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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: Robert Wadlow
Date: 1927-02-05
Description: Robert Wadlow, 8-year-old Alton boy, and Pierce W. Hangge, G-D Photographer.

Title: The Old Courthouse and the Gateway Arch
Date: 1976-05-22
Description: The Old Courthouse at 4th and Market Streets is on the eastern edge of the city's Gateway Mall area. Downtown financial interests are trying to revive the long-dormant mall which, when completed, will stretch to 21st street.

Title: Hortense B. Ingram
Date: 1953-05-07
Description: M/V (Hortense B. Ingram) passing service base.

Title: Admiral Boarding/Disembarking
Date: 1971-05-11
Description: p11-3-1-40-5

Title: Arthur J. Dyer
Date: 1953-11-05
Description: M/V (Arthurs J. Dyer) of the Ingram Products Co. - passing dredge.

Title: Golden Eagle
Date: 1947-05-17
Description: This picture was taken by Mr. Wesley when she left on her ill fated trip May 17, 1947 from the St. L. Levee at 6:00 P.M. Presented to the Golden Eagle River Museum by Marga Finger 1976,

Title: M-370: German Sisters Captivity Letter
Date: 1875-01-20
Description: the rescue of the two youngest girls, a letter was written, addressed to Sophia, aged 12, and Catherine, aged 17, by Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Neill. The letter advised the sisters to read it Grey-Beard or Stone-Calf to secure the sister's release and for the Cheyennes to submit themselves to the mercy of the government. The sisters were rescued in March 1875 and reunited with their sisters at Fort

Title: Laying of Advance Shore Pipe
Date: 1952-09-20
Description: Showing laying of advance shore pipe. A new line is layed every 750 ft. of dredge advance. Shown also is section of almost completed levee. This levee is the reason that the discharge line has to be so long. River channel made by flood can be seen in extreme background. Station 1,800 feet. Kansas City District, channel diversion.

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: Ain't we Cute Cream of Wheat Kids?
Date: 1917-07-05
Description: Cream of Wheat advertisment. Painted by Harry Stacey Benton for Cream of Wheat Co.

Title: Dreding
Date: 1943-08-12
Description: Looking West showing dredging for wharf road. Minneapolis Dredging Co. Work started June 9, 1943.

Title: Robert L. Burnes and Pancho Segura
Date: 1959-10-20
Description: BOB BURNES, SPORTS EDITOR, of The St. Louis Globe-Democrat annd (sic) KMOX Radio sportscaster interviews tennis star Pancho Segura. Burnes regularly interviews the nation's leading sports figures on his early program.

Title: St. Louis Zoo Elephant Show
Date: 1980-05-15
Description: Carolyn, portraying a bench, and Pearl perform one of their tricks at the St. Louis Zoo while trainer Donn Gibson takes a bow.

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

Title: Cape Girardeau
Date: 1943-05-26
Description: Cape Girardeau during flood of 1943. May 26, 1943. From John C. DeBolt, Corps of Engineers.

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: Chester, Illinois Flour Mill
Date: 1943
Description: Flour mill, Chester, Ill. 1943.

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

Title: M-013 Maryland Land Grant
Date: 1733-05-01
Description: Royal land grant to Richard Brooks pertaining to 22 acres in Maryland.

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