7/8-inch round, pin back button with a black and white portrait of Martin G. Brumbaugh over a flag-motif shield on a blue background. The rim of the button is lined in gold. The words "For Governor, Martin G. Brumbaugh" in gold block letters surround the image. Reverse has paper label for A. J. Keil Co (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Pack of cigarettes (3.5"x2.25"x.75") featuring a blue profile portrait of President George W. H. Bush to promote his 1988 presidential candidacy. A red and blue stripe flows behind Bush’s head.
Caisson for Pier No. 4 landed and sealed. Pouring concrete in bottom section of dumb-bell pier on caisson base inside cofferdam and below bed of river.
Street view of destroyed buildings, debris and bystanders in the aftermath of a tornado which hit St. Louis' Lafayette Square neighborhood on May, 27,1896.
Henry G.A. Caspers was corporal, later promoted to sergeant, in the artillery company of Capt. Fischer, organized in St. Louis, Missouri. At Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, the company was mustered into the service of Col. Kearney. Most of Casper's military service was served in and around Santa Fe, New Mexico, during the time of the Mexican War. This journal dates from June 13, 1846 - December 1848
Authorities are still investigating the cause of five-alarm fire that destroyed an exhibition hall east of the Checkerdome Saturday afternoon. The Checkerdome had only minor damage like scorched roof tiles but electrical wires were burned which knocked out the power at the Checkerdome.
Illustration of fishermen on the riverbank of the Mississippi at flood stage. House and men in a canoe in the background., From Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War.
Together With the Proceedings Had In Aid of the Objects of That Incorporation By the Carlinville Convention, And the Reports of the Engineer And Executive Committee of the Convention Upon the Practicability And Advantages of the Undertaking.