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Title: Gould's St. Louis Directory, for 1877
Date: 1877
Description: This directory contains an introduction entitled Progress of St. Louis featuring statistics related to growth, public improvements, and finances, followed by an index to advertisers, a street directory, a St. Louis City residential and business directory, and a city and county record listing civic and social institutions for the year 1877.

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: Missouri State Gazetteer and Business Directory for 1876-1877
Date: 1876
Description: This Gazetteer features an alphabetical listing of villages, towns, and cities in the state of Missouri for the years 1876 and 1877. The listing contains the name of each place accompanied by a short description of its location, principle railways, mail services, and primary exports. Beneath each entry is located an alphabetical business directory. In addition to the alphabetical listing, businesses are arranged in a classified directory after the gazetteer.

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.

Title: Wilson's History and Directory for Southeast Missouri and Southern Illinois
Date: 1875
Description: Published in 1875, this directory contains a condensed history of Missouri beginning with Spanish settlement in Florida, descriptions of counties, towns, and villages in Southeast Missouri and Southern Illinois with a listing of their business owners, population figures, distances between towns, and civil officers. It also contains a U.S. legal directory, hotel directory, and brief history and partial business directory of St. Louis.

Title: Edwards' Fourteenth Annual Directory
Date: 1872
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 1872.

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: In the Cut at Iron Mountain
Description: This page is an excerpt from an unknown text. The page includes text describing the role of the Mississippi Valley and St. Louis in the areas of railroad industry and river trade during the 1870s. The lithograph in the top right corner of the page illustrates a mining operation at Iron Mountain, an important source of minerals for the region, Men are shown hard at work among loose boulders with various tools and railroad equipment.

Title: IDA REES, WESTERN and E.H. DURFEE
Description: The sternwheeler E.H. Durfee, for example, made regular trips between Pittsburgh and Fort Benton, Montana, between 1872 and 1876, a voyage comparable to going from New York to Copenhagen or from Japan to Honolulu, Fort Benton being 3,495 miles from Pittsburgh.

Title: Up the Hudson
Date: 1870-07-30
Description: Illustration of passengers on a steamboat working up the Hudson River.

Title: Planter's Hotel. 1874
Date: 1874
Description: 14x11 in photograph of the Planter's Hotel in 1874 from the southeast corner looking across Market Street.

Title: Wood-sellers, Richmond, Virginia
Date: 1872-01-27
Description: WOOD-SELLERS, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. -[Drawn by W. L. Sheppard.], M-244-1-06b (location)

Title: The City of St. Louis Missouri.
Date: 1872
Description: Despite the tagline, "Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1855 by J. H. Colton & Co. in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York." this map seems to be an updated version of Colton's 1855 map that appeared in an 1872 atlas.

Title: The Hon. Robert Brown Elliott, of South Carolina
Date: 1874-02-14
Description: THE HONORABLE ROBERT BROWN ELLIOTT, OF SOUTH CAROLINA. From a Photograph by Gardner, Washington, D. C.

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. Plan of Boiler Deck. Section through officers cabin. Section through dining room. Section through store room. Section through kitchen. Section through laundry. Section through wash room. Section through captain's cabin.

Title: Hailing a Steamboat
Date: 1871-09-16
Description: On the Mississippi. By our special artist and correspondent.

Title: Baldwin, Captain Ed
Description: As a young man Capt. Ed Baldwin. 1870. "Mountain" steamboat pilot. Return to Miss Rosa Wellenkamp, Washington, Missouri.

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: Steamboat Wharf Locations at St. Louis
Date: 1953
Description: This map, plotted out by Norbury Wayman, shows the various locations of steamboat lines and related companies on the St. Louis levee, detailing three periods of time; before 1865; 1865 - 1900; and 1900 - 1953. Lines and companies are donated by name, location and years of operation. Nearby streets are mapped as well, for easy frame of reference. Scale in feet: 100 ft. = 1 inch.

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