"Emergency pollution control crews worked to clean a potentially serious oil spill from the River Des Peres as attempts were made to patch its sources at the Great Lakes Carbon Corp. coke plant on the South Side Thursday. The oil has been leaking into the river from a lagoon that contains an estimated 3 million gallons of waste products, authorities said. Carl Walter, chairman of an environmental response team investigating the incident, estimated that several hundred gallons of oil have leaked through the eastern side of the lagoon since at least Monday. 'But while it is small in quantity, it could pose potentially serious problems,' he said."
Portrait of Auguste Chouteau, one of the founders of the city of St. Louis, by Josef Francisco Xavier de Salazar y Mendoza, after 1784, oil on canvas, 35 inches by 27.5 inches
A business directory containing a listing and index of St. Louis businesses for the years 1871-72 beginning with Accordion Manufacturers and ending with Zinc. Advertisements are interspersed throughout, and a map of St. Louis can be found toward the beginning (but due to condition issues it has not been included in this digital copy).
Card sent out by John McCain 2008 in support of then-presidential candidate John McCain. On the front of the card is a family seated at a table looking forward. In the bottom left corner, "McCain" is printed in blue with a yellow bar separated in the middle with a star above. Printed below McCain is "Biezczat Family, Las Vegas, NV." The back of the card has a statement regarding McCain's policies
A photograph of the Southern Pacific East Yard Control Tower in San Antonio, Texas. The photograph was taken by John Stein on April 24, 2008, the last day the tower was operational.