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.
Dunbar Elementary School principal Andrew J. Brown examines books which were sprayed with paint by vandals sometime Tuesday night or early Wednesday. The school's PTA has offered a $25 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the vandalism. The school is located at 1415 North Garrison ave.
Mid City Community conference at 4007 Delmar blvd. From left around table: Rev. H.J. Glasco, pastor, Mt. Bethel Baptist Church and SCLC representative in St. Louis; Rev. Arthur Marshall, pastor of Metro AME Zion Church; W.M. Bailey, chairman, West End Community conference; Percy Green, ACTION; M. Hatchett, NAACP; Solomon Rook, CORE; Father Francis Soyle, ex. director, Archdiocan commison on Human Rights.
Bill of Lading for the steamer W. F. NISBET of the St. Louis and Tennessee River Electric Light Packet, for delivery of 102 tons of No. 1 pig iron to St. Louis, Missouri, for the La Grange Iron Company, July 28 1886.
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