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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Houses were reduced to rubble, trees twisted to stumps and streetcars to splinters by the 1896 tornado, as this photograph taken on Lafayette avenue, looking east from Jefferson avenue, reveals.