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Title: Headed Overseas
Date: 1953-12-22
Description: Headed overseas before Christmas, Pvt. George A. Posey wistfully spent his last few minutes in St. Louis yesterday at Union Station with his girl friend, Miss Margaret Scheer, 226 Fannie ave., Luxemburg, as the Southwest Hight School Choir strolled through the station singing Christmas carols. Posey, who had been stationed at the Army Medical Depot here, was off for Seattle and duty overseas.

Title: Gateway Arch
Date: 1965-06-17
Description: Photograph of crane scaffolding running up the side of the Gateway Arch. The cranes are positioned at the top of each leg of the arch,

Title: Union Station
Date: 1972-08-18, 1972-08-19
Description: "Trains used to be in and out of here all day and night but now there are only three a day" —Edward Dodson, supervisor of red caps at Union Station.

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

Title: Lambert Airport, Metal Detector
Date: 1972-07-07, 1972-07-08
Description: Passenger passes through American Airlines' metal detector Friday.

Title: Way Up There
Date: 1981-06-20
Description: Way up there: High-wire walker Jay Cochrane walks 1,000 feet across Busch Stadium during the opening night of the Moolah Shrine Circus Thursday. The circus' top attraction, Cochrane repeated the stunt his friend and mentor, Karl Wallenda, performed at the stadium 10 years ago.

Title: White Eagle
Description: Season's Greetings from Bob Roehrig. Steamer White Eagle (Illinois River, 1892) Owned by Captain Rob Roehrig, Sr. and W. K. Kavanaugh.

Title: Harris Teachers College
Date: 1955-05-13
Description: Harris Teachers College has its cafeteria in a basement corridor, so crowded that it must be used as a "one-way street." A cafeteria and a gymnasium are the school's critical needs which would be met through the school bond issue to be voted on May 26, the same date as the St. Louisans will vote in the $110, 639,000 municipal bond issue. The two will be on separate ballots.

Title: St. Louis Zoo Elephant Show
Date: 1980-05-15
Description: Carolyn, portraying a bench, and Pearl perform one of their tricks at the St. Louis Zoo while trainer Donn Gibson takes a bow.

Title: Steelwork of Eads Bridge
Date: 1977-02-25, 1977-02-25
Description: A close up image of the steelwork design of the Eads Bridge.

Title: Jim Ralston, Bottler At Anheuser Busch Brewery
Date: 1981-11-05, 1981-11-05
Description: Jim Ralston has never missed a day of work as a bottler at the Anheuser Busch brewery.

Title: Anheuser Busch-50 Million Barrels Of Beer
Date: 1980-12-23, 1980-12-23
Description: August A. Busch III pounds a bung into the 50 millionth barrel of beer produced by the Anheuser-Busch brewery this year.

Title: Eads Bridge Burns Bright
Date: 1981-12-19, 1981-12-19
Description: Almost six months after their installation, the lights on the Eads Bridge, far right, are burning bright, and, it is hoped, for good.

Title: Bridge Deterioration
Date: 1977-02-25, 1977-02-25
Description: This image shows the deterioration of the metal work in the Eads Bridge.

Title: Bill Whiteley, An Anheuser-Busch Supervisor
Date: 1981-11-05, 1981-11-05
Description: Bill Whiteley, a supervisor in bottling works for Anheuser Busch, has never missed a day of work.

Title: Anheuser-Busch Brewery - Stable to be Razed
Date: 1958-03-23
Description: "Section of Brewery Stable Being Razed."

Title: Eads Bridge-Crumbling Concrete
Date: 1977-02-25, 1977-02-25
Description: Crumbling concrete can be seen on the Eads Bridge.

Title: Anheuser-Busch Brewery - Quarter-Century Club
Date: 1950-09-23, 1950-09-23
Description: "August A. Busch Jr. (left) extends greetings to members of Quarter-Century club of brewery for long service at Hotel Jefferson dinner Sept. 23, 1950. Others from left are: August S. Preusch, chief of staff of guides at brewery; Oscar F. Miller, and Henry Boekelmann. The three men are 50-year employees."

Title: River Queen
Description: RIVER QUEEN sunk at Saint Louis, Missouri, Dec. 2, 1967. Formerly the CAPE GIRARDEAU and GORDON C. GREENE. Last packet boat built at Howard Shipyards (b. 1923). Photo by Bob Seals.

Title: Boyle Avenue and Olive Street
Date: 1959-01-27, 1959-02-01
Description: Photograph of the street signs posted at the corner of Boyle Avenue and Olive Street, also known as Gaslight Square in the Central West End of St. Louis.

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