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Title: Broadway-Facing North
Date: 1897
Description: Photograph of Broadway in St. Louis in 1897. The view is looking north from Pine towards Olive. It includes many people walking on the sidewalks in front of stores and large buildings. There's a horse-drawn carriage and an electric streetcar.

Title: Bluff City
Date: 1897
Description: In the struggle of the packet boats against rail competition the Anchor Line put up a bold fight. To reduce operating expenses they built the Bluff City, the only stern-wheeler the Anchor Line ever built. She came out new in October 1896, built at Jeffersonville, Indiana. But fate was against her as she lasted but one year. On November 18, 1897 she caught fire at Chester, Illinois on the

Title: Gould's St. Louis Directory, for 1897 (For the Year Ending April 1st, 1898)
Date: 1897
Description: Being a complete index to the residents of the entire city, and a classified business directory, to which is added an appendix containing useful information of the churches, societies, railroads, city, state, and other miscellaneous matters, also a newly revised street and avenue directory., The digitization of this directory was made possible through the support of the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by the Missouri State Library, a division of the Office of the Secretary of State.

Title: Barr and Widen Company's Credit Guide for the Wholesale Trade
Date: 1897
Description: The St. Louis Credit Guide is organized in two parts. Part 1 alphabetically lists business names and addresses along with their credit rating and estimated worth. The key to the credit rating abbreviations is found on the last page. Part 2 alphabetically lists real estate owners, their addresses , and the assessed value of their property. It also contains an introduction about Commercial Laws of

Title: Gould's Blue Book, for the City of St. Louis. 1897. Vol. XV. For the Year Ending November 20th, 1897
Date: 1897
Description: The fifteenth volume of Gould's Blue Books, this directory contains the names of the most prominent householders and businesses in the city of St. Louis and surrounding suburbs, as well as residents from Alton, St. Charles and Carlinville for the year 1897. Residents and businesses are arranged alphabetically by name and street. In addition to the directory, it contains rosters of social clubs

Title: Broadway & Pine
Date: 1897
Description: Photograph of the intersection of Pine and Broadway in St. Louis in the late 1890s. The view is looking north on Broadway across Pine.

Title: Belle Memphis, Drawing of the Pilot House interior
Date: 1880-1897
Description: \"The pilot house was a sumptuous glass temple; room enough to have a dance in; showy red and gold window curtains; an imposing sofa; leather cushions and a back to the high bench where visiting pilots sit, to spin yarns and 'look at the river'; bright, fanciful 'cuspidores'; new oil cloth on the floor; a hospitable big stove for winter; a wheel as high as one's head, costly with inlaid work; a wire-tiller rope; bright brass knobs for the bells; and a tidy, white-aproned, black'texas tender', to bring up tarts and ices and coffee during mid-watch, day and night. The pilot house ssemed perched on a mountain; and her decks stretched far away, fore and aft below one.\" From Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain. Note: The bearded gentleman was Captain John Crane, the master of the Belle Memphis for many years.

Title: Agreement re: Norfolk and Portsmouth Belt Line R.R. Co.
Date: 1897, 1897

Title: Riverfront Old Pix 1897 Boats
Date: 1897, 1897
Description: View of several boats at the dock. Taken in 1897.

Title: American Engineer Car Builder and Railroad Journal October 1897
Date: 1897-10

Title: American Engineer Car Builder and Railroad Journal November 1897
Date: 1897-11

Title: American Engineer Car Builder and Railroad Journal December 1897
Date: 1897-12

Title: RF&P Dispatcher's Book January to June 1897
Date: 1897-01, 1897-06

Title: American Engineer Car Builder and Railroad Journal February 1897
Date: 1897-02

Title: American Engineer Car Builder and Railroad Journal March 1897
Date: 1897-03

Title: American Engineer Car Builder and Railroad Journal January 1897
Date: 1897-01

Title: American Engineer Car Builder and Railroad Journal April 1897
Date: 1897-04

Title: American Engineer Car Builder and Railroad Journal May 1897
Date: 1897-05

Title: American Engineer Car Builder and Railroad Journal July 1897
Date: 1897-07

Title: American Engineer Car Builder and Railroad Journal June 1897
Date: 1897-06

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