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Title: Demolition Site
Description: Photograph of site where house has just been demolished in the midst of an urban area. Piles of large foundation stones are visible on the site and part of the foundation is still in place. Horse-drawn carts are visible on the site.

Title: CHESTER
Date: 1908
Description: Mo. River packet boat-first sternwheel-then screw propellers-1908

Title: Wreck of the Chalmette
Date: 1904
Description: The Chalmette was built in 1881 at Jeffersonville, Indiana as the City of Vicksburg for the Anchor Line Packet Company of St. Louis, Missouri. She was wrecked by the cyclone in St. Louis on May 27, 1896 along with four other Anchor Line steamers. In the process of rebuilding by Captain W. H. Thorwegan as an excursion boat she was purchased by the Illinois Central Railroad interests and renamed the Chalmette, after a New Orleans suburb. She continued to operate as a packet boat on the lower Mississippi but sunk [sic] in 1904 at the head of Deadman's Bend, about 60 miles below Natchez., Betsy Ann in the background.

Title: Queen City
Description: Photographed on board the QUEEN CITY some 60 years ago. The negative ws found in a second-hand book store in Cincinnati, Ohio with no clue as to who took it, The roof bell showing on the right today is doing service on the DELTA QUEEN. In Disneyland, in California, today there is a full -siz operating river steamboat named MARK TWAIN, which has a fancy spreader-bar between its smokestacks copied from the one you see in this picture. A section of the wire railing with its fanciful rosettes is used on the little steamer LADY GRACE. One of the gilded acorns surmounting the hogchain posts today is in the River Museum, Marietta, Ohio. We don't know the identity of the lady with the nice white shawl thrown over her shoulders, nor of her companions, but they are having a nice time sailing down the Ohio somewhere between Pittsburgh and Cincinnati. They seem to be saying "Wish you were here." Too late: too late. But not too late for Grace and me to wish you and yours a Happy Voyage through 1961. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. The Ways.

Title: River Improvement Work
Date: 1911
Description: Construction of Brush Mattress - Bird's Point, Missouri.

Title: Wrecked Dorris
Description: Photograph of Dorris automobile that has been in a wreck. An American flag has been tied between the headlamps., The Dorris Motor Car Company was founded and based in St. Louis.

Title: Jaccard Building Bell Tower
Description: This photograph shows a rooftop view of the domed bell tower at the top of the Jaccard Building. The Jaccard Building stood at the corner of Broadway and Locust Street, at 407 N. Broadway. In the distance there are several industrial buildings and smokestacks billowing streams of gray and white smoke.

Title: Crown Point
Date: 1905
Description: This Elegant Suburban Residence Property is located on one of the highest points in the county, affording a magnificent view of the surrounding country. It overlooks and adjoins three gems of suburban places, Old Orchard, Tuxedo and Webster Parks. The streets are made. The New Double Track of the Southwestern Extension of the Suburban Line to Old Orchard and Webster will take you to these elegant lots for 10 cts. and the cars on the Missouri Pacific and Frisco Line for only 8 cts. The lots are offered at extremely low prices and on easy terms. For full information and plats apply to Adam Boeck & Co., Agents, 622 Chestnut Street. 'Phone No. 894.

Title: Horse And Hole
Description: Photograph of a horse either being lowered into or lifted out of a hole in a city street. A ladder has been lowered into the hole, several men are in the foreground directing the block and tackle. A crowd of observers surrounds the work.

Title: Men of the Gymnastic Association Sokol in St. Louis, 1900
Date: 1900
Description: Members of the Sokol men's gymnastics team, circa 1900. The group was under the direction of instructor A. Tesar. Photograph donated to the St. Louis Mercantile Library by the Gymnastic Association Sokol.

Title: BUCK ELK
Date: 190-
Description: Property of Norman G. Heckmann. NC Steelman. 1900's, Hermann, Mo.

Title: Missouri River Flood
Date: 1903-07-07
Description: Photograph of the MO. River flood in New Haven, Mo on July 7th, 1903.

Title: Saint Louis Riverfront, Circa 1900
Description: Photograph of the St. Louis Riverfront, circa 1900. The U. S. Snagboat Horatio G. Wright is in the background. Positioned in front of it is the steam tug, Ella St. Clair, which operated on the riverfront from 1898 - 1902. An excursion steamboat and another boat are to the right of the image. Women and children are walking the levee.

Title: Quincy
Date: 1906-07
Description: The Quincy sunk near Trempeleau, Wis., on the Mississippi River.

Title: Ice, Coal and Wood
Description: Photograph of ice, coal and wood stand in downtown St. Louis. The rear of St. Louis City Hall is visible in the background., Note the top of the front facade central spire visible above the roof line, this was removed in 1936.

Title: Street Lamps
Description: Photograph of rainy city street with street lamps visible in the foreground. Street trolleys are visible in the background.

Title: Boys at Construction Site
Description: Photograph of five boys standing along the base of a poured concrete wall at a construction site. Two men are visible standing on top of the wall.

Title: Buck Elk Bill of Lading
Date: 1905-12-04
Description: Receipt of Shipping for Mr. A. Langenberg, for delivery of good aboard the Str. BUCK ELK, signed by John Heckmann, clerk. Goods shipped include 5000 bricks, rope, and a skiff.

Title: Nashville, Tennessee
Description: Levee at Nashville, Tennessee. Left to right: Belle of Calhoun, J. B. Richardson, R. Dunbar, Jewel, Dewey.

Title: Hotel Jefferson
Description: Photograph of the Hotel Jefferson looking north along Tucker Boulevard. Automobiles and horse-drawn wagons are visible on Tucker Boulevard. The intersection of Tucker Boulevard and Washington Avenue is visible in the background. The Ferguson McKinney Dry Goods Company is visible beyond the intersection., The Hotel Jefferson is now the vacant Jefferson Arms apartment building. The Ferguson McKinney Dry Goods Company is now the Bogen Lofts.

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