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Title: Broadway Street
Date: 1890s, 1938-04-12
Description: Place: Broadway and Chestnut street. Time: The gay nineties [(1890s)], when this arch of gas lamps bridged Broadway. Oldtimers say this old print looks north on Broadway. A Broadway cable car is in the foreground and a Pine street trolley car has just crossed (to the right) behind it. The horse (left) is waiting in front of the Ohio & Mississippi Railway ticket office, now a parking lot. The buildings on the right are the Clifton House, a furniture store; Mills & Averill, tailors, and, beyond Pine street, the old Post-Dispatch building and the American Central Building. The Telegraphers' National Bank now stands on the site of Mills & Averill. The gas-lamp arch bears portraits of all the Presidents up to and including Benjamin Harrison and Grover Cleveland...

Title: Broadway Street
Date: 1890s, 1949-09-18
Description: Broadway looking south from Washington. The illumination bug bit St. Louis in 1882 when 140 plumbers scurried to set up gas pipes for lamplit arches along 44 blocks of the business section. At a cost of $20,000, 21,000 globes of different colors were set twinkling above the streets. "Tens of thousands of spectators gazed with admiration on the display evening after evening," wrote a contemporary observer. "Thousands of European tourists, who were attracted by the novelty and magnitude of the undertaking, pronounced it the most gorgeous street spectacle they had ever witnessed and so infinitely superior to the best Old World productions as to make anything in the nature of comparison out of the question." The illuminations continued for a decade in what St. Louisians proudly called the "Carnival City of America", and were climaxed by gas and electric illuminations put on in the autumn of 1892. This pictures shows the arches on Broadway in the early 1890s. Broadway looking south from Washington, 1898. Cable car + illumination. The illumination bug bit the festivities association hard and it ordered set up on 44 blocks in the downtown section 21,000 gas lights with different colored globes. The display was so spectacular that it was made an annual event for 10 years. Photo shows the gas light arches on Broadway in early 1890s.

Title: Ohio River. Newells Run.
Date: 1890-08-07
Description: Ohio River. Newells Run. View upstream from Koerners Landing. Aug. 7. 1890. #860.

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: Steamboat Bell Pulls

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

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: Gould's St. Louis Directory, for 1890. (For the Year Ending April 1st, 1891.)
Date: 1890
Description: This directory contains an introduction entitled St. Louis in 1890 featuring population and business statistics followed by an index to advertisers and business headings, a street directory, a St. Louis City residential and business directory, and a city and county record listing civic and social institutions for the year 1890.

Title: Gould's Blue Book, for the City of St. Louis. 1890. Vol. VIII. For the Year Ending November 15th, 1890
Date: 1890
Description: The eight 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 suburban areas, as well as residents from Alton, Edwardsville, St. Charles and Carlinville for the year 1890. 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: Statue of Liberty Replica
Date: 1890
Description: Photograph of a replica of the Statue of Liberty at Twelfth and Pine in St. Louis in 1890.

Title: Samuel Cupples House
Date: 1890, 1969-03-23
Description: "Samuel Cupples, who in 1851 established the firm which became the largest woodenware company in the United States, built this home at 3673 Pine in 1890, about which time was taken. The building is now in St. Louis University's well known 'Chouteau House.'"

Title: Prospectus of the St. Louis Merchants' Bridge Terminal Railway Company.
Date: 1890, 1890

Title: Old Street Photo
Date: 1890, 1962-07-08
Description: F. W. Drosten was at 619 Olive. 3rd door west of Barr's Dry Goods Co.

Title: Broadway Street
Date: 1890, 1890
Description: View on Broadway- East St. Louis. Possibly from 1890, but not verified.

Title: Broadway and Chestnut Streets
Date: 1890, 1890
Description: St. Louis City. 1890. Broadway and Chestnut Streets.

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

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: Advertisements and Illustrations from Puck
Date: 1892
Description: Advertisements and accompanying illustrations from a page in Puck. The text is in German.

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: Union Station Opening
Date: 1894-09-01
Description: Photograph of Union Station's Grand Hall during the original opening gala, September 1, 1894.

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