. Louis. Later she was sold to a contractor, used as a quarter boat and finally sank about 1934. There was a bald eagle that preceded this boat. She was built in 1879 at Madison, Indiana. She was 202.3 x 30 x 5.4 feet. She ran the St. Louis - Clarksville trade until 1895. During the cyclone of 1896 she broke loose, struck the middle pier of the Eads bridge, St. Louis, Missouri, and sank.
1314 Market, corner of Market and Centre Streets. Photograph taken about 1907-1908. African Americans standing next to shoe-shine chair. Lemp Beer sign above side entrance.
This photograph provides a wide view of Locust Street headed downhill toward 18th Street. It includes several storefronts, large buildings, and a tall church steeple in the distance. The street is shared by pedestrians, horse-drawn carriages, as well as motorized vehicles. Gas street lamps and telephone wires line the street.
October 29, 1937. - Lower end of cut where Ste. Genevieve began dredging. About station 295-00. Grand Tower Pile Dike and Revetment Contract, 1937-38: Woods Brothers Construction Company. Note: Photographs could not be taken at regular intervals because of adverse weather conditions.
This photograph shows the corner of Seventh Street and Washington Avenue in the rain. Several pedestrians, including businessmen, are walking down the sidewalk. One woman looking into a store window is taking shelter under an umbrella. There are streetcars, motor cars, and and horse-drawn carriages in the street. Streetcar and telephone wires crisscross overhead. Each of the the buildings are several stories tall and are adorned with advertisements and electric marquees.
Photograph of two men standing on the sidewalk of a major street. One man appears to work at the grocery they are standing in front of. Horse-drawn carriages are visible in the street in the background of the photograph.
1915 and she was converted into an excursion boat, the J. S., by Streckfus Steamers of St. Louis, Missouri. The J. S. came out in 1919 as St. Louis's \"de luxe\" excursion boat at $15.50 and $1.25 per head while their other boat, the Saint Paul, charged $1.00. She had a successful career and was dismantled at St. Louis in the winter of 1938-1939 along with the Washington.
Photograph of the St. Louis Star newspaper building and Hotel Jefferson along North Tucker Boulevard. Horse-drawn wagons, automobiles and pedestrians are visible on Tucker Boulevard., The St. Louis Star building was at the Northwest corner of the intersection of Olive Boulevard and North Tucker Boulevard.
Taken June 1935 for Wilbur Finger from Dick Lemen. L to R Capt. Dan Dipple, R. V. Gerber, Ruth Ferris, Capt. "Billy" Clark in pilothouse of Str. Golden Eagle.