governors rode the Alton during the "Roosevelt Parade" in October 1907. (President Theodore Roosevelt rode the Mississippi.)