Photograph of a seal playing a set of horns while its trainer holds out a microphone at the St. Louis Zoo. In the background is a seated group of visitors coming to see the show.
Dredge (William H. Black) as it prepares opening in bank to start dredging at upper end of Pilot Canal. The (Ste. Gen.) is at station 11+40, Kansas City District, channel diversion.
Eugene F. Williams Jr. (left), chairman of the Blue Cross Board, presents a check for $47,227.63 to Dr. Frank R. Bradley, director of Barnes Hospital, in a ceremony Monday which pushed total Blue Cross payments for care of St. Louis members over the $200,000,000 mark.
Houses were reduced to rubble, trees twisted to stumps and streetcars to splinters by the 1896 tornado, as this photograph taken on Lafayette avenue, looking east from Jefferson avenue, reveals.
One letter, dated May 2, 1828, to the Honorable James Barbour, regarding the recommendation of Thomas McNight for the appointment of superintendent of the Upper Lead Mines.
The Rolling Stones as they appeared on stage Thursday night at the Checkdome. Charlie Watts, drummer for Rolling Stones, seen here in concert at the Arena in 1981, uses Gretsch drums.
Charles Fulks, 5301 Minerva ave., tries out a guitar at the music booth of the E. J. Korvette display. Nearly 100,000 persons attended the Modern Living Show which lasted six days.