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Title: Dredge Cut Face
Date: 1952-09-03
Description: Looking into dredge cut face. Advance since start of excavation: 1,500'. Yardage: 325,000. Ste. Genevieve on right. Kansas City District, Pilot Canal Project.

Title: Portable Airplane Hangar
Date: 1943-08-12
Description: Looking S. W. showing construction of portable airplane hangars to be used for manufacturing boxes. Construction by Post Engineers.

Title: Admiral - R. Ann Amantea Blum
Date: 1967-08
Description: p11-3-1-41-25

Title: A Trial of Patience
Date: 1880-03-20
Description: A TRIAL OF PATIENCE. - Drawn by S. G. McCutcheon.

Title: It Isn't Always Empty
Date: 1959-08-23
Description: There are hours and days when Union Station takes on the appearance of several years ago when more than twice as many passenger trains as now use the station were scheduled daily. Here's the rotunde at 3:35 p.m. on a recent week day. Promotions by some of the railroads serving St. Louis are reversing the declining passenger trend.

Title: Sainte Genevieve Wheel
Date: 1952-08-19
Description: Levee break fill at (Kansas Bend) mile 562.5. (Omaha District) wheel has just been painted.

Title: St. Louis Riverfront
Date: 1880
Description: Drawing of the St. Louis Riverfront in 1880.

Title: Minutes of the Straight Creek Baptist Association, 1822
Date: 1822-08
Description: Held at Bethel Meeting-House Highland County, together with their Circular Letter

Title: Joseph B. Williams
Date: 1905-08
Description: On August 10, 1905, while enroute up the Ohio River, she struck a snag at Sister's Island, below Golconda and near Bay City, Illinois and tore a hole 40 feet long in her hull, causing the boat to sink in shallow water. Three towboats went to the rescue of the wreck - the Fulton, Ranger and Wash Honshell - assisted in raising the Williams. She was then placed on the ways for repairs; damage

Title: The Waterways Journal, Volume 22, Number 6
Date: 1909-05-08,
Description: Vol. XXII, No. 6. Harry Dean steamboat explosion. Senator Elkins favors $500,000,000 bond issue for improvement of waterways.

Title: Pigskin Park-and-Ride Scores at Union Station
Date: 1959-10-03, 1959-10-04
Description: on one side part of what it gained at the other back in 1929 when 10 new tracks were added at the west side of the train shed. In those days, an average of 650 trains used to station every day. Nowadays, the average is slighty over 100.

Title: Capitol, Stage
Date: 1929-02-08
Description: Showing new Canvass laced on side of stage used brass grommets and brass screw --- canvass its light green color. Like sample you saw only NO. 8 - which is heavier lettering - is in white with black and red ------- - here back many say it\u2019s a nifty sign.

Title: Phil the Gorilla
Date: 1959-06-02, 1959-06-03
Description: Phil the gorilla, as impressive in death as he was in life, still draws crowds at the St. Louis Zoo, where the mounted figure is on display in the Old Elephant House, next door to the ape house where he lived before his death last December. The massive figure, standing erect in a characteristic pose, holds the fascinated gaze of three young visitors, Karen, 3, and Debra Hartman, 5, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Lyode Hartman, 943 St. Charles st., St. Charles, Mo., and Pam Karrenbrock, 7, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mel Karrenbrock, Wentzville, Mo.

Title: Union Station
Date: 1972-08-18, 1972-08-19
Description: "Trains used to be in and out of here all day and night but now there are only three a day" —Edward Dodson, supervisor of red caps at Union Station.

Title: Admiral - R. Ann Amantea Blum
Date: 1967-08
Description: p11-3-1-41-25

Title: Miles Davis
Date: 1969-08-04
Description: Hometown boy makes good, and all that jazz: Miles Davis, trumpter extraordinaire, who'll be among the headlines at the St. Louis Jazz Festival August 16 at Kiel Auditorium, hails from Alton, Ill., and learned to play trumpet in and around St. Louis.

Title: Beardstown, Illinois
Date: 1981-08
Description: The enclosed pictures were taken during August 1981 on the Beardstown Illinois waterfront showing typical river scenes with the usual amount of tugs and other equipment. The B&N RR bridge in its river mode. The stern-wheel river tug is a locally built boat, original builders and name still showing = LOGSDON = built sometime in the 1930s more details could be obtained. These pictures were taken

Title: Sioux City
Date: 1953-07-08
Description: Recently built M/V (Sioux City) for the newly formed Missouri River line named the (Sioux City and New Orleans) Barge Line. This is the boat's first north bound trip.

Title: St. Louis Zoo Gorilla
Date: 1958-06, 1984-03-27
Description: Photograph of Phil the gorilla and his tire in an indoor exhibit at the St. Louis Zoo.

Title: Part of the Completed River Bank
Date: 1952-09-03
Description: Showing part of the completed river bank that will be one of the banks when the new river channel is completed. Kansas City District, Pilot Canal Project.

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