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Title: Taos, A Romance of the Massacre
Date: 1847
Description: A fictionalized account of the Taos massacre, wherein many Native Americans and Hispanics were killed by U.S. government forces in response to the killing of Territorial Governor Charles Bent and other Americans. Apparently based upon someone's experience in Taos during the massacre. The first work of fiction published in Missouri, and the first work of New Mexico fiction. Contains a plan of the plaza where the massacre happened., Everpoint was the pseudonym for Joesph M. Field.

Title: Annual Catalogue and Announcement of the Medical Department of the St. Louis University
Date: 1854
Description: Session 1854-55

Title: Support Affordable Housing Picketing
Date: 1990
Description: Pencil drawing of workers from various unions walking and holding signs.

Title: The Marble Quarry
Description: Oil painting showing workers in a marble quarry with cart, hoist, and various tools.

Title: For All These Rights We've Just Begun to Fight
Date: 1946
Description: Lithograph showing man with agitated expression and upraised fist surrounded by banners; created for the CIO in 1946 urging union members to vote.

Title: Cement Work
Date: 2010
Description: Watercolor painting showing construction worker preparring concrete with façade of Saint Louis Art Museum in background.

Title: Hattie Baking Biscuits
Date: 1995
Description: Acrylic painting showing a woman in a commercial kitchen leaning over a counter that holds biscuit dough and a rolling pin.

Title: Building Service Group
Date: 1984
Description: Wood block print showing group of employees, some with tools of their trade.

Title: Joe Hill
Description: Oil painting showing labor organizer and singer Joe Hill in shackles with a crowd and banner behind him.

Title: Mississippi Lime Quarry, Ste. Genevieve
Date: 1951
Description: Lithograph showing a Mississippi lime quarry with one worker in foreground.

Title: End of Shift
Description: Oil painting showing a man accompanied by a child walking on a sidewalk with factory and busy street in the background.

Title: A March to Eisenhower Sheet Music
Date: 1953
Description: 11 15/16 inches by 8 7/8 inches white music sheet with cover page. The cover page is white with blue and red letters. At the top is blue letters spelling "A MARCH TO EISENHOWER". Beneath the title are blue letters spelling "WORDS BY HIRAM D. HIRSH MUSIC BY JEWEL M. FRANK". There is an American flag on a pole in the center of the page. Next to the flag are red letters spelling "Souvenir of

Title: St. Louis Courthouse
Description: Miniature drawing of the St. Louis courthouse, pencil on wove paper, not signed or dated, 2 1/4 inches by 2 1/2 inches

Title: Verein card with Christian imagery
Description: Design with central area having indistinct text including the word "Verein" (German for club or charitable organization) in the header, with a border of eleven vignettes of Christian religious subjects including St. George and the dragon, angels, and an alter with cross and prayer book. Pencil and ink on wove paper, unsigned, 4 1/2 inches by 6 6 1/4 inches

Title: Landscape with train, boats, and building
Description: Drawing of large complex of buildings on an isolated hill adjacent to a winding river on the right where two riverboats are visible and on the left a railroad train crosses a flat plain toward the hill. Pencil on wove paper, not signed or dated, 2 3/4 inches by 6 inches

Title: St. Louis Cotton Factory
Description: Drawing of cotton factory complex, pencil on wove paper, not signed or dated, 3 3/4 inches by 6 inches

Title: Workers on railroad car
Date: 1853
Description: Drawing of workers on a railroad flatcar, pencil on wove paper, signed bottom center Paulus Roetter and dated lower right 1853, 2 3/16 inches by 5 1/8 inches

Title: Workers quarrying
Description: Drawing of men striking rocks with picks below a cliff with a jagged tree trunk; two men stand on the cliff. Pencil on wove paper, signed lower right Paulus Roetter, no date, 4 inches by 3 1/4 inches

Title: Sugar refinery and shot tower
Date: 1854
Description: Drawing of St. Louis Steam Sugar Refinery, locatd on Lewis, O'Fallon and Bates Streets, St. Louis, owned by Belcher & Brothers, next to the St. Louis Shot Tower operated by Kennet, Simonds & Co., pencil on wove paper, not signed, c.1854, 3 1/2 inches by 4 3/4 inches

Title: Workers
Description: Drawing of men working in what may be a pig iron processing furnace, pencil on wove paper, unsigned, no date, 4 inches by 3 1/4 inches

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