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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: Gould's Blue Book, for the City of St. Louis. 1898. Vol. XVI. For the Year Ending November 20th, 1898
Date: 1898
Description: The sixteenth volume of Gould's Blue Books, this directory contains the names of the most prominent householders and businesses in the city of St. Louis and surrounding suburbs, as well as residents from Alton, St. Charles and Carlinville for the year 1898. Residents and businesses are arranged alphabetically by name and street. In addition to the directory, it contains rosters of social clubs and instructions concerning proper etiquette.

Title: List of Masters, Mates, Pilots, and Engineers of Merchant Steam, Motor, and Sail Vessels 1897
Date: 1898
Description: Record of masters, mates, pilots, and engineers of merchant steam, motor, and sail vessels kept by the United States Steamboat Inspection Service in 1897.

Title: Gould's St. Louis Directory, for 1898 (For the Year Ending April 1st, 1899)
Date: 1898
Description: Being a complete index to the residents of the entire city, and a classified business directory, to which is added an appendix containing useful information of the churches, societies, railroads, city, state, and other miscellaneous matters, also a newly revised street and avenue directory., The digitization of this directory was made possible through the support of the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by the Missouri State Library, a division of the Office of the Secretary of State.

Title: Buckeye State Bill of Lading
Date: 1898
Description: Bill of lading for shipment on the steamboat Buckeye State, for delivery of 1 box of saddlery. Goods were transported from Paducah, Kentucky to Wrightsville, Missouri, 1898. M. Michael & Bro. Co., wholesale harness and sadlery, buggies, carts, etc.

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: Annual Report of the Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf Railroad Company
Date: 1898, 1899
Description: Two volumes of annual reports for the Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf Railroad Company.

Title: Map of the Properties and Railway Terminals of the Wiggins Ferry Company
Date: 1897-03-30, 1897-03-30
Description: Maps showing railroads and ferry operations across the Mississippi River between East St. Louis, Illinois and St. Louis, Missouri.

Title: RF&P Dispatcher's Book January to June 1897
Date: 1897-01, 1897-06

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: Gould's St. Louis Directory, for 1897 (For the Year Ending April 1st, 1898)
Date: 1897
Description: Being a complete index to the residents of the entire city, and a classified business directory, to which is added an appendix containing useful information of the churches, societies, railroads, city, state, and other miscellaneous matters, also a newly revised street and avenue directory., The digitization of this directory was made possible through the support of the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by the Missouri State Library, a division of the Office of the Secretary of State.

Title: Barr and Widen Company's Credit Guide for the Wholesale Trade
Date: 1897
Description: The St. Louis Credit Guide is organized in two parts. Part 1 alphabetically lists business names and addresses along with their credit rating and estimated worth. The key to the credit rating abbreviations is found on the last page. Part 2 alphabetically lists real estate owners, their addresses , and the assessed value of their property. It also contains an introduction about Commercial Laws of Missouri related to debt collection, as well as a listing of banks, trust and safe deposit companies in St. Louis. The pages are not numbered., The digitization of this directory was made possible through the support of the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by the Missouri State Library, a division of the Office of the Secretary of State.

Title: Gould's Blue Book, for the City of St. Louis. 1897. Vol. XV. For the Year Ending November 20th, 1897
Date: 1897
Description: The fifteenth volume of Gould's Blue Books, this directory contains the names of the most prominent householders and businesses in the city of St. Louis and surrounding suburbs, as well as residents from Alton, St. Charles and Carlinville for the year 1897. Residents and businesses are arranged alphabetically by name and street. In addition to the directory, it contains rosters of social clubs and instructions concerning proper etiquette.

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: Agreement re: Norfolk and Portsmouth Belt Line R.R. Co.
Date: 1897, 1897

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: McKinley Portrait Button
Date: 1896-07-21
Description: 1 and 1/4-inch round, pin back button with black and white portrait of William McKinley framed by a gold scroll and the American flag in the background. Button has a paper label on reverse for Allied Printing Trades Council 3, Newark, and Whitehead & Hoag Co., Newark.

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