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Title: Central Library
Description: Image of the St. Louis Central Library from 13th and Olive.

Title: Lillian + Wren
Description: View of a street light and a wooden fence. There appear to be chickens roaming free. The caption on the back reads "LILLIAN + WREN." The same names are written on the street light in the photograph.

Title: Welcome To St. Louis
Description: This photograph shows of a truck driving in the snow across the Free Bridge (now the MacArthur Bridge), into the city from Illinois. The exit is now near 6th Street., This is a wider view of another photograph in the collection.

Title: Jaccard Building Bell Tower
Description: This photograph shows a rooftop view of the domed bell tower at the top of the Jaccard Building. The Jaccard Building stood at the corner of Broadway and Locust Street, at 407 N. Broadway. In the distance there are several industrial buildings and smokestacks billowing streams of gray and white smoke.

Title: St. Louis Lunch Room

Title: Missouri and Arkansas.
Date: 1867
Description: Map of Missouri and Arkansas, showing roads, railroads, counties, lakes, rivers, cities and towns., From: Black's general atlas of the world : a series of fifty-six maps containing the latest discoveries and new boundaries accompanied by introductory description and index / Adam and Charles Black.

Title: Locust Street
Description: This photograph provides a wide view of Locust Street headed downhill toward 18th Street. It includes several storefronts, large buildings, and a tall church steeple in the distance. The street is shared by pedestrians, horse-drawn carriages, as well as motorized vehicles. Gas street lamps and telephone wires line the street.

Title: Seventh Street and Washington Avenue in the Rain
Description: This photograph shows the corner of Seventh Street and Washington Avenue in the rain. Several pedestrians, including businessmen, are walking down the sidewalk. One woman looking into a store window is taking shelter under an umbrella. There are streetcars, motor cars, and and horse-drawn carriages in the street. Streetcar and telephone wires crisscross overhead. Each of the the buildings are several stories tall and are adorned with advertisements and electric marquees.

Title: Hole in Street
Description: Photograph of people standing around a large hole in a city street. Two men in the foreground are looking down the hole. A man in the background is holding a large rope connected to a block and tackle. A crowd of people watching is visible in the background.

Title: Uncle Sam's Pickling Jars
Description: Two children examine jars of pickled vegetables on display beneath an image of Uncle Sam and a sign that reads, "This is what GOD gives us. What are you giving so that others may life? Eat less WHEAT MEATS FATS SUGAR Send more to Europe or they will Starve." Several jars bear the 4-H logo.

Title: Locomotive in front of Simmons Hardware
Description: This photograph shows a cobblestone cross-street fitted with a gas powered street light and a series of telephone wires. In the mid-ground there are two horse drawn carriages, one is an enclosed passenger carriage and the other has an open top and is being driven by two workmen. In the left portion of the photograph there is a large pile of cobblestones and a steam locomotive. The locomotive is identified on the photograph as "engine 81 of the Terminal Railroad Association". The background of the image contains a tall smokestack and several large factory buildings. The buildings include a Simmons Hardware Co. Warehouse, a Western Electric Company building, and several industrial sites.

Title: Easton Ave, Wellston
Description: Street scene of Easton Avenue in Wellston, Missouri in the early 20th century. The image features a storefront, a family, and various signs for businesses. Easton Avenue was later named Dr. Martin Luther King Drive.

Title: New 7th Street
Description: New 7th Street looking North from Belt Tracks.

Title: Produce Sale at the Grand Water Tower
Description: This photograph shows a crowd of people surrounding a street-side produce market. The market took place at the base of the Grand Water Tower, on the corner of Grand Blvd. and 20th Street. The view in this photograph faces South and provides a broad view of several store fronts, houses, a church steeple and the wide street. The street is filled not only with people, but also with streetcars, motor cars, and horse-drawn wagons. Street car and power wires stretch overhead.

Title: Wheels of a Horse-Drawn Fire Engine
Description: The back of the image is ripped along the bottom where tape used to be. There is no caption. The image is of a horse-drawn fire engine.

Title: Commission Row
Description: The Caption on the back of the photograph reads" 3rd Street? Commission Row." The image is of a street scene with many horse-drawn carriages and several storefronts under a block-long awning. Businesses represented include Byrnes Belting Co., Hype Park Beer, Schwartz and Abrams, J. H. Russell & Son, Milligan Fruit Co., R. N. Miller Commision Co., and Hartman Bros.

Title: Charters and Organization
Date: 1876
Description: Articles of incorporation and charter for the Ohio & Mississippi Railway Company published in 1876. Includes a history of the creation of the company through the incorporation of railroad and railway companies in the states of Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, and Ohio from 1848 to 1872.

Title: Views of the Vine Growing Resources of St. Louis and Adjacent Counties of Missouri
Date: 1858
Description: A report on the role of viticulture in Missouri's economy.

Title: Twenty-Fifth Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association
Date: 1871-01-10
Description: This document contains the twenty-fifth annual report of the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association along with the proceedings of the anniversary celebration of that year. It includes an address by the library's first president James E. Yeatman and a poem by Thomas E. Garrett titled "The Three Stages."

Title: Address of Vespasian Ellis and the Oration of Charles C. Carroll, Delivered July 5th, 1841
Date: 1841-07-05

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