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Title: "City of Kansas City" (Wabash) Car #1600
Date: Circa 1947
Description: Front of car #1600 of the "City of Kansas City." It has a headlight and the train's logo on it.

Title: "City of Kansas City" (Wabash) Car #475
Date: Circa 1947
Description: Full view of "City of Kansas City" car #475

Title: "City of Kansas City" (Wabash) Car #475
Date: Circa 1947
Description: Full view of car #475 of the "City of Kansas City."

Title: "City of Kansas City" (Wabash) Lavatory Window
Date: Circa 1947
Description: Lavatory windows like these utilized frosted glass to ensure privacy. You can also see part of the sink in the bottom left corner.

Title: "City of Kansas City" (Wabash) Car Connection Vestibule
Date: Circa 1947
Description: Inside the screen is a metal frame connecting these two train cars together, the screen also keeps any stray dirt from the frame from getting on passengers.

Title: "City of Kansas City" (Wabash) Observation Car Smokers Lounge
Date: 1947-11
Description: The smokers lounge in this observation car includes an ash tray and a ventilation shaft above

Title: "City of Kansas City" (Wabash) Observation Car Mirror
Date: Circa 1947
Description: A small mirror seen on many "City of Kansas City" cars.

Title: Ordnance District Headquarters
Date: 1946-01
Description: "Riverview Blvd entrance to newly located St. Louis Ordnance District headquarters just off Goodfellow Blvd which formerly housed Chevrolet Shell plant buildings."

Title: One of Eight Units For Small Arms Plant Construction
Date: 1941-08-21
Description: "Some idea of the magnitude of the project can be gained by realizing that this is one of eight giant production units. The one in the back of it is virtually completed. These manufacturing units are each 1000 feet in length. Cranes are currently keeping busy hoisting more steel."

Title: Thanksgiving Turkey Print
Date: 1949-11-24
Description: "Prospective buyers looked over the farmer's flock of turkeys. This scene was sketched by A. B. Frost in 1890."

Title: The Bear and Fox Inn Painting
Date: 1949-11-20
Description: Photograph of a painting depicting pilgrims outside of the Bear and Fox Inn with bare trees next tot he building. There's a small dog barking at a man who's standing in front of the inn, with people looking at him and likewise walking by. At the bottom righthand corner is "Thanksgiving Day" in script.

Title: Captured German Troops
Date: 1945-04-12
Description: "Captured German Troops stand in a temporary enclosure in the Ninth Armored Division's sector of the First Army front in Germany."

Title: Sacred Heart Villa
Date: 1940-05-10
Description: "The new Sacred Heart Villa at Macklindand Wilson Avenue, which will be dedicated at 4 p.m. Sunday by Archbishop John J. Glennon."

Title: Crediting the Men who Built the Arms Plant
Date: 1941-04-25
Description: Blue collar workers that helped build the Small Arms plant pose for a photo.

Title: Celebrating at the Arms Plant
Date: 1943-05
Description: Hundreds gather at an event being held at the Small Arms Plant.

Title: General Brehon Somervell
Date: 1941-09-25
Description: General Brehon Burke Somervell giving a speech at the Small Arms Plant. Hundreds gather to listen.

Title: Miss Betty Pearia
Date: 1943-06-12
Description: "Another chosen on the basis of the 'Three S's'--suitability, safety and style. Miss Betty Pearia, looks charming as well as efficient in tailored slacks. A gaily colored bandanna keeps her curls safe and shiny, and steel-toe safety shoes protect her toes in case she drops a heavy object."

Title: Selma Cawbey
Date: 1943-09-05
Description: "Welder Selma Cawbey at work on one of the many small parts which are made by hand for use on the metal fuselage of the glider."

Title: Checking Dimensions of Steel to be Used for Ammunition
Date: 1966-11-07
Description: million contract to produce 4,500,000 rounds of the 105-millimeter shells. Target date for production was Jan. 1, 1967, but Chevrolet is already operating the plant at about 18 percent capacity. Still red hot, the steel is checked for length and depth of cavity. it is then cooled, again measured and sent to machinery building."

Title: Contruction Beginning for New Ammunition Plant
Date: 1941-06-22
Description: "Steel started going up last week at the huge Small Arms Ammunition Plant at Goodfellow and Bircher Boulevard."

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