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Title: Report of the president and directors of the Ohio & Mississippi Railway Co. to their stockholders for fiscal year ending 1891.
Date: 1892, 1891

Title: Broadway-Facing North
Date: 1897
Description: Photograph of Broadway in St. Louis in 1897. The view is looking north from Pine towards Olive. It includes many people walking on the sidewalks in front of stores and large buildings. There's a horse-drawn carriage and an electric streetcar.

Title: Pen and Sunlight Sketches of St. Louis - Page 56
Page From: info:fedora/umsl:3071
Date: 1892
Description: An illustration of the St. Louis Custom House and Post Office in 1892. As appears on page 56 of Pen and Sunlight Sketches of St. Louis, a promotional directory of buildings, monuments, and businesses.
Text: $7952”;/€.¥%€5f%/i%fk>5'71c0M5 West on Arsenal streetto Jefferson avenue, thence south Via _[efferson avenue and Broadway to Caro;i- dolet; returning Via same route. The Mound City railway runs from Fourth and Pine streets, west on Pine street, north on Ninth street, west on St. Louis avenue to the fair grounds; returning Via St. Louis avenue, south on Fourteenth and Twelfth streets, ea...
Show more$7952”;/€.¥%€5f%/i%fk>5'71c0M5 West on Arsenal streetto Jefferson avenue, thence south Via _[efferson avenue and Broadway to Caro;i- dolet; returning Via same route. The Mound City railway runs from Fourth and Pine streets, west on Pine street, north on Ninth street, west on St. Louis avenue to the fair grounds; returning Via St. Louis avenue, south on Fourteenth and Twelfth streets, east on Locust street to Ninth, south to Pine street and east to Fourth street. The .\Iarket street line is another popular one, running; fa‘:-:n Fourth and Market streets, west on ;\[arket street, north on Sixth street, west on Chestnut street, south on Twentieth street, west on .\larl<et street and Manchester road to Towe" Grove avenue; return ing .' \'lZ1 .\~lanchester road and Clark avenue to Twentieth street, north on Twentieth to ;\Iarket street, thence east on Market to Fourth street. This road passes the court— _ house, Grand Opera house, Real Estate Exchange, public library, natatorium, city " ‘A hall, etc. The population,and value of property on these lines have had an increase 3 {Z ‘ of about thirty per cent since their advent. The cable roads have been equally Pfog - ‘ perous and important in the development of the city: the v L‘US'l‘()\I H()L'SF. .—\‘.\'I) I’()>"|' (>I"l"lL'l<'., various lines are known as follows: Citizens’ cable, ;\Iissouri (‘able railway, Northern Central, People's line, etc. The combined 1'()£lLl>' carried in 1890, 68,105,561 pa<:\-encrers, and it is the universal Verdict that they are cared for more coinfortal)l_\' and with a less tnnnber of accidents than in any other large CH)’ “'l1€FC Illpitl transit has been adopted. In order to reach :1n=>tl‘.e:‘ section of the city we return
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Title: Cyclone View, May 27, 1896
Date: 1896-05-27
Description: An elevated view of an alley, as well as several destroyed buildings, residential properties, and a church in a St. Louis neighborhood after a tornado hit on May 27,1896.

Title: St. Louis Levee
Description: Photograph of cargo and steamboats lining the Saint Louis levee in the 1890s. GRAND REPUBLIC (second) and BELLE OF CALHOUN, as well as the Anchor Line wharfboat are pictured. Eads Bridge in the background. Railroad tracks to the left.

Title: Roof Garden U.T. Blg: 1894
Date: 1894
Description: 20x16 in photograph labeled "Roof Garden U.T. Blg: 1894." The back reads "From Bartlett, Stix Law Firm / Jan 13, 1964." The image is of people sitting at tables in a glass enclosure filled with plants.

Title: Advertisements and Illustrations from Puck
Date: 1892
Description: Advertisements and accompanying illustrations from a page in Puck. The text is in German.

Title: Ohio River, Ice Gorged at Mouth of Little Blue River.
Date: 1893-02-02
Description: #1021, Feb. 2, 1893. OHIO RIVER, Ice Gorged at Mouth of Little Blue River. 673 miles from Pittsburg.
Man standing behind part of ice flow.

