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Title: Anheuser-Busch Carpenters Build Gliders for War
Date: 1943-09-05, 1943-09-26
Description: "Carpenters at work on one of the large wings which go on the invasion glider." Part of special feature release showing production of military materials in civilian factories during wartime.

Title: John A. Wood
Description: The John A. Wood was built in 1870 at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for the Wood Company. Her dimensions were:- 198 x 40 x 7.0 feet; tonnage, gross and net, 688 tons. On September 7, 1894 she caught fire at night while lying at her landing in Pittsburgh. She was scuttled and sunk. Later raised and repaired; damaged $12,000. While making a landing in the harbor at Cairo, Illinois, on March 24, 1906

Title: Resolute
Description: The Resolute was a old Pittsburgh towboat owned by the Juttes along with the Joseph B. Williams, Tom Dodsworth, Samual Clark, Valiant, Charlie Jutte, Rescue, W. C. Jutte, Defender and others. She was built in 1872 at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and her dimensions were:- 174 x 33 x 6.0 feet; tonnage, 426. While lying at the wharf, Portland, Ohio in 1872, she exploded her boilers; loss of property

Title: Plaza Apartments - Exterior street view
Date: 1963-07-05, 1963-07-07
Description: Caption: "View from Market at 17th showing #30 Plaza Square in left foreground, with #20 at right, behind which is St. John the Apostle Catholic Church. Patio-court with striking landscaping is between #30 and #20 Plaza Square. Foreground area at left and right is where new city park is being landscaped."

Title: Plaza Apartments - Under construction
Date: 1959-08, 1959-08
Description: Elevated view of the Plaza Apartment buildings under construction. The project would become the first urban renewal project to be completed in St. Louis.

Title: Plaza Apartments - Construction, elevated view
Description: Elevated view of the Plaza Apartment buildings under construction. The project would become the first urban renewal project to be completed in St. Louis.

Title: Plaza Apartments - Construction, church side view
Date: 1959-08, 1959-08
Description: Elevated view of the Plaza Apartments buildings under construction. The project would become the first urban renewal project to be completed in St. Louis.

Title: Winston Churchill Apartments - Looking northeast on Cabanne Ave
Date: 1958-01-01, 1958-01-01
Description: Exterior image of Winston Churchill Apartments, which looks northeast on Cabanne Ave.

Title: Bank of St. Louis - December Garden
Date: 1964-12-15, 1964-12-15
Description: "In the lobby of the Bank of St. Louis, which has been turned into a December Garden in honor of Missouri Botanical Garden, Jack G. Butler, right, shows a picture of Henry Shaw, founder of the garden, to Mrs. Lee I. Niedringhaus, president of the Friends of the Garden, and Henry Hitchcock, president of the Board of Trustees."

Title: Bank of St. Louis - Air Conditioning Installment
Date: 1957-03-13, 1957-03-13
Description: "This huge crane hoisted a 4275-pound fan to the roof of the seven-story Bank of St. Louis Building, 901 Washington ave., yesterday for use in the bank's new central air conditioning system. The move was made by the H. W. Kroeger Erection Company."

Title: Centerre Bank - One Centerre Plaza
Date: 1983-09-21, 1983-09-21
Description: Pictured: the bank office tower at One Centerre Plaza.

Title: Boatmen's Bank Building - Stock Transfer
Date: 1951-07-01, 1951-07-01
Description: "Boatmen's Bank building on Broadway between Locust and Olive streets will be controlled by Superior Construction Company upon completion of a stock transfer now under way."

Title: Boatmen's Bank Building - Downtown St. Louis
Date: 1967-10-6, 1967-10-6
Description: "Boatmen's Bank Building in Downtown St. Louis - landmark to change hands."

Title: Boatmen's Bank Building - Newly Purchased
Date: 1964-04-14, 1964-10-10
Description: "Boatmen's Bank Building, 314 North Broadway, has been sold by the Superior Construction Company to Fortune-Boatmen's Corporation, a company formed by real estate management firm, Bakewell Corporation.

Title: Bank of St. Louis - Signboard
Description: Erection of a "Bank of St. Louis" signboard at General Bancshares building.

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Anti-Aircraft
Date: 1943-12-03, 1943-12-26
Description: Military members dressed in civilian clothing, including "Hank the Handsome," inspect an anti-aircraft machine gun at Jefferson Barracks.

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Farewell to "Razzle Dazzle" Cast from New York
Date: 1941-11-28, 1941-11-28
Description: Original caption: ""Reversing the Usual Proceeding:" New York, NY: Service men did fond farewell to the charming girls in the cast of "Razzle Dazzle," one of the streamlined musical comedies being sent by U.S.O. - Camp Shows, Inc., to entertain soldiers and sailors in every section of the country. The troupe left Pennsylvania Station tonight (Nov. 28) for Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, first stop on a tour of the "Red, White and Blue Circuit" of 206 army camps and naval stations."

Title: Admiral Workers
Description: Photograph of workers on the Admiral steamboat making repairs to the fourth deck.

Title: Admiral Construction
Description: P11-3-1-40-8

Title: Admiral First Deck
Description: p11-3-1-40-13

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