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Title: Market Street Lunch Room
Description: Photograph of lunch room and store at 1310 Market Street. A menu board is visible in front of the lunch room, a man is looking out of the doorway. The store advertises a "patent medicine" and multiple cigar brands.

Title: View from the Buffalo Tower
Date: 1904
Description: 8x6 in photograph of the 1904 World's Fair from the top of the Buffalo Tower. The view looks out over the Plaza of Orleans to the distant eastern restaurant pavilion on Art Hill. The roofs of the Palace of Liberal Arts (left) and the Palace of Manufactures (right) are clearly visible.

Title: Horse And Hole Two
Description: Photograph of a horse either being lowered into or lifted out of a hole in a city street. A ladder has been lowered into the hole, several men are in the foreground directing the block and tackle. One worker is handling the block and tackle rope. A crowd of observers is visible in the background., There is a sequence of photographs in the collection of work around this hole in the street, either a horse is being lifted out of it or lowered into it.

Title: Alaska House and Totems
Date: 1904
Description: Photograph of the totem poles around the Alaska house at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis.

Title: Tower Grove Dairy Employee
Date: 1900
Description: An employee for the Tower Grove Dairy delivering goods to residents of St. Louis, circa 1900. Tower Grove Dairy was owned and operated by August Knobbe, a resident of St. Louis. Donated to the St. Louis Mercantile Library by JoAnne (Knobbe) Behm.

Title: Palace of Machinery
Date: 1904
Description: Photograph of the Palace of Machinery at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis. The picture was taken facing north down the lagoon and takes in the Palace of Transportation and the dome of Creation in the distance.

Title: Train In Front Of Warehouses
Description: Photograph of Terminal Railroad Association train engine with tender stopped in rail yard, warehouses in the Cupples station block are visible in the background. The Simmons hardware company occupied many of the buildings.

Title: View of Buffalo Tower
Date: 1904
Description: 8x6 in photograph of a vista looking down the lagoon at the 1904 World's Fair. The image was taken in front of the Palace Mines and Metallurgy, notable for its obelisks, and takes in a view of the Palace of Liberal Arts and the distant Buffalo Tower. A large equestrian statue is in the foreground.

Title: River Des Peres
Description: Photograph of river at low level running through a neighborhood. People are in the riverbed and a shack that has fallen off its foundation is also visible along the bank.

Title: Barber Pole and Man
Description: A photograph of a Barber pole with a man in the background., This is the only photograph in the collection framed on the diagonal.

Title: Mengel And Vogt Druggists
Description: Photograph of the Mengel & Vogt pharmacy at Taylor and Page Avenues. A woman is standing next to a pole in front of the building. The building still exists and appears to be vacant.

Title: Streetcar Street Repair
Description: Photograph of streetcars on street under repair, a modified streetcar with the cab removed is in the foreground. Men are visible in the background on the sidewalk in front of the businesses.

Title: Locomotive in front of Simmons Hardware
Description: Photograph of a cobblestone cross-street fitted with a gas powered street light and a series of telephone wires. In the mid-ground there are two horse drawn carriages, one is an enclosed passenger carriage and the other has an open top and is being driven by two workmen. In the left portion of the photograph there is a large pile of cobblestones and a steam locomotive. The locomotive is identified on the photograph as "engine 81 of the Terminal Railroad Association". The background of the image contains a tall smokestack and several large factory buildings. The buildings include a Simmons Hardware Co. Warehouse, a Western Electric Company building, and several industrial sites., This is photograph is a duplicate, wider view of another photograph in the collection.

Title: Produce Vendors
Description: Photograph of row of produce vendors along North Fourth Street. Horse-drawn carts are visible in front of the businesses.

Title: Missouri Building
Date: 1904
Description: Photograph of the Missouri building at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis. This was a temporary structure demolished after the fair. The World's Fair Pavilion was then built on this site.

Title: A. Baldwin
Description: A. Baldwin on river. Crew visible on deck and in pilot house.

Title: Albermatla
Description: Albermatla on river. Passengers are visible on upper deck.

Title: Addie T
Description: Addie T at port, loaded with goods. Passengers and crew are visible on deck and in pilot house.

Title: Large Steamboat Album
Description: Loading the sternwheeler Oakland. From page 2 of large steamboat album.

Title: Vacation Album
Description: Walking path with wooden fence: "Our honeymoon trip, June 1905." One of 31 photos bound in a leather stamped album.

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