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Title: Offering Encouragement
Date: 1965-01-19
Description: Five of last year's honorees were on hand to applaud their successors in the Women of Achievement limelight. From left: Mrs. Jesse M. Abbington, Mrs. Robert Hurwitz, Mrs. Joseph C. Bastian, Mrs. John M. Dalton and Mrs. George R. Dobler.

Title: Mrs. Bond Receives Congratulations
Date: 1969-01-28
Description: Mrs. Leslie F. Bond, a 1968 Woman of Achievement for Human Relations, receives congratulations from Mrs. Margaret r. Maiten, while her husband, Dr. Bond, and sons Leslie Jr., 11, and Erik, 8, look on. Mrs. Maiten was also attending the luncheon to honor Mrs. Willian C. Rhonda, who was lauded for accomplishments in the field of education.

Title: Insurance Name Change
Date: 1968-01-23
Description: This building at 4144 Lindell Blvd. is now known as The Insurance Exchange Building to make the name more representative of the various insurance operations housed there. It formerly was known as The General Insurors Building.

Title: First Fruit of the Loan Association
Date: 1965-08-05
Description: "Plucking the first apple from a tree planted three years ago during the landscaping of Postal Plaza Savins and Loan Association, Eighteenth and Olive streets, is Mrs. June Evans of Cahokia, Ill. Head teller of the firm, Mrs. Evans gave the fruit to association president Arthur Katz, who commented tartly, 'It tastes kinda spongy.'"

Title: "Grim-Faced Fortress"
Date: 1968-05-22
Description: Convent of Good Shepherd at 3801 Gravois, is a grim-faced fortress that houses love and understanding that has reclaimed thousands of St. Louis girls in the last 100 years.

Title: Good Shepherd Convent in Shambles
Date: 1969-09-06
Description: "The Good Shepherd Convent reduced to ruins after more than 100 years of operation."

Title: The End of the Good Shepherd Convent
Date: 1969-09-06
Description: The Good Shepherd Convent in St. Louis standing amongst debris during demolition.

Title: Knocking Down the Good Shepherd Convent
Date: 1969-09-06
Description: The 1960's demolishing of the Good Shepherd convent.

Title: Globe-Democrat Trophy's First Recipients
Date: 1968-06-15
Description: Named the first recipients of the Globe-democrat trophies as the outstanding baseball-track performers in the St. Louis area this spring are Greg Johnson of East St. Louis (Lincoln) and Bernie Boehmer of St. Dominic High School in O'Fallon, Mo. All smiles at the presentation ceremonies are (left to right) Lincoln track coach George Holliday, Johnson, Boehmer and St. Dominic athletic director Ed Crenshaw. St. Dominic baseball coach Jerry Boehmer, Bernie's brother, is with the Chicago White Sox' farm club at Appleton, Wis., and was unable to attend."

Title: Americans Landing in France
Date: 1917, 1964-08-12
Description: "The Yanks Came/Eighty-one days after the United States declared war on Germany, the first regiments of the American Expeditionary Force landed in France, June 26, 1917. Here Yanks from the first convoy line up after debarking at St. Nazaire. The 14 vessels of the convoy carried about 14,500 troops. By the end of World War I Nov. 11, 1918, the Americans had 1.4 million men in France and had suffered 325,000 casualties."

Title: German Infantrymen and Weaponry
Date: 1964-07-29
Description: "Ready for the Russian Rush/The Germans had better arms and better transportation than the Russians in World War I. Their machine guns devastated the masses of Russians rushing at them in attack. By the end of the first winter one Russian in four went into the field without a gun. Here German infantrymen aim their machine guns at the Russians from a trench at the Vistula River in Russia, in 1916."

Title: Russian Troops in Poland
Date: 1964-06-30
Description: "Moving Toward Revolution/Russia, one of the first countries into World War I, was one of four empires destroyed at its end. Defeated by the Germans, Russia erupted in revolution in the fall of 1918. After Lenin took over, Russia surrendered. A new world power had come into being. Here, during the war, Russian troops move through a snowy street in a town in Poland. Exact location and date of photo unknown."

Title: Opening Night
Date: 1961-06-13
Description: "Part of the huge crowd which enjoyed opening night of the Municipal Opera Monday night is shown as the Opera launched its forty-third season with the rootin', tootin', shootin', production as 'Calamity Jane'."

Title: Clean up at the Muny
Date: 1968-06-02
Description: Cleanup after a night at the St. Louis Municipal Opera.

Title: "Show Boat"
Date: 1964-06-15
Description: "It's full steam ahead for 'Show Boat,' as wardrobe master Peter Messineo and the department's seamstresses check off alterations for next week's production."

Title: Free Seats
Date: 1960-06-02
Description: "An empty section of the Municipal Opera's seating zone that is offered for free."

Title: Dance Rehearsal
Date: 1964-06-19
Description: "Relaxing outside the new dance rehearsal stage at the Municipal Opera in Forest Park is Jill Rayburn of 2414 Hodge Ave., Granite City, who is a member of the Opera's dancing chorus. children on the ramp are waiting to try out for the children's chorus in the coming production of 'Tom Sawyer.'"

Title: Benedictine Sisters Convent's Mother-house and Novitiate
Date: 1966-04-19, 1966-04-23
Description: New mother-house and novitiate of Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration at Perpetual Adoration at 8300 Morganford rd.

Title: Benedictine Sisters Convent-Living Quarters
Date: 1966-04-19, 1966-04-23
Description: Benedictine nun in plain bedroom.

Title: "Brune is A Slum Lord"
Date: 1967-02-20, 1967-02-20
Description: An image of one of the posters made by a tenant in protest of the landlord of the building.

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