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Title: Classification Storage Area
Date: 1942-09-18
Description: View of classification, storage and receiving yard. Taken looking west. Work commenced 6-1-42. Talton-MacDonald Co.

Title: Frankie Baker
Date: 1942-02-13, 1979-02-20
Description: Frankie Baker in 1942: 'I just couldn't get away from it... that song.'

Title: New Levee
Date: 1942-09-08
Description: Completed New Levee from point under Terminal R.R. Bridge looking N. E. U.S. Pt. and Hired Labor Hydraulic Construction. Started 8-3-42.

Title: Ohio River Shipyard
Date: 1942-02-05
Description: February 5, 1942. From bottom left: Gulf Barge OSAGE; USCGC AZALEA; NUGENT Sandi Gravel Dredge; USCG Quarter Boat #12; mv BETTY GARDNER; mv JANE RHEA; mv ANKER L. CHRISTY; Str. KENOVA.

Title: Pearl, Illinois
Date: 1942
Description: Pearl, Ill. July 1942.

Title: Golden Eagle
Date: 1942-07
Description: 7/42 Ill R. STR. GOLDEN EAGLE

Title: Golden Eagle
Date: 1942-06
Description: The Golden Eagle near Chattanooga on the first trip she had made to a point that far up the Tennessee River.

Title: Dredge Grafton
Date: 1942-04-16
Description: Dredge Grafton in operation, looking upstream.

Title: Granite City Sewer
Date: 1942-09-15
Description: Reinforcing and frames for saddle-part of Granite City sewer looking N.E. work commenced 5-4-42.

Title: The A. T. & S. F. Ry. System Index Map
Date: 1923, 1942
Description: Index Map for entire ATSF Railway.

Title: Rock Fill
Date: 1942-06-30
Description: Showing rock fill along North side of Railroad. Embankment. Looking East.

Title: Admiral Arcade
Date: 1942-07-12
Description: p11-3-1-41-17

Title: Soldiers Departing, 1942
Date: 1942
Description: Families and residents of St. Louis gather on the levee to send off soldiers departing for World War II, circa 1942. Donated to the St. Louis Mercantile Library by Norbert Rechtien.

Title: Levee Break
Date: 1942-06-27
Description: Break in unfinished new levee near terminal. Railroad bridge, looking N. E.

Title: Frankie Baker
Date: 1899, 1942-02-13
Description: At left is the way Frankie Baker appeared back in 1899 when she shot Allen (Johnny) Brit, the murder on which she claims the famous Frankie and Johnny ballad was based. At the right is the way Frankie appeared yesterday when she arrived in St. Louis to press her $200,000 character defamation suit against a film company for a movie version of the murder. (Feb. 13, 1942)

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Proclaimation by Winfield Scott
Date: 1942-08-14, 1942-08-14
Description: "Above is shown a proclaimation of 1847 and envelope discovered recently in New York by a collector of early unstamped postal letters, of which even the government had not previously had a copy. The document was issued by Maj. Gen. Winfield Scott, and it bears the name of an officer believed to have been stationed at Jefferson Barracks."

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: Candlelight Service At Jefferson Barracks' Chapels
Date: 1942-09-19, 1942-09-19
Description: Rabbi Ferdinand M. Isserman of Temple Israel presents "The Eternal Light," Jewish symbol of the perpetual existence of God, in a candlelight service last night at one of Jefferson Barracks' chapels. The gift of Temple Israel's Junior Congregation, the light (seen in the top center of the altar) was accepted for the post by Chaplain First Lieutenant John L. Harris.

Title: Jefferson Barracks Training Course
Date: 1942-04-06, 1942-04-06
Description: Toughening up for action in an obstacle race are these Jefferson Barracks soldiers. The 4-foot rail fence was only one of the obstacles that marked the quarter-mile course over which the trainees yesterday were sent in groups of six, armed and helmeted and ready for the enemy.

Title: Mother's Day At The Jefferson Barracks
Date: 1942-05-11, 1942-05-11
Description: Mrs. Alfred Chance of Akron, Ohio, visited her son, Clarence, 25, at Jefferson Barracks yesterday on Mother's Day and shortly after her arrival found herself playing mother to nearly 25 service men. In the above picture Mrs. Chance plays piano for soldiers in the Hostess House. Her son stands behind her.

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