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Title: Baseball On The Barracks Schedule
Date: 1937-07-06
Description: The better seems to be claiming the pitcher substituted a cannonball for a baseball in one of the games frequently staged between companies.

Title: Jefferson Barracks Cemetery Chapel
Date: 1985-09-25, 1985-09-25
Description: A picture of the memorial chapel at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery.

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: Architectural Model of Jefferson Barracks Cemetery Chapel
Date: 1974-07-29, 1974-07-29
Description: Artist's conception of Jefferson Barracks memorial chapel.

Title: No Drilling Needed For This--Jefferson Barracks
Date: 1937-07-06, 1937-07-06
Description: Eating--This is one thing recruits at Jefferson Barracks do not have to be taught. After hours of drilling and exercise they say they "just come by it natural." This menu includes potatoes, pears, lettuce, coffee, bread, veal and peaches.

Title: Seeing What Makes It Tick--Jefferson Barracks
Date: 1937-07-06, 1937-07-06
Description: Private Bredemeyer thought he would take this machine gun apart to see what made it "tick." An apparent case of "spring fever" is handicapping his efforts to get it back together again.

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: Rookie Training At The Jefferson Barracks
Date: 1935-08-07, 1935-08-07
Description: These rookies have been in the army less than a month but under the intensified training schedule at Jefferson Barracks they are rapidly being converted into soldiers. They are shown here marching in review on parade grounds. Lieut. R.C. Huggins, in charge of the training of recruits is shown marching with drawn sword in front of the troops while Major Walter C. Philips reviews them from the sidelines.

Title: Tanks Down The Road
Date: 1939-07-28
Description: The light tanks of the Sixth Tank Company at Jefferson Barracks, under command of Capt. J. H. Gilbreth, departed last night for Arcadia, MO., where combat problems will be worked out by 41 officers of the 420th Infantry, Reserves, as the final part of their tank training at Jefferson Barracks this season.

Title: Officers
Date: 1935-07-19
Description: Officers who reviewed the Jefferson Barracks C. M. Brig. Gen. Carlos Black of the Illinois National Guard; Col. Walter C. Short, post commandant, and Lieut. Col. Vance Courtwright, commanding officer of the camp.

Title: Watching The March
Date: 1938-04-07
Description: Details of the equipment's operation are secret.

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: 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 National Cemetary - Memorial Chapel
Date: 1985-09-25, 1985-10-12
Description: Interior image of the Jefferson Barracks National Cemetary Memorial Chapel in September, 1985.

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: Missouri Editors Learned Camouflage Technique
Date: 1943-07-11, 1943-07-11
Description: Missouri editors learned camouflage technique first-hand from Capt. William C. Pahlmann, commanding officer of Jefferson Barracks camouflage school, whose troops gave a practical demonstration to some 250 state editors, members of the Missouri Press Association, who were "inducted" into the army Friday for a 24-hour period. From left, Mr. and Mrs. Ray E. Miller of the Carl Junction Standard, Capt. Pahlmann, H. H. Coffee of the Western Newspaper Union, Mrs. C. L. Blanton Sr. of the Sikeston Standard and H. M. Jungbluth of the Western Newspaper Union, discussing the demonstration.

Title: Funeral of a German Prisoner of War at National Cemetery, Jefferson Barracks
Date: 1944-07-03, 1944-07-03
Description: Image of a funeral of a German Prisoner of War at National Cemetery Jefferson Barracks

Title: Jefferson Barracks Cemetery
Date: 1947-05-25, 1947-05-25
Description: Image of the Jefferson Barracks Cemetery

Title: Eads Bridge Tunnel
Date: 1941-07-06, 1941-07-06
Description: A view through the arches of the Eads Bridge just before entering the tunnel.

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