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Title: After the Last Haircuts
Date: 1964-11-30, 1964-12-01
Description: Barbers sit in empty chairs as Fred Harvey barber shop in Union Station closed its doors Monday, and for the first time in the station's 70-year history travelers will not be able to get haircuts and shaves in the station. Seated on the gloomy occasion, from front to rear, are Albert Schwent, Terry Corzine and Charles Kimberlin.

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

Title: Soldiers at Union Station
Date: 1944-12-24
Description: Soldiers gathered at Union Station before the booth maintained by the Military Reservation Bureau, a branch of the Army Transportation Corps to handle ticket matters for all servicemen on official business.

Title: Grand Tower Dike and Revetment Work
Date: 1937-11-12
Description: November 12, 1937. - Spoon end of Ste. Genevieve shore pipe discharge.

Title: Brooks Robinson
Date: 1966-07-12
Description: Photograph of baseball player Brooks Robinson of the Baltimore Orioles filling a cup from a cooler while glancing up at the camera.

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.

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

Title: Levee Construction and Equipment
Date: 1952-09-20
Description: Showing levee construction and Equipment, which is almost completed. Moving some of equipment out today. River in background is channel that was cut by flood last spring and it is to be re-routed into a new channel that the dredge is making the pilot canal for. Station 18+100'. Kansas City District, channel diversion.

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: Kansas City Skyline from Ste. Genevieve
Date: 1952-10-20
Description: Approaching Kansas City while enroute from St. Joseph, Mo. To St. Louis. At right is dredge (William H. Black), which preceded us down river. Kansas City District.

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: 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: Ste. Genevieve Crew
Date: 1954-04-18
Description: Group picture of entire Ste. Genevieve crew.

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

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: 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: Casoloma Ballroom, 1940
Date: 1940-01-20
Description: The Casoloma Ballroom, located at 3453 Iowa Street, lays covered in ice, January 20, 1940. The Casoloma suffered a fire, and after firefighter's put out the blaze, the dripping water froze in the cold winter temperatures. Donated to the St. Louis Mercantile Library by Norbert Rechtien.

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