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Title: Crowd Attending the Blasting of Plug in Pilot Canal
Date: 1952-10-04
Description: View of crowd on bank of the Pilot Canal during ceremonies prior to blasting of plug that opened the diversion canal. Kansas City District, channel diversion.

Title: William H. Black
Date: 1952-10-01
Description: Showing dredge (William H. Black) on upper side of Pilot Canal at station 6 + 00 dredging towards the 50' wide plug that will be blasted out. The (Black) dredged out the channel entrance for upper end. Dredging operations will be completed tonight.

Title: Golden Eagle Cafe
Date: 1962-11, 1963-10-06
Description: Photograph of the outdoor courtyard of the Golden Eagle café, located in Gaslight Square.

Title: Beer-Garden
Date: 1871-10-14
Description: A German beer-garden, -- Sunday night.

Title: Wallace R. Persons
Date: 1979-10-22
Description: What does a man do when he retires after running a company for 25 years? If you are like Wallace R. (Buck) Persons, former chairman and chief executive officer of Emerson Electric Co. here, you keep busy at a dozen or more private and public projects - any one of which would satisfy the ordinary retiree.

Title: The Waterways Journal, Volume 22, Number 28
Date: 1909-10-09,
Description: Vol. XXII. No. 28. O. V. I. A. Meeting: Planned to be One of the Most Important Waterways Meetings Ever Held. John A. Cox On Waterways. Matt Monaghan Passes Away. Arkansas Rice. Work Commenced on "Frisco."

Title: Police Officer in Gaslight Square
Date: 1963-10-06
Description: Photograph of a child talking to a police officer near Gaslight Square.

Title: Alfonso J. Cervantes and Carmen Cervantes, Alfonso J. Cervantes and Carmen Cervantes
Date: 1968-08-28, 1968-08-31
Description: Mrs. Alphonso J. Cervantes lights a candle for the birthday boy. Mayor Cervantes celebrated Tuesday with his wife, a trayful of cabled messages from friends and a mini-cake, a gift of Globe-Democrat photographer Jack Fahland.

Title: The Rolling Stones
Date: 1981-11-21, 1984-05-10
Description: The Rolling Stones as they appeared on stage Thursday night at the Checkdome. Charlie Watts, drummer for Rolling Stones, seen here in concert at the Arena in 1981, uses Gretsch drums.

Title: Wooden Mat Construction
Date: 1943-10-01
Description: Looking S. W. showing start of Wooden Mat. Lancaster Corp. Work started Une 5, 1943.

Title: Capitol
Date: 1928-10-15
Description: N. O. left dock 10:30 Oct 15 1928. Laid up Louisiana Ave for repairs. Note this shows how boat is looking outside of ferry dock. Her stern is in much closer to dock than Capitol last season.

Title: Grand Tower Dike and Revetment Work
Date: 1937-10-29
Description: October 29, 1937. - Lower end of cut where Ste. Genevieve began dredging. About station 295-00. Grand Tower Pile Dike and Revetment Contract, 1937-38: Woods Brothers Construction Company. Note: Photographs could not be taken at regular intervals because of adverse weather conditions.

Title: Midwest Cities
Date: 1953-10-01
Description: M/V (Midwest Cities) of Lake Tawkers Corp. - passing dredge, mile 235.7.

Title: Timber Dike Construction
Date: 1947-10-14
Description: Timber piling clump dike, Chester to Ste. Genevieve, Mo. Mile 111.9 L. Dike partially completed. Three clumps (9 piling) required to complete. Upper Mississippi River, St. Louis Dist. C. of E.

Title: Gateway Arch
Date: 1965-10-19, 1965-10-20
Description: Only one more section remains to be inserted - and that is to take place at the "topping out," now due for Oct. 28 - before the two legs of the Gateway Arch are joined. The next to last section, above, was put into place Tuesday, leaving a space of only two and a half feet between the legs of the 630-foot Arch. The legs appear to be joined in the picture below, taken after the next to last section was inserted, but that's due to the camera angle.

Title: Sainte Genevieve and William H. Black
Date: 1952-10-01
Description: The dredges (Ste. Genevieve) and (William H. Black) as they dredge opposite each other with 100' separating dredges to mark completion of the Diversion Channel Project. An Earth wall 50' thick will not be dredged. It will be blasted out. Dredges at station 6+00' and 7+00'. Kansas City District, channel diversion.

Title: River Clutter
Date: 1952-10-23
Description: A slight idea of the millions of piling that clutter the Missouri River (Mile 198.0). Below: Booneville, Mo. Kansas City District, enroute to St. Louis.

Title: Four Army Tugboats
Date: 1953-08-10
Description: Second tow of four Army tugs being delivered to New Orleans. These Tugs are built at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas for the Army. Tow is passing dredge (Mile 39.0).

Title: Ken Boyer Grand Slam
Date: 1964-10-11, 1964-10-12
Description: CARDS TEAMMATES WELCOME KEN BOYER, third baseman, as he reaches home on a sixth inning grand slammer in the fourth World Series game, Sunday. Greeting him are Carl Warwick, Dick Groat and Curt Flood, all of whom were on base when he hit the homer. At left is Bill White, the next batter.

Title: Fort Dearborn
Date: 1953-10-24
Description: M/V (Fort Dearborn) of John I. Hay Co. - passing dredge at mouth of the Meramec River, mile 160.0

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