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Title: Franklin Avenue Restaurant
Description: Restaurant and café on Franklin Avenue.

Title: Wine of Cardui
Description: Photograph of drugstore window advertising "Wine of Cardui", a patent medicine in the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth centuries.

Title: These 14 Cars Sold To The City Of St. Louis
Description: Photograph of fleet of Ford Model T automobiles in front of St. Louis city hall. Drivers are in each car, several men are standing in front of the cars holding a banner that reads "These 14 cars sold to the city of St. Louis, watch the Fords go by."

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: James Lee II
Date
Description: The second James Lee was built at Jeffersonville, Indiana in 1898. Her dimensions were 204 feet in length, 36 feet beam and 5 feet depth of hold. She ran in the Memphis and Friar's Point trade, Captain John H. Darragh commanding. She was eventually converted into an excursion boat at Memphis and renamed the DeSoto, about 1917. In January, 1918 she sank in the ice at Memphis along with the Georgia

Title: Railway Locomotive With Trainmen
Description: Photograph of rear of a railway locomotive travelling away from the camera. Trainmen and an engineer are on the back of the Tender.

Title: Washington Avenue
Description: A photograph of Washington Avenue looking west. Automobiles, pedestrians, electric streetcars and horse-drawn wagons are visible., This is a wider view of another photograph in the collection.

Title: Smokestack Repair
Description: Photograph of a pair of smokestacks, one of which is being worked on by a group of men near the top of the stack. The upper stories and roofs of 901 and 911 Washington Avenue are visible in the background., 901 Washington Avenue is the Bankers Lofts building. 911 Washington is the Lammert Building. Note the eagle sculptures, which have been removed, along the top of the cornice.

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: Sidewalk, Street And Lot
Description: Photograph looking along city sidewalk with major street on one side and vacant lot on the other. Horse-drawn carriages and electric streetcars are visible in the street. A surveyor is working in the vacant lot and a couple of men on the sidewalk are looking towards the camera., There is a building in the background with "W. J. Lemp Brewing Co." on the front.

Title: Urban Horse Herd
Description: Photograph of herd of horses in urban neighborhood. Two men appear to be trying to corral the horses.

Title: River Des Peres Construction
Description: Photograph of the River des Peres being enclosed in a concrete tunnel in Forest Park. The Missouri History Museum is in the background.

Title: Second Street Intersection
Description: Photograph of the intersection of Second Street with another street with men working in the middle of the intersection. The workers are putting a ladder down a manhole. A man is visible in the background with his foot on an automobile and appears to be lighting a cigarette. Other people are visible in the background and midground watching the workers and the photographer., Notice the woman looking out of the second story window of the Saloon building in the background.

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

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: Lucas Gardens Park And Saint Louis Public Library
Description: Photograph of Lucas Gardens Park looking Southeast towards the St. Louis Public Library building. Christ Church Cathedral is visible to the left of the library.

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: Signs On Tree
Description: Photograph of tree along South 11th Street with signs attached to it. The tree is in front of Lami Pharmacy, which was at the intersection of South 11th Street and Lami Street.

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

Title: Demolition Site
Description: Photograph of site where house has just been demolished in the midst of an urban area. Piles of large foundation stones are visible on the site and part of the foundation is still in place. Horse-drawn carts are visible on the site.

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