branding block

Search results

draggable directories

X

Mercantile Library Special Collections Directory

Pott Library Special Collections Directory

Barriger Library Special Collections Directory

(41 - 60 of 390)

Pages

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Officer Dwellings
Date: 1940, 1940
Description: "Three 2-unit brick dwellings for officers and their families are being constructed at Jefferson Barracks. Two of the houses, architecturally designed to makes the structures spacious as possible, are shown in the photograph. Many similar residences have been constructed in recent months at Scott Field, Ill."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Soldiers on Motorcycles
Date: 1940-06-09, 1940-06-09
Description: "These doughboys of the Sixth United States Infantry at Jefferson Barracks are "mechanized" now and ride motorcycles, trucks or troop carriers instead of just sloshing along through the mud or plodding through the dust."

Title: Baggage at Tents
Date: 1940
Description: Man posing for picture at a tent with their bags.

Title: Troops Looking Through the Booklet
Date: 1940
Description: Troops looking through a booklet.

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Memorial Day Crowd
Date: 1940-05, 1940-05
Description: "Part of the crowd of 5000 that attended the Memorial Day services at the National Cemetery of Jefferson Barracks yesterday."

Title: First Passenger Train Chugs Across The MacArthur Bridge
Date: 1940-01-16, 1940-01-16
Description: Pennsylvania Railroad's "Spirit of St. Louis," a streamlined monster of the rails, is shown nosing through a paper barrier yesterday, forerunner of thirteen passenger trains of the Pennsylvania line and six of the Baltimore and Ohio line which will operate over the MacArthur Bridge.

Title: Pennsylvania Train Crosses The MacArthur Bridge
Date: 1940-01-15, 1940-01-15
Description: This Pennsylvania train was the first passenger train across the MacArthur Bridge.

Title: The MacArthur Bridge Formerly Known As The Municipal Bridge
Date: 1940, 1940
Description: The MacArthur Bridge carried Route 66 into Missouri and St. Louis.

Title: Ribbon Cutting Ceremony At The MacArthur Bridge
Date: 1940-01-15, 1940-01-15
Description: Mayor Dickmann cutting ribbon in ceremonies attendant on first passenger train. The Pennsy's Spirit of St. Louis, going across Municipal Bridge.

Title: Parade Down Ninth Street, 1940
Date: 1940-06-30
Description: Gymnasts from the National Hall of the Czechoslovak Society of America march down South Ninth Street in a parade, circa 1940. The parade went from National Hall to Kiel Auditorium; the group was attending a gymnastic gathering on June 30. Photograph donated to the St. Louis Mercantile Library by the Gymnastic Association Sokol.

Title: Eads Bridge Rails Restoration Sought
Date: 1940-03-17, 1940-03-17
Description: The Terminal Railroad Association, which has a lot to do with rails, has had its attention drawn to two rails which no longer exist. They were the Victorian cast-iron ornamental rails of the Eads Bridge.

Title: Admiral Mezzanine Ballroom
Date: 1940
Description: p11-3-1-41-21

Title: Capitol
Date: 1940-09-20
Description: Sept 20 1940 - at St. Paul 5 p.m.

Title: Admiral Powder Rooms
Date: 1940
Description: Photograph of two women in the Greta powder room of the Admiral steamboat, circa 1945.

Title: Pay Car
Date: 1940
Description: A depiction of a train on a railroad siding in a landscape setting surrounded by cliffs and powerlines.

Title: The Zorensky Brothers Store on Franklin Avenue
Date: 1940
Description: The Zorensky Brothers store located at 2630 Franklin Avenue, which is now known as Dr. Martin Luther King Drive, 1940. Hyme Zorensky, who immigrated from Russia in 1906, founded the store in 1913. The store later moved to 6301 Easton Avenue, which is also known as Dr. Martin Luther King Drive, in 1948. Hyme's sons, Louis and Milton, worked in the store and in the 1950s and 1960s, the two

Title: Memphis, Tennessee
Date: 1940
Description: Memphis Waterfront in 1940.

Title: Kansas City Federal Barge Line
Date: 1940
Description: The Kansas City is a twin-propellor, steel hull tow-boat, built in 1938 at Point Pleasant, West Virginia by the Marietta Manufacturing Company. Her dimensions are:- 148.4 x 40.1 x 8.1 feet. She has triple expansion condensing engines, 10-1/4 inches by 17 inches by 27 inches with [sic] and 18 inch stroke; 1,000 horse power at 225 r.p.m.; the propellors are 6 feet 5 inches in diameter. This boat is

Title: Passengers on the Golden Eagle
Date: 1940-08-25
Description: 3 Dr. Parkers and Dr. A. F. Orrow on the Golden Eagle. 8-25-40

Title: Board of Education's Newly Purchased Scoring Machine
Date: 1940-12-15, 1940-12-15
Description: Miss Mildred Joslin of Roe School, 1921 Prather avenue, operating the scoring machine by the Board of Education.

Pages

Mercantile Library Collections Directory

Mercantile Special Collections Directory

Barriger Library Collections Directory

Barriger Special Collections Directory

Pott Library Collections Directory

Pott Special Collections Directory