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Title: Miles Davis
Date: 1969-08-04
Description: Hometown boy makes good, and all that jazz: Miles Davis, trumpter extraordinaire, who'll be among the headlines at the St. Louis Jazz Festival August 16 at Kiel Auditorium, hails from Alton, Ill., and learned to play trumpet in and around St. Louis.

Title: Beardstown, Illinois
Date: 1981-08
Description: The enclosed pictures were taken during August 1981 on the Beardstown Illinois waterfront showing typical river scenes with the usual amount of tugs and other equipment. The B&N RR bridge in its river mode. The stern-wheel river tug is a locally built boat, original builders and name still showing = LOGSDON = built sometime in the 1930s more details could be obtained. These pictures were taken

Title: Das Sängerfest in St. Louis, Mo.
Date: 1872-07-13
Description: Front Page of Frank Leslie's Illustrirte Zeitung from the 13th of July, 1872, depicting a concert hall and its auditorium where a singing festival was held. The caption below the auditorium specifically mentions the reception concert. The illustrations were done by Joseph Ferdinand Keppler. The text is from "Herrn Mahlhuber's Reiseabenteuer" by Friedrich Gestäcker (Gestaecker).

Title: Sioux City
Date: 1953-07-08
Description: Recently built M/V (Sioux City) for the newly formed Missouri River line named the (Sioux City and New Orleans) Barge Line. This is the boat's first north bound trip.

Title: Celebration at Opening of Davis Island Dam
Date: 1885-10-07
Description: Crowd gathered to view the opening of the Davis Island Dam. Many steamboats are lined up in the background.

Title: Departure for homes
Date: 1972-07
Description: People socialize and get ready for going home in a parking lot.

Title: Capitol
Date: 1938-07
Description: Capitol July 1938. Nearing St. Paul.

Title: Indianola
Date: 1863-03-07
Description: The United States gun-boat Indianola (iron-clad) running the blockade at Vicksburg.

Title: Soulard Farmers Market
Date: 1968-07-25, 1968-08-18
Description: Photograph of the Soulard Farmers Market.

Title: Missouri Botanical Gardens
Date: 1935-07-14, 1941-11-09
Description: The Missouri Botanical Gardens - Known the world over as Shaw's Garden, this is one of the finest such units in the world, second only in size to the famous Kew Gardens in London. It is the gift to the city from Henry Shaw, who started it in 1859 and by his will provided for its perpetuation. Its greenhouses alone cover more than 2 acres and its collection of orchids is the finest in the world.

Title: La Salle
Date: 1953-04-07
Description: M/V (La Salle) passing service base.

Title: Charles Binaggio
Date: 1950-04-07, null
Description: Charles Binaggio was leader if a Kansas City Democratic faction. He was at a time an underling of the late Boss Tom Pendergast. Later he opposed the once-powerful Pendergast organization. He was a witness before a federal grand jury investigating underworld activities shortly before his death.

Title: President Lido Deck
Date: 1963-08
Description: Photograph of passengers on the top deck of the President steamboat overlooking the Mississippi River. Photograph is taken from within the pilothouse., p11-3-3-58-8

Title: Residents of Pruitt-Igoe
Date: 1968-11-09
Description: Residents of Pruitt-Igoe await their turns at their new medical center in their neighborhood.

Title: Beardstown, Illinois
Date: 1981-08
Description: The enclosed pictures were taken during August 1981 on the Beardstown Illinois waterfront showing typical river scenes with the usual amount of tugs and other equipment. The B&N RR bridge in its river mode. The stern-wheel river tug is a locally built boat, original builders and name still showing = LOGSDON = built sometime in the 1930s more details could be obtained. These pictures were taken

Title: Eads Bridge and East Saint Louis From the Deck of the Steamer Golden Eagle
Date: 1946-07-13
Description: Golden Eagle trip July 13 - 1946. East St. Louis and Eads Bridge. Motorboat in the foreground.

Title: Stanton K. Smith
Date: 1953-07-30
Description: M/V (Stanton K. Smith) built at Cape Girardeau by Bob Earlbacher and Leased to the Smith Oil Co. Passing dredge in the lower approach to the Chain of Rocks Canal.

Title: Nita Dean
Date: 1953-09-07
Description: M/V (Nita Dean) of Greenville, Miss. - passing dredge, mile 136.9.

Title: Buna
Date: 1953-08-28
Description: Steamer (Buna) of the Federal Waterways Co. passing dredge while enroute to Chester, Ill. (Mile 67.2).

Title: Admiral in Saint Louis
Date: 1963-08
Description: Photograph of the bow of the Admiral steamboat. The Gateway Arch can be seen in the background under construction.

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