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Title: A Demonstration At Jefferson Barracks
Date: 1940-07-25, 1940-07-25
Description: Learning about a .30-caliber Browning machine gun, on the plaza at Grand and Washington.

Title: Eads Bridge Train Deck
Date: 1940-03-17, 1940-03-17
Description: Eads Bridge showing a train running on the lower railroad deck.

Title: Gun Room
Date: 1940
Description: A glance at the "gun room" at Battery "A" Armory, Grand boulevard and Caroline street, showing three of the four 75s all spruced up and ready for the 900-mile trip.

Title: Capitol - Leap Year Party
Date: 1940-02-29
Description: Leap Year Jail. 2/29/40. 842 passengers.

Title: Servicemen and Civilians At Jefferson Barracks
Date: 1940-07-25, 1940-07-25
Description: Civilians got a glimpse of the army's new Grand rifle at the encampment at Grand boulevard and Washington avenue.

Title: 1380 Young Men
Date: 1940-07-03
Description: Thirteen hundred and eighty men arrived at Jefferson Barracks yesterday to begin a 30-day course in the Citizens' Military Training Camp.

Title: Aloe Plaza - Milles Fountain with statuary
Date: 1940-05, 1940-05
Description: The Milles Fountain with statuary seen in the Plaza area in 1940.

Title: Good-by Uniform
Date: 1940-07-31
Description: It was "good-by uniforms" and back to civilian clothes again yesterday as youths from various states finished their courses at the Citizens' Military Training Camp at Jefferson Barracks and turned in their army clothes before being checks out for their return home.

Title: Seventh and Olive Street Businesses
Date: 1940-07-21, 1940-07-21
Description: Businesses on the southeast corner of Seventh and Olive Streets, where the Famous-Barr store is now located, are shown in this photo dated 1859. In the image a grocery store and an apothecary can be seen.

Title: Parade Ground
Date: 1940-07-06
Description: Photo of Citizens' Military Training Camp, now in progress at Jefferson Barracks, during their first parade regimental officers yesterday on the parade ground of the army post.

Title: New Recruits
Date: 1940-10-02
Description: New recruits do the left-right in a held at Jefferson Barracks "open house" ceremonies yesterday.

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Singing Soldier
Date: 1940-11, 1940-11
Description: "Pvt. Bernard Ehrenreich sings it sweet and low while Bob Beaulieu helps out with the piano."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Planning for Draftee Reception
Date: 1940-11-17, 1940-11-17
Description: "Capt. John R. Andie (left), in charge of the newly established induction center for draftees at Jefferson Barracks, going over plans for reception of the first 292 next week,with Lieut. Harmon J. Barton Jr. (center), transport officer, and Lieut. Robert L. Kasha, chief surgeon. The center was opened last Tuesday." Note - incorrect caption. Draft board pictured.

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Convoy Officers
Date: 1940-11-24, 1940-11-24
Description: "Commanding the convoy of 33 trucks that brought the regulars were, from the left, Lieutenants Lawrence E. Swope, Robert Olsen, Lyman Heidtke and Marvin E. Adams. They are to return to Des Moines today."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Regular Army Arrivals
Date: 1940-11-24, 1940-11-24
Description: "This group of 198 regular army men from Des Moines, Ia., arrived by truck yesterday and was formally checked in at Jefferson Barracks. They will aid in setting up a new troop reception center."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Motorized Fighting Equipment
Date: 1940-05-29, 1940-05-29
Description: "Vehicles shown here represent part of the motorized fighting equipment of the Sixty-first Regiment, United States Army Coast Artillery of Fort Sheridan at Chicago. The "sleeping" instruments of death and destruction were photographed at Jefferson Barracks yesterday afternoon, where the regiment stopped overnight, en route home from maneuvers in Louisiana and Texas."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Mechanized Infantry
Date: 1940-06-09, 1940-06-09
Description: "Mechanized infantry is what Uncle Sam calls the Sixth United States Infantry, and this panorama of the mechanized equipment already available lined up for inspection on the parade grounds of Jefferson Barracks, shows the new trucks and troop carriers. There are motorcycles, too. The doughboys of the famous old Sixth will ride to battle in style now."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Fingerprinting Instruction
Date: 1940-11-17, 1940-11-17
Description: A recruit receiving instruction in fingerprinting from a senior officer. All draftees will be fingerprinted by clerks.

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Christmas Dinner
Date: 1940-12-26, 1940-12-26
Description: "Uncle Sam-ta Claus served a Christmas dinner of turkey, ham, cranberries, vegetables, fruit cake, pie, soup and cigars at his fast-growing army posts yesterday. Jefferson Barracks recruits are getting their dinners at the mess hall assembly line in this picture. They are wearing their raincoats. Christmas Day leave started right after dinner."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Induction Center Opening
Date: 1940-11-17, 1940-11-17
Description: "Capt. John R. Andie (left), in charge of the newly established induction center for draftees at Jefferson Barracks, going over plans for reception of the first 292 next week,with Lieut. Harmon J. Barton Jr. (center), transport officer, and Lieut. Robert L. Kasha, chief surgeon. The center was opened last Tuesday."

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