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Title: Control Tower
Date: 1940-04-28
Description: Photograph from inside the control tower south of Union Station. A worker looks out over the railway lines as a train passes.

Title: Lambert Airfield
Date: 1947-03
Description: Military plane flies over Lambert Airfield.

Title: Leo Durocher and Buckey Harris
Date: 1948-07-14
Description: Leo Durocher and Buckey (sic) Harris (right), managers of the rival clubs, were all smiles before the game got under way. Harris pulled the surprise package out of the game in Vic Raschi who not only pitched two hitless innings but drove across two vital runs.

Title: Dizzy Dean
Description: Photograph of Dizzie Dean throwing a ball.

Title: St. Louis Zoo Lion Show
Date: 1951-05
Description: Photograph of lions lifting their training into the air by pulling a rope beneath him during a lion show at the St. Louis Zoo. A crowd looks down at the scene from above.

Title: Bob Pettit
Date: 1957-02-17
Description: A fractured wrist bone will necessitate the Hawks' Bob Pettit wearing a cast on his left arm for the rest of the season. Pettit suffered the injury during the game with Boston Friday night and will try playing with the handicap for the first time today at Minneapolis.

Title: Frankie Baker
Date: 1942-02-13, 1979-02-20
Description: Frankie Baker in 1942: 'I just couldn't get away from it... that song.'

Title: Harbor of Saint Louis.
Date: 1869
Description: Map of the Mississippi River stretching from Alton, Illinois to Saint Louis, Missouri and East Saint Louis, Illinois. Includes islands (Kerr's Island; Cabaret Island; Chouteau Island; Wilson's Island; Mobile Island; Ellis Island) and railroads (CH. A. & ST. L. R. R.; St. L. A. & T. H. R. R.; Edwardsville Coal R. R.; O. & M. R. R.)., From: Message of the mayor, and reports of city officers : delivered to the city council.

Title: Report of the president and directors of the Ohio & Mississippi Railway Co. to their stockholders for fiscal year ending 1891.
Date: 1892, 1891

Title: St. Louis - South Side, MO
Description: St. Louis, MO - Aerial view of portion of Missouri Botanical Garden. Several greenhouses visible at center of frame, and Henry Shaw home visible in upper left center area. Aircraft wing intrudes into most of right side of frame. Image is flipped horizontally.

Title: Saint Louis County
Description: St. Louis County, MO Unidentified aerial view. At center and lower center of frame, group of white institutional buildings, with water tower and smokestack near center of group. Cultivated fields surround building complex.

Title: Gaslight Square
Date: 1962-11, 1963-10-06
Description: Photograph of people standing along a sidewalk located in the Central West End.

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: Beatrice Adams
Date: 1946-02, 1951-03-25
Description: Mis Beatrice Adams. Executive Vice-President, Gardner Advertising Co.

Title: Eugene F. Williams, Jr.
Date: 1967-03-21
Description: Eugene F. Williams Jr., executive vice president of the St. Louis Union Trust Company, has been named to the board of directors of American Airlines.

Title: Sumner High School
Date: 1950-02-05
Description: Second oldest in service among St. Louis high schools, Sumner, now located at Pendelton and Cottage avenues, has sent out nearly 8000 graduates from this building and its former home at Eleventh and Spruce streets.

Title: Chain of Rocks Park Fire
Date: 1977-05-31, 1977-06-01
Description: Amusement park fire under inquiry: Firemen, silhouetted against blazing amusement rides at the Chain of Rocks Fun Fair Park, fight the fire which caused an estimated $180,000 in damage.

Title: Chase Hotel
Date: 1972
Description: Photograph of the Chase Hotel.

Title: Ford Frick
Date: 1957-07-09
Description: Photograph of baseball executive Ford Frick and New York Yankees manager Casey Stengel together at the 1957 All-Star game. The two are smiling as Frick crosses his fingers.

Title: Eddie Plank
Description: Saint Louis Browns pitcher Eddie Plank. Plank played for the Browns in 1916 and 1917.

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