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Title: Bob Pettit
Date: 1957-02-17
Description: A fractured wrist bone will necessitate the Hawks' Bob Pettit wearing a cast on his left arm for the rest of the season. Pettit suffered the injury during the game with Boston Friday night and will try playing with the handicap for the first time today at Minneapolis.

Title: Left Bank of Pilot Canal
Date: 1952-10-02
Description: Showing left bank of Pilot Canal as dredge backs out after completing the first cut. On left bridge is (Miller) and wife. Kansas City District, diversion channel.

Title: Beatrice Adams
Date: 1946-02, 1951-03-25
Description: Mis Beatrice Adams. Executive Vice-President, Gardner Advertising Co.

Title: Sumner High School
Date: 1950-02-05
Description: Second oldest in service among St. Louis high schools, Sumner, now located at Pendelton and Cottage avenues, has sent out nearly 8000 graduates from this building and its former home at Eleventh and Spruce streets.

Title: William H. Black at Completed Canal
Date: 1952-10-02
Description: Showing completed canal and the plug that separates the old and new channels, which will be blasted out October 4, 1952. Stern of dredge (William H. Black) is shown. Kansas City District, channel diversion.

Title: Phil the Gorilla
Date: 1959-06-02, 1959-06-03
Description: Phil the gorilla, as impressive in death as he was in life, still draws crowds at the St. Louis Zoo, where the mounted figure is on display in the Old Elephant House, next door to the ape house where he lived before his death last December. The massive figure, standing erect in a characteristic pose, holds the fascinated gaze of three young visitors, Karen, 3, and Debra Hartman, 5, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Lyode Hartman, 943 St. Charles st., St. Charles, Mo., and Pam Karrenbrock, 7, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mel Karrenbrock, Wentzville, Mo.

Title: Admiral Boarding/Disembarking
Date: 1954-07-02
Description: p11-3-1-40-5

Title: Buna
Date: 1953-08-28
Description: Steamer (Buna) of the Federal Waterways Co. passing dredge while enroute to Chester, Ill. (Mile 67.2).

Title: Edwardsville, Illinois
Date: 1953-02-22
Description: Main Street, Edwardsville, Illinois. Photograph includes Edwarsville National Bank, Motz Hardware, Silverbloom, Ballweg Drugs and Chamber's Mens Wear.

Title: Sainte Genevieve at Lower End of Canal
Date: 1952-10-02
Description: Dredging of first cut completed and dredge is about halfway of canal length as it backs out. View is to lower end of canal. Kansas City District, channel diversion.

Title: Derrick Hercules
Date: 1955-02-08
Description: Derrick Hercules engaged in gate lifting operations at lock no. 26.

Title: Pere Marquette
Date: 1953-07-02
Description: M/V (Pere Marquette) passing service base.

Title: Admiral Boarding/Disembarking
Date: 1954-07-02
Description: p11-3-1-40-5

Title: Elvis Presley
Date: 1957-02-29
Description: Elvis Presley at Kiel Auditorium. March 29, 1957.

Title: Sugar
Date: 1953-07-28
Description: M/V (Sugar) passing dredge at lower approach to Chain of Rocks Canal.

Title: Market Street St. Louis
Date: 1957-11-14, 1958-02-08
Description: Site earmarked for new federal building in St. Louis. View looking East on Market from Sixteenth Street.

Title: Evans Avenue
Date: 1959-02-10, 1959-02-11
Description: After the 1959 tornado, with walls sliced away, homes in multiple-family dwellings in the 3800 block of Evans Avenue are revealed in cross section. The buildings were badly damaged, their contects largely intact.

Title: Anheuser-Busch Brewery - Celebratory Arch
Date: 1899, 1964-02-29
Description: A decorative arch, put in place for the visiting Elks, as pictured at Anheuser-Busch Brewery in 1899. Image from St. Louis Mercantile Library collections.

Title: Anheuser-Busch Brewery - Elks Clebratory Arch
Date: 1899, 1964-02-29
Description: Two original captions: "This is the Anheuser-Busch brewery, photographed in 1899, with a decorative arch in place in honor of visiting Elks, who held their national convention in St. Louis in June of that year. Malt house and grain elevators may be seen in the background." "The Anheuser-Busch brewery in 1899. The decorative arch welcomed visiting Elks who held their convention in St. Louis in

Title: Anheuser-Busch Brewery - New Stainless-Steel Equipment
Date: 1954-02-20
Description: "New stainless-steel equipment made by Nooter Corp of St. Louis for Anheuser-Busch's new Los Angeles plant."

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