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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: The Illustrated Guide of St. Louis
Date: 1896
Description: 1896 guide book to St. Louis along with descriptions of places and images of buildings.

Title: Shewey's Pictorial St. Louis Past and Present
Date: 1892
Description: Shewey's Pictorial St. Louis is an illustrated guide to the life and times of St. Louisans and the buildings around them. Detailed descriptions of significant structures and historical events.

Title: Bluff City
Date: 1897
Description: In the struggle of the packet boats against rail competition the Anchor Line put up a bold fight. To reduce operating expenses they built the Bluff City, the only stern-wheeler the Anchor Line ever built. She came out new in October 1896, built at Jeffersonville, Indiana. But fate was against her as she lasted but one year. On November 18, 1897 she caught fire at Chester, Illinois on the Mississippi River. The fire was supposed to have been started by a spark from a pipe falling among some logs. She and her cargo were a total loss. The steamer was valued at $55,000 and the cargo at $30,000.

Title: Annual report of the president and directors to the stockholders of the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railway Company
Date: 1894-1899, 1895-1900

Title: Ead's Bridge.
Date: 1895
Description: Ead's Bridge, Art Work of St. Louis. On the riverfront are the IDA PATTON (1888-1937). Tug - built at Dubuque. Iron Hull, steam propeller. Capt. L.E. Patton had her built for towing logs up Wolf River to Mills. GOLDEN GATE (1878-1903). Stern only shown. Built at Dubuque. 131.4 x 30 x 4.

Title: Missouri River. Table of Distances From its Mouth to Three Forks, Mont., in Four Sections, Viz
Description: Distances are given in miles and tenths. The letters R and L indicate the right or left bank, respectively, going down stream.

Title: List of Masters, Mates, Pilots, and Engineers of Merchant Steam, Motor, and Sail Vessels 1898
Date: 1899
Description: Record of masters, mates, pilots, and engineers of merchant steam, motor, and sail vessels kept by the United States Steamboat Inspection Service in 1898.

Title: CHATTANOOGA
Date: 1895
Description: Steamer "Chattanooga", at wharf, Chattanooga Tenn. 1895.

Title: The Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railroad Company to the Farmers' Loan & Trust Company and W. H. H. Miller
Date: 1899-08-01

Title: Prior lien mortgage, Northern Pacific Railway Company to the Mercantile Trust Company, trustee : dated November 10, 1896
Date: 1896, 1896

Title: Third Annual Bulletin of the Engineers' Club of St. Louis
Date: 1898
Description: This bulletin for the year 1898 contains a program for the club's activities, annual reports, transcripts of addresses given at the annual dinner, library rules and recent additions to the collection, a list of technical publications in other St. Louis libraries, and various other matters including articles, club rules, and past presidents. Additionally, it lists club members, including occupations, addresses, and the date they became a member. The bulletin ends with an advertising directory.

Title: Washington Avenue Loop 1890
Date: 1890
Description: Photograph of the Washington Avenue streetcar loop in St. Louis in 1890.

Title: A. L. Mason
Description: A. L. Mason under construction in Madison, Indiana. Men are visible on deck.

Title: Adam Jacobs
Description: Adam Jacobs (built 1885 in Brownsville, Pa.) at port. Vessel had electric lights and an arc searchlight (seen at far right), one of the first see in the region.

Title: P-065 Mississippi-Illinois River Canal (Hennepin Canal) Construction Photographs
Date: 1892
Description: This album of cyanotype prints documents the early construction of the Mississippi and Illinois River Canal, also known as the Hennepin Canal. Each image comes with explanatory captions on the back side. The images document the first months of construction on the Mississippi and Illinois River Canal, commonly known as the Hennepin Canal. The construction pictured is near the Mississippi and Rock rivers while working on Lock 36 and Lock 37. The prints cover much of the construction involved in building canals in the 19th century, and include portrayals of excavation and dredge work, extension and widening of rivers work on Carr Island (in the western portion of the Rock River), use of dynamite in lock building, pile driving, construction on concrete abutments, and other equipment and processes involved. Also included are images of the camps of workers and engineers. Each image is captioned with a date and description of the image, often including names of identifiable workers and engineers. Most of the images show actual construction, including the extension and widening of rivers, massive excavation and dredge work, work around Carr Island in the far western portion of the Rock River, the construction of embankments, and the use of dynamite to begin the lock building process. Other photographs show piling and pile driving, the camps of the workers, and completed cuts. The captions each note the month in which photographs are taken, and often name in the engineer in charge of the work and contractor.

Title: Evansville
Description: Sternwheeler Evansville after rebuilding at Madison, 1896.

Title: Evansville
Description: Sternwheeler Evansville at Bowling Green wharf.

Title: Evansville
Description: Aboard the Evansville on the Green River.

Title: Image 12: September 1892
Date: 1892-09
Description: Cyanotype print. Description on reverse: I. & M. Canal. Construction of concrete abuts. for dams. Filling last form of abutment north shore Rock River September 1892

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