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Title: Exposition Hall
Date: Unknown
Description: "St. Louis Exposition Building---In the early eighties this building was one of the most popular resorts in the city. Every fall the St. Louis Exposition was held here, and the Music Hall which was a part of the structure was in use for concerts, lectures and other entertainment on occasion. The Public Library now occupies this site. (By courtesy of the Missouri Historical Society.)"

Title: Frankie Baker
Date: 1899, 1942-02-13
Description: At left is the way Frankie Baker appeared back in 1899 when she shot Allen (Johnny) Brit, the murder on which she claims the famous Frankie and Johnny ballad was based. At the right is the way Frankie appeared yesterday when she arrived in St. Louis to press her $200,000 character defamation suit against a film company for a movie version of the murder. (Feb. 13, 1942), Unheralded then and unknown today, a turn-of-the-century black St. Louis musician took the Targee Street boarding house shooting of Albert (or Allen) Britt and created an epic tragedy-ballad of star-crossed lovers. (Feb. 20, 1979)

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.

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."

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."

Title: Immense Tow of Coalboats
Date: 1898-03-15
Description: On Tuesday, March 15, 1898, the largest single shipment of coal ever moved on the Western Rivers was taken out of the harbor of Pittsburgh, Pa., by the towboat Joseph B. Williams, owned by C. Jutte and Co. of that place.

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: Jefferson Barracks - 1898 Headquarters
Date: 1898
Description: The administration building at Jefferson Barracks, pictured in 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."

Title: 4th from Pine Street. North
Date: 1898
Description: Photograph of Fourth Street in St. Louis looking north across the intersection with Pine Street.

Title: Parade by Exposition Hall
Date: 1898, 1949-09-18
Description: "Olive and Fourteenth, looking east on Olive. A Turners' parade is passing St. Louis Exposition Hall which was 1884's counterpart of Kiel Auditorium. In 1883, a Mercantile Club meeting decided to erect an exposition building, and the $1,000,000 edifice was built in 1883-84 on the 6-acre Missouri Park bounded by Olive, St. Charles, Thirteenth and Fourteenth (now the Public Library, Locust stret, and Lucas Sunken Garden). The music hall, in the center of the building, had 3507 seats and could crowd in 2000 standees. Annual exhibitions of machinery and manufactures were held here each fall in conjunction with the old Fair. Music Hall patrons were treated to the strains of Gilmore's 65-piece band until 1893 when Col. Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore died here during the festival and was succeeded by John Phillip Sousa's band. The hall was a meeting place for conventions and public gatherings of all kinds until it was razed in 1907. This picture dates from about Spanish-American War times."

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: Broadway & Pine
Date: 1897
Description: Photograph of the intersection of Pine and Broadway in St. Louis in the late 1890s. The view is looking north on Broadway across Pine.

Title: Riverfront Old Pix 1897 Boats
Date: 1897, 1897
Description: View of several boats at the dock. Taken in 1897.

Title: The Columbarium
Date: 1897, 1897
Description: The Columbarium shown here as it appeared in 1897 was erected in 1896 adjacent to the Crematory on Sublette just south of Arsenal.

Title: 1896 Republican National Convention
Date: 1896-06, 1949-08-14
Description: "Wm. McKinley Convention (Rep) Washington Square. Note New City Hall North of Convention Hall." The 1896 Republican National Convention was held at the temporary structure pictured here near City Hall.

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: The Great Tornado
Date: 1896-05-27, 1941-09-28
Description: 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.

Title: Cyclone View, May 27,1896
Date: 1896-05-27
Description: The debris and structural damage of a barn, building, and wagon caused by a tornado on May 27,1896 in St. Louis, Missouri,

Title: Cyclone View, May 27, 1896
Date: 1896-05-27
Description: Large, multi-story building destroyed in the May 27, 1896 tornado which hit St. Louis, Missouri.

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