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Title: Evans Avenue
Date: 1959-02-10, 1959-02-11
Description: After the 1959 tornado, with walls sliced away, homes in multiple-family dwellings in the 3800 block of Evans Avenue are revealed in cross section. The buildings were badly damaged, their contects largely intact.

Title: Lady Linda
Date: 1953-06-11
Description: M/V (Lady Linda) passing service base.

Title: Mail Automat
Date: 1962-11-14, 1962-11-15
Description: Another bygone activity at Union Station: Railway mail service. A new automatic mail-sack handling system which saves $1,000,000 a year, displaces 175 jobs and speeds up mail distribution from trains at St. Louis' Union Station was dedicated Wednesday. Photo above shows the mail coming down hoppers to be dumped into chutes leading to trains.

Title: 20th Annual Fair Association Show
Date: 1880-10-30
Description: 20th annual show of the St. Louis Fair Association. Shows the Agricultural Hall, Art Hall, The Cascade, and the Main Entrance.

Title: National Elimination Balloon Races Held at Priesters Park
Date: 1914-07-11
Description: Panoramic photograph depicting six racing balloons still tethered to the ground at the center of the racing track at Priesters Park. Spectators can be seen in the stands to the right and left. The race was presented by the Aero Club of St. Louis.

Title: Das Schwabenfest in St. Louis
Date: 1884-09-20
Description: Front page of Frank Leslie's Illustrirte Zeitung (Illustrated Newspaper) No. 1416 Vol. 55 from the 20th of September, 1884. There are illustrations of events from the Swabian Festival in St. Louis on the 31st of August and the 1st of September. There is also a passage from the book titled "Die Erbin von Saldern" ("The Heiress of Saldern") by Ewald August König above the illustrations. The events

Title: Letter from Zebulon Pike to Captain Daniel Bissell, June 11, 1806
Page From: info:fedora/umsl:39462
Date: 1806-06-11
Description: Letter from Zebulon Pike to Daniel Bissell in June of 1806 discussing military affairs and the maintaining of Pike's home.
Text: No 5 Bell Foutain. 11 June 1806. Dr. Sir Yours of the 28th June & 2� July was handed me by W. Nughz and shall be noticed in rotation, as in the first you are more than commonly complementary, but work me up after by the notice of my omission in not sending you a return of the Detachment but see here a plain tale will put you down. I was informed on my return, that all my Detachment
Show moreNo 5 Bell Foutain. 11 June 1806. Dr. Sir Yours of the 28th June & 2� July was handed me by W. Nughz and shall be noticed in rotation, as in the first you are more than commonly complementary, but work me up after by the notice of my omission in not sending you a return of the Detachment but see here a plain tale will put you down. I was informed on my return, that all my Detachment
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Title: Golden Eagle
Date: 1946-11-03
Description: GOLDEN EAGLE in mid-stream at New Orleans, La. Starting the return trip to St. Louis, Mo. November 3, 1946.

Title: Ozzie Smith
Date: 1984-05-11
Description: Cardinals shortstop Ozzie Smith takes a relay from pitcher Joaquin Andujar to force Padres pitcher Tim Lollar at second in the third inning Thursday.

Title: Queen of the West and Engagement at Butte la Rose
Date: 1863-05-30
Description: Destruction of the "Queen of the West" by Union Gun-Boats. Engagement at Butte la Rose. Bank's campaign in Louisiana.-Sketched by Ms. H. Holtz.-[See page 357.]

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 November 10, 1849
Date: 1849-11-10, 1849-11-10

Title: American Railroad Journal November 17, 1849
Date: 1849-11-17, 1849-11-17

Title: American Railroad Journal November 3, 1849
Date: 1849-11-03, 1849-11-03

Title: American Railroad Journal November 24, 1849
Date: 1849-11-24, 1849-11-24

Title: Sp-Am War I
Date: 1949-11-06
Description: Long rated as one of the state's crack National Guard units, Light Battery A had its banner hanging from a tree to mark its camp ground and to guide visitors about the company's section in CampStephens.

Title: Beer Gardens
Date: 1976-09-11, 1976-09-11
Description: Mrs. Anne Noenning, far right, Ralph Fassel, far left, and friends raise their beer glasses in a toast at the Bavarian Inn Beer Garden.

Title: Beer Gardens
Date: 1976-09-11, 1976-09-11
Description: Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Bles perform a fancy version of the polka on the dance floor at the Bavarian Inn Beer Garden.

Title: Beer Gardens Band
Date: 1976-09-11, 1976-09-11
Description: Lou Nuspl, far left, leads the "Polka Toppers" band in an old-time tune for the dancers.

Title: Camp Stephens in Jefferson Barracks
Date: 1949-11-06, 1949-11-06
Description: Leveling rifles for Boehl's camera is a company of the Seventh Regiment, U.S. Volunteers, a unit authorized by Congress. Idea was to enlist recruits in Missouri and southern states where yellow fever had been severe. Theory was they were immune to disease, which was claiming more lives than guns. The 7th was recruited among Negroes in Missouri and neighboring states for what might very well have turned out to be a deadly assignment, five years prior to Dr. Walter Reed's discovery of the yellow fever cycle.

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