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Title: Coolidge-Dawes Club Button
Date: 1924
Description: 7/8-inch, pin back button with red white and blue sections divided equally like a pie with the words "Coolidge Dawes Club" written on it in promotion of President Calvin Coolidge's 1924 presidential campaign. Reverse has label for Geraghty & Company (Chicago, Il.)

Title: Hoover For President Button
Date: 1928
Description: 7/8-inch, white, pin back button featuring blue monochromatic portrait of President Herbert Hoover with the words "Hoover for President" written in blue, used in promotion of Hoover's 1928 presidential campaign. Reverse has paperback label for Saint Louis Button Company (Saint Louis, Mo.)

Title: Speed Recovery, Re-Elect Hoover Button
Description: 7/8-inch, pin back button with white text reading, "Speed Recovery, Re-Elect Hoover" with a red and blue background. Reverse has label for Greenduck Company (Chicago, Il.)

Title: Hoover, Red, White, and Blue Button
Description: 7/8-inch, white, pin back button in red, white and blue with the word, "HOOVER" in blue across the white stripe. Reverse has label for Green Duck Company (Chicago, Il.)

Title: The Romance of Air-Fighting
Date: 1917

Title: Hoover Castle Button
Description: 7/8-inch, pin back button featuring a gold castle with "Hoover" written across it in blue. Reverse has paper label for St. Louis Button Company (St. Louis, Mo.)

Title: Champ Clark for President Button
Date: 1912
Description: 7/8-inch, white, pin back button which reads "Clark For President" in blue lettering for Champ Clark's 1912 presidential campaign. Reverse has label for St. Louis Button Company (St. Louis, Mo.)

Title: Circular exhibit of the Scioto and Hocking Valley Railroad : September 1st, 1856.
Date: 1856, 1856

Title: Map of the Properties and Railway Terminals of the Wiggins Ferry Company
Date: 1897-03-30, 1897-03-30
Description: Maps showing railroads and ferry operations across the Mississippi River between East St. Louis, Illinois and St. Louis, Missouri.

Title: St. Louis Courthouse
Description: Miniature drawing of the St. Louis courthouse, pencil on wove paper, not signed or dated, 2 1/4 inches by 2 1/2 inches

Title: Verein card with Christian imagery
Description: Design with central area having indistinct text including the word "Verein" (German for club or charitable organization) in the header, with a border of eleven vignettes of Christian religious subjects including St. George and the dragon, angels, and an alter with cross and prayer book. Pencil and ink on wove paper, unsigned, 4 1/2 inches by 6 6 1/4 inches

Title: Landscape with train, boats, and building
Description: Drawing of large complex of buildings on an isolated hill adjacent to a winding river on the right where two riverboats are visible and on the left a railroad train crosses a flat plain toward the hill. Pencil on wove paper, not signed or dated, 2 3/4 inches by 6 inches

Title: St. Louis Cotton Factory
Description: Drawing of cotton factory complex, pencil on wove paper, not signed or dated, 3 3/4 inches by 6 inches

Title: Workers on railroad car
Date: 1853
Description: Drawing of workers on a railroad flatcar, pencil on wove paper, signed bottom center Paulus Roetter and dated lower right 1853, 2 3/16 inches by 5 1/8 inches

Title: Workers quarrying
Description: Drawing of men striking rocks with picks below a cliff with a jagged tree trunk; two men stand on the cliff. Pencil on wove paper, signed lower right Paulus Roetter, no date, 4 inches by 3 1/4 inches

Title: Sugar refinery and shot tower
Date: 1854
Description: Drawing of St. Louis Steam Sugar Refinery, locatd on Lewis, O'Fallon and Bates Streets, St. Louis, owned by Belcher & Brothers, next to the St. Louis Shot Tower operated by Kennet, Simonds & Co., pencil on wove paper, not signed, c.1854, 3 1/2 inches by 4 3/4 inches

Title: Workers
Description: Drawing of men working in what may be a pig iron processing furnace, pencil on wove paper, unsigned, no date, 4 inches by 3 1/4 inches

Title: Youth in Landscape
Date: 1865-05
Description: Drawing of young person kneeling on a narrow path scooping water from a stream with their hand while a dog drinks from the stream. Above the figure is a rectangle with initials in a stylized font; potentially a bookplate design. Pencil on irregularly shaped wove paper, initialed "L.G." lower left and dated May 1865, 5 inches by 2 1/4 inches

Title: Industrial landscape
Description: Landscape drawing with industrial buildings including possibly a water treatment plant, with horse-drawn wagon and horses in foreground, pencil on wove paper, signed bottom right Paulus Roetter, no date, 4 inches by 7 1/2 inches

Title: Tree
Date: 1858-06-09
Description: Detailed drawing of a tree trunk, pencil on laid paper, signed J Gast June 9th 1858, 6 inches by 5 inches

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