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Title: Recreation Building
Date: 1943-08-03
Description: Enlisted Men Recreation Bldg. looking N.W. E.F. Marsh Const. Work started June 5, 1943.

Title: Lambert Airfield
Date: 1947-03
Description: Military plane flies over Lambert Airfield.

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: American Railroad Journal
Date: 1836-05-14
Description: Vol V, No 19.

Title: Clyde Bill of Lading
Date: 1886-05-14
Description: Bill of lading for the Steamer CLYDE for shipment of 27 tons #1 pig iron and 15 tons #2 pig iron, May 14, 1886 to St. Louis, Missouri, for the La Grange Iron Co. at $2.00 per ton.

Title: Boatman's Bank Building
Date: 1900-03
Description: 14x11 in photograph of the old Boatman's Bank building in March of 1900. A sign for Shapleigh Hardware adorns the building and there is an advertisement in the foreground for recreational boating on the Meramec River.

Title: Jimmy and Freddy Moore
Date: 1954-07-14
Description: Jimmy Moore, left, and his brother Freddy, who lived on Hunt Avenue, try to cool off on July 14, 1954. The day's temperature was a record 115 degrees, making it the hottest day ever in St. Louis history. Here, the Moore boys enjoy what they called 'The Original Water Park.' Photograph donated by J. R. Moore.

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

Title: Eugene F. Williams, Jr.
Date: 1967-03-21
Description: Eugene F. Williams Jr., executive vice president of the St. Louis Union Trust Company, has been named to the board of directors of American Airlines.

Title: Chain of Rocks Park Fire
Date: 1977-05-31, 1977-06-01
Description: Amusement park fire under inquiry: Firemen, silhouetted against blazing amusement rides at the Chain of Rocks Fun Fair Park, fight the fire which caused an estimated $180,000 in damage.

Title: American Rail-Road Journal, Volume 1, Number 13
Date: 1832-03-24
Description: Vol I, No 13

Title: Dredge Cut Face
Date: 1952-09-03
Description: Looking into dredge cut face. Advance since start of excavation: 1,500'. Yardage: 325,000. Ste. Genevieve on right. Kansas City District, Pilot Canal Project.

Title: The Parade of the Veiled Prophet
Date: 1882-10-14
Description: Front page of Um die Welt: Keppler & Schwarzmann's Illustrierte Zeitung (Around the World: Keppler & Schwarzmann's Illustrated Newspaper). View of the Veiled Prophet Parade in front of the old courthouse in St. Louis. Fireworks and various exotic animals can be seen. Revelers can be seen throughout.

Title: A Trial of Patience
Date: 1880-03-20
Description: A TRIAL OF PATIENCE. - Drawn by S. G. McCutcheon.

Title: Pigskin Park-and-Ride Scores at Union Station
Date: 1959-10-03, 1959-10-04
Description: on one side part of what it gained at the other back in 1929 when 10 new tracks were added at the west side of the train shed. In those days, an average of 650 trains used to station every day. Nowadays, the average is slighty over 100.

Title: Phil the Gorilla
Date: 1959-06-02, 1959-06-03
Description: Phil the gorilla, as impressive in death as he was in life, still draws crowds at the St. Louis Zoo, where the mounted figure is on display in the Old Elephant House, next door to the ape house where he lived before his death last December. The massive figure, standing erect in a characteristic pose, holds the fascinated gaze of three young visitors, Karen, 3, and Debra Hartman, 5, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Lyode Hartman, 943 St. Charles st., St. Charles, Mo., and Pam Karrenbrock, 7, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mel Karrenbrock, Wentzville, Mo.

Title: Capitol, Wheel Rebuilding
Date: 1929-11-14
Description: New wheel - star side

Title: Grand Tower Dike and Revetment Work
Date: 1930-01-14
Description: January 14, 1938. - From upper landing, showing sheer boom for ice.

Title: Union Station Worker
Date: 1977-09-12
Description: Photograph of a Union Station worker pushing a cart with passengers' luggage.

Title: St. Louis Zoo Gorilla
Date: 1958-06, 1984-03-27
Description: Photograph of Phil the gorilla and his tire in an indoor exhibit at the St. Louis Zoo.

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