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Title: Children Playing
Date: 1947
Description: A colorful image of a train crew on the back of a passenger car with mountains in the background.

Title: Caboose Window
Date: 1949
Description: An image of a lantern and clipboard laying on a desk by a window overlooking the railroad tracks and power lines.

Title: Sp-Am War I
Date: 1949-11-06
Description: Long rated as one of the state's crack National Guard units, Light Battery A had its banner hanging from a tree to mark its camp ground and to guide visitors about the company's section in CampStephens.

Title: The First Groups Of Enlisted Air Force Reservists
Date: 1943-02-16
Description: The first groups of enlisted air force reservists, from schools and colleges, farms and factories, are now arriving at Jefferson Barracks, where they will receive preaviation cadet basic training before going on to a pre-flight schools

Title: Vets Have Made J.B. Apartments Homey
Date: 1947-02-09
Description: The buildings once occupied by soldiers at Jefferson Barracks now house some 250 families of veterans and deceased service men.

Title: Exuberant Blackhawk Veterans
Date: 1945-06-20
Description: Members of the first full unit to return from Europe, arrived last night at Jefferson Barracks.

Title: Caution Children 10 MPH
Date: 1947-02-09
Description: Shot of Jefferson Barracks housing next to the tower.

Title: William Clark and Family
Date: 1947-02-09
Description: Sitting in children's room on bunk beds with children

Title: Mrs. Stauffer and Family
Date: 1947-02-09
Description: Mrs. Stauffer playing with her child and her dog.

Title: Towel Hanging
Date: 1947-02-09
Description: Woman use Warehouse to dry wash in bad weather

Title: Beer Gardens In The 1880s
Date: 1949-12-25, 1949-12-25
Description: Beer gardens got their real start when the great German immigration begain to flow into St.Louis in 1848. In a matter of a few short years, beer gardens were as much a part of St. Louis as the Mississippi. One such garden was at the "Grand Centre" on Gravois.

Title: Camp Stephens in Jefferson Barracks
Date: 1949-11-06, 1949-11-06
Description: Leveling rifles for Boehl's camera is a company of the Seventh Regiment, U.S. Volunteers, a unit authorized by Congress. Idea was to enlist recruits in Missouri and southern states where yellow fever had been severe. Theory was they were immune to disease, which was claiming more lives than guns. The 7th was recruited among Negroes in Missouri and neighboring states for what might very well have turned out to be a deadly assignment, five years prior to Dr. Walter Reed's discovery of the yellow fever cycle.

Title: Servicemen Inspect New Antitank Gun At The Jefferson Barracks
Date: 1940-07-25, 1940-07-25
Description: St. Louisans also seemed anxious to see what they could see about the new 37 mm. antitank gun at the encampment on Memorial Plaza. Soldiers were on hand to answer questions.

Title: A Demonstration At Jefferson Barracks
Date: 1940-07-25, 1940-07-25
Description: Learning about a .30-caliber Browning machine gun, on the plaza at Grand and Washington.

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Proclaimation by Winfield Scott
Date: 1942-08-14, 1942-08-14
Description: "Above is shown a proclaimation of 1847 and envelope discovered recently in New York by a collector of early unstamped postal letters, of which even the government had not previously had a copy. The document was issued by Maj. Gen. Winfield Scott, and it bears the name of an officer believed to have been stationed at Jefferson Barracks."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - 1944 Memorial Service
Date: 1944-09-25, 1944-09-25
Description: "Military memorial services honoring the approximately 400 men from the immediate St. Louis area killed in action were held yesterday at Jefferson Barracks. Above is shown the 757th Military Police Unit marching in review before a crowd of 2000."

Title: Sp-Am War I (11)
Date: 1949-11-06
Description: Camp Stephens, Jefferson Barracks, showing some of the youngladies and gentlesmen of St. Louis visiting with their friends who have gone into camp for the Spanish-American War.

Title: Jefferson Barracks - President Roosevelt
Date: 1943, 1976-07-10
Description: fallow - a historic place that once served as an Army home for Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, and Jefferson Davis. The old garrison, carved from the wilderness 150 years ago, is Jefferson Barracks - (cut off) - July 8, 1826, when 1,700 acres of frontier land were ceded to the government by the town of Vide Poche, later to be called Carondelet, for the site of the post."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Native American Recruits
Date: 1942-06-07, 1942-06-07
Description: Original article: "Private Robert L. Wilburn of Cabool, Mo. (kneeling with rifle), a 54-year-old former Indian fighter, and these eight full-blooded Sioux Indians have buried the hatchet at Jefferson Barracks and are training for a chance at Hitler's scalp. As a member of the Second Cavalry in South Dakota during Ute uprising of 1908, Private Wilburn fought against parents and grandparents of

Title: Jefferson Barracks - 10,000th Seperatee
Date: 1945-12, 1945-12
Description: "100,000th Separatee of Jefferson Barracks, Missouri. Private Donald T. Wardrip, 5923 S 6th St, St. Joseph, Missouri, was the 100,000th man to be discharged from the Separation Center, Jefferson Barracks, 8 December 1945. Private Wardrip, who is 22 years of age, has been overseas 23 months. He joined the 3rd Army on 1 November 1944 and was a machine gunner in the "B" company, 37th Tank Battalion

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