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Title: Market Street St. Louis
Date: 1957-11-14, 1958-02-08
Description: Site earmarked for new federal building in St. Louis. View looking East on Market from Sixteenth Street.

Title: The Poor Little Bride of 1860
Date: 1920-02
Description: Aunt Jemima advertisement.

Title: Union Station
Date: 1974-11-15
Description: Photograph of Union Station's nearly empty Midway.

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

Title: Map of Saint Louis
Date: 1989-02-01
Description: This 1898 map of the City of Saint Louis was created by the City Lighting Department.

Title: Arcturus
Date: 1976-07-02
Description: Frech boat "Arcturus". 7/2/76.

Title: Capitol
Date: 1929-02-08
Description: Steamer Capitol New Orleans Feb-8-29. Showing - Pipe Railing on big stage after repairing, \u2026 solid job. Jos. S. Boat scrubbed down to 2nd deck. Have fastened up roll cover on ticket box so it looks right. Entrance to Capitol is clear.

Title: Grand Tower Dike and Revetment Work
Date: 1937-11-14
Description: November 14, 1937. - Source of stone for job (Tobin's Quarry).

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: Boxing Factory
Date: 1943-06-02
Description: Looking S.W. toward Boxing Factory from Post Engineer parking lot.

Title: Frankie Baker
Date: 1899, 1942-02-13
Description: At left is the way Frankie Baker appeared back in 1899 when she shot Allen (Johnny) Brit, the murder on which she claims the famous Frankie and Johnny ballad was based. At the right is the way Frankie appeared yesterday when she arrived in St. Louis to press her $200,000 character defamation suit against a film company for a movie version of the murder. (Feb. 13, 1942)

Title: Evans Avenue
Date: 1959-02-10, 1959-02-11
Description: After the 1959 tornado, with walls sliced away, homes in multiple-family dwellings in the 3800 block of Evans Avenue are revealed in cross section. The buildings were badly damaged, their contects largely intact.

Title: Lady Linda
Date: 1953-06-11
Description: M/V (Lady Linda) passing service base.

Title: Mail Automat
Date: 1962-11-14, 1962-11-15
Description: Another bygone activity at Union Station: Railway mail service. A new automatic mail-sack handling system which saves $1,000,000 a year, displaces 175 jobs and speeds up mail distribution from trains at St. Louis' Union Station was dedicated Wednesday. Photo above shows the mail coming down hoppers to be dumped into chutes leading to trains.

Title: Post Engineer Parking Lot
Date: 1943-06-02
Description: Taken from Post Engineer Government parking lot, looking South toward Merchant's Bridge.

Title: National Elimination Balloon Races Held at Priesters Park
Date: 1914-07-11
Description: Panoramic photograph depicting six racing balloons still tethered to the ground at the center of the racing track at Priesters Park. Spectators can be seen in the stands to the right and left. The race was presented by the Aero Club of St. Louis.

Title: Capitol - 2nd deck
Date: 1924-02
Description: Soda bar, second deck of the excursion steamer CAPITOL.

Title: Ozzie Smith
Date: 1986-02-26
Description: Smith has agreed with Cardinals' brass that he should not risk injuring his tender throwing arm.

Title: Letter from Zebulon Pike to Captain Daniel Bissell, June 11, 1806
Page From: info:fedora/umsl:39462
Date: 1806-06-11
Description: Letter from Zebulon Pike to Daniel Bissell in June of 1806 discussing military affairs and the maintaining of Pike's home.
Text: No 5 Bell Foutain. 11 June 1806. Dr. Sir Yours of the 28th June & 2� July was handed me by W. Nughz and shall be noticed in rotation, as in the first you are more than commonly complementary, but work me up after by the notice of my omission in not sending you a return of the Detachment but see here a plain tale will put you down. I was informed on my return, that all my Detachment
Show moreNo 5 Bell Foutain. 11 June 1806. Dr. Sir Yours of the 28th June & 2� July was handed me by W. Nughz and shall be noticed in rotation, as in the first you are more than commonly complementary, but work me up after by the notice of my omission in not sending you a return of the Detachment but see here a plain tale will put you down. I was informed on my return, that all my Detachment
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Title: Golden Eagle
Date: 1946-11-03
Description: GOLDEN EAGLE in mid-stream at New Orleans, La. Starting the return trip to St. Louis, Mo. November 3, 1946.

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Mercantile Library Collections Directory

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