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Title: Camp Stephens in Jefferson Barracks
Date: 1949-11-06, 1949-11-06
Description: Leveling rifles for Boehl's camera is a company of the Seventh Regiment, U.S. Volunteers, a unit authorized by Congress. Idea was to enlist recruits in Missouri and southern states where yellow fever had been severe. Theory was they were immune to disease, which was claiming more lives than guns. The 7th was recruited among Negroes in Missouri and neighboring states for what might very well have turned out to be a deadly assignment, five years prior to Dr. Walter Reed's discovery of the yellow fever cycle.

Title: No Drilling Needed For This--Jefferson Barracks
Date: 1937-07-06, 1937-07-06
Description: Eating--This is one thing recruits at Jefferson Barracks do not have to be taught. After hours of drilling and exercise they say they "just come by it natural." This menu includes potatoes, pears, lettuce, coffee, bread, veal and peaches.

Title: Seeing What Makes It Tick--Jefferson Barracks
Date: 1937-07-06, 1937-07-06
Description: Private Bredemeyer thought he would take this machine gun apart to see what made it "tick." An apparent case of "spring fever" is handicapping his efforts to get it back together again.

Title: Servicemen Inspect New Antitank Gun At The Jefferson Barracks
Date: 1940-07-25, 1940-07-25
Description: St. Louisans also seemed anxious to see what they could see about the new 37 mm. antitank gun at the encampment on Memorial Plaza. Soldiers were on hand to answer questions.

Title: Sixth Infantry of Jefferson Barracks
Date: 1937-08-23, 1937-08-23
Description: Members of Sixth Infantry lined up preparatory to leaving for Arcadia, Mo. On motorized hike.

Title: A Demonstration At Jefferson Barracks
Date: 1940-07-25, 1940-07-25
Description: Learning about a .30-caliber Browning machine gun, on the plaza at Grand and Washington.

Title: Rookie Training At The Jefferson Barracks
Date: 1935-08-07, 1935-08-07
Description: These rookies have been in the army less than a month but under the intensified training schedule at Jefferson Barracks they are rapidly being converted into soldiers. They are shown here marching in review on parade grounds. Lieut. R.C. Huggins, in charge of the training of recruits is shown marching with drawn sword in front of the troops while Major Walter C. Philips reviews them from the sidelines.

Title: Dragoons At The Jefferson Barracks
Description: Congress, after the Black Hawk War, ordered a regiment of "dragoons" added to the military establishment. Accordingly, the First Cavalry, which won undying fame in the West, was established at the Barracks in 1833. Cavalry units expanded with the frontier and it was 1878 before "horse troops" returned to the Barracks. Photo shows cavalry stables there in the 1890s.

Title: Missouri Editors Learned Camouflage Technique
Date: 1943-07-11, 1943-07-11
Description: Missouri editors learned camouflage technique first-hand from Capt. William C. Pahlmann, commanding officer of Jefferson Barracks camouflage school, whose troops gave a practical demonstration to some 250 state editors, members of the Missouri Press Association, who were "inducted" into the army Friday for a 24-hour period. From left, Mr. and Mrs. Ray E. Miller of the Carl Junction Standard, Capt. Pahlmann, H. H. Coffee of the Western Newspaper Union, Mrs. C. L. Blanton Sr. of the Sikeston Standard and H. M. Jungbluth of the Western Newspaper Union, discussing the demonstration.

Title: Candlelight Service At Jefferson Barracks' Chapels
Date: 1942-09-19, 1942-09-19
Description: Rabbi Ferdinand M. Isserman of Temple Israel presents "The Eternal Light," Jewish symbol of the perpetual existence of God, in a candlelight service last night at one of Jefferson Barracks' chapels. The gift of Temple Israel's Junior Congregation, the light (seen in the top center of the altar) was accepted for the post by Chaplain First Lieutenant John L. Harris.

Title: Jefferson Barracks Training Course
Date: 1942-04-06, 1942-04-06
Description: Toughening up for action in an obstacle race are these Jefferson Barracks soldiers. The 4-foot rail fence was only one of the obstacles that marked the quarter-mile course over which the trainees yesterday were sent in groups of six, armed and helmeted and ready for the enemy.

Title: Mother's Day At The Jefferson Barracks
Date: 1942-05-11, 1942-05-11
Description: Mrs. Alfred Chance of Akron, Ohio, visited her son, Clarence, 25, at Jefferson Barracks yesterday on Mother's Day and shortly after her arrival found herself playing mother to nearly 25 service men. In the above picture Mrs. Chance plays piano for soldiers in the Hostess House. Her son stands behind her.

Title: New Recreation Hall
Date: 1943, 1943
Description: New recreation hall at the Jefferson Barracks Reception Center, where friends and relatives of newly-inducted servicemen may see them in uniform for the first time, will be formally dedicated at 2:30 p.m. Sunday.

Title: Funeral of a German Prisoner of War at National Cemetery, Jefferson Barracks
Date: 1944-07-03, 1944-07-03
Description: Image of a funeral of a German Prisoner of War at National Cemetery Jefferson Barracks

Title: Military Officers
Date: 1942-04-04, 1942-04-04
Description: Military police officers of Jefferson Barracks equipped with "Jeep" cars.

Title: Jefferson Barracks Cemetery
Date: 1947-05-25, 1947-05-25
Description: Image of the Jefferson Barracks Cemetery

Title: He Knows His Onions--Jefferson Barracks
Date: 1937-07-06, 1937-07-06
Description: This young soldier is working over a tearful panful of onions, but doesn't seem to mind it. Learning "to take it" is one of the first lessons of the young soldiers, and St. Louis business leaders, desiring men with such character training have employed so many members of the Sixth Infantry who have completed their terms that the regiment is now short-handed and is making an effort to obtain recruits among the higher type young men of this vicinity.

Title: 'What Would You Do?' Asks Maj.-Gen. Drum--Jefferson Barracks
Date: 1938-05-28, 1938-05-28
Description: Maj.-Gen. Drum second from the right, is shown asking the noncommissioned officer at the left, who had just put his men through an attack formation for column of squad, how he would employ his soldiers to take a near-by building occupied by machine-gunners.

Title: Another Day, Another Shave--Jefferson Barracks
Date: 1937-07-06, 1937-07-06
Description: "We aren't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards, too, but single men in barracks, most remarkable like you." runs one of Kipling's poems. These two soldiers, performing their abulutions at Jefferson Barracks, give truth to the word as they look most familiar at these everyday tasks.

Title: Jefferson Barracks Golf Club
Date: 1935-05-12, 1935-05-12
Description: The three most interested parties in the advancement of the club. Left to right: Capt. R. S. Henderson, in charge of construction and a member of the Executive Committee; Johnny Pepp, professional, and Lieut. Regnier.

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