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Title: Clyde Bill of Lading
Date: 1886-05-14
Description: 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.

Title: Museum of Fine Arts
Date: 1881-07-08
Description: Drawing of the new Musuem of Fine Arts in St. Louis with accompanying article about its creation.

Title: St. Louis Manual Training School
Date: 1881-05-28
Description: Drawing of the St. Louis Manual Training School, chairs, and faces. A page from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper.

Title: Fleet demonstration of warships of European powers.
Description: 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.

Title: The Recent Floods at St. Louis
Date: 1882-07-22
Description: 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.

Title: The Parade of the Veiled Prophet
Date: 1882-10-14
Description: 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.

Title: St. Louis Riverfront
Date: 1880
Description: Drawing of the St. Louis Riverfront in 1880.

Title: Oddfellows Cemetery Dedication
Date: 1881
Description: Drawing show the dedication of the Oddfellows Cemetery at St. Louis on May 30, 1881.

Title: Corticelli Float
Date: 1884-09-20
Description: 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.

Title: John Gilbert Bill of Lading
Description: 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.

Title: H. Shaw's Residence
Date: 1889
Description: 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.

Title: Concordia College
Description: Jefferson between Miami and Winnebago, photo possibly from 1883; Globe-Democrat June 1961

Title: Old Masonic Bl'g. Oct. 1886.
Date: 1886-10
Description: 20x16 in photograph of the old Masonic Hall taken in October of 1886.

Title: Dacotah Bill of Lading
Date: 1886-11-26
Description: 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.

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: Oddfellows Cemetery Dedication
Date: 1881-06-18
Description: 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.

Title: The Old Exposition and Music Hall
Description: 20x16 in photograph of the St. Louis Exposition and Music Hall at Olive and Fourteenth Street. This building existed between 1884 and 1906.

Title: Ventilating Fan and Chimney, St. Louis Tunnel, Erected 1881-1882
Date: 1882
Description: 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.

Title: The Floods at St. Louis
Date: 1883-07-07
Description: The floods at St. Louis - working on the levee at night.-Drawn by Charles Graham.-[See page 423.]

Title: Turner's Festival
Date: 1881-06-25
Description: 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.

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