It is filled columns of the nation's newspapers for months. This sketch of the Arsenal, by artist of Harper's Weekly, has the Home Guards lounging about the spacious lawn of the reservation. These volunteer troops were called the "black guards" by Southern sympathetizers in St. Louis.
Original caption: "Seven workmen fell yesterday from the second floor of a building being razed at the Anhueser-Busch Brewery when a beam collapsed under them. All were injured, four seriously. The men plunged through the hole in the background. All seven are Negroes."
"Picket lines were set up at the Anheuser-Busch Brewery yesterday by the AFL International Association of Machinists, District 9, after 220 machinists walked out in a dispute over a new contract. The company charged the machinists demanded a contract clause that would result in a jurisdictional dispute. The union charged the management with refusal to negotiate." - Looking north on Broadway from Arsenal.
"As American tastes evolved, so did D'Arcy's advertizing. Ads, from left, for Coca-Cola in 1918, Budweiser in 1935 and Bud again in 1981, reflect changes in lifestyle and innovations in printing techniques."
This document contains the 1856 annual report for the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association and the 1856 fifth annual report of the Board of Directors of the Mercantile Library Hall Company.