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Title: Street Scene in Cairo, Illinois and Government Auction on the Levee At Cairo, Illinois
Date: 1866-04-28
Description: Passing along the levee at Cairo, with its dust, filth, and obtrusive drinking-saloons, gaping wide open for victims to trash within, ti would appear to a stranger, from the great number of such places, that the people of Cairo had powers not accorded elsewhere to ordinary mortals of resisting the effects of 'tangle-leg,' 'red-eye,' 'twist-knee,' and other brands peculiar to the locality. Outside of each place are gathered a knot of hard-looking fellows. There is a suspicious air of 'lying-in-wait' common to these frequenters of the levee which is not calculated to inspire confidence in a stranger.

Title: Central Township Map of St. Louis County
Date: 1878
Description: Red line is the New City Limit, with everything east part of the City of Saint Louis and everything west part of Saint Louis County.

Title: Dredge at Devil's Island
Date: 1953-12-15
Description: View of dredge while working at Devil's Island.

Title: Sign for Cervantes, Sign for Cervantes
Date: 1972-12-31
Description: Sign thanking Mayor Cervantes. Reads, "Thanks, A. J. for the convention center. A St. Louis Booster."

Title: Aztec
Date: 1952-12-30
Description: M/V (Aztec) at Devil's Island, mile 55.8.

Title: The Green Eyed Monster
Date: 1879-12-06
Description: Drawing portraying a lady in St. Louis who disguised herself as a man to test her brother's affection for his sweetheart, and almost gets killed by the jealous lover.

Title: Washington Ave St. Louis
Date: 1960-12-19
Description: Photograph of Washington Ave decorated for the winter holidays.

Title: Soldiers at Union Station
Date: 1955-12-24
Description: Servicemen make up most of the advance guard of the Christmas holiday travel rush pouring through Union Station yesterday. This picture was taken on the Concourse in front of the arrivals and departure board.

Title: Competitive Design for the Missouri Building, 1904 World's Fair
Date: 1892-05-28
Description: A competitive design submission for the Missouri Building planned for the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis. The design was submitted by architect Isaac S. Taylor and the illustration was printed as no. 857 on May 28,1892 in American Architect and Building News.

Title: Along the Riverfront
Date: 1965-12-31
Description: Highlighting a year of progress in St. Louis were the completion of the Gateway Arch and the exterior of Busch Memorial Stadium. In front of the new stadium, which will be ready for baseball in May, is Stadium Parking Garage East, which opened Thursday. Located at Broadway and Walnut, it is one of the world's largest self-parking garages with spaces for 2800 cars.

Title: W. F. Nisbet Bill of Lading
Date: 1886-04-28
Description: Bill of Lading for the steamer W. F. NISBET of the St. Louis and Tennessee River Electric Light Packet, for delivery of 102 tons of No. 1 pig iron to St. Louis, Missouri, for the La Grange Iron Company, July 28 1886.

Title: Anker L. Christy
Date: 1952-12-15
Description: M/V (Anker L. Christy) at Burnham Island.

Title: Looking North to Wharf
Date: 1943-08-12
Description: Looking North showing construction of access road to wharf. Lancaster Corporation. Work started June 5, 1943.

Title: Christmas in Virginia
Date: 1871-12-30
Description: CHRISTMAS IN VIRGINIA - A PRESENT FROM THE GREAT HOUSE. - [Drawn by W. L. Sheppard.]

Title: American Railroad Journal December 15, 1849
Date: 1849-12-15, 1849-12-15

Title: American Railroad Journal December 1, 1849
Date: 1849-12-01, 1849-12-01

Title: American Railroad Journal December 8, 1849
Date: 1849-12-08, 1849-12-08

Title: American Railroad Journal December 22, 1849
Date: 1849-12-22, 1849-12-22

Title: Beer Gardens In The 1880s
Date: 1949-12-25, 1949-12-25
Description: Beer gardens got their real start when the great German immigration begain to flow into St.Louis in 1848. In a matter of a few short years, beer gardens were as much a part of St. Louis as the Mississippi. One such garden was at the "Grand Centre" on Gravois.

Title: Tanks Down The Road
Date: 1939-07-28
Description: The light tanks of the Sixth Tank Company at Jefferson Barracks, under command of Capt. J. H. Gilbreth, departed last night for Arcadia, MO., where combat problems will be worked out by 41 officers of the 420th Infantry, Reserves, as the final part of their tank training at Jefferson Barracks this season.

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