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Title: Mrs. Gen. Grant Carte-de-Viste
Date: 1864
Description: Sepia photograph of Mrs. Gen. Grant. Image is of her seated looking towards her right. Pencil inscription on reverse reads "Mrs gen grant".

Title: Grant Carte-de-Visite
Description: Photograph of General Grant by W.P. Jackson of Sedalia, Missouri. Oval photograph with raised flags, laurel, and eagle surrounding. The back states July 4th.

Title: Mrs. Julia Dent Grant Photograph
Description: Photograph is of Mrs. Julia Dent Grant. She is looking to her left in photograph. On the back "Mrs. Grant" is written in pencil across the top, with "Julia Dent Grant" written below. In the center there is the logo for G. Cramer. The logo has two cherubs around a stylized GC. Below it the address, "1001 South Fifth Street, Cor. of Chouteau Ave., St. Louis, Mo" is printed.

Title: Photographs of the Mississippi Valley Sanitary Fair
Date: 1864, 1864
Description: Dis-bound album of photographs of the Mississippi Valley Sanitary Fair held in St. Louis in 1864 held by the Western Sanitary Commission.

Title: The Game of Keno
Date: 1867-03-30
Description: Sketched by Theodore R. Davis.

Title: Mortar Boats In Process of Construction
Date: 1862-03
Description: From Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War.

Title: Loyale Bürger Missouri's
Description: Illustration of loyal citizens of Missouri who were expelled from their homes and are on their way to St. Louis.

Title: Crevasse on the Lower Mississippi
Date: 1862
Description: Illustration of fishermen on the riverbank of the Mississippi at flood stage. House and men in a canoe in the background., From Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War.

Title: Great Union and Emancipation Meeting Held at Exeter Hall
Description: Originally appeared in Harper's Weekly on March 14, 1862.

Title: 'Traffic Jam' in the Gay 1860s
Date: 1860s, 1938-10-27
Description: St. Louis was a lively town in the '60s. This old photograph (at the left) shows traffic congestion on Fourth street. The first two buildings on the right are ticket offices advertising through cars to Vandalia and the Chicago-Cairo short route. A "Museum" is six houses down and has big signs floating from its roof and upper porch. Note the tree on the corner of Chestnut street at the extreme left of the picture; the wagon, the buggy and the coach on the right; and the early horse car lurching along on uneven tracks. Above: the same place today. Fourth and Chestnut streets about 1870, showing the traffic congestion which existed then.

Title: 2nd and Market Streets
Date: 1860, 1960-07-17
Description: Carl Conrad's "Wine Stube". Second and Market St. "1860". Mr. Conrad brought the formula for pasteurizing beer from Buweis Germany. Named it 'Budweiser'. 2nd and Market Streets. Carl Conrad's Wine Stube. From 100 years ago (1860).

Title: Across the Continent
Date: 1868, 1868
Description: Hand-colored lithograph by Frances Flora Bond Palmer (1812-1876). Published by Currier and Ives 1868.

Title: Chouteau and 15th Street
Date: 1866, 1949-09-18
Description: Chouteau Ave. looking east from 15th St. Even back in 1866 they were eternally fixing the streets, like this scene at Fifteenth and Chouteau. Thirty years later the city boasted 350 miles of "fully improved" streets, the best "sprinkled" thoroughfares in the country. Today the city has 997 miles of paved streets.

Title: 'Traffic Jam' in the Gay 1860's
Date: 1860s, 1938-10-27
Description: St. Louis was a lively town in the '60s. This old photograph (at the left) shows traffic congestion on Fourth street. The first two buildings on the right are ticket offices advertising through cars to Vandalia and the Chicago-Cairo short route. A "Museum" is six houses down and has big signs floating from its roof and upper porch. Note the tree on the corner of Chestnut street at the extreme left of the picture; the wagon, the buggy and the coach on the right; and the early horse car lurching along on uneven tracks. Above: the same place today. Fourth and Chestnut streets about 1870, showing the traffic congestion which existed then. Above: the same place today.

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