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Title: Jefferson Barracks - First Call
Date: 1941-03-02, 1941-03-02
Description: "First Call for marching drill, with Private Harold Crispin of Denver doing his best to struggle into his new shoes. Struggling out of them is a task unto itself."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Recreation Hall
Date: 1941-03-05, 1941-03-05
Description: "Play Area - All will not be work for young draftees in their stopover at the Barracks. Here in the new Recreation Hall as many as 600 at a time will be able to see motion pictures. The hall is equipped with a spacious stage and with dressing rooms."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - The First Day
Date: 1941-03-02, 1941-03-02
Description: "The first day is the toughest, especially for the boys who didn't have to contend with such items at home as the making up of beds, etc. Bewilderment, as expressed by the lad at the right, is fairly common at the start, but the boys soon get right into the swing of things."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Memorial Day Flags
Date: 1943-05-31, 1943-05-31
Description: "Owing military tradition, the flag at Jefferson Barracks flew at half mast from reveille to noon, when appropriate ceremonies were held at that AAFTTC training center in commemoration of Memorial Day. The photo shows the Barracks guard at the parade grounds flagpole just before Old Glory was raised."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - New Friendships
Date: 1941-03-02, 1941-03-02
Description: "It doesn't take long for new recruits to strike up an acquantaince. A few days after bunking in the same tent, the boys feel as though they've been buddies all their lives. Here Privates Francis Kolar and Herbert Lemke are hitting it off in fine shape."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Regular Army Arrivals
Date: 1940-11-24, 1940-11-24
Description: "This group of 198 regular army men from Des Moines, Ia., arrived by truck yesterday and was formally checked in at Jefferson Barracks. They will aid in setting up a new troop reception center."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Post Exchange
Date: 1941-03-02, 1941-03-02
Description: "At the 'P.X.' (Post Exchange) the men buy candy, fruits, drinks, cigarettes. If a soldier is broke, he gets a canteen check to tide him over to pay day."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - New Service Records Room
Date: 1941-01, 1941-01
Description: "New service records room. Data on all men kept here."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Commanding Officer Maj. Raymond Brown
Date: 1941-01, 1941-01
Description: "Major Raymond R. Brown, commanding officer of Jefferson Barracks, interviewing Lieut. Charles Owen (right)."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Life Insurance
Date: 1941, 1941
Description: "Lt. J. W. Brown, assistant personell adjutant, helping Lt. Edgar Turner (right) fill out his application for insurance, bringing to $1,000,000 the amount of National Service Life Insurance policies sold at Jefferson Barracks since August 1."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - First Rolling Kitchen in the Army
Date: 1936-12-16, 1936-12-16
Description: "Rolling kitchen at Jefferson Barracks, first of its kind in the army - It was inspected by Maj. Gen. Charles E. Kilbourne (center) , during his visit here yesterday. At left is Brig. Gen. Dana T. Merrill, Twelfth Brigade commander, and, right, Col J. A. Atkins. The kitchen, devised by a Jefferson Barracks officer, has an oven, auxilliary gas cookers, ice box and trailer for food supplies."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - War Maneuvers
Date: 1938-05-28, 1938-05-28
Description: "A Bird Wings Its Way out of a Cloudy Sky: Both the Red and Blue armies were represented by planes during maneuvers. This ship, a member of the Red Army, is silhouetted against a cloudy sky as it wings over the base of the attacking Blue Army at the southern end of the Barracks. Notice the pools of water, they dotted the entire Barracks area."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Adjutant's Office
Date: 1941-01, 1941-01
Description: The Adjutant's office at Jefferson Barracks, January 1941.

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 - Dance Floor
Date: 1941-09-11, 1941-09-11
Description: "The largest dance of the season will be given at Jefferson Barracks Saturday night on the recently completed dance floor, above. The floor, of concrete, is illuminated by multicolored lights and accomodates approximately 750 couples."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Army Day Troop Inspection
Date: 1942-04-05, 1942-04-05
Description: Colonel Allen Kimberly and Mayor William D. Becker of St. Louis inspecting troops at Jefferson Barracks on Army Day, April 5th, 1942.

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Moving Day
Date: 1941-03-02
Description: Original caption: "Moving Day at Jefferson Barracks means action, and plenty of it. Housewives bent on doing a fast spring-cleaning job could get many a pointer from these Army men who have to work double-time to get things back to order."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Old Guard House
Date: 1890, 1949-11-06
Description: the 1900s. Spurred by stories of low morale at the Barracks, a reporter enlisted in the 1890s and then deserted. The natural course of events followed and soon his newspaper was publishing the inside story of the army life. Before long soldiers' pay was upped and many structures were rebuilt. The Spanish-American War further emphasized the need for modernization and by 1905 all but one of the old

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Camp Stephens Tent City 1898
Date: 1898, 1960-08-28
Description: "Camp Stephens, Jefferson Barracks, showing the tent city which stood on the reservation throughout 1898. A soldier can be discerned in the hollow in foreground on sentry-go even though the nearest enemy was in Cuba. All of Missouri's volunteer regiments in the War with Spain passed through Camp Stephens, a total of just over 8000 men. The Barracks was also used as a regular army post for the

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Bayonet Drill
Date: 1935-08-08, 1935-08-08
Description: "Rookies at Jefferson Barracks engaging in bayonet drill. These rookies have been in the army less than a month, but under the intensive drilling, under which the time for training recruits has been reduced from 16 weeks to 28 days, they are rapidly being converted into first-class fighting men. Watching the drill with critical eyes are, left, Sergt. William J. Jacques and, right, Sergt. F

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