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Title: Baseball On The Barracks Schedule
Date: 1937-07-06
Description: The better seems to be claiming the pitcher substituted a cannonball for a baseball in one of the games frequently staged between companies.

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.

Title: No Drilling Needed For This--Jefferson Barracks
Date: 1937-07-06, 1937-07-06
Description: Eating--This is one thing recruits at Jefferson Barracks do not have to be taught. After hours of drilling and exercise they say they "just come by it natural." This menu includes potatoes, pears, lettuce, coffee, bread, veal and peaches.

Title: Seeing What Makes It Tick--Jefferson Barracks
Date: 1937-07-06, 1937-07-06
Description: Private Bredemeyer thought he would take this machine gun apart to see what made it "tick." An apparent case of "spring fever" is handicapping his efforts to get it back together again.

Title: Sixth Infantry of Jefferson Barracks
Date: 1937-08-23, 1937-08-23
Description: Members of Sixth Infantry lined up preparatory to leaving for Arcadia, Mo. On motorized hike.

Title: County Grand Jury Inspect Barracks Housing Project
Date: 1956-04-11
Description: Propane Tanks Learning Against Building Cited as Hazard.

Title: Officers
Date: 1935-07-19
Description: Officers who reviewed the Jefferson Barracks C. M. Brig. Gen. Carlos Black of the Illinois National Guard; Col. Walter C. Short, post commandant, and Lieut. Col. Vance Courtwright, commanding officer of the camp.

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Land Division Map
Date: 1958-11-23, 1958-11-23
Description: Two original captions: "This map of Jefferson Barracks shows how the land is being divided there. The proposed new housing is near the west gate; the old barracks used for housing now, which will be demolished, are north of this. The 232 acres (No. 2 on map) requested by the county to add to its 147-acre park (No. 1 on map) is west of the present park." "NB: Area outlined in red now being sought

Title: Sp-Am War I (11)
Date: 1949-11-06
Description: Camp Stephens, Jefferson Barracks, showing some of the youngladies and gentlesmen of St. Louis visiting with their friends who have gone into camp for the Spanish-American War.

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Modern Doughboys
Date: 1938-05-04, 1938-11-11
Description: "Modern Doughboys: In the midst of past and present entanglements, American doughboys keep in trim, forming the bulwark of American defense in a time of peace. These soldiers are part of the Sixth Infantry at Jefferson Barracks."

Title: Missouri Editors Learned Camouflage Technique
Date: 1943-07-11, 1943-07-11
Description: Missouri editors learned camouflage technique first-hand from Capt. William C. Pahlmann, commanding officer of Jefferson Barracks camouflage school, whose troops gave a practical demonstration to some 250 state editors, members of the Missouri Press Association, who were "inducted" into the army Friday for a 24-hour period. From left, Mr. and Mrs. Ray E. Miller of the Carl Junction Standard, Capt. Pahlmann, H. H. Coffee of the Western Newspaper Union, Mrs. C. L. Blanton Sr. of the Sikeston Standard and H. M. Jungbluth of the Western Newspaper Union, discussing the demonstration.

Title: Candlelight Service At Jefferson Barracks' Chapels
Date: 1942-09-19, 1942-09-19
Description: Rabbi Ferdinand M. Isserman of Temple Israel presents "The Eternal Light," Jewish symbol of the perpetual existence of God, in a candlelight service last night at one of Jefferson Barracks' chapels. The gift of Temple Israel's Junior Congregation, the light (seen in the top center of the altar) was accepted for the post by Chaplain First Lieutenant John L. Harris.

Title: Mother's Day At The Jefferson Barracks
Date: 1942-05-11, 1942-05-11
Description: Mrs. Alfred Chance of Akron, Ohio, visited her son, Clarence, 25, at Jefferson Barracks yesterday on Mother's Day and shortly after her arrival found herself playing mother to nearly 25 service men. In the above picture Mrs. Chance plays piano for soldiers in the Hostess House. Her son stands behind her.

Title: Aquacenter Exterior Sketch
Date: 1972-10-11
Description: Aquacenter, Inc., is ready to launch financial drive

Title: Construction Work
Date: 1937-08-01
Description: Construction work on the new $1,250,000 National Guard Armory on the south side of Market street just west of Grand boulevard is progressing rapidly.

Title: Flag Pole
Date: 1963-11-22
Description: A shot of the flag pole on top of the Armory building.

Title: Flag Pole
Date: 1963-11-22
Description: A shot of the flag pole on top of the Armory building.

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