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Title: Richmond
Description: Scene showing steamer Richmond. Picture taken in the late 1870s.

Title: Chestnut fr. 4th West
Date: 1872
Description: Photograph of Chestnut Street in St. Louis looking west from Fourth Street. The court house is on the left and the Planter's Hotel is on the right., This image of the Planter's Hotel matches another looking north on Fourth Street in 1872. By 1874, the hotel was renovated and expanded.

Title: The City of St. Louis
Date: 1874
Description: In the 1870s the great American tradition of bird's eye views became a popular way of depicting the seemingly limitless potential and growth of the great American cities. St. Louis was no exception and several documented the city's prominence in this period. Bird's eye view of the city of St. Louis from the waterfront stretching west. Important places are listed at the bottom of the view: Carondelet, Shaw's Botanical Garden, Compton Hill Reservoir, Market, Insane Asylum, Gas House, R. C. Convent, St. Louis & Iron Mt. R.R. Depot, Pacific and Missouri R.R. Depots, City Hall (Four Courts), St. James Hotel, Southern Hotel, Washington Sq., Masonic Temple, Jewish Synagogue, Laclede Hotel, Court House, Planters House, New Post Office, Missouri Republican Bldg., Missouri Park, New Post Office, St. Louis University, Odd Fellows Hall, St. Louis Life Ins Co, Union Market, New Reservoir, Mississippi Bridge, Fair Grounds, Hyde Park, St. Louis Kansas & Northern R.R., Elevator, Northern Park, Water Works. Many steamboats and much commerce can be seen in the foreground., Statement of responsibility: Sketched & Drawn on Stone by Parsons & Atwater.

Title: Remarks Before the Southwest Delegation of the Assembly of Missouri on the Separation of the South-Western Rail Road
Description: This is the memorial to support the separation of the Southwest Branch of the Pacific Railroad of Missouri from the main line company.

Title: Campbell's Political Map of Missouri
Date: 1872, 1873
Description: Engraved expressly for his sectional topographical & descriptive atlas of the state. Contains congressional districts, counties, judicial circuits, cities, roads, railroads, and rivers. Entered according to an act of Congress in the year 1872., From: Campbell's new atlas of Missouri : with descriptions historical, scientific, and statistica. Maps constructed and drawn on the polyconic projection / by R.A. Campbell.

Title: LIGHT WESTERN and DUGAN
Description: Photograph of the Str. LIGHT WESTERN (1873) and the Str. DUGAN 1874.

Title: Germania Club. 1875
Date: 1875
Description: 14x11 in photograph of the Germania Club in St. Louis.

Title: A Government of the People, for the People, and By the People - That Cannot Protect the People, Shall Perish From the Earth
Date: 1876-09-30
Description: Political cartoon illustrated by T.H. Nash. "A Government of the people, for the people, and by the people" - that can not protect the people, shall perish from the earth. "GO ON" -- U. S. Grant The constitution of the United States must and shall be preserved - and protected.

Title: J. N. Macomb (Snagboat)
Description: Improvement of Mississippi, Missouri and Arkansas Rivers. United States Snag Boat J. N. Macomb. Designed by and built under the direction of Major Charles R. Suter. Corps of Engineers, U. S. A. 1874. Longitudinal Section Through Centre.

Title: Cracker Castle
Date: 1870
Description: 20x16 in photograph of the Cracker Castle at the corner of St. Ange and Chouteau in 1870. The house was built in 1868 for Jonathan O. Pierce, who gained his wealth through the selling of hardtack during the Civil War. Within a few years, the home was sold to Fidelio C. Sharp, a lawyer and partner in the firm of Sharp & Broadhead.

Title: Das Sängerfest in St. Louis, Mo.
Date: 1872-07-13
Description: Front Page of Frank Leslie's Illustrirte Zeitung from the 13th of July, 1872, depicting a concert hall and its auditorium where a singing festival was held. The caption below the auditorium specifically mentions the reception concert. The illustrations were done by Joseph Ferdinand Keppler. The text is from "Herrn Mahlhuber's Reiseabenteuer" by Friedrich Gestäcker (Gestaecker).

Title: River Scenes at Cairo, Illinois
Date: 1871-09-30
Description: Cairo at midnight. Coaling in Cairo. On the Mississippi - By our special artist and correspondent.

Title: Agricultural and Mechanical Fair
Date: 1871-10-14
Description: The Great Fair at St. Louis, -- A view of the grounds.

Title: Plan of Forest Park
Description: Plan of Forest Park in St. Louis, Missouri, about 1876. Scale 400 feet to 1 inch.

Title: 4th Fa. Chesnut N. 1872
Date: 1872
Description: 14.75x13 in photograph of 4th Street in St. Louis looking north toward Chestnut Street. The streetscape includes the front facade of the Planter's Hotel, the offices of the Vandalia Line, and a museum.

Title: St. Louis Municipal Dock
Description: Illustration of St. Louis levee along North Market Street. Steamboats docked in foreground. Warehouses visible behind steamboats. Manufacturing and office buildings visible in background.

Title: Little Boy Bab and His Kind Protector
Description: A political cartoon featured on the front page of Frank Leslie's Illustrated newspaper, published on January 8,1876. The cartoon depicts the formal discharge of special prosecutor General John Brooks Henderson from the case involving the indictment of General Orville E. Babcock. General Babcock served as private secretary under President Ulysses S. Grant from 1869-1877 and during that time was accused of and indicted for his alleged involvement in the political scandal known as the Great Whiskey Ring. Babcock was acquitted of the charges brought against him after a defense provided by President Grant.

Title: Old High School. 1870.
Date: 1870
Description: 16x20 in photograph of the first public high school in St. Louis at the corner of Fifteenth Street and Olive Street in 1870. The building was built in 1855 in the Lucas Place neighborhood.

Title: Ice Bridge at St. Louis
Date: 1873-01-18
Description: Ice bridge over the Mississippi at St. Louis.-[Photographed by R. Benecke, St. Louis.]

Title: Mississippi Ku-Klux in the Disguises in Which They Were Captured
Date: 1872-01-27
Description: MISSISSIPPI KU-KLUX IN THE DISGUISES IN WHICH THEY WERE CAPTURED. [From a Photograph.], M-244-1-06a (location)

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