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Title: Crowd Attending the Blasting of Plug in Pilot Canal
Date: 1952-10-04
Description: View of crowd on bank of the Pilot Canal during ceremonies prior to blasting of plug that opened the diversion canal. Kansas City District, channel diversion.

Title: Richard Moyle
Date: 1953-04-13
Description: M/V (Richard Moyle) passing service base.

Title: Morris A. Shenker
Date: 1972-01-04, 1974-06-07
Description: The Kansas City organized crime family led by Nicholas Civella holds a secret interest in the Dunes Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas "fronted" by St. Louis attorney Morris A. Shenker, the FBI alleged in court documents made public Friday.

Title: The Removing Power
Date: 1830-04-02
Description: An extract of a discussion on the power of the United States to remove a president from office.

Title: Proceedings at the Seventeenth Anniversary of the Nolachucky Association of United Baptists
Date: 1844-09-04
Description: Held at Blackwell's Branch Church, Grainger County, East Tenneessee

Title: A Discourse Before the American Baptist Home Mission Society Delivered at their Annual Meeting
Date: 1841-04-27

Title: Tri-Cities
Date: 1953-04-18
Description: M/V (Tri-Cities) passing service base.

Title: Gateway Arch
Date: 1965-10-19, 1965-10-20
Description: Only one more section remains to be inserted - and that is to take place at the "topping out," now due for Oct. 28 - before the two legs of the Gateway Arch are joined. The next to last section, above, was put into place Tuesday, leaving a space of only two and a half feet between the legs of the 630-foot Arch. The legs appear to be joined in the picture below, taken after the next to last section was inserted, but that's due to the camera angle.

Title: Capitol
Date: 1939-10-04
Description: Excursion steamer CAPITOL drydocked at Paducah, Kentucky.

Title: Landing of the Seventh and Twelth Regiments
Date: 1861-06-04
Description: Landing of the Seventh and Twelth Regiments at Cario, June 4, 1861.-Sketched by Mr. A. Simplot.-[See Page 410.]

Title: M-370: German Sisters Captivity Letter
Date: 1875-01-20
Description: the rescue of the two youngest girls, a letter was written, addressed to Sophia, aged 12, and Catherine, aged 17, by Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Neill. The letter advised the sisters to read it Grey-Beard or Stone-Calf to secure the sister's release and for the Cheyennes to submit themselves to the mercy of the government. The sisters were rescued in March 1875 and reunited with their sisters at Fort

Title: Laying of Advance Shore Pipe
Date: 1952-09-20
Description: Showing laying of advance shore pipe. A new line is layed every 750 ft. of dredge advance. Shown also is section of almost completed levee. This levee is the reason that the discharge line has to be so long. River channel made by flood can be seen in extreme background. Station 1,800 feet. Kansas City District, channel diversion.

Title: Robert L. Burnes and Pancho Segura
Date: 1959-10-20
Description: BOB BURNES, SPORTS EDITOR, of The St. Louis Globe-Democrat annd (sic) KMOX Radio sportscaster interviews tennis star Pancho Segura. Burnes regularly interviews the nation's leading sports figures on his early program.

Title: Floyd Near Plug Opening
Date: 1952-10-04
Description: Opening that was blasted in plug to start flow of river through diversion channel. Head elevation approx. 2 feet. Towboat (Floyd) in Background. Kansas City District, channel diversion.

Title: Sioux City
Date: 1953-10-20
Description: M/V (Sioux City) of the Sioux City and New Orleans Barge Line passing dredge.

Title: Dick Groat
Date: 1963-04-07
Description: Photograph of Cardinals shortstop Dick (Richard Morrow) Groat. Groat played shortstop for the Saint Louis Cardinals from 1963-1965.

Title: Lou Brock
Date: 1973-04-15, 1973-04-16
Description: Lou Brock of the Cardinals slides home with a run in the third inning Sunday as Cubs catcher Randy Hundley receives a throw too late from center fielder Rick Monday. The run came home on Ted Sizemore's single to center.

Title: Donald G. Anton
Date: 1974-10-23
Description: Democrat Don Anton and Republican Gene McNary have accused each other of paying political lip service to full disclosure of campaign contributions while attempting to keep some money sources hidden in their race for St. Louis County Supervisor.

Title: Memphis Before the War.
Date: 1862-04
Description: Old battery at the Navy-yard. Steamboat landing. The cotton levee., From Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War.

Title: Fred Swain
Date: 1909-08-20
Description: The Fred Swain was built at Stillwater, Minnesota in 1900. She was a sidewheeler with no texas. Her dimensions were:- 142 x 28.3 x 4.5 feet; tonnage, gross and net, 124 tons. She operated mostly on the Illinois River around Peoria. On August 20, 1909, she burned to the water's edge at Peoria, Illinois; fifty-eight persons were aboard but no lives lost.

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