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Title: St. Louis Zoo Lion Show
Date: 1951-05
Description: Photograph of lions lifting their training into the air by pulling a rope beneath him during a lion show at the St. Louis Zoo. A crowd looks down at the scene from above.

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

Title: Ned Garver
Date: 1951-11-06, 1982-05-11
Description: Hard work usually paves the way to success and great demand. That just about explains why officals of five clubs are knocking each other over as they hammer at Bill Veeck's door trying to land Ned Garver, who notched 20 victories for the last-place Browns in 1951.

Title: St. Louis Zoo Elephant Performance
Date: 1951-05-19
Description: Elephant trainer Floyd Smith and his five performers make a pyramid. They also have new acts with four goats—which lead elephant, Clarabelle, doesn't like.

Title: Anheuser-Busch Brewery - Pickets Amid Strike
Date: 1951-10-16, 1951-10-16
Description: "Pickets appeared at the Anheuser-Busch brewery yesterday for the first time since the work stoppage there started Oct. 1. Members of Local 187 of the CIO Beer Bottlers Union are shown before the bottling plant. The company garage and three outside garages housing brewery trucks were also picketed, stopping the delivery of beer."

Title: Anheuser-Busch Brewery - Strike Settlement Reached
Date: 1951-10-26, 1951-10-26
Description: "August A. Busch Jr., president of Anheuser-Busch, Inc., helped notify pickets at the brewery that a settlement of the company's dispute with the Brewery Workers had been reached at 2:35 a.m. yesterday. From left, Eberhard Anheuser, chairman of the board of the brewery; R. W. Upshaw, vice president; Robert F. Lewis, president of the Joint Local Executive Board of the Brewery Workers, and Busch

Title: Anheuser-Busch Brewery - Bottler Union Picket
Date: 1951-10-18, 1951-10-18
Description: "Picketing by the CIO Beer Bottlers Union Local 187 was extended yesterday to the entire plant of Anheuser-Busch, Inc., forcing the complete shutdown of production. Pickets shown here are in front of the corn products plant and lager beer cellars near Ninth and Pestalozzi streets. The Anheuser-Busch shutdown was followed by a production stoppage at the Hyde Park Brewwery, where picket lines were

Title: Anheuser-Busch - Idled Bottling Equipment
Date: 1952-11-09, 1951-11-12
Description: "This is part of the $150,000,000 in brewery equipment idled by the work stoppage at Anheuser-Busch, Inc. This picture shows the deserted equipment on the sixth floor of the bottling plant."

Title: Anheuser-Busch Brewery - Emission Reduction
Date: 1951-07-07
Description: "Emission of fly ash is reduced by this towering piece of equipment attached to the stack of the largest boiler of Anheuser-Busch, Inc., at Ninth and Pestalozzi streets. Installed at a cost of $145,000 and using 45,000 volts of electricity, the equipment will reduce fly-ash emission to less than .075 grain to the cubic foot of stack gas, or one-tenth the amount formerly emitted."

Title: A Total of 7500 Safe Deposit Boxes
Date: 1951-09-01
Description: A Total of 7500 Safe Deposit Boxes were hoisted out of the basement of the Mississippi Valley Trust Company yesterday and moved to the Mercantile Commerce Bank & Trust Company, Eighth and Locust streets, where the new Mercantile Trust Company, a merger of the two banks, will open Tuesday.

Title: A Total Of 7500 Safe Deposit Boxes--Mercantile Trust Co.
Date: 1951-09-01, 1951-09-01
Description: A total of 7500 safe deposit boxes were holsted out of the basement of the Mississippi Valley Trust Company yesterday and moved to the Mercantile Commerce Bank & Trust Company, Eighth and Locust streets, where the new Mercantile Trust Company, a merger of the two banks, will open Tuesday. Armed police and bank guards surround one load of the boxes just after a portable crane had hoisted them from the Mississippi Valley basement through a hole cut in the sidewalk on Broadway at Olive street.

Title: Mercantile Trust Company Dining Room
Date: 1951-08-31, 1951-08-31
Description: Free meals are served to the bank's employees in the spacious dining room on the seventh floor of its Seventh Street Building. Meals include salads, desserts, and plentiful serving of vegetables and meat.

Title: The Largest Bank Under One Roof--Mercantile Trust Co.
Date: 1951-09-05, 1951-09-05
Description: The largest bank under one roof west of the Mississippi River, the Mercantile Trust Company, began operations yesterday, formed from the merger of the Mercantile-Commerce Bank and Trust Company and the Mississippi Valley Trust Company and located in the former's quarters in teh block bounded by Eighth and Seventh, Locust and St. Charles streets.

Title: Jefferson Barracks Bridge
Date: 1951-09-23, 1951-09-23
Description: An image of the Jefferson Barracks bridge.

Title: First Barrel of Draft Beer Being Loaded At Griesedieck Brothers Brewery
Date: 1951-10-26, 1951-10-26
Description: Above, rolling out the barrels at the Griesedieck Brothers Brewery, 1920 Shenandoah ave., was resumed yesterday as picket lines were withdrawn by the AFL Teammasters Local 688, which had sought to organize office workers.

Title: The New Fermentation Building of Griesedieck Brothers Brewery
Date: 1951-07-15, 1951-07-15
Description: The "de-bitterizing" process goes on in Griesedieck Brothers Brewery Company's new fermenting building, as a partial interiorr view shows here.

Title: Griesedieck Brothers Brewery
Date: 1951, 1951
Description: Griesedieck Brothers Brewery trucks being loaded with bottle beer.

Title: Montclair Apartments - Beauty saloon
Date: 1951-11-18, 1951-11-18
Description: The beauty saloon of Montclair Apartments, with beauticians hard at work.

Title: Montclair Apartments - Sitting room with furniture
Date: 1951-11-18, 1951-11-18
Description: One unit's sitting room at Montclair Apartments, with furniture on display.

Title: Montclair Apartments, Television Antenna, exterior
Date: 1951-11, 1951-11
Description: Television antenna seen on the roof of Montclair Apartments.

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