Bill of lading for the Steamer CLYDE for shipment of 27 tons #1 pig iron and 15 tons #2 pig iron, May 14, 1886 to St. Louis, Missouri, for the La Grange Iron Co. at $2.00 per ton.
A page of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper depicting an image of a fleet demonstration of warships belonging to European powers in the Adriatic sea along the Turkish coast. Also shown is an image of the city of Ragusa (now Dubrovnik) in Austrian Dalmatia on the Adriatic sea. Five sketches of places in a yearly fair are seen at the bottom. In order they depict the Agricultural Hall, the Cascade, the Art Hall, the main entrance to the fair grounds, and the Journal of Agricultre.
View of Myrtle Street flooded with various goods floating in the foreground. Men in small boats are collecting the goods. A steamboat, horse-drawn vehicles, and a storefront can be seen in the background. This lithograph is based on a sketch by Armand Welcker.
Front page of Um die Welt: Keppler & Schwarzmann's Illustrierte Zeitung (Around the World: Keppler & Schwarzmann's Illustrated Newspaper). View of the Veiled Prophet Parade in front of the old courthouse in St. Louis. Fireworks and various exotic animals can be seen. Revelers can be seen throughout.
An image depicting portraits of C. H. Sampson, C. C, Rainwater, Col J. G. Prather, John W. M'Cullagh, Joseph J. Kreher, and V. O. Saunders. There is also an image of the Nonotuck Silk Company's Corticelli Float.
Bill of Lading from the Evansville, Paducah & Tennessee River Packet Company for transport of 108 tons of #1 pig iron at $2.00/ton, for the Lagrange Iron Company from La Grange to St. Louis, Missouri. February 19, 1887.
20x16 in photograph of the downtown home of the St. Louis philanthropist Henry Shaw. The back of the frame reads "H. Shaw's Residence, 7th & Locust 1889." Henry Shaw died in 1889 around the time this photograph was taken. In his will, Shaw requested that this home be dismantled and moved to the grounds of the Missouri Botanical Garden. It was rebuilt on Tower Grove Avenue near Magnolia.
Receipt for shipment on the steamboat Dacotah, for delivery of 25 barrels of M. T. oil, November 26, 1886. Shipment originated at La Grange and was bound for St. Louis.
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.
Page from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper featuring images of Franck C. Morehead, Mrs. Margaret Hughes, and the scene at the dedication o the Odd Fellows' Cemetery on May 30th of 1881.
Page from Scientific American Supplement, No. 399, from July 1, 1882. The page details the ventilation of a railroad tunnel under the city of St. Louis by a large vertical shaft.
Shows the 23rd Federal Festival of the Turner's of North America in St. Louis. Shows procession past Schnaider's Garden, Turn Hall, and 5th and Elm. Shows the Turner's athletic competition as well.