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Title: Court House
Date: 1895
Description: Old Court House, St. Louis, Missouri.

Title: The Great Tornado
Date: 1896-05-27, 1941-09-28
Description: Houses were reduced to rubble, trees twisted to stumps and streetcars to splinters by the 1896 tornado, as this photograph taken on Lafayette avenue, looking east from Jefferson avenue, reveals.

Title: City of Madison
Date: 1894-06-18
Description: Built in 1882 at Madison, Ind. 265 x 42.1 x 6.3.

Title: FAWN, ROYAL, VIENNA
Date: 189-, 189-
Description: Photograph of the steamers FAWN, VIENNA and ROYAL, about 1890.

Title: White Eagle
Description: Season's Greetings from Bob Roehrig. Steamer White Eagle (Illinois River, 1892) Owned by Captain Rob Roehrig, Sr. and W. K. Kavanaugh.

Title: M-169: The Emil Boehl Collection
Description: became one of the most prolific St. Louis scenic photographers active in the latter half of the 19th Century. The Boehl/Koenig partnership lasted until 1897. Boehl retired from photography in 1919 and died later that year on the 12th of December. The Emil Boehl Collection consists of three series. The collection contains images dating from 1850 to ca. 1906. The collection’s archival materials include

Title: Locomotive in front of Simmons Hardware
Description: This photograph shows a cobblestone cross-street fitted with a gas powered street light and a series of telephone wires. In the mid-ground there are two horse drawn carriages, one is an enclosed passenger carriage and the other has an open top and is being driven by two workmen. In the left portion of the photograph there is a large pile of cobblestones and a steam locomotive. The locomotive is identified on the photograph as "engine 81 of the Terminal Railroad Association". The background of the image contains a tall smokestack and several large factory buildings. The buildings include a Simmons Hardware Co. Warehouse, a Western Electric Company building, and several industrial sites.

Title: Steamboat Bell Pulls

Title: The Old Exposition and Music Hall
Description: 20x16 in photograph of the St. Louis Exposition and Music Hall at Olive and Fourteenth Street. This building existed between 1884 and 1906.

Title: Locust fr. Broadway East
Date: 1896
Description: Photograph of Locust Street in St. Louis looking east across the intersection at Broadway. The large clock is attached to the Mermod-Jaccard building.

Title: Map of Saint Louis
Date: 1989-02-01
Description: This 1898 map of the City of Saint Louis was created by the City Lighting Department.

Title: St. Louis Up to Date - page 27
Page From: info:fedora/umsl:9517
Date: 1895
Description: Image of the third Planter's Hotel that existed in St. Louis from 1891 to 1976.
Text: PLANTER‘S HOTEL.

Title: Cyclone View, May 27,1896
Date: 1896-05-27
Description: The debris and structural damage of a barn, building, and wagon caused by a tornado on May 27,1896 in St. Louis, Missouri,

Title: Frankie Baker
Date: 1899, 1942-02-13
Description: At left is the way Frankie Baker appeared back in 1899 when she shot Allen (Johnny) Brit, the murder on which she claims the famous Frankie and Johnny ballad was based. At the right is the way Frankie appeared yesterday when she arrived in St. Louis to press her $200,000 character defamation suit against a film company for a movie version of the murder. (Feb. 13, 1942)

Title: Competitive Design for the Missouri Building, 1904 World's Fair
Date: 1892-05-28
Description: A competitive design submission for the Missouri Building planned for the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis. The design was submitted by architect Isaac S. Taylor and the illustration was printed as no. 857 on May 28,1892 in American Architect and Building News.

Title: Christ Church Cathedral
Date: 1895
Description: INTERIOR OF BOFINGER MEMORIAL CHAPEL -- Christ's Church Cathedral.

Title: 12th St. From Washington Ave. South, 92'
Date: 1892
Description: 17x14 in photograph of Twelfth Street from Washington Avenue looking south.

Title: MATTIE LIFE
Description: Photograph of the "Center-wheel ferryboat, MATTIE LIFE, 104 tons. 1881-1894. Miami, MO. Owned by Burruss Bros."

Title: Bluff City
Date: 1896
Description: The Anchor Liner BLUFF CITY nearing completion at the Howard Shipyards. The only sternwheeler to be built by the ANCHOR LINE.

Title: Anheuser-Busch Brewery - Celebratory Arch
Date: 1899, 1964-02-29
Description: A decorative arch, put in place for the visiting Elks, as pictured at Anheuser-Busch Brewery in 1899. Image from St. Louis Mercantile Library collections.

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