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Title: Cyclone View, May 27, 1896
Date: 1896-05-27
Description: Street view of destroyed buildings, debris and bystanders in the aftermath of a tornado which hit St. Louis' Lafayette Square neighborhood on May, 27,1896.

Title: M-378: Eugene A. Atwater St. Louis Tornado Photographs
Description: This collection consists of four photographs which document the damage inflicted by the 1896 tornado which hit Saint Louis, Missouri on May 27, 1896. Although the date listed on each of the photographs is consistent with the date of the storm, the photographs may have been taken at a later date. Other photographs documenting the storm damage show a greater amount of debris than is visible in this collection. These photographs were taken by St. Louis photographer Eugene A. Atwater. Two of the photographs document the damage on Lafayette Avenue and Mississippi Avenue in what is today St. Louis’ Lafayette Square neighborhood.

Title: Compton Hill Congregrational Church
Date: 1895
Description: Photograph of Compton Hill Congregational Church, 1640 South Compton Avenue.

Title: P-051: E. J. Carpenter Steamboat Photographs Collection
Description: The E.J. Carpenter Steamboat Photographs Collection consists of nine photographs of Ohio and Mississippi River scenes, most containing some aspect of steamboating.

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

Title: 1896 Republican National Convention
Date: 1896-06, 1949-08-14
Description: "Wm. McKinley Convention (Rep) Washington Square. Note New City Hall North of Convention Hall." The 1896 Republican National Convention was held at the temporary structure pictured here near City Hall.

Title: Saint Louis City Hall Construction
Date: 1895, 1961-03-05
Description: "The City Hall, shown here during construction which was completed in 1895, was erected on a six-acre plot of ground the city had owned since 1840. Accounts in 1891 said the cost of the building would be $1,500,000."

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

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

Title: American Engineer and Railroad Journal
Date: 1895-12-12

Title: Olive from 4th. West
Date: 1894
Description: Photograph of Olive Street in St. Louis looking west from Fourth Street. There is a sign for a postal telegraph office.

Title: Ohio River, Dredging at Brooklyn Harbor, Ill.
Date: 1892-11-07
Description: #1007, Nov. 7, 1892. OHIO RIVER, Dredging at Brooklyn Harbor, Ill. 923 Miles from Pittsburg.
Steamer H. S. McComb and dredges Oswego and Ohio are visible working the river.

Title: Exposition Hall
Date: Unknown
Description: "St. Louis Exposition Building---In the early eighties this building was one of the most popular resorts in the city. Every fall the St. Louis Exposition was held here, and the Music Hall which was a part of the structure was in use for concerts, lectures and other entertainment on occasion. The Public Library now occupies this site. (By courtesy of the Missouri Historical Society.)"

Title: Report on the Louisville, New Orleans and Texas R. R.
Date: 1892-05-16, 1892-05-16

Title: Music Hall of the Exposition Building
Date: 1892, 1950-01-29
Description: "The Grand Music Hall of the Exposition Building, Thirteenth and Olive, was where Col. Patrick Gilmore's 100-piece band played to capacity crowds in the early 1890s. Hall had 3507 numbered seats."

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: 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: 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 and Washington Streets
Date: 1891, 1949-10-02
Description: Broadway and Washington, looking north. The I. B. Rosenthal Millinery occupied the corner store at 421-423 Washington and one of St. Louis' largest luggage emporiums was at 608 North Broadway and blazoned his merchandise with a big sign reading "Trunks". This picture was taken in 1891 and shows the ill-advised Broadway cable car completed at great expense in the very year when the trolley car made its successful debut on the Hodiamont line. Symbolic of the old and new in the year 1891 is this scene at Broadway and Washington where the modern and "speedy" trolley cars are seen crossing the double tracks of the expensive and short-lived Broadway cable transit line.

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.

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