This photo shows a man and two children watching construction on the Washington University Campus. The people are watching from a slight distance on a hill that overlooks a field empty besides a wooden structure and building materials. There is a railroad that runs across the image, and a train car sits on it in the middle of the photo. The text on the side says, "New York, Chicago, and St. Louis R.R. 9037". On the left of the photo is Brookings Hall of Washington University. The background has buildings in the distance, and billowing smoke stacks.
Photograph of the side of a partially constructed exposition building for the 1904 World's Fair. The photo is taken next to a set of railroad tracks and shows a dome in the middle ground and two spires in the background. The building's external structures are covered in scaffolding. In the far left background, there's a building with an American flag protruding from the top of it.
Photograph of the Highlands Inn in the Meramec Highlands. The Inn was built as a summer resort in 1895, and was a major vacation destination known for its Sulphur springs, river access, and pleasant atmosphere. The Frisco railroad ran there multiple times a day. The photograph shows the entrance of the Inn that has flower beds and brick decoration on the outside and an American flag planted on
Photograph of a factory in a quarry sitting on a lake or river. The factory has a two tall smoke stacks protruding from its buildings, and shorter, wider stacks to the right of the main building. There are train cars in front of the building away from the viewer. The wall of the quarry reaches up high over the building and is lined with trees. Where the railroad tracks would be are also tree lined. The water is not still, and therefore there is no clear reflection.
This photograph shows several railway workers and trains among buildings and a large stack that says "Rock Island". There are several trains on the converging rails, and on the left is a grassy field. Two train cars on the front left say "Rock Island System".
Letter from Enos B. Moore to his brother. The letter appears to be primarily an update on various people, family, and business. He mentioned Milton needing to save up money for a bushel to help him get through the hard times in the world, saying that people would swindle (fleece) individuals of their disposition. He received a letter from their father that all is well at home. While the letter is difficult to read, Moore discusses two locomotives on the Portsmouth Railroad and the N.O. Company, as well as another bridge and its association with a bridge that had fallen the previous fall. Business with the steamboat Crescent is doing well. He would like to hear of what kind of a boat they are building as Captain Waller is a little extravagant in his notions.
Letter from Enos B. Moore to his brother about his move to Minneapolis. The family was well. He found Minneapolis to be a very dull place and the newspapers were not interesting to read. Went on to describe differences in carriages and compared to trucks on a railway.
Dakota on June 16, 1918 and arrived in St. Louis on July 2. The album contains 100 silver gelatin photographs that capture largely undocumented aspects of life along one of America's great western rivers. Each image provides viewers the intimate feeling of standing on the deck of the Scarab, alongside Fiske, as he makes his journey. The album includes views of the Scarab and the passing boats, Missouri
This collection of glass plate negatives depicts scenes of St. Louis at the turn of the 20th century including the construction of the 1904 World’s Fair in Forest Park, the newly built Compton Hill Water Tower, the Cathedral Basilica, the St. Louis School and Museum of Fine Arts and Brookings Hall at Washington University, a variety of farm houses and homes around the city, steamboats along the
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
This collection of letters and diaries of Captain Enos B. Moore preserves a turbulent time in US and river history, the years leading up to and through the Civil War. Moore piloted steamboats on the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers for 45 years, between 1844-1889. The letters date from 1853 to 1865. The four diaries contain daily entries for years 1859, 1860, 1861, and 1865. Subjects include river
This letter was written in 1849 by a forty-niner in St. Louis, one William H. Morse, to a friend back home in New England. He’s been in St. Louis for three weeks, the last stop on the frontier, as he prepares to embark on a journey westward on the overland trail, making his way to California in search of gold. He describes his 35 day trip thus far, from an unnamed town in the northeast, south