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Title: Alan Laird and Bill Fowler Interview
Date: 2021-05-01
Description: This video is a conversation between Alan Laird and William E. Fowler. They discuss the life of Levy Laird, a remarkable African-American who was a cook on the Southern Pacific passenger trains for more than thirty years. Alan Laird tells a poignant story about his father, Levy Laird, whose ancestors were enslaved persons in Louisiana and his (Levy's) journey from rural Louisiana to become a respected member of the African-American community of Oakland, California.

Title: SP 7936W at Tower 121 in San Antonio, Texas
Date: 1977 - 07 - 30

Title: Working in Another Medium
Date: 1979-05-07
Description: Working in Another Medium, more than 1,000 students from fourth grade through senior high school contributed poetry and essays to a contest sponsored by the Globe-Democrat. First place winners were Donna Schweiger of Freeburg, Ill., senior division; Brook A. Reinhold of St. Louis, junior division; and John Alldredge of Caseyville, Ill, intermediate division. Second-place winners were Denise Ann

Title: SP 9612 1LBCHT - 07 at Bedfor Park, Illinois Meeting Belt Railway of Chicago Locomotive 602
Date: 1992 - 05 - 10

Title: Robert L. Coe
Date: 1952-05-10
Description: Robert L. Coe, sales manager of Union Electric Company, congratulated the price winners in the table-setting contest. From the left are Mrs. W. F. McLean, Mrs. James F. Williams, Mrs. Eugene F. Williams, who presented the awards; Mrs. Eugene A. Erker and Mrs. J. Edward Sommers.

Title: Convent of Good Shepard
Date: 1958-11-05, 1968-05-1968
Description: Convent of Good Shepard 3801 Gravois is a grim-looking four-story building that houses love and understanding that have reclaimed thousands of St. Louis girls in the last 100 years. The love and understanding that troubled teenage girls have found fo r73 years in the grim-faced fortress at 3801 Gravois Ave. soon will be offered at a gleaming nine-building complex being built on a bluff

Title: The Kearney Company
Date: 1966-03-05
Description: The Kearney Company, a division of Kearney-National, Inc., has completed a $250,000 modernization program with remodeling of the exterior and interior of the office and an expansion of the plant, above. The Kearney Company has been serving the electric utility industry since 1936. The company recently expanded sales and service into industrial and commercial markets with a now series of group

Title: Dressed for Bicentennial
Date: 1975-11-03, 1975-11-05
Description: The Globe-Democrat newspaper vending machine outside The Globe-Democrat building gets new point job to honor the Bicentennial.

Title: Alan Laird and Bill Fowler Conversation, May 2021
Date: 2021 - 05
Description: This video is a conversation between Alan Laird and Bill Fowler. They discuss the life of Levy Laird, a remarkable African-American who was a cook on the Southern Pacific passenger trains for more than thirty years. Alan Laird tells a poignant story about his father, Levy Laird, whose ancestors were enslaved persons in Louisiana and his (Levy's) journey from rural Louisiana to become a respected member of the African-American community of Oakland, California.

Title: SP 2894 at Beckmann, Texas
Date: 1985 - 05 - 1985

Title: Work Train SP 6589 on Southern Pacific's Clifton Branch on the Tucscon Division.
Date: 1973 or 1974

Title: Work Train SP 2932 Pulling Manix Plow near Ryan, Texas
Date: 1973 or 1974

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