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Title: E. B. Inge
Date: 1949-05-12
Description: Photograph of the towboat E. B. INGE. Sent by Mrs. E. L. Rhoads by Capt. Noble L. Gordon. May 12 1949.

Title: Empire Builders
Date: 1949
Description: An image of a grading crew, two horses, and various rail equipment in front of a train and railroad surrounded by buildings and mountains in the background.

Title: Caboose Window
Date: 1949
Description: An image of a lantern and clipboard laying on a desk by a window overlooking the railroad tracks and power lines.

Title: Sp-Am War I
Date: 1949-11-06
Description: Long rated as one of the state's crack National Guard units, Light Battery A had its banner hanging from a tree to mark its camp ground and to guide visitors about the company's section in CampStephens.

Title: Beer Gardens In The 1880s
Date: 1949-12-25, 1949-12-25
Description: Beer gardens got their real start when the great German immigration begain to flow into St.Louis in 1848. In a matter of a few short years, beer gardens were as much a part of St. Louis as the Mississippi. One such garden was at the "Grand Centre" on Gravois.

Title: Camp Stephens in Jefferson Barracks
Date: 1949-11-06, 1949-11-06
Description: Leveling rifles for Boehl's camera is a company of the Seventh Regiment, U.S. Volunteers, a unit authorized by Congress. Idea was to enlist recruits in Missouri and southern states where yellow fever had been severe. Theory was they were immune to disease, which was claiming more lives than guns. The 7th was recruited among Negroes in Missouri and neighboring states for what might very well have turned out to be a deadly assignment, five years prior to Dr. Walter Reed's discovery of the yellow fever cycle.

Title: Sp-Am War I (11)
Date: 1949-11-06
Description: Camp Stephens, Jefferson Barracks, showing some of the youngladies and gentlesmen of St. Louis visiting with their friends who have gone into camp for the Spanish-American War.

Title: Army Man and Family
Date: 1949-07-17
Description: Headquarters building of the Arsenal, from which Gen. Lyon planned his raid on Camp Jackson, is now the residence of Capt. William Peters of the St. Louis Medical Depot. The big, six-room, thick-walled structure was also erected in 1830.

Title: Working Men
Date: 1949-07-17
Description: In 1922 the post, which was established to make death-dealing weapons of war, was turned over to te Medical Department. Facilities are used to store medicines and as schools for dental technicians and medical equipment repairmen.

Title: This Building
Date: 1949-07-17
Description: This building, originally erected as a barracks 162 years ago today, has been used for various purposes, including warehouse for muskets, cannon and medical supplies.

Title: Wheeling
Date: 1949-07-17
Description: After Lyon, through influence of Frank P. Blair Jr. (whose statue is at Kingshighway and Lindell) was placed in charge of the military in St. Louis, he ordered defenses of Arsenal strengthened.

Title: The Guard
Date: 1949-07-17
Description: The guard house, built in 1830, is still in use today. Soldiers at door are part of a training detachtment stationed at post.

Title: Arsenal 2
Date: 1949-07-17
Description: This photo, one of the first made at the post, shows some of the military stores Lyon sought to save for the Union.

Title: Arsenal
Date: 1949-07-17
Description: At the Civil War there was a great need of mounted troops for service agianst the Indians, particularly around 1876 at the time of the Custer massacre, and the Arsenal became a cavalry recruit depot.

Title: Anheuser-Busch Brewery - Scene for Documentary Film
Date: 1949-08
Description: "Crowd scene at 9th and Pestalozzi at filming of scene in documentary on history of Anhueser-Busch."

Title: Old Boatmen's Bank Building - Fire and Collapse
Date: 1949-10-30, 1965-02-7
Description: "For days after the fire, police maintained special details to keep the curious from the ruins. Then eight days later, the proud structure, once hailed for its graceful architectural lines and fort-like appearance, claimed six more lives when a wall fell on the adjoining St. Louis Seed Company building. Rest of walls were then levelled by dynamite."

Title: JB II (9)
Date: 1949-11-06
Description: Jefferson Barracks, showing the riverfront shortly after the Spanish American War.

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Transfer to State Ownership
Date: 1949-12-30, 1949-12-30
Description: . W. Timmermans, Lt. Col. J. W. McFerrin, Capt. Robert L. Bobbett, commander, all of the Seventy-first Fighter Wing, and Lt. Col. Ross Garliah, deputy commander, 157th Aircraft Control and Warning Group. The Missouri Air National Guard will use the area."

Title: JB I (7)
Date: 1949-11-06
Description: The sundial was placed in the east or open front of the old quadrangle in 1841 when another of the Barracks' boasts was a 9-acre vegetable garden which supplied it with vitamins to chase Indians.

Title: JB I (3)
Date: 1949-11-06
Description: Jefferson Barracks, northwest corner of old quadrangle and parade the period between the Mexican and Civil wars and replacing the one-story barracks originally built in 1827-37.

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