Accession Number: SC U:67
Location: RB-M Photo
Dates: unknown
Size: 2 small lantern slide boxes; 0.35 cu. ft.
Creator/Collector: Unknown
Acquisition info: Unknown
Accruals: None expected
Custodial history: unknown
Language: English
Processed by: Jean Gosebrink, May 2003
Reprocessed by: Amanda Bahr-Evola, March 2016
Conservation notes: Lantern slides rehoused into archival sleeves and boxes at some point prior to 2016.
Scope and Content: The collection contains 3 ¼ 4” glass lantern slides. Numbers preassigned and retained. All subjects related to St. Louis Riverfront area. The slides correspond to the publication, A comprehensive program for reclamation of the St. Louis river front, to be effected by the construction and operation of a riverview freeway / St. Louis (Mo.) Law dept., 1934.
Arrangement: Original collection order preserved. Numeric.
Restrictions: Collection open for research.
Remarks: Fragile items.
March 2016 Rare Books and Special Collections Series: RB-M Photo Acc. # SC U:67 St. Louis Riverfront Lantern Slides
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1930 2 small lantern slide boxes, 0.35 cu. ft.
Box/Folder Description
1 Riverfront Scenes
1 a-b. Abandoned Bissell Point intake tower
2 a-b. Ash cascade north of Gasconade street
3 a-b. Bellerive Park, from Mississippi River
4 a-b Bellerive Park, on top of bluff
5 a-b Bluff at Delor court
6 a-b Bluff at Wyandotte street; Sugar Loaf mound in background 7 a-b Bluffs at Eichelberger; city-owned wharf
8 a-b Bluffs at Maeder street; city-owned wharf
9 a-b Bluffs south of Marine Hospital
10 a-b Burlington elevator
11 a-b City garbage dump
12 a-b Draw & dump east of Marine Hospital
13 a-b Draw at Marine Hospital
14 a-b Homer’s dike & intake tower
15 a-b Laclede Gas Co., front Mullanphy street
16 a-b Marine Hospital
17 a-b McKinley bridge [training on bridge]
18 a-b Merchants bridge
19 a-b Municipal docks
20 a-b Naval reserve station, Bissell’s Point
21 a-b North end of Terminal elevated railway
22 a-b North shore boat harbor
23 a-b North shore boat harbor at St. Cyr road
24 a-b Railroad avenue north of Gasconade street
25 a-b Residential development, south bluffs
26 a-b River below Bellerive Park, looking north
27 a-b River below Bellerive Park, looking south
28 a-b River traffic: steam boat on Mississippi by Bridge
29 a-b Riverbank east of Workhouse
30 a-b Riverview Drive, north of city
31 a-b St. Louis Ship Building Co., boatyard at Hurck street
32 a-b Sand unloading plant near Dock street
33 a-b Union Electric plant at Ashley street
2 34 a-b Union Electric high tension lines
35 a-b United States Arsenal
36 a-b Water Works drive
37 a-b Water Works drive, south of Chain of Rocks bridge
38 a-b Wharf at East Grand avenue
39 a-b Wharf at Gratiot street
40 a-b Wharf at Sidney street
41 a-b Wharf at Workhouse
42 a-b Wharf north of McKinley bridge
43 a-b Wharf south of McKinley bridge
44 a-b Wharf south of Chouteau avenue
45 a-b Wharf north of Municipal bridge [shows Riverfront & Eads bridge]
Hooverville slides
46 “Fresh air taxicab”
47 a-b Hooverville beach
48 a-b Hooverville church [“Independent Fundamentalist Church of St. Louis”]
49 a-b Hooverville emporium
50 a-b Mixed tenancy, Hooverville.
51 a-b Railroad track playground
52 a-b Residential development on south side of bluff
53 a-b Settlement between Mill Creek sewer and garbage dump
54 a-b “Soup’s on” [settlement near Mississippi River]
55 a-b Typical backyard [settlement near Mississippi River]
Riverview Freeway slides: CWA project 104
56 Air view of mall
57 a-b Riverview Freeway: Bellerive Park connection. CWA project 104
58 a-b Riverview Freeway: Calvary avenue connection. CWA project 104
59 a-b Riverview Freeway: Davis street connection. CWA project 104
60 a-b Riverview Freeway: Grand avenue connection. CWA project 104
61 a-b [Riverview Freeway:] The mall, central motif of Riverview Freeway, “a pedestrian sanctuary”
62 a-b Riverview Freeway: Marine-Chippewa connection and Indian playground. CWA project 104
63 a-b Riverview Freeway: Memorial monument
64 a-b Riverview Freeway: Riverview Drive connection. CWA project 104
65 a-b Riverview Freeway: St. Louis Central Riverfront. CWA project 104
66 a-b Riverview Freeway: Sidney street connection. CWA project 104