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Title: Union Station
Date: 1952-03-11
Description: The midway at Union Station was almost deserted last night as a result of the strike of three railroad brotherhoods which has paralyzed operations of the Terminal Railroad Association in St. Louis. All railroads except the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio have suspended passenger service at Union Station.

Title: Cairo
Description: 175 x 50 x 6; 512 tons. Casemate 150' x 50' - 21/4\" plating. Torpedoed Yazoo River 1863. Sides 8' high - single wheel. 9 miles per hour. 13 guns mostly 6\" rifles.

Title: Motorcycles
Description: Photograph of motorcyclists competing in a dirt-track race.

Title: Virginia Stranded in Pomeroy Bend
Date: 1910
Description: The Virginia operated in the Pittsburgh-Cincinnatti trade along with the Keystone State, the Iron Queen, the Scotia, the Carrollton, the Hudson and the Queen City. She was owned by the Pittsburgh and Cincinnatti Packet Company. Her career seemed to have been a hectic one. In 1910 high water from the Kanawha River left her stranded up in a field a hundred yards from the river, high and dry in

Title: Map 'A': Time Zones for Street Car and Feeder Bus Lines Based on Service and Routing
Date: 1930
Description: Accompanying report to the transportation survey commission of St. Louis., From: Report of the Transportation Survey Commission of the City of St. Louis / submitted to the Board of Aldermen.

Title: Virginia Sunk at Wellsville, Ohio
Description: Virginia steamboat sunk

Title: Kenton R. Cravens
Date: 1965-07-16
Description: Kenton R. Cravens, chairman of the board of the Mercantile Trust Company, has ben elected a member of the board of directors of the Granite Steel Company.

Title: Sign of the Times
Date: 1983-01-26
Description: A crane begins dismantling the right-field scoreboard at Busch Memorial Stadium Tuesday, making room for a new "state-of-the-art" scoreboard, where color instant replays will be shown on a 22-by-30-foot screen. A 22-by-44-foot screen will go up in left field to display black-and-white animation. Both will be ready for the opening baseball game April 5.

Title: Edwardsville, Illinois
Date: 1953-02-22
Description: Main Street, Edwardsville, Illinois. Photograph includes Edwarsville National Bank, Motz Hardware, Silverbloom, Ballweg Drugs and Chamber's Mens Wear.

Title: St. Louis Zoo
Date: 1971-10-31
Description: Photograph of the Emerson Zooline Railroad at the St. Louis Zoo. Three children stand off to the right awaiting to get on the miniture train with Captain Kangaroo (Bob Keeshan).

Title: Tim McCarver
Date: 1963-05-14
Description: TIM McCARVER... ...He's Come A Long Way

Title: Miss Jim, Zoo Elephant
Date: 1932-05-22
Description: Miss Jim and her keeper, Phil Rost, giving children a free ride at the St. Louis Zoo.

Title: Help Pettit Celebrate
Date: 1962-03-03
Description: Bob Pettit of the St. Louis Hawks was honored by the fans last night and members of the 1957-58 Hawk team that won the club's only NBA championship were on hand for the ceremony. In photo are; (left to right) Trainer Bernie Ebert, Cliff Hagan, Jack McMahon, Charley Share, Win Wilfong, Pettit, Slater Martin, Ed Macauley and Ned Park, all members of the squad that won the title.

Title: David Rowland Francis
Description: The President of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company was born at Richmond, Madison County Kentucky, October 1, 1850, son of John B. and Eliza Caldwell [Rowland] Francis. Francis served in various political positions, including mayor of St. Louis, governor of Missouri, and Secretary of the Interior. He died January 15, 1927.

Title: St. Louis Zoo Snakes
Date: 1975-06-06, 1975-06-09
Description: Uncommon attention is drawn to a "common boa" during Camera Day at the St. Louis Zoo. Zeroing in, from left, are Hank Gellegos of St. Louis, Dick Hurd of Hazelwood, Ann Penny of Maplewood and Bill Henderson of Florissant.

Title: Lambert Airport, Metal Detector
Date: 1972-07-07, 1972-07-08
Description: Passenger passes through American Airlines' metal detector Friday.

Title: North Shore Country Club
Date: 1973-03
Description: View of North Shore Country Club looking north.

Title: The Charles H. Yalem Children's Zoo
Date: 1969-05-09, 1969-05-10
Description: Photograph of Howard Baer, president of the Zoo Board, looks out over the grounds of the Charles H. Yalem Children's Zoo.

Title: St. Louis Zoo Seal Show
Date: 1977-05-11
Description: Photograph of a seal playing a set of horns while its trainer holds out a microphone at the St. Louis Zoo. In the background is a seated group of visitors coming to see the show.

Title: St. Louis County - Lambert Field Area
Description: Very early (ca. 1920) aerial view of Lambert Field, looking northeast along axis of what would later be Lindbergh Blvd at center of frame, bottom to top. Fyling field area to right (east) of road is completely unimproved, open, and grassy, and in this view does not even have hangar buildings. Hundreds of autos are parked on edge of field to right of Lindbergh Blvd, with two biplanes visible on

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