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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: 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: Old Jail 6th + Chestnut. 1870.
Date: 1870
Description: 20x16 in photograph labeled "Old Jail 6th + Chestnut. 1870." The picture is of a two story building with different facades on each floor. The second floor appears to be older as it is made of large limestone blocks and has narrow windows. The first floor is covered in brick and has larger windows. It is topped by a cornice supported by brick corbels.

Title: Old Courthouse. 1870.
Date: 1870
Description: 20x16 in photograph of a one-story log structure. The front is labeled Old Courthouse. 1870. On the back is written "1st Theatre / Blacksmith."

Title: St. Louis Court House
Date: 1870
Description: 16x20 in photograph of the St. Louis Court House in 1870.

Title: Benoist Home 8th & Pine
Date: 1870
Description: 14x11 in Photograph of the Benoist Home at the corner of 8th Street and Pine. The Benoist family is most strongly associated with the banking firm of Louis A. Benoist & Company.

Title: Locust. From 4th West. 1870
Date: 1870
Description: Photograph of Locust Street looking west from Fourth Street toward Broadway. The four story building on the right is Odd Fellows' Hall, home to the firm of Mermod, Jaccard, & Co. The large building on the left with the projecting cornice and chimney belonged to Daniel W. Bell. The edge of the St. Louis Mercantile Library's first building is visible on the left across Broadway.

Title: Saint Louis, Fort Scott and Santa Fe Air Line Railroad
Date: 1870, 1870

Title: Bound Down the River
Date: 1870
Description: "Bound Down the River" print published by Currier & Ives

Title: Theodore Thomas' Series of Six Grand Symphony and Popular Concerts
Date: 1870, 1870
Description: This document is a program for a series of seven concerts held in the Mercantile Library Hall of the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association in November of 1870. The concerts were conducted by Theodore Thomas. It seems that the seventh concert was announced later and a special program was printed for it. In the Mercantile's archive, the two programs were bound as one document.

Title: Proceedings of the stockholders of the South-Carolina Rail-Road Company, and the South-Western Railroad Bank
Date: 1870, 1871

Title: St. Louis on a Busy Day
Date: 1870, 1934-06-04
Description: St. Louis on a Busy Day- in 1870. You may not believe it, but this was the way Fourth and Chestnut looked to the country gentlemen who drove into town in their buggies and contemplated a trip to Louisville over the "Vandalia Route,"... street car going in the opposite direction. St. Louis Then and Now: The photo at left was taken at Fourth and Chestnut streets in 1870, six years before the city divorced the County on grounds of incompatibility and non-support. In that horse-drawn era, St. Louisans did not foresee the tremendous growth and development of city (right photo) and choked off future expansion by voting to go it alone. A Bustling St. Louis in 1870 became fourth largest city in the nation, according to the census of that year. The race with Chicago was hot and St. Louis still clung to ideas of becoming the dominant city of the Midwest and possibly the nation's capital. But 10 years later Chicago forged ahead and St. Louis subsequently was passed by five other cities.

Title: Opening of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad : and completion of the South Pacific Railroad to Springfield, Mo., May 3, 1870.
Date: 1870, 1870

Title: Twenty-Fourth Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association
Date: 1870-01-11
Description: This document contains the twenty-fourth annual report for the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association.

Title: Fourth Street STL
Date: 1870s, 1949-09-18
Description: Once one of old St. Louis' better known hotels, on Fourth between Morgan (now Delmar) and Franklin, the St. Nicholas began losing its glory in the 1870s when this photo was made. On Jan. 4, 1884, the structure, then occupied by stores, was burned to the ground. Fire department records list it the most difficult in history. It was fought during a "veritable Arctic blizzard" with temperature standing at 26 degrees below zero.

Title: Broadway Street
Date: 1870s, 1949-09-04
Description: Broadway looking south from Chestnut. Showing court house, Bryant and Stratton Business College and Southern Hotel on left side of plate. Other caption is incomplete.

Title: Rush Hour in the '70's
Date: 1870s, 1938-12-01
Description: Here's a picture of Fourth and Olive looking north, taken in the [18]'70s. About this time St. Louis was in the throes of a crusade against open gambling. the gambling interests put out progambling publicity. Business failures, their pamphlets said, were taking place on account of the moral reform wave and St. Louis might lose millions in gambling profits to Chicago. A humorous attack on the reform wave protested the Mayor should do something about the ladies' street-length skirts. That was funny in the 70's. At the left- same place, 1938 model.

Title: Tracy's Guide to Missouri and St. Louis
Date: 1871
Description: Containing: I. A Colored Township Map of Missouri, corrected down to the time of publication. II. A Colored Map of the City of St. Louis, showing the Wards, Lines of Street Railroads, etc. III. A Colored Outline Map, showing the Railroad Connections of St. Louis and the West. IV. Table of Stations, Distances and Connections, for all Railroads leading out of St. Louis, embracing nearly one thousand stations on seventeen Railroads, with a combined length of about four thousand miles. V. Statistics of the counties of Missouri, showing for each county its population, area in acres, assessed value of land, average value per acre, value of real and personal property, number of farms, value of farm products, value of manufactured products, number of schools, children of school age, children attending. VI. List of nearly five hundred cities, towns and villages in Missouri, showing population, number of business houses, with directions for travelers or shippers to reach them most conveniently. VII. Brief sketch of Missouri and St. Louis. VIII. Brief sketch of the Counties of Missouri.

Title: De Yongh's Business Directory of Saint Louis, 1871-72
Date: 1871
Description: A business directory containing a listing and index of St. Louis businesses for the years 1871-72 beginning with Accordion Manufacturers and ending with Zinc. Advertisements are interspersed throughout, and a map of St. Louis can be found toward the beginning (but due to condition issues it has not been included in this digital copy).

Title: Edwards' Thirteenth Annual Director
Date: 1871
Description: This directory contains a listing of civic and social institutions, an index for advertisements, a street guide, and a St. Louis City residential and business directory for the year 1871.

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