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Title: Strike Up The Band--Jefferson Barracks
Date: 1937-07-06, 1937-07-06
Description: The band is playing as the guard of the day is changed in an impressive ceremony.

Title: New High Speed Mobile
Date: 1937-08-24
Description: Riding its new high speed mobile equipment a Sixth Infantry contingent pulled out of Jefferson Barracks yesterday morning for a test "march" to Arcadia.

Title: The Check Arrives at a Bank
Date: 1937-10-28
Description: The delivery boy's boss takes the check, drawn on the customer's bank, the First National Bank in St. Louis, and deposits it in his own institution, the Mercantile-Commerce Bank and Trust Company.

Title: Jefferson Barracks Sixth Infantry
Date: 1937-07-24, 1937-07-24
Description: The Six Infantry (above) passing in review before its commanding officer, Col. Joseph A. Atkins, yesterday afternoon at Jefferson Barracks after the post had been inspected by Maj. Gen. Charles D. Herron, commanding the Sixth Corps area.

Title: Jefferson Barracks Army Day Parade
Date: 1937, 1937
Description: The Colors pass in review in the Army Day parade held yesterday afternoon by the Sixth Infantry at Jefferson Barracks. Reviewing officers and a group of spectators are shown at the back. The observance was sponsored by the St. Louis Chapter, Military Order of the World War.

Title: General Inspects Jefferson Barracks' Sixth Infantry
Date: 1937-04-10, 1937-04-10
Description: The General inspects Company H, machine gun company of the Sixth Infantry. The three officers moving forward at the left are Gen. J. A. Summersett, Col. Joseph A. Adkins and Lieut. Kelly of Company H.

Title: Soup's On at Jefferson Barracks
Date: 1937-07-06, 1937-07-06
Description: Cook filling a soon-to-be-empty platter with slices of meat. Recruits are assigned regular terms at waiting on the tables. And their "customers," hale and hearty fellows, boast of appetites of considerable proportions.

Title: A Private Matter
Date: 1937-07-06
Description: A private, dressed in baseball togs instead of soldier unform, makes a meanful swing in an intra-regiment game, while an interested audience of fellow soldiers participantes mentally

Title: Mother Never Made a Bed Like This
Date: 1937-07-07
Description: Arriving yesterday for 30 days' C.M.T.C. training at Jefferson Barracks, Recruit Walker Long, ,17, of Bloomfield, Mo., was given first-hand information on approved bedmaking by Lieut. J.D. Peterson, a reserve officer, of Galesburg, Illinois.

Title: Afternoon Downpour
Date: 1937-07-18
Description: An afternoon downpour at Jefferson Barracks failed to halt a brigade review of army regulars and C.M.T.C. youths.

Title: Rolling
Date: 1937-07-07
Description: Rolling their own (Richard Osborne, 23), and everette Kennett, 21, both of Hornersville, MO., arrived at Jefferson Barracks' C.M.T. camp yesterday and soon mastered the art of puttee rolling.

Title: Strike Up The Band
Date: 1937-07-27
Description: Music C.M.T.C. dances is provided by the camp's own orchestra, there being available 40 instruments, of which eight or 10 are used for each engagement.

Title: 6000 Soldiers
Date: 1937-07-18
Description: A crowd of 6000 soldiers and civilian attended the second round of the C.M.T.C. amateur boxing tournament at Jefferson Barracks and here is a section of the C.M.T.C. crowd showing the boys from Missouri and Illinois cheering their favorites, booing the boys from the other states and showing general indifference in other cases.

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Inspection by General
Date: 1937-04-10, 1937-04-10
Description: "Jefferson Barracks is Inspected by a General: The inspecting party and a corral of United States Army mules. 'The old standby of the army afield is rapidly becoming obsolete due to the mechanization of the army,' commented one of the officers of the inspecting party."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Mule Care
Date: 1937-07-06, 1937-07-06
Description: "He Gets A Kick Out Of This - After a few months of disciplinary training at the Barracks, army life loses some of its original "kick," but the boys who are charged with caring for the mules always have it in potentiality at least. Here is one of the kickers taking a drink outside the stable."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Veal for Lunch
Date: 1937-06-06, 1937-06-06
Description: "For That Empty Feeling - Veal is the victim of the day as the cook prepares for the healthy appetites at Jefferson Barracks. The cameraman was invited to lunch. "We eat at 12 o'clock," the commander said, "and when soldier boys say they eat at 12 o'clock, they do."

Title: Something's Wrong Here
Date: 1937-07-07
Description: Something's wrong here, is the boy too long for the coat too short for the boy?

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Sixth Infantry, Marching in Review
Date: 1937-07-24, 1937-07-24
Description: "The Sixth Infantry (above) passing in review before its commanding officer, Col. Joseph A. Atkins, yesterday afternoon at Jefferson Barracks after the post had been inspected by Maj. Gen. Charles D. Herron, commanding the Sixth Corps area. The student soldiers of the Students Military Training Camp followed the regulars. Below are some of the new high speed tanks which are part of the Sixth Regiment's armament."

Title: Grand Tower Dike and Revetment Work
Date: 1937-11-19
Description: November 19, 1937. - Looking upstream from dredge Rock Island at station 294-00.

Title: Grand Tower Dike and Revetment Work
Date: 1937-11-18
Description: November 18, 1937. - Upstream view of bank from Grafton.

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