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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: 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: M-169: The Emil Boehl Collection
Description: Emil Boehl was a St. Louis photographer who primarily focused his camera on St. Louis streets, buildings, and locales. Born in Calvoerde, Germany, in 1839, Boehl immigrated to St. Louis in 1854. After serving in the Union Army during the Civil War, Boehl returned to St. Louis in 1864 and opened a photography studio with Lawrence Koenig that spring. With Koenig focusing on portraiture, Boehl became one of the most prolific St. Louis scenic photographers active in the latter half of the 19th Century. The Boehl/Koenig partnership lasted until 1897. Boehl retired from photography in 1919 and died later that year on the 12th of December. The Emil Boehl Collection consists of three series. The collection contains images dating from 1850 to ca. 1906. The collection’s archival materials include photographic prints and negatives. According to historians Peter E. Palmquist and Thomas R. Kailbourn, Boehl’s career was from 1864 to 1919, and he was known to sell prints of Thomas Easterly’s daguerreotypes. In light of those facts, some dates in the Boehl Collection may be labelled incorrectly and/or some images may not be Boehl’s.

Title: M-370: German Sisters Captivity Letter
Date: 1875-01-20
Description: This retained manuscript copy of an autograph letter by Thomas Neill to the sisters Sophia and Catherine German, was an attempt to secure their release from Cheyenne Indians that had captured the girls., John and Lydia German, as well as their seven children, were moving by wagon via the Smoky Hill Trail to Colorado when they were attacked by a hostile Cheyenne war party. Both parents and three of the seven children were killed and scalped. Four girls were taken captive. The two youngest girls, Addie and Julie, aged 5 and 7 respectively, were rescued in a military raid in November 1874. After the rescue of the two youngest girls, a letter was written, addressed to Sophia, aged 12, and Catherine, aged 17, by Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Neill. The letter advised the sisters to read it Grey-Beard or Stone-Calf to secure the sister's release and for the Cheyennes to submit themselves to the mercy of the government. The sisters were rescued in March 1875 and reunited with their sisters at Fort Leavenworth.

Title: Thomas Sherlock Bill of Lading
Date: 1874-03-01
Description: Receipt of goods from commisions agent Jos. Macheca & Co. for delivery from Cincinnati, Ohio to Paducah, Kentucky aboard the steamer Thomas Sherlock, 1874.

Title: Charters and Organization
Date: 1876
Description: Articles of incorporation and charter for the Ohio & Mississippi Railway Company published in 1876. Includes a history of the creation of the company through the incorporation of railroad and railway companies in the states of Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, and Ohio from 1848 to 1872.

Title: Twenty-Ninth Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association
Date: 1875-01-10
Description: This document contains the twenty-ninth annual report of the board of directors of the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association. It was complied in January of 1875 and covers the events of the year 1874.

Title: Twenty-Fifth Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association
Date: 1871-01-10
Description: This document contains the twenty-fifth annual report of the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association along with the proceedings of the anniversary celebration of that year. It includes an address by the library's first president James E. Yeatman and a poem by Thomas E. Garrett titled "The Three Stages."

Title: Thirty-Third Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Saint Louis Mercantile Library Association
Date: 1879-01-14
Description: This document contains the thirty-third annual report of the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association for the year 1878. It was published following the annual meeting in January of 1879.

Title: Thirty-First Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Saint Louis Mercantile Library Association
Date: 1877-01-09
Description: This document contains the thirty-first annual report of the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association for the year 1876. It was published following the annual meeting in January of 1877.

Title: J.S. Morgan & Co. Letter of James B. Eads
Date: 1872-08-29, 1872-08-29
Description: Letter from J.S. Morgan & Co. of London regarding financing to complete the Eads Bridge and tunnel to Union Station in St. Louis, MO.

Title: Twenty-Second Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Pacific Railroad
Date: 1872
Description: 1872 annual report of the Pacific Railroad Company to its stockholders

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: Thirtieth Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association
Date: 1876-01-11
Description: This document contains the thirtieth annual report of the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association for the year 1875. It was published following the annual meeting in January of 1876.

Title: M-355: Thomas T. Kerslake Overland Journal from Canada to New Zealand
Date: 1877
Description: Thomas T. Kerslake writes of his travels from Ontario, Canada to New Zealand in 1877. He leaves Plattsville, Ontario, Canada on September 29, 1877. Traveling across the United States by rail, he gives accounts of large and small cities (Chicago, Des Moines, Council Bluffs, Omaha, Promontory Point, San Francisco) and of the landscape and wild life on the plains and the Mississippi River. At San Francisco he boards the boat "City of Sydney" sailing across the Pacific Ocean, stopping in the Sandwich (Hawaiian) Islands before landing in Wellington, New Zealand in early November 1877.

Title: Report of Engineer Board to Citizen's Committee
Date: 1874
Description: 1874 report detailing the problems and opportunities presented by the Mill Creek Valley railroad corridor through the city of St. Louis. As that corridor divided the city, various recommendations were discussed to construct bridges over it.

Title: Second Mortgage of the Pacific Railroad (of Missouri)
Date: 1891
Description: To which is Attached Contract Extending the Principal of the Bonds, At 5% interest, to July 1, 1938, and form of new coupons.

Title: Thirty-Second Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Saint Louis Mercantile Library Association
Date: 1878-01-08
Description: This document contains the thirty-second annual report of the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association for the year 1877. It was published following the annual meeting in January of 1878.

Title: American Railroad Journal
Date: 1878-12-28

Title: Twenty-Seventh Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Saint Louis Mercantile Library Association
Date: 1873-01-14
Description: This document contains the twenty-seventh annual report of the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association for the year 1872. It was printed after the annual meeting in January of 1873.

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