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Anheuser-Busch Brewery - Celebratory Arch
Title
Anheuser-Busch Brewery - Celebratory Arch
Date
1899, 1964-02-29
Description
A decorative arch, put in place for the visiting Elks, as pictured at Anheuser-Busch Brewery in 1899. Image from St. Louis Mercantile Library collections.
Anheuser-Busch Brewery - Elks Clebratory Arch
Title
Anheuser-Busch Brewery - Elks Clebratory Arch
Date
1899, 1964-02-29
Description
Two original captions: "This is the Anheuser-Busch brewery, photographed in 1899, with a decorative arch in place in honor of visiting Elks, who held their national convention in St. Louis in June of that year. Malt house and grain elevators may be seen in the background." "The Anheuser-Busch brewery in 1899. The decorative arch welcomed visiting Elks who held their convention in St. Louis in June of that year. The bank partly visible at right is the Old South Side Trust Company."
Jefferson Barracks - Camp Stephens Artillery Battery, Spanish-American War
Title
Jefferson Barracks - Camp Stephens Artillery Battery, Spanish-American War
Date
1898-05, 1960-08-28
Description
"Camp Stephens, Jefferson Barracks, May, 1898, showing a section of Light Battery A, Missouri Volunteers, laying a 3-inch gun. St. Louis' own Battery A was first Missouri unit mustered into United States service for the Spanish-American War at Jefferson Barracks May 9, 1898; first to leave Missouri, May 16; first to sail overseas from Newport News July 28, and only Missouri volunteer unit to see active service in the Puerto Rican campaign. From the right, the young cannoneers have been identified by fellow veterans as Sgt. Thomas B. Williams, a heavily-bearded Gustave A. Buder holding the lanyard of the weapon, Ernest S. Tesson in rear, Frederick Chopin, Theodore Buder facing the camera over the gun sight, and Charles R. Crouch." "Shortly after this photo was made the battery was ordered to Chickamauga for embarkation. The unit was ready to bombard the Puerto Rican town of Guayama."
Jefferson Barracks - Camp Stephens Tent City 1898
Title
Jefferson Barracks - Camp Stephens Tent City 1898
Date
1898, 1960-08-28
Description
"Camp Stephens, Jefferson Barracks, showing the tent city which stood on the reservation throughout 1898. A soldier can be discerned in the hollow in foreground on sentry-go even though the nearest enemy was in Cuba. All of Missouri's volunteer regiments in the War with Spain passed through Camp Stephens, a total of just over 8000 men. The Barracks was also used as a regular army post for the cavalry depot and as an organization point for horse and mule pack teams. Volunteers were not allowed to use the Barracks buildings."
Broadway and Washington Streets
Title
Broadway and Washington Streets
Date
1891, 1949-10-02
Description
Broadway and Washington, looking north. The I. B. Rosenthal Millinery occupied the corner store at 421-423 Washington and one of St. Louis' largest luggage emporiums was at 608 North Broadway and blazoned his merchandise with a big sign reading "Trunks". This picture was taken in 1891 and shows the ill-advised Broadway cable car completed at great expense in the very year when the trolley car made its successful debut on the Hodiamont line. Symbolic of the old and new in the year 1891 is this scene at Broadway and Washington where the modern and "speedy" trolley cars are seen crossing the double tracks of the expensive and short-lived Broadway cable transit line.
Broadway Street
Title
Broadway Street
Date
1890s, 1938-04-12
Description
Place: Broadway and Chestnut street. Time: The gay nineties [(1890s)], when this arch of gas lamps bridged Broadway. Oldtimers say this old print looks north on Broadway. A Broadway cable car is in the foreground and a Pine street trolley car has just crossed (to the right) behind it. The horse (left) is waiting in front of the Ohio & Mississippi Railway ticket office, now a parking lot. The buildings on the right are the Clifton House, a furniture store; Mills & Averill, tailors, and, beyond Pine street, the old Post-Dispatch building and the American Central Building. The Telegraphers' National Bank now stands on the site of Mills & Averill. The gas-lamp arch bears portraits of all the Presidents up to and including Benjamin Harrison and Grover Cleveland...
Old Street Photo
Title
Old Street Photo
Date
1890, 1962-07-08
Description
F. W. Drosten was at 619 Olive. 3rd door west of Barr's Dry Goods Co.

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