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Title: Image 20: October 1892
Date: 1892-10
Description: Cyanotype print. Description on reverse: I. & M. Canal – 1st mile section Excavating in canal prism at beginning of 2nd mile. Mr. Keane – sub-contractor F.S.H. – Engr. in charge Taken Oct. 1892

Title: Image 17: September 1892
Date: 1892-09
Description: Cyanotype print. Description on reverse: I. & M. Canal Construction of concrete abutments for dams. Forms ready to fill. South shore Carr’s Island. September, 1892

Title: Image 18: October 1892
Date: 1892-10
Description: Cyanotype print. Description on reverse: I. & M. Canal – 5th mile Commencement of the North River Erub. U.S. Govt. work. JW. Woermann – Engr. in charge October 1892

Title: Image 19: October 1892
Date: 1892-10
Description: Cyanotype print. Description on reverse: I. & M. Canal Sear’s Camp at Guard Lock. October 1892

Title: Image 27: October 1892
Date: 1892-10
Description: Cyanotype print. Description on reverse: I. & M. Canal Exc. At Lock #37 View of pit just after dredge went out and coffer-dam was put in. Pump-house at end of pit. Steamer A.J. Whitney in Rock River to right. Taken Oct. 1892 by J.W.W. F.S.H. – Engr. in charge

Title: Image 26: October 1892
Date: 1892-10
Description: Cyanotype print. Description on reverse: I. & M. Canal Rock excavation at the Guard Lock (head of rapids) U.S. Govt work David Sears – contractor J.W. Woermann – Engr. in charge October 1892

Title: Image 29: November 1892
Date: 1892-11
Description: Cyanotype print. Description on reverse: I. & M. Canal – 4th mile Constructing crib to protect the Erub. from floods from Mill Creek. Rock River at left of picture. November 1892

Title: Image 24: October 1892
Date: 1892-10
Description: Cyanotype print. Description on reverse: I. & M. Canal View of traps for loading wagons with wheel scrapers. Construction River Erubs. U.S. Govt work. October 1892

Title: Image 22: September 1892
Date: 1892-09
Description: Cyanotype print. Description on reverse: I. & M. Canal Construction of abutments for dams. Filling the forms of the abut. on south side Carr’s Island September 1892

Title: Image 23: December 1892
Date: 1892-12
Description: Cyanotype print. Description on reverse: I. & M. Canal – 3rd mile section View of Shapland’s Camp. A. O. Rowse – Engr. in charge Taken Dec. 1892

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

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: Jefferson Barracks - Old Guard House
Date: 1890, 1949-11-06
Description: Two original captions: "Jefferson Barracks, showing the old Guard House. Besides many other incidents, amusing and tragic, the old Guard House was the genesis of the new Jefferson Barracks. Spurred by reports of low morale in the Army during its longest period of peace from 1865 to 1898, a St. Louis newspaper reporter enlisted, was assigned to the barracks, deserted, and kept his newspaper columns hot with the insides story of Army life. Besides a slight upping of allowances and promise of other reforms, the War Department inaugurated a rebuilding of Jefferson Barracks where the controversy was centered and within a decade had razed the historic quadrangle of limestone and substituted a new post of pressed brick." "The old guard house was the genesis of the "new" Jefferson Barracks of the 1900s. Spurred by stories of low morale at the Barracks, a reporter enlisted in the 1890s and then deserted. The natural course of events followed and soon his newspaper was publishing the inside story of the army life. Before long soldiers' pay was upped and many structures were rebuilt. The Spanish-American War further emphasized the need for modernization and by 1905 all but one of the old buildings had been replaced."

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: Lee Liners at Memphis
Description: Lee Liners at Memphis Wharf in the 90's. James Lee (2nd.) in center foreground.

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.

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: MILL BOY
Date: 1892
Description: Photograph of the steamer MILL BOY 1892; Excursion to Oncken's Grove. Ferry in the foreground.

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: Lindell Hotel St. Louis
Date: 1891, 1965-03-14
Description: This Boehl street scene photo was taken looking west on Washington Avenue at Sixth Street in 1891. The building on the northwest corner at right is the Lindell Hotel, which was rebuilt in 1874 after having been destroyed by fire. Spurred by an offer of $100,000 from Washington Avenue businessmen, who felt a major hotel would encourage commerce on the street, reconstruction was started on the Lindell. It opened in 1874 and, as the businessmen had hoped, Sixth and Washington became one of the busiest intersections in the city.1

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