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

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: 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.

Title: Court House
Date: 1895
Description: Old Court House, St. Louis, Missouri.

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: City of Madison
Date: 1894-06-18
Description: Built in 1882 at Madison, Ind. 265 x 42.1 x 6.3.

Title: FAWN, ROYAL, VIENNA
Date: 189-, 189-
Description: Photograph of the steamers FAWN, VIENNA and ROYAL, about 1890.

Title: White Eagle
Description: Season's Greetings from Bob Roehrig. Steamer White Eagle (Illinois River, 1892) Owned by Captain Rob Roehrig, Sr. and W. K. Kavanaugh.

Title: Locomotive in front of Simmons Hardware
Description: This photograph shows a cobblestone cross-street fitted with a gas powered street light and a series of telephone wires. In the mid-ground there are two horse drawn carriages, one is an enclosed passenger carriage and the other has an open top and is being driven by two workmen. In the left portion of the photograph there is a large pile of cobblestones and a steam locomotive. The locomotive is identified on the photograph as "engine 81 of the Terminal Railroad Association". The background of the image contains a tall smokestack and several large factory buildings. The buildings include a Simmons Hardware Co. Warehouse, a Western Electric Company building, and several industrial sites.

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