This photograph is of the St. Louis National Stock Yards Special Sale Pavilion. The National Stockyards were located in East St. Louis across the border in Illinois. The photo of this pavilion shows an empty foreground, with fencing on the left and nothing behind it.
This photograph is of the National Live Stock Commission Company building. The large white sign above the building indicates there are locations in Chicago, Saint Louis, and Kansas City. This building has three other company signs, including "St. Louis Dressed Beef Co.", "Evans-Montague Com.", and "Campbell Brothers and Rosson". There are others on the right side of the building, but at the angle they are not easily read. There's an empty trolley car outside of the building in the empty parking lot. A few people are standing near the building sidewalk.
Photograph of a bridge under construction. There's a town in the background over the river, and one of the buildings has a sign that says "Alton Baking & Catering".
Photograph of the Palmer Mansion in Chicago, Illinois. The building is covered in vegetation on one side, and there are trees on the sidewalk in front of it.
Booklet showing industrial sites in communities served by the St. Louis & San Francisco, Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific and Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroads produced when those lines were controlled by the Reed-Moore Syndicate after the Panic of 1893.
This photo in front of the Eastern Seal Society of Southwestern Illinois for Crippled Children and Adults, Inc. shows five people in Seven-Up aprons with newspapers outstretched towards the camera.
Documents, photos, maps, drawings, and other paper ephemera and media related to the history of the Southern Pacific Railroad, and its predecessor and affiliated companies.