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.
Showing levee construction and Equipment, which is almost completed. Moving some of equipment out today. River in background is channel that was cut by flood last spring and it is to be re-routed into a new channel that the dredge is making the pilot canal for. Station 18+100'. Kansas City District, channel diversion.
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.
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No 12 St Louis May 151807 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 151807 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 less
Approaching Kansas City while enroute from St. Joseph, Mo. To St. Louis. At right is dredge (William H. Black), which preceded us down river. Kansas City District.
A competitive design submission for the Missouri Building planned for the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis. The design was submitted by architect Isaac S. Taylor and the illustration was printed as no. 857 on May 28,1892 in American Architect and Building News.
Elephant trainer Floyd Smith and his five performers make a pyramid. They also have new acts with four goats—which lead elephant, Clarabelle, doesn't like.
Front page of Frank Leslie's Illustrirte Zeitung (Illustrated Newspaper) No. 1416 Vol. 55 from the 20th of September, 1884. There are illustrations of events from the Swabian Festival in St. Louis on the 31st of August and the 1st of September. There is also a passage from the book titled "Die Erbin von Saldern" ("The Heiress of Saldern") by Ewald August König above the illustrations. The events