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1896 Republican National Convention
Title
1896 Republican National Convention
Date
1896-06, 1949-08-14
Description
"Wm. McKinley Convention (Rep) Washington Square. Note New City Hall North of Convention Hall." The 1896 Republican National Convention was held at the temporary structure pictured here near City Hall.
Saint Louis City Hall Construction
Title
Saint Louis City Hall Construction
Date
1895, 1961-03-05
Description
"The City Hall, shown here during construction which was completed in 1895, was erected on a six-acre plot of ground the city had owned since 1840. Accounts in 1891 said the cost of the building would be $1,500,000."
Olive from 4th. West
Title
Olive from 4th. West
Date
1894
Description
Photograph of Olive Street in St. Louis looking west from Fourth Street. There is a sign for a postal telegraph office.
Ohio River, Dredging at Brooklyn Harbor, Ill.
Title
Ohio River, Dredging at Brooklyn Harbor, Ill.
Date
1892-11-07
Description
#1007, Nov. 7, 1892. OHIO RIVER, Dredging at Brooklyn Harbor, Ill. 923 Miles from Pittsburg.
Steamer H. S. McComb and dredges Oswego and Ohio are visible working the river.
Exposition Hall
Title
Exposition Hall
Date
Unknown
Description
"St. Louis Exposition Building---In the early eighties this building was one of the most popular resorts in the city. Every fall the St. Louis Exposition was held here, and the Music Hall which was a part of the structure was in use for concerts, lectures and other entertainment on occasion. The Public Library now occupies this site. (By courtesy of the Missouri Historical Society.)"
Music Hall of the Exposition Building
Title
Music Hall of the Exposition Building
Date
1892, 1950-01-29
Description
"The Grand Music Hall of the Exposition Building, Thirteenth and Olive, was where Col. Patrick Gilmore's 100-piece band played to capacity crowds in the early 1890s. Hall had 3507 numbered seats."
Parade by Exposition Hall
Title
Parade by Exposition Hall
Date
1898, 1949-09-18
Description
John Phillip Sousa's band. The hall was a meeting place for conventions and public gatherings of all kinds until it was razed in 1907. This picture dates from about Spanish-American War times."
Broadway Street
Title
Broadway Street
Date
1890s, 1938-04-12
Description
Place: Broadway and Chestnut street. Time: The gay nineties [(1890s)], when this arch of gas lamps bridged Broadway. Oldtimers say this old print looks north on Broadway. A Broadway cable car is in the foreground and a Pine street trolley car has just crossed (to the right) behind it. The horse (left) is waiting in front of the Ohio & Mississippi Railway ticket office, now a parking lot. The buildings on the right are the Clifton House, a furniture store; Mills & Averill, tailors, and, beyond Pine street, the old Post-Dispatch building and the American Central Building. The Telegraphers' National Bank now stands on the site of Mills & Averill. The gas-lamp arch bears portraits of all the Presidents up to and including Benjamin Harrison and Grover Cleveland...
Broadway and Washington Streets
Title
Broadway and Washington Streets
Date
1891, 1949-10-02
Description
Broadway and Washington, looking north. The I. B. Rosenthal Millinery occupied the corner store at 421-423 Washington and one of St. Louis' largest luggage emporiums was at 608 North Broadway and blazoned his merchandise with a big sign reading "Trunks". This picture was taken in 1891 and shows the ill-advised Broadway cable car completed at great expense in the very year when the trolley car
Old Street Photo
Title
Old Street Photo
Date
1890, 1962-07-08
Description
F. W. Drosten was at 619 Olive. 3rd door west of Barr's Dry Goods Co.
Broadway Street
Title
Broadway Street
Date
1890s, 1949-09-18
Description
Broadway looking south from Washington. The illumination bug bit St. Louis in 1882 when 140 plumbers scurried to set up gas pipes for lamplit arches along 44 blocks of the business section. At a cost of $20,000, 21,000 globes of different colors were set twinkling above the streets. "Tens of thousands of spectators gazed with admiration on the display evening after evening," wrote a contemporary observer. "Thousands of European tourists, who were attracted by the novelty and magnitude of the undertaking, pronounced it the most gorgeous street spectacle they had ever witnessed and so infinitely superior to the best Old World productions as to make anything in the nature of comparison out of the question." The illuminations continued for a decade in what St. Louisians proudly called the "Carnival City of America", and were climaxed by gas and electric illuminations put on in the autumn of 1892. This pictures shows the arches on Broadway in the early 1890s. Broadway looking south from Washington, 1898. Cable car + illumination. The illumination bug bit the festivities association hard and it ordered set up on 44 blocks in the downtown section 21,000 gas lights with different colored globes. The display was so spectacular that it was made an annual event for 10 years. Photo shows the gas light arches on Broadway in early 1890s.
Broadway Street
Title
Broadway Street
Date
1890, 1890
Description
View on Broadway- East St. Louis. Possibly from 1890, but not verified.
Broadway and Chestnut Streets
Title
Broadway and Chestnut Streets
Date
1890, 1890
Description
St. Louis City. 1890. Broadway and Chestnut Streets.
Steamboat R.C. Gunter
Title
Steamboat R.C. Gunter
Description
Photograph of the steamboat R.C. Gunter. The R.C. Gunter was a sternwheel packet built at Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1886 for the Chattanooga and Decatur Packet Company. R.C. Gunter was the owner and master. By 1896 the boat had been sold to the St. Louis, Harden and Hempsville Packet Company, and then sold again to the Eagle Packet Company a year later in 1901. The latter company ran the boat one final year until it sank in 1902 on the Illinois River. This is a unique view of the steamer we've not found elsewhere. Several passengers can be seen posing on the railing of the boiler deck. Photograph ca. 1900.
The Columbarium
Title
The Columbarium
Date
1897, 1897
Description
The Columbarium shown here as it appeared in 1897 was erected in 1896 adjacent to the Crematory on Sublette just south of Arsenal.

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