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Title: Beatrice Adams
Date: 1946-02, 1951-03-25
Description: Mis Beatrice Adams. Executive Vice-President, Gardner Advertising Co.

Title: Sumner High School
Date: 1950-02-05
Description: Second oldest in service among St. Louis high schools, Sumner, now located at Pendelton and Cottage avenues, has sent out nearly 8000 graduates from this building and its former home at Eleventh and Spruce streets.

Title: Ford Frick
Date: 1957-07-09
Description: Photograph of baseball executive Ford Frick and New York Yankees manager Casey Stengel together at the 1957 All-Star game. The two are smiling as Frick crosses his fingers.

Title: Elisha Woods
Date: 1953-07-29
Description: M/V (Elisha Woods) passing dredge in lower approach of Chain of Rocks Canal.

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: Hortense B. Ingram
Date: 1953-12-29
Description: M/V (Hortense B. Ingram) passing dredge.

Title: Fred W. Olcott
Date: 1953-07-29
Description: M/V (Fred W. Olcott) passing dredge in lower approach to Chain of Rocks Canal.

Title: A Game at the Proctor and Gamble Picnic, 1952
Date: 1952
Description: The Proctor and Gamble yearly picnic in Blanchette Park, August, 1952. Here, women are participating in a game where the objective was to collect Proctor and Gamble products in their skirts. Whatever they collected was theirs to keep. Proctor and Gamble held the yearly picnic for employees and their families. Photograph donated to the St. Louis Mercantile Library by Sherlyn Maughs.

Title: Mighty Minnie
Date: 1957-07-09, 1957-07-10
Description: Minnie Minoso, Chicago White Sox outfielder, kisses the ball which he caught for the final out in the ninth inning.

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: United Fund
Date: 1958-09-27
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Henry E. Schultz, 5361 Minerva ave., with their two younger children, Carol, 7, and Jeffrey, 3. Mr. Schultz says, "I found out that when you don’t know anybody to turn to, United Fund will go to bat for you."

Title: William H. Black at Completed Canal
Date: 1952-10-02
Description: Showing completed canal and the plug that separates the old and new channels, which will be blasted out October 4, 1952. Stern of dredge (William H. Black) is shown. Kansas City District, channel diversion.

Title: School Parade, 1955
Date: 1955
Description: The St. Mary Magdalen Boy Scout troops march in the school parade, June, 1955. Photograph donated to the St. Louis Mercantile Library by Sherlyn Maughs.

Title: Alice Ingram
Date: 1953-04-06
Description: M/V (Alice Ingram) passing service base.

Title: Lady Linda
Date: 1952-12-19
Description: M/V (Lady Linda) at Goose Island, mile 34.9.

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: Michigan Avenue Bridge
Date: 1955
Description: An aerial view of a Great Lake boat on a river under a raised drawbridge.

Title: Illini
Date: 1953-09-05
Description: M/V (Illini) of Illinois Farmers Supply Co. - passing dredge (Mile 136.9).

Title: Missouri River Extreme Source
Date: 1956
Description: Extreme Source - MO River - Red Rock Lake, Mout - 1956. Dr. E.B. Trail, Compiler of Missouri River Steamboat History, Berger, Missouri

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