Title: Dick Fowler Bill of Lading
Date: 1898-04-19
Description: Bill of lading from the M. Michael & Bro. Co. of Paducah, Kentucky, for 1 box saddlery, 3 sacks collars, 1 bundle hames, and 1 package whips. Delivery by the M. Michael & Bro. Co., wholesale harness and saddlery, buggies, carts, etc. to St. Francis, Arkansas. July 19th, 1898.

Title: St. Louis Levee
Description: St. Louis levee, 1890's. Grand Republic (second), Belle of Calhoun, ?, City of New Orleans. Photographed by Henry Stark, Jr. of St. Louis.

Title: Tower Grove Dairy
Date: 1894
Description: The Tower Grove Dairy, located at 2922 Oregon Avenue, St. Louis, circa 1894. Featured in this photo are Mrs. Anna Rumping-Albers, Margaret Nienaber, Nora Nienaber, Harry Knobbe, Anna Nienaber Knobbe, August Knobbe Jr., Margaret Knobbe, and August Knobbe. The dairy eventually went out of business in 1920. Photograph provided to the St. Louis Mercantile Library by JoAnne (Knobbe) Behm.

Title: Tennessee Bill of Lading
Date: 1898-09-16
Description: Bill of lading for shipment on the steamboat Tennessee for delivery of goods to Jim White at Clifton, Tennessee. Goods were transported from Paducah, Kentucky, September 16, 1898. M. Michael & Bro. Co., wholesale harness and sadlery, buggies, carts, etc.

Title: Cincinnati, Ohio Public Landing
Date: 1893-01-24
Description: Public Landing from Suspension Bridge, Cincinnati, O. Jan. 24, 1893. #1027.

Title: Sunshine Bill of Lading
Date: 1898-09-13
Description: Bill of lading for shipment on the steamboat Sunshine for delivery of 1 box of saddlery to W. H. Huffman at Caruthersville, Missouri. Goods were transported from Paducah, Kentucky, September 13, 1898. M. Michael & Bro. Co., wholesale harness and sadlery, buggies, carts, etc.

Title: Ohio River, Dredging at Mill Creek Bar
Date: 1893-06-29
Description: #1063, June 29, 1893. OHIO RIVER, Dredging at Mill Creek Bar. 140 miles from Pittsburg.
Dredges OHIO and OSWEGO at work in the river.

Title: St. Nicholas Hotel. 1898
Date: 1898
Description: Photograph of the St. Nicholas Hotel on Locust Street between Eighth and Ninth Streets. The building was originally designed by Louis Sullivan and built in 1893. It was redesigned and expanded after a fire in 1905 and ultimately demolished in 1974. It was later known as the Victoria Building.

Title: ANNIE DELL
Date: 1890
Description: Photograph of ANNIE DELL with tow and cargo. Crew posing on the bow. Gasconade River, carrying wheat, 1890.

Title: Madell
Date: 1896
Description: This levee scene taken just after the cyclone of 1896, shows the damage to the transfer boat Ma dell.

Title: Ohio
Date: 1894-02
Description: The Ohio was a stern-wheeler built at Cincinnati, Ohio in 1879 as the Clifton. She was 251 x 39 x 5.5 feet; 716 tons. This stern wheel Clifton was sunk by ice in the mouth of the Kentucky River on January 21, 1881. She was raised, rebuilt and renamed the Ohio on October 4, 1881. The Ohio ran in the cincinnati - Memphis - New Orleans trade along with the DeSoto, Buckeye State, Granite State and others under the White Collar Line. Enroute from Memphis to Cincinnati on February 17, 1894, she struck a stump in backing out from the landing at Cottonwood Point, Missouri, 120 miles above Memphis, Tennessee. She then sank proving a total loss. The boat was valued at $25,000. The cargo was damaged $9,000. No lives were lost.

Title: Union Station Opening
Date: 1894-09-01
Description: Photograph of Union Station's Grand Hall during the original opening gala, September 1, 1894.

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