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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: Man and Boy Rabbit Hunting
Date: 1904
Description: Man and boy rabbit hunting, by A. B. Frost, 1904.

Title: The Waterways Journal, Volume 22, Number 32
Date: 1909-11-06,
Description: Vol. XXII, No. 32. Lakes To The Gulf Convention: Greatest Convention on Record-Addressed by President Taft and Others-Resolutions of Convention.

Title: The Waterways Journal, Volume 22, Number 21
Date: 1909-08-21,
Description: Vol. XXII, No. 21. The Result of the Humphrey's Bill: If Taken Advantage of by Foreign Owners Would Bring No Benefit in Return. Dates for [Deep Waterway] Convention Fixed. President Taft's Itinerary. Nearly Thrity Miles An Hour.

Title: Palaces of Education and Social Economy
Date: 1904
Description: 8x6 in photograph of the Palaces of Education and Social Economy at the 1904 World's Fair.

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: J.S.
Description: p. 1071 - on Upper Mississippi River, believed to be '1902-1910' Davenport, Iowa. First as sternwheel 'J.S' J.S. 'first ' J.S. excursion boat built at Jeffersonville, Indiana. 1901 - size 175'x33'x5.5'. engines 18"x7' stroke, built for Captain John Streckfus Sr. Originally placed in Davenport - Clinton, Iowa daily trade, offering "moonlight excursions". In this trade she was found to be too

Title: Boatman's Bank Building
Date: 1900-03
Description: 14x11 in photograph of the old Boatman's Bank building in March of 1900. A sign for Shapleigh Hardware adorns the building and there is an advertisement in the foreground for recreational boating on the Meramec River.

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: German Pavilion
Date: 1904
Description: Photograph of the German Pavilion at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis. This pavilion was best known for its bells which could be heard from a great distance.

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: The Waterways Journal, Volume 22, Number 12
Date: 1909-06-19,
Description: Vol. XXII, No. 12. American Trade and Panama Canal: Advantages Accruing American Trade Through the Building of the Isthmian Canal in Opening up New Markets. River Tonnage and Improvement.

Title: BOWLING GREEN
Date: 190-
Description: Dec - 17 - 1962. Steamer "Bowling Green." "Here My Friends," is my "Really-Real" first Steamboat Love. She - was built at Howards in 1904 - came out, new in early 1905. "And I mean - new." No hand me downs from any other steamboats. I went striker on her May 17th 1905, and remained for two years, without pay, except occasionally I had a chance to run as roof watchman for which I got "big

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: City of Kirkwood
Date: 1908
Description: Map of Kirkwood, Missouri.

Title: Joseph B. Williams
Date: 1905-08
Description: On August 10, 1905, while enroute up the Ohio River, she struck a snag at Sister's Island, below Golconda and near Bay City, Illinois and tore a hole 40 feet long in her hull, causing the boat to sink in shallow water. Three towboats went to the rescue of the wreck - the Fulton, Ranger and Wash Honshell - assisted in raising the Williams. She was then placed on the ways for repairs; damage

Title: The Waterways Journal, Volume 22, Number 6
Date: 1909-05-08,
Description: Vol. XXII, No. 6. Harry Dean steamboat explosion. Senator Elkins favors $500,000,000 bond issue for improvement of waterways.

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