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Title: David B. Miller at Soldiers Memorial Ceremony
Date: 1973-05-19, 1973-05-21
Description: Women's lib has its day at the Soldiers Memorial ceremonies as WAC M.Sgt. Cleo L. Childers, an Army reservist, receives her award from G. Duncan Bauman. At right, Sgt. David B. Miller shows his award to his wife.

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

Title: 10,000th New Car Built at Southern Pacific's Sacramento, California Shops
Date: 1954 - 10 - 20
Description: A photograph of the 10,000th railroad car built at Southern Pacific's shop in Sacramento, California.

Title: Direct Wirephoto Service Inaugurated
Date: 1954-11-20
Description: Direct Associated Press Wirephoto service was inaugurated by the Globe-Democrat yesterday. The new facilities are located on the fifth floor of the Globe-Democrat Building adjoining the news department. John Kinman, AP traffic bureau chief in St. louis, watches August Eimer, an operator, remove a negative from the receiver.

Title: Look! Up There! It's Torn Loose!
Date: 1969-08-19, 1969-08-20
Description: Spectators look at a cornice (circle) which tore loose Tuesday from the Holland Building, 211 North 7th St. In closeup of the area at right, workmen dislodge the crumbling section of terra cotta with a crowbar. A crowd of several hundred watched as the section shattered on the street without doing any substantial damage.

Title: The Intermodal Railcar Fleet prior to the Double Stack Revolution
Date: October 20, 2024, October 20, 2024
Description: The Intermodal Railcar Fleet prior to the Double Stack Revolution.A comparison of the Intermodal fleet in 1988 compared to 2024 shows the impact of the double stack container car revolution. In 1988 conventional cars (AAR code P) represented 89% of the fleet whereas in 2024 they represented less than one half of one percent of the fleet. In 1988 the nascent double stack container car (AAR code S

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.

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