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Title: Bald Eagle
Description: . Louis. Later she was sold to a contractor, used as a quarter boat and finally sank about 1934. There was a bald eagle that preceded this boat. She was built in 1879 at Madison, Indiana. She was 202.3 x 30 x 5.4 feet. She ran the St. Louis - Clarksville trade until 1895. During the cyclone of 1896 she broke loose, struck the middle pier of the Eads bridge, St. Louis, Missouri, and sank.

Title: Charles H. Yalem Children's Zoo Playground
Date: 1969-05-09
Description: Photograph of an older visitor taking a ride down a slide at the Charles H. Yalem Children's Zoo.

Title: Grand Republic II
Description: . This Grand Republic ran excursions out of St. Louis in 1896, 1897 and 1898. She burned at the mouth of the River Des peres, St. Louis, on March 13, 1898.

Title: Admiral Boarding/Disembarking
Date: 1954-07-02
Description: p11-3-1-40-5

Title: Wreck of the Chalmette
Date: 1904
Description: The Chalmette was built in 1881 at Jeffersonville, Indiana as the City of Vicksburg for the Anchor Line Packet Company of St. Louis, Missouri. She was wrecked by the cyclone in St. Louis on May 27, 1896 along with four other Anchor Line steamers. In the process of rebuilding by Captain W. H. Thorwegan as an excursion boat she was purchased by the Illinois Central Railroad interests and renamed

Title: Belle Memphis, Interior of Belle Memphis
Description: The Belle Memphis was a large Anchor Line boat built at the Howard Yard, Jeffersonville, Indiana in 1880. Her dimensions were:- 267 x 42 x 7.5 feet. She operated in the St. Louis - New Orleans trade. On May 13, 1889 she took into the Vicksburg wharfboat the largest cargo of freight ever delivered by one steamer up to that date. It was a manifest of 11,024 packages weighing 813 tons. On

Title: Stacker Lee, Lee Line Packet - St. Louis to Memphis
Description: The Stacker Lee was built at Jeffersonville, Indiana in 1902. Her dimensions were:- 225.5 x 45.5 x 6.6 feet; tonnage, 710. She had four boilers (six flues each)40 inches in diameter and 22 feet long. Her engines were of two cylinders, each 18 inches in diameter with a nine-foot stroke. She was owned by the Lee Line of Memphis, Tennessee and ran the St. Louis-Memphis trade. On November 19, 1907

Title: The Charles H. Yalem Children's Zoo
Date: 1969-05-09, 1969-05-10
Description: Photograph of Howard Baer, president of the Zoo Board, looks out over the grounds of the Charles H. Yalem Children's Zoo.

Title: Admiral Boarding/Disembarking
Date: 1954-07-02
Description: p11-3-1-40-5

Title: Belle Memphis
Description: The Belle Memphis was a large Anchor Line boat built at the Howard Yard, Jeffersonville, Indiana in 1880. Her dimensions were:- 267 x 42 x 7.5 feet. She operated in the St. Louis - New Orleans trade. On May 13, 1889 she took into the Vicksburg wharfboat the largest cargo of freight ever delivered by one steamer up to that date. It was a manifest of 11,024 packages weighing 813 tons. On

Title: City of Camden
Description: The City of Camden was built at Jeffersonville, Indiana in 1893. Her dimensions were:- 175 x 35 x 5.0 feet; 299 tons. She was built to run in the trade out of new Orleans to the Black and Ouachita Rivers. While ascending the Ouachita river on February 19, 1900, she struck a snag at Spooner's Shoals, Louisiana and partially filled with water but did not sink. Damage to steamer and cargo was

Title: Alton
Description: The Alton was built in 1906 at Jeffersonville, Indiana. Her dimensions were:- 241.1 x 38 x 7.3 feet. Tonnage 800, gross and net. She had 1350 horse power. She was owned by the Eagle Packet Company of St. Louis and was one of their finest packets. One mark of distinction was an hexagonal shaped pilot house. At 1:45 A.M., on January 28, 1918, while laid up in the winter fleet on the Tennessee River

Title: Viewing Amature Photo Exhibit
Date: 1963-05-12
Description: Viewing amature photo exhibit in the lobby of the Mercantile Trust Company are Sidney Maestre chairman of the bank's executive committee, and Herman Orlick, assistant to the vice president.

Title: Mercantile Trust Company Drive-up Service
Date: 1967-06-04, 1967-06-04
Description: Mercantile Trust Company teller works the inside of the drive-up service.

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Warehouse to be Demolished
Date: 1964-01-03, 1964-01-03
Description: Image of a warehouse to be torn down from the early 1900s, exact date unspecified.

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Landfill
Date: 1960-06-20, 1960-06-20
Description: Image of the clearing of an open-air landfill at Jefferson Barracks.

Title: Southwest Bank Salutes South St. Louis Artists
Date: 1967-06-19, 1967-06-19
Description: I. A. Long, left, president of Southwest Bank, and F. A. Giacoma, right, vice president of the bank, examine some of the more than 100 works of Southwest St. Louis artists now on display in the bank's lobby. The display is open to the public and will be there until June 30.

Title: St. Louis de Ville Hotel - Translation
Date: 1973-05-23, 1973-05-27
Description: "Several languages come in handy as Joseph Balderacchi of Italy (right) explains table arrangements to Pedro Fonseca (center) in Spanish and then translates into French for benefit of Andre Bigot."

Title: Town House Apartments on 2nd and 3rd roof levels
Date: 1967-07-28, 1967-07-30
Description: The 2nd and 3rd roof levels of Town House Apartments, with pool visible.

Title: A Mansion House Resident Reads a Book on Her Couch
Date: 1966-05-23, 1966-05-23
Description: A resident of the Mansion House Apartments relaxes and reads a book on her couch as she enjoys a cup of tea.

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