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Control Tower
Title
Control Tower
Date
1940-04-28
Description
Photograph from inside the control tower south of Union Station. A worker looks out over the railway lines as a train passes.
Substandard Dwelling Unites
Title
Substandard Dwelling Unites
Date
1941-01
Description
Plate number seven. Obsolete dwellings breed slums. Slums are the direct outgrowth of obsolete substandard housing., From: Report / City Plan Commission of St. Louis. [St. Louis] : City Plan Commission of St. Louis. 1942.
Leo Durocher and Buckey Harris
Title
Leo Durocher and Buckey Harris
Date
1948-07-14
Description
Leo Durocher and Buckey (sic) Harris (right), managers of the rival clubs, were all smiles before the game got under way. Harris pulled the surprise package out of the game in Vic Raschi who not only pitched two hitless innings but drove across two vital runs.
West Portal
Title
West Portal
Date
1946
Description
An image of two trains parked on railroad tracks at a tunnel with people walking around them, in a landscape setting.
Frankie Baker
Title
Frankie Baker
Date
1942-02-13, 1979-02-20
Description
Frankie Baker in 1942: 'I just couldn't get away from it... that song.'
Breweries on the River
Title
Breweries on the River
Date
1940
Description
A view of a river in the foreground and breweries in the background.
Soldier's Memorial
Title
Soldier's Memorial
Date
1940-07-25
Description
On the plaza, in front of Soldiers' Memorial, Cook "Slim" Hering (left) polished off the pots and pans, while James Higginbottom, assigned to K. P. (Kitchen Police), helped "Shorty" Wagner pack up dishes after lunch had been served to the soldiers.
Ohio River Shipyard
Title
Ohio River Shipyard
Date
1942-02-05
Description
February 5, 1942. From bottom left: Gulf Barge OSAGE; USCGC AZALEA; NUGENT Sandi Gravel Dredge; USCG Quarter Boat #12; mv BETTY GARDNER; mv JANE RHEA; mv ANKER L. CHRISTY; Str. KENOVA.
Alton and Southern
Title
Alton and Southern
Description
Maps of the Alton and Southern
Terry Moore
Title
Terry Moore
Date
1979-05-07
Description
Terry Moore is remembered fondly by Cardinal fans as perhaps the greatest defensive center fielder the game has ever known and for the quiet but intense leadership he brought to the Red Birds as team captain. He was always the one to whom the others looked for guidance in trying moments.
Pearl, Illinois
Title
Pearl, Illinois
Date
1942
Description
Pearl, Ill. July 1942.
Marietta, Ohio Flooding
Title
Marietta, Ohio Flooding
Date
1941
Description
Photograph of Marietta, Ohio during the Ohio River Flood in 1941.
Illinois River Sandbagging.
Title
Illinois River Sandbagging.
Date
1943
Description
Sandbagging along Illinois River 1943
Admiral Boarding/Disembarking
Title
Admiral Boarding/Disembarking
Date
1947-06-25
Description
Photograph of woman standing on the gangplank of the Admiral., p11-3-1-40-5
Admiral and Towboat
Title
Admiral and Towboat
Date
1945
Description
The steamer ADMIRAL under way, passing a towboat and tow. Photograph.
Riviera Club St. Louis
Title
Riviera Club St. Louis
Date
1947-11-23
Description
A near riot resulted yesterday when teenagers flocked to see Frankie Laine, Cab Calloway, Dinah Washington and Cootie Williams at a free show given at Club Riviera, 4460 Delmar bl. The club was damaged in the rush, although there was no vandalism.
Sporty Days
Title
Sporty Days
Description
The Sporty Days was a double deck, combination ferry and packet boat. She was built on the river bank at New Madrid, Missouri, in 1927 by Dick Richardson for John Kirtz, her owner and operator. The dimensions of her wood hull, with a scow bow, were 60 x 26 x 4 feet. Width overall, 30 feet; draught about two feet. She had but one stack and one tubular boiler about 12 feet long and 36 inches in diameter. Her two engines were especially made in Paducha, Kentucky, with a 4-inch bore and 4-foot stroke. The stern paddle wheel was about 12 feet in diameter and 8 feet long. It had ten buckets. Although used as a ferry boat on many occasions during the days of prohibition she made trips to St. Louis. It is reported that her owner returned with suit cases of currency which was deposited in the local bank at New Madrid. She was pulled out on the bank in the winter of 1937 to avoid being crushed by ice. She was never returned to teh river and is rotting awaying out on the bank at New Madrid. This is 1948. Her owner died in poverty on the streets of New Madrid.
Ohio River Front in 1940
Title
Ohio River Front in 1940, Cairo Waterfront in 1940
Date
1940
Description
Cairo, Illinois is located at the southern point of the State of Illinois, between the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. The Shawnee Indians inhabited all of this country around the mouth of the Ohio River. They were joined on the north by the Illini, on the east by the Miami, and on the south by the Cherokee and Creek Indians. All of these tribes belonged to the Great Algonquin Race. Among the first known white settlers was Sieur Charles Juchereau de St. Denis, trapper and fur dealer, a native of France, who with thirty French Canadians built a fort and tannery near the Junction of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers on what is now the site of the Halliday Hotel. This was in 1702. The fort and tannery were later destroyed by an Indian attack, the settlers massacred and their stock of furs seized. Juchereau de St. Denis escaped to Kaskaskia where he lived until 1705. It was 100 years before another settlement was made at the mouth of the Ohio River. The origin of the name CAIRO is somewhat traditional. Because of the character of the low surrounding territory which made the mouth of the Ohio River a delta resembling that of the old Nileriver in Egypt, the new settlement was called Cairo. John G. Comegys, one of the town promoters, named the city. An act to incorporate the city and bank of Cairo was granted by the territorial legislature in January 1818. Trustees named in said act proceeded at once to plat the city, and lots were sold in 1852. Cairo was not incorporated until february 1857. The county in which Cairo is situated is Alexander, established at the second session of the general assembly of the state, March4, 1819, and named for William W. Alexander who lived at America. He was a practicing physician, a politician and public man. He was a member of the legislature in 1882 and 1840 and Speaker of the House in 1822 and 1824. The area of Alexander county is 220 square miles. Cairo yesterday was \"a town set down in a low, flat plain and surrounded by high levees from which one descended to the town's level by long flights of wooden steps at the intersection of the unimproved and often very muddy streets;\" poor houses and still poorer sidewlks; four churches; a public school; a great military camp; Cairo, the central point of all the movements of the Union armies on the western rivers. Cairo today is a town of paved streets, beautiful shade trees, modern schools, churches, hotels, hospital and comfortable homes. Cairo is \"The Gateway to the South.\" Cairo's rivers today are spanned by three mighty bridges, her levees improved; her harbor the home of the great Barrett Fleet and the terminals of the Federal Barge Line and the Mississippi Barge Line, a stopping place for all visiting steamboats. Cairo's rivers yesterday were geographically of tremendous importance. History records that \"To break the central hold of the Confederacy on Kentucky, Gen. Grant saw that the rivers afforded him the best available means.\"
Shore Slough
Title
Shore Slough
Date
1948
Description
A Glimpse of a shore slough - where barges tie up in northern Iowa. Taken from Str. NATCHEZ 1948. E. Golterman.
Marietta, Ohio Flooding
Title
Marietta, Ohio Flooding
Date
1941
Description
Photograph of Marrietta, Ohio at flood stage.

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