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Title: Illustrations of the West End Club-House
Date: 1886-10-09
Description: Illustrations of the interior and exterior of the West End Club-House, owned by the St. Louis Club, with caption.

Title: The Saint Louis of To-Day
Date: 1888
Description: Travel guide to St. Louis with an index of businesses and illustrations of buildings in 1888 put together by the Western Commercial Travellers' Association.

Title: The Railroad and Engineering Journal
Date: 1888-12

Title: Police Guide and Directory of St. Louis
Date: 1884
Description: A tourist guide and directory for the year 1884, it is authored by a nine year veteran of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Force and contains maps of commuter railroad lines, descriptions of resorts and businesses along each of these lines, and illustrations of prominent buildings and attractions throughout the city.

Title: The Killing of Colonel Alonzo W. Slayback by John A. Cockerill
Date: 1882-10-28
Description: This page from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper depicts images of Franklin Edson, George O. Barnes, John A. Cockerill, and Alonzo W. Slayback. Edson and Barnes are written about on the page while a popular demonstration in front of the Post Dispatch office following the murder of Slayback by Cockerill is depicted below Slayback's and Cockerill's images.

Title: The Hand-Book of Sedalia Missouri
Date: 1882
Description: General history and directory of Sedalia, Missouri from 1882. Includes views and illustrations of public buildings.

Title: Annual Visit of the Vailed Prophets to St. Louis
Date: 1880-10-23
Description: Drawing of the procession of the annual Veiled Prophet Parade at St. Louis. Shows the tableau of the Egyptian Summer.

Title: Silver Cloud Bill of Lading
Date: 1887-03-24
Description: Bill of Lading from the Evansville, Paducah & Tennessee River Packet Company for transport of 30 tons of #2 pig iron at $2.00/ton, for the Lagrange Iron Company from La Grange to Cincinnati Wharf River and Railroad Transfer Co. March 24, 1887.

Title: Engineers Club of St. Louis
Date: 1889
Description: This Engineer's Club roster contains a listing of members' names, addresses, and occupations, as well as a calendar of club meetings and events for the year 1889.

Title: Report of the president and directors of the Ohio & Mississippi Railway Co. to their stockholders for fiscal year ending 1889.
Date: 1889, 1890

Title: Directory of the City of East St. Louis, for 1889-90
Date: 1889
Description: The first annual directory of East St. Louis, it contains a city and business listing, notes on historical data, and listing of city officers for the years 1889-1890, as well as a St. Louis Republic newspaper article detailing the rise and growth of the city. Pages 43 and 44 are missing.

Title: St. Paul Bill of Lading
Date: 1883-09-10
Description: Receipt for shipment on the steamboat Saint Paul, for delivery of 1 case dry goods from Davenport, Iowa to Ognwaka, Illinois, 1883.

Title: The Whole Story Told: The Dark and Mysterious Places of St. Louis
Date: 1885
Description: A salacious look at the people and places of Saint Louis that at the time carried a less than sterling reputation. Includes entries on the morgue; the levee; Kerry Patch; Clabber Alley; Morgan Street; opium joints; Biddle Street; confidence men; crap playing; the boodle racket; cheap lodging houses; turf exchanges; pawnbrokers; gilded sin; lottery ticket sellers; doing the slums; Clark Avenue dives; sharks at the (Union) Depot; street fakirs; mock auctions; suggestions (for travel in the city); places of interest; and showing up the dives.

Title: Receipt of Sale, for Advert
Date: 1885
Description: 1885 receipt of sale for ad, $50 reward, to the Commercial Herald. Receipt to John H. Long

Title: Addie E. Faison
Description: Addie E. Faison on river. Passengers and crew are visible on deck.

Title: The Railroad Era: First Five Years of Its Development
Date: 1884, 1884

Title: City of Baton Rouge
Description: Side-wheel packet City of Baton Rouge, owned by the Anchor Line.

Title: Gould's St. Louis Directory, for 1887. (For the Year Ending April 1st, 1888.)
Date: 1887
Description: This directory contains 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 1887.

Title: Gould's St. Louis Directory, for 1881
Date: 1881
Description: This directory contains an introduction entitled St. Louis, featuring statistics related to population growth, 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 1881.

Title: Gould's St. Louis Directory, for 1889. (For the Year Ending April 1st, 1890.)
Date: 1889
Description: This directory contains 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 1889.

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