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Title: Progress Made to Date
Date: 1952-09-13
Description: View of progress made to date. Total advance since start of dredging: 3,000 ft. Total time: 3 weeks this date. Average 1,000' per week. Total production to date for job: 658.489 yds. Total dredge length of canal by both dredges: approx. 6,000'. Overall length of canal: 9,000'. Started station 57/100. Kansas City District, Channel Diversion Project.

Title: Harris Teachers College
Date: 1955-05-13
Description: Harris Teachers College has its cafeteria in a basement corridor, so crowded that it must be used as a "one-way street." A cafeteria and a gymnasium are the school's critical needs which would be met through the school bond issue to be voted on May 26, the same date as the St. Louisans will vote in the $110, 639,000 municipal bond issue. The two will be on separate ballots.

Title: Golden Eagle
Date: 1946-07-13
Description: Golden Eagle trip July 13 - 1946. Towboat on shoreline.

Title: Golden Eagle
Date: 1946-07-13
Description: Golden Eagle trip July 13 - 1946. View from the bow of the boat.

Title: Floyd Near Plug Opening
Date: 1952-10-04
Description: Opening that was blasted in plug to start flow of river through diversion channel. Head elevation approx. 2 feet. Towboat (Floyd) in Background. Kansas City District, channel diversion.

Title: Dick Groat
Date: 1963-04-07
Description: Photograph of Cardinals shortstop Dick (Richard Morrow) Groat. Groat played shortstop for the Saint Louis Cardinals from 1963-1965.

Title: The Wakerobin at Covington, Kentucky
Date: 1985
Description: The steamboat Wakerobin docked at Covington, KY, October 12, 1985.

Title: Lou Brock
Date: 1973-04-15, 1973-04-16
Description: Lou Brock of the Cardinals slides home with a run in the third inning Sunday as Cubs catcher Randy Hundley receives a throw too late from center fielder Rick Monday. The run came home on Ted Sizemore's single to center.

Title: Memphis Before the War.
Date: 1862-04
Description: Old battery at the Navy-yard. Steamboat landing. The cotton levee., From Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War.

Title: Mike Shannon
Date: 1965-04-11
Description: Photograph of St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Mike Shannon in the batting cage.

Title: John F. Kennedy
Date: 1960-10-03, 1960-10-04
Description: Launching a 12-speech day which carried him through southern Illinois and on to Springfield, Senator John F. Kennedy campaigned vigorously Monday on the East Side after an overnight stop in St. Louis. At Granite City (above left), he met one of the day's biggest turnouts, an estimated 3000 persons who gathered in the Bellemore Village Shopping Center. Another large crowd was on hand to hear the

Title: Fort Jackson
Date: 1953-04-15
Description: M/V (Fort Jackson) passing service base. The river was very rough at the time.

Title: Dizzy Dean
Date: 1985-01-05
Description: Dizzy Dean, seated, reads the St. Louis Globe-Democrat cartoons.

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: Masonic Temple, St. Louis Missouri
Date: 1927-04-05
Description: This image is an excerpt from a publication titled The American Architect and was printed on April 5, 1927. Shown are four different areas within the Masonic Temple which was designed by Eames & Young. The interior views consist of large halls, auditoriums, and meeting areas.

Title: Difficulties of a Working General Among the Bayous
Date: 1863-04-11
Description: Bayou Navigation in Dixie.-From a sketch by Mr. Theodore R. Davis.-[See page 235.]

Title: Tennessee Belle
Date: 1925-04-08
Description: No. 195 Muscle Shoals Dock. Photo by G. W. Landrum Florence, Ala. April-8-1925. Capts Ed-, Charles Beard pilots. Capt. B. J. Carragher master. 83rd anniversary renioun of the Battle of Shiloh survivors.

Title: Bill White
Date: 1960-04-10
Description: Re-issued 1961-04-09 and 1963-04-07.

Title: Kokoda
Date: 1953-04-07
Description: Steamer (Kokoda) of the Federal Barge Line Passing Service Base. This is one of the DPC vessels built during the war.

Title: Golden Eagle
Date: 1946-07-13
Description: Golden Eagle trip July 13 - 1946.

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