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Title: St. Louis Taxpayers' Directory
Date: 1900
Description: This directory provides a list of taxpayers in the city of St. Louis for the year 1900 who were assessed at $1,000.00 or over for personal and property taxes. It includes their names, addresses, and assessed taxes.

Title: Tower Grove Dairy Employee
Date: 1900
Description: An employee for the Tower Grove Dairy delivering goods to residents of St. Louis, circa 1900. Tower Grove Dairy was owned and operated by August Knobbe, a resident of St. Louis. Donated to the St. Louis Mercantile Library by JoAnne (Knobbe) Behm.

Title: Palace of Machinery
Date: 1904
Description: Photograph of the Palace of Machinery at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis. The picture was taken facing north down the lagoon and takes in the Palace of Transportation and the dome of Creation in the distance.

Title: St. Louis Directory of Charitable, Philanthropic, and Humane Societies, 1902
Date: 1902
Description: Presenting a brief statement of the special work, location, officers and necessities of the most prominent of such institutions; with a mention of such other organizations as look to public for support. A hand-book for charity workers and a ready reference book for the benevolent public., The digitization of this directory was made possible through the support of the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by the Missouri State Library, a division of the Office of the Secretary of State.

Title: Train In Front Of Warehouses
Description: Photograph of Terminal Railroad Association train engine with tender stopped in rail yard, warehouses in the Cupples station block are visible in the background. The Simmons hardware company occupied many of the buildings.

Title: The Merchants Laclede National Bank of St. Louis
Date: 1906
Description: Contains an overview of banking in the city of St. Louis and the state of Missouri at around the turn of the 20th century, as well as a detailed description of the Merchants-Laclede Bank., "Reprinted from the daily papers of St. Louis, with historical notes."

Title: View of Buffalo Tower
Date: 1904
Description: 8x6 in photograph of a vista looking down the lagoon at the 1904 World's Fair. The image was taken in front of the Palace Mines and Metallurgy, notable for its obelisks, and takes in a view of the Palace of Liberal Arts and the distant Buffalo Tower. A large equestrian statue is in the foreground.

Title: River Des Peres
Description: Photograph of river at low level running through a neighborhood. People are in the riverbed and a shack that has fallen off its foundation is also visible along the bank.

Title: Barber Pole and Man
Description: A photograph of a Barber pole with a man in the background., This is the only photograph in the collection framed on the diagonal.

Title: Mengel And Vogt Druggists
Description: Photograph of the Mengel & Vogt pharmacy at Taylor and Page Avenues. A woman is standing next to a pole in front of the building. The building still exists and appears to be vacant.

Title: Streetcar Street Repair
Description: Photograph of streetcars on street under repair, a modified streetcar with the cab removed is in the foreground. Men are visible in the background on the sidewalk in front of the businesses.

Title: Locomotive in front of Simmons Hardware
Description: Photograph of a cobblestone cross-street fitted with a gas powered street light and a series of telephone wires. In the mid-ground there are two horse drawn carriages, one is an enclosed passenger carriage and the other has an open top and is being driven by two workmen. In the left portion of the photograph there is a large pile of cobblestones and a steam locomotive. The locomotive is identified on the photograph as "engine 81 of the Terminal Railroad Association". The background of the image contains a tall smokestack and several large factory buildings. The buildings include a Simmons Hardware Co. Warehouse, a Western Electric Company building, and several industrial sites., This is photograph is a duplicate, wider view of another photograph in the collection.

Title: St. Louis Directory of Charities and Philanthropies, 1905
Date: 1905
Description: Presenting a brief statement of the special work, location, officers and necessities of the most prominent of such institutions; with a mention of such other organizations as look to public for support. A hand-book for charity workers and a ready reference book for the benevolent public., The digitization of this directory was made possible through the support of the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by the Missouri State Library, a division of the Office of the Secretary of State.

Title: Produce Vendors
Description: Photograph of row of produce vendors along North Fourth Street. Horse-drawn carts are visible in front of the businesses.

Title: Missouri Building
Date: 1904
Description: Photograph of the Missouri building at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis. This was a temporary structure demolished after the fair. The World's Fair Pavilion was then built on this site.

Title: Vacation Album
Description: Adonis Tennis Club House, St. Louis. One of 31 photos bound in a leather stamped album.

Title: Arthur "Bugs" Raymond
Description: Saint Louis Cardinals pitcher Arthur "Bugs" Raymond warming up.

Title: Gould's St. Louis Directory for 1906
Date: 1906
Description: The more complete title reads "Being a Complete Index of the Residents of the Entire City, and a CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY TO WHICH IS ADDED AN APPENDIX CONTAINING USEFUL INFORMATION OF THE CHURCHES, SOCIETIES, RAILROADS, CITY, STATE, AND OTHER MISCELLANEOUS MATTER, ALSO Street and Avenue Directory.

Title: Gould's Blue Book, for the City of St. Louis. 1909
Date: 1909
Description: The twenty-fourth 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 surrounding suburbs, as well as residents from Alton, St. Charles and Carlinville for the year 1909. 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: Gould's St. Louis Directory for 1907
Date: 1907
Description: The more complete title reads "Being a Complete Index of the Residents of the Entire City, and a CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY TO WHICH IS ADDED AN APPENDIX CONTAINING USEFUL INFORMATION OF THE CHURCHES, SOCIETIES, RAILROADS, CITY, STATE, AND OTHER MISCELLANEOUS MATTER, ALSO Street and Avenue Directory.

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