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Title: After the Last Haircuts
Date: 1964-11-30, 1964-12-01
Description: Barbers sit in empty chairs as Fred Harvey barber shop in Union Station closed its doors Monday, and for the first time in the station's 70-year history travelers will not be able to get haircuts and shaves in the station. Seated on the gloomy occasion, from front to rear, are Albert Schwent, Terry Corzine and Charles Kimberlin.

Title: Grand Tower Dike and Revetment Work
Date: 1937-11-12
Description: November 12, 1937. - Spoon end of Ste. Genevieve shore pipe discharge.

Title: Grand Tower Dike and Revetment Work
Date: 1937-11-14
Description: November 14, 1937. - New cutter head to be installed. Note difference.

Title: Soldiers Departing, 1942
Date: 1942
Description: Families and residents of St. Louis gather on the levee to send off soldiers departing for World War II, circa 1942. Donated to the St. Louis Mercantile Library by Norbert Rechtien.

Title: Cape Girardeau
Date: 1943-05-26
Description: Cape Girardeau during flood of 1943. May 26, 1943. From John C. DeBolt, Corps of Engineers.

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: 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: Dizzy Dean
Date: 1985-01-05
Description: Dizzy Dean, seated, reads the St. Louis Globe-Democrat cartoons.

Title: M-013 Maryland Land Grant
Date: 1733-05-01
Description: Royal land grant to Richard Brooks pertaining to 22 acres in Maryland.

Title: Golden Eagle
Date: 1940-05-16
Description: St. Louis tourist steamer Golden Eagle on Tennessee River near Chattanooga, Tenn. 5-16-40. Mile 457 +/-

Title: Masonic Temple, St. Louis Missouri
Date: 1927-04-05
Description: This image is an excerpt from a publication titled The American Architect and was printed on April 5, 1927. Shown are four different areas within the Masonic Temple which was designed by Eames & Young. The interior views consist of large halls, auditoriums, and meeting areas.

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: Asphalt Plant
Date: 1943-07-05
Description: Showing Seneca Asphalt Plant in operation, looking Northwest.

Title: Dike No. 107.8, Crains Island
Date: 1940-06-05
Description: Upper Mississippi River, U. S. Engineer Office, St. Louis, Mo. Dike No. 107.8, Crains Island. U. S. Plant and Hired Labor.

Title: Levee Break
Date: 1942-06-27
Description: Break in unfinished new levee near terminal. Railroad bridge, looking N. E.

Title: Copy of Letter from William Clark, May 15, 1807
Page From: info:fedora/umsl:39462
Date: 1800-05-17
Description: Handwritten copy of a letter from William Clark to Colonel Hunt about arrangements to return a group of Sioux Indians safely to their lands in May of 1807.
Text: No 12 St Louis May 15 1807 Dear Sir A few days ago a Deputation from Several Bands of the Sieaux In Habiting the border of the Missouri arrived at this place with Mr. Durion Sub Agent (appointed by Genl. Wilkinson) for the Missouri. On their way down they down they were fired on by a party of Indians Supposed to be Ottoes, which has alarmed them very much Those Sieux have requested protection
Show moreNo 12 St Louis May 15 1807 Dear Sir A few days ago a Deputation from Several Bands of the Sieaux In Habiting the border of the Missouri arrived at this place with Mr. Durion Sub Agent (appointed by Genl. Wilkinson) for the Missouri. On their way down they down they were fired on by a party of Indians Supposed to be Ottoes, which has alarmed them very much Those Sieux have requested protection
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Title: Cyclone View, May 27,1896
Date: 1896-05-27
Description: The debris and structural damage of a barn, building, and wagon caused by a tornado on May 27,1896 in St. Louis, Missouri,

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)

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