The first printing of Gould's Blue Books, this directory contains the names of the most prominent householders and businesses in the city of St. Louis for 1883. Its contents are arranged alphabetically by name and alphabetically by street.
This directory contains an introduction followed by an index to advertisers, a street directory, a St. Louis City residential and business directory, a survey map, and a city and county record listing civic and social institutions for the year 1883.
The more complete title reads "Being a Complete Index of the Residents of the Entire City, and a CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY TO WHICH IS ADDED AN APPENDIX CONTAINING USEFUL INFORMATION OF THE CHURCHES, SOCIETIES, RAILROADS, CITY, STATE, AND OTHER MISCELLANEOUS MATTER, ALSO Street and Avenue Directory.
This directory contains an introduction entitled St. Louis, Origin and Growth featuring statistics related to growth, public improvements, and finances, followed by an index to advertisers, a street directory, a St. Louis City residential and business directory, and a city and county record listing civic and social institutions for the year 1879.
This directory contains an introduction entitled Progress of St. Louis featuring statistics related to growth, public improvements, and finances, followed by an index to advertisers, a street directory, a St. Louis City residential and business directory, and a city and county record listing civic and social institutions for the year 1877.
Published in 1875, this directory contains a condensed history of Missouri beginning with Spanish settlement in Florida, descriptions of counties, towns, and villages in Southeast Missouri and Southern Illinois with a listing of their business owners, population figures, distances between towns, and civil officers. It also contains a U.S. legal directory, hotel directory, and brief history and
Containing the names, duties, salaries, terms of service, etc. of every officer in the State and the principal officers in the Federal Government; the names and address of every Clergyman, Lawyer, Physician, Merchant, and Tradesman in the State; the Literary Institutions, Colleges, male and female, Newspapers and Periodicals, with their Editors and location; also, useful statistics compiled from the late Census returns.
Construction of Cape Girardeau Bridge. 1927. View eastwardly from top of Span No. 1. Erecting steel from upper chord, showing rivet forge and traveler.
The enclosed pictures were taken during August 1981 on the Beardstown Illinois waterfront showing typical river scenes with the usual amount of tugs and other equipment. The B&N RR bridge in its river mode. The stern-wheel river tug is a locally built boat, original builders and name still showing = LOGSDON = built sometime in the 1930s more details could be obtained. These pictures were taken
Light on the River - August 18, 1880. The Steamer Chas. P. Chouteau, lying at the foot of Market street, attracted considerable attention along the levee last evening by its two electric lights, which shone forth with intense brightness. The Chouteau is the first steamer at this point on the Mississippi River to substitute an electric llight for the old fashioned pine-torch illuminators, and the
Construction of Cape Girardeau Bridge. 1927. Plan view of Pier No. 4 under construction. Checking alignment of pier and setting points for another 8 foot section of forms.
Cofferdam construction for Pier No. 4. Burning bolt holes along edges of 22' x 42' steel caisson for bolting bottom of wood cofferdam to top of caisson. Note material shaft near center of caisson.