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Title: Leo Durocher and Buckey Harris
Date: 1948-07-14
Description: Leo Durocher and Buckey (sic) Harris (right), managers of the rival clubs, were all smiles before the game got under way. Harris pulled the surprise package out of the game in Vic Raschi who not only pitched two hitless innings but drove across two vital runs.

Title: Shore Slough
Date: 1948
Description: A Glimpse of a shore slough - where barges tie up in northern Iowa. Taken from Str. NATCHEZ 1948. E. Golterman.

Title: JEANNE BARRETT
Date: 1948
Description: Photo. Packet, 'Jeanne Barrett', being converted into a 'floating tent' by a Revival Group, Near Mobile, Ala, 1948-. Alabama Rivers Historical Research.

Title: Walter Evers and Larry Berra
Date: 1948-07-14
Description: Two local boys on the American League squad got together for some baseball chatter before the game. Walter (Hoot) Evers of Collinsville (left) explained to Larry (Yogi) Berra how he gets his power at the plate. Evers hit a home run to account for the first American League run.

Title: The Zorensky Brothers Store on Easton Avenue
Date: 1948
Description: The Zorensky Brothers store located at 6301 Easton Avenue, which is now known as Dr. Martin Luther King Drive, 1948. Hyme Zorensky, who immigrated from Russia in 1906, founded the store in 1913. Hyme's sons, Louis and Milton, worked in the store and in the 1950s and 1960s, the two developed the Crestwood Plaza Shopping Center and Northwest Plaza Shopping Center. Hyme's grandson, Mark Zorensky

Title: Harry S. Truman: Dewey Defeats Truman
Date: 1948-11-04
Description: After succeeding Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman found himself in a changed world. Truman was the second President to have an aircraft made available for his use, “The Independence.” However he still preferred to use the Presidential Railroad Car to campaign and tour the country. In 1948, Truman made one last swing through the Midwest by rail late in the election campaign against Thomas Dewey

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Wrestling Match
Date: 1948-06-27, 1948-06-27
Description: "Patients at veterans hospital, Jefferson Barracks, recently were entertained by wrestlers from the Tom Packs organization, who put on a show for 400 veterans at the hospital. Arrangements for the appearance were made by the Elmer Emig Post."

Title: Lansdowne Bridge
Date: 1948-11-14, 1948-11-14
Description: The Lansdowne bridge over the River des Peres.

Title: Curb Banking
Date: 1948-12-05
Description: Pulling up to the bank kiosk, located on the curb in front of the St. Louis Mercantile-Commerce Bank and Trust Co., customer places her bank book into a tray that will be carried to a teller under the sidewalk by a fast moving elevator.

Title: Dining Room
Date: 1948-03-07
Description: Dining Room and lounge for Mercantile-Commerce Bank and Trust Company employes in the building remodeled at Seventh and St. Charles street.

Title: Bank Teller
Date: 1948-12-05
Description: From the driver's seat, the teller can be seen in the glass of what is actually a huge periscope.

Title: Teller's Cage
Date: 1948-12-05
Description: Under the sidewalk, the bank teller speaks to and sees the customer in the street above him.

Title: Dining Room and Lounge
Date: 1948-05-07
Description: Dining Room and lounge for Mercantile-Commerce Bank and Trust Company employes in the building remodeled at Seventh and St. Charles street.

Title: Boatmen's Bank - Teller Counters
Date: 1948-06, 1951-01-21
Description: "Low teller counters replace the old-fashioned high teller cages in the new quarters of the Boatmen's National Bank in St. Louis. Lighting is a combination of incandescent fixtures and fluorescent cove lighting. The ceiling is light tan with white plaster decorations."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Seventh-Day Adventist Ministers
Date: 1948-06-08, 1948-06-08
Description: "Ministers of the Seventh Day Adventist Church began work yesterday on the demolition of nine buildings at Jefferson Barracks to obtain building materials for their preperatory school at Centralia, Mo. In charge were Elders Carl Sundlin (kneeling), Jesse Marshall (at Sundlin's left), and Miles Kellogg (at Sundlin's right)."

Title: MacArthur Bridge-A Widening Crack Appears
Date: 1948-08-04, 1948-08-04
Description: A widening crack appears in the western approach foundation of MacArthur Bridge.

Title: Bill Veeck and Hank Greenberg
Date: 1948-07-14
Description: Among the interested spectators were Bill Veeck (left), president of the Cleveland Indians, and Hank Greenberg, now an official of the Cleveland club. Greenberg performed in four consecutive All-Star games before the war as a member of the Detroit Tigers.

Title: New York Central System Chicago and Vicinity
Date: 1948, 1948

Title: Stan Musial and Ted Williams
Date: 1948-07-14
Description: Stan Musial and Ted Williams (right), standout hitters in the National and American Leagues, respectively, got together for a little chit chat before the game. Musial turned out to be senior circuit's hero in a losing cause while the "Splendid Splinter" walked in his only time at bat.

Title: Walt Masterson and Ralph Branca
Date: 1948-07-14
Description: Starting pitchers for the All-Star classic shook hands before the game got under way. Walt Masterson of the Washington Senators (left) drew a surprise starting assignment for the American League nine and Ralph Branca, mound ace of the Brooklyn Dodgers, was the National League hurler.

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