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Title: Officers Play Golf On The Jefferson Barracks Course
Date: 1935-05-12, 1935-05-12
Description: One of the newly-constructed grass greens on the course with (left to right) Capt. McCowan, Mrs. Van Zee, Lieut. O'Connell and Lieut. Van Zee holing out.

Title: Decorated For Bravery--Jefferson Barracks
Date: 1938-05-28, 1938-05-28
Description: In the morning, Corp. George Williams was decorated by Maj.-Gen. Drum for bravery. Afternoon found him busy in maneuvers.

Title: Jefferson Barracks Training Camp
Description: Members of the Citizens Military Training Camp at Jefferson Barracks

Title: Jefferson Barracks Museum Guide
Date: 1980-03-24, 1980-03-24
Description: Blanche Allen, museum guide at Laborers' House, built in 1851. The picture was taken in one of two bedrooms in the house on the second floor.

Title: Jefferson Barrack Park
Date: 1968-11-09, 1968-11-09
Description: View of the brickwork of the Jefferson Barrack Park Museum.

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: The Only 'Casualty', An Overturned Tank--Jefferson Barracks
Date: 1938-05-28, 1938-05-28
Description: The only casualty in the maneuvers was this tank, which overturned when its driver came too close to the edge of a ditch. Two tanks and a block and tackle were required to right it.

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: Jefferson Barrack Recruits
Date: 1939-10-13, 1939-10-13
Description: Recruits from Jefferson Barracks ride the train to the Pacific Coast.

Title: In The Machine Shop--Jefferson Barracks
Description: Our soldiers are taught useful trades, so that they will be better fitted for civilian life after one or more enlistments than they were before their service began.

Title: First All-African American Parade
Date: 1942-12-19, 1942-12-19
Description: Representative Negroes of St. Louis and Mayor Becker were guests of Col. Thomas J. J. Christian, commanding officer of Jefferson Barracks, yesterday at the first all-Negro parade and review ever held at the historic army post. Before the parade Col. Christian and his staff conducted the visitors on a tour of inspection where basic training is being given several thousand Negro soldiers by the Army Air Forces Technical Training Command. In the reviewing stand were (from the left) T.D. McNeal, field representative of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters; Mrs. Leona Evans, head of the Garfield District Provident Association; Rev. Russell S. Brown; Mayor Becker; George D. Brantley (in back), principal of Sumner High School; Col. Christian; Elmer Mosee, vice commander of Missouri American Legion; James E. Cook, Y.M.C.A.; D. V. Essex of the Urban League and Arnold Walker of the Urban League.

Title: Jefferson Barracks Band
Date: 1942-10-25, 1942-10-25
Description: Image of the full Jefferson Barracks band.

Title: Rowboats
Date: 1942-09-24, 1942-09-24
Description: One of the hostesses does the rowing while the others simply sit back and relax.

Title: Soldiers At Jefferson Barracks Sing As They March Along Post Grounds
Date: 1944-04-09, 1944-04-09
Description: At Jefferson Barracks, the Army Air Forces No.1 basic training center, teaching a soldier to sing is considered just as important as teaching him to shoot straight. Photo (above) shows the twenty-third training group singing while on the march. Reaching every activity, the program enables soldiers to march farther and faster with less fatigue, the army has found.

Title: The 8-Foot By 24-Foot Mural By Sergt. George H. Schneider
Date: 1942-11-26, 1942-11-26
Description: Creator of the much admired militrary painting which hangs in the Service Club at Jefferson Barracks. Sergt. Schneider received the order to paint the picture from Col. Allen Kimberly, Post Commandment, and his predecessor, Col. Frederick F. Christine. Marching troops, tanks and ships have their place in the painting, as well as eight planes--bombers and pursuit ships.

Title: Civilian Employees of the Quartermaster's Office
Date: 1942-09-06, 1942-09-06
Description: Not to be outdone by either the soldiers at Jefferson Barracks or the Wacks, these civilian employees of the Quartermaster's office at the post have at the suggestion of Maj. William W. Quinn, post quartermaster, purchased natty new uniforms consisting of blue rayon-garbadine military jackets, skirts, and caps and yellow shantung blouses.

Title: Jefferson Barrack Nurses
Date: 1942-11-23, 1942-11-23
Description: Forty-five nurses at Jefferson Barracks, all of whom hold army lieutenant commissions, are shown at attention as they reviewed a garrison parade of the post personnel recently. The parade was in honor of visiting newsmen and high army officials from the East who were guests of Col. Allen Kimberly, commandant.

Title: Soldiers' Food
Date: 1943-04-17, 1943-04-17
Description: Soldiers' food, served yesterday at noon mess to 125 St. Louis AFL and CIO labor leaders on a tour of Jefferson Barracks to see how civilians are transformed into fighting men, was enthuastically received. Yesterday's menu consisted of soup, lamb roast, potatoes, spinach, slaw, coffee, and cake.

Title: Toughening Experience
Date: 1942-04-04, 1942-04-04
Description: Jefferson Barracks soldiers on an obstacle race, clear though a 5-foot trench.

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