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Title: Boys Town Commencement Exercises
Date: 1975-05-12
Description: Image depicts Larry Stallings of the football Cardinals speaking at the 20th annual Commencement Exercises of the Boys Town of Missouri in the Grand Hall of Union Station.

Title: Boys Town Cottage
Date: 1951-09-10
Description: Image shows the first of three cottages at Boys Town of Missouri. This building like the other two are fire resistant and this one housed 16 boys and their house parents.

Title: Assembling a Jeep Program
Date: 1980-02-28
Description: Fund gave Boys Town $13,000 to buy tools so such programs could be expanded.

Title: Silent Auction Viewing
Date: 1978-04-15
Description: The annual Kaleidoscope Auction for Boys Town of Missouri. This image shows guests of the preview dinner watching the silent auction at which more than $60,000 was raised. Items ranged from a school bus to a 1917 paperweight owned by General John Pershing.

Title: Boys Town Commencement
Date: 1975-05-12
Description: Image shows a young Boys Town graduate listening to Larry Stallings of the football Cardinals at the 20th annual commencement of the Boys Town of Missouri.

Title: Boys Town Indian Dances
Date: 1975-05-14
Description: Boys Town Kaleidoscope of Events at Union Station. These included old car displays, art work and Indian dances as shown here.

Title: Boys Town Caravan
Date: 1986-04-22
Description: Nearly 100 boys from Boys Town of Missouri along with teachers and counselors arrive in Chesterfield after their 160 mile journey from St. James MO. The caravan included eight covered wagons, thirty-five mules and eighty horses and followed portions of the Lewis and Clark trail.

Title: Boys Town Caravan
Date: 1986-04-22
Description: Nearly 100 boys from Boys Town of Missouri along with teachers and counselors arrive in Chesterfield after their 160 mile journey from St. James MO. The caravan included eight covered wagons, thirty-five mules and eighty horses. The week long journey followed portions of the Lewis and Clark trail.

Title: Boys Town Wagon
Date: 1986-04-22
Description: Image shows the president of Sachs Properties Inc. Philip Schreiber riding in one of the Boys Town caravan wagons. Sachs Properties Inc. provided the final round-up site for the caravan in Chesterfield.

Title: Re-elected Boys Town Officers
Date: 1964-02-10
Description: Image shows five men at the annual Boys Town of Missouri dinner at the Bath and Tennis Club. From left to right is St. Louis Juvenile Court Judge Laurance M. Hyde, President of Boys Town Harry G. Neil, St. Louis County Juvenile Court Judge Michael J. Carroll, chairman of the board of Boys Town Bill James and former St. Louis Juvenile Court Judge David A. McMullan

Title: Boys Town Wagon Train
Date: 1986-04-18
Description: Riders in the Boys Town of Missouri Wagon Train make their way north towards Washington Missouri.

Title: Mayor Mayme Ousley Turns First Spade
Date: 1956-04-26
Description: Image of Her Honor Mayme Ousley of St. James turning the first spade in the groundbreaking ceremonies for a school building at Boys Town Missouri. Executive Director of St. Louis Bill James, Boys Town Superintendent Henry Palmeri, Rolla Lions Club Representative Lee Walker, the Mayor, and Jack Zemel and Ed Cress of the Boys Town Board St. Louis.

Title: Boys Town Center
Date: 1976-11-01
Description: Image shows the Boys Town Center of Missouri which was closed and possibly taken over by St. Louis County as a halfway house for its prisoner work release program.

Title: Youth Prepares his Horse
Date: 1986-04-18
Description: A young man prepares his horse at the Francis Overschmidt Farm in Union where the group of 125 spent the night before journeying on to Washington MO.

Title: Preparing Horses for Journey
Date: 1986-04-21
Description: The boys of Boys Town of Missouri prepare their horses at the Francis Overschmidt Farm for their 14 mile journey to Washington MO.

Title: Wagon Train Breakfast
Date: 1986-04-18
Description: The Boys Town of Missouri Wagon Train group enjoy their breakfast at the Francis Overschmidt Farm where they had stayed the night.

Title: Boys Town of Missouri Wagon Train
Date: 1986-04-18
Description: The Boys Town of Missouri wagon train making its way to Washington MO. along an outer road in Union MO.

Title: Boys Town Youth Perching
Date: 1986-04-21
Description: A young man sits on top of a wooden fence at Francis Overschmidt Farm waiting to saddle up his horse for the journey to Washington MO.

Title: Boys Town Napping Youth
Date: 1986-04-18
Description: Image shows a young man getting a nap in before the 14 mile journey to Washington Mo. on horseback.

Title: Milk Cows for Boys Town of Missouri
Date: 1951-08-27
Description: Image shows three cows and a calf that were provided by public spirited citizens of the Ferguson. They were bought with funds raised by the citizen group and were sent to Boys Town. The image also shows five leaders in the fund raising. From the left they are Herbert L. Gottomier, John E. Brauch, Fred Mintert, Walter L. Hemberger and Walter A. Scott.

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