St. Louis Lantern Slides

Accession Number: SC 1991:08 

Location: RB-M Photo 

Dates: unknown 

Size: 6 small lantern slide boxes; 2.0 cu. ft. 

Creator/Collector: Unknown 

Acquisition info: Transfer from Fine Arts Department, Central Library 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. Slides 59, 80, 83, 91, 93, 94, 119, 121, 125, 126, 29, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 138, 141, 262, 272, and 308 missing at processing. 

Scope and Content: The collection contains 3¼ 4” glass lantern slides. Numbers assigned by Fine Arts Department. All subjects related to St. Louis. 

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 1991:08 St. Louis Lantern Slides 1770-1933 

4 small lantern slide boxes, 1.0 cu. ft.

Box/Folder Description 

1 1. Aerial view of downtown St. Louis 

  1. “Need for playgrounds” [ragamuffin children] 
  2. “Story hour tree,” Fairgrounds Park playground [librarian reading to large group of children] 
  3. Outing in Forest Park [children racing with hoops] 
  4. Children on the harborboat “Mark Twain” 
  5. Playground at Seventh & Russell [boys painting fence behind Sts. Peter & Paul ] 7. Mullanphy playground, 1908 [children playing games] 
  6. Excursion to Delmar garden [women and girls] 
  7. Girls doing calisthenics at Seventh & Russell playground 

10, “A group of Syrians” [children] 

  1. “Waiting for a bath” at Fowler (?) playground 
  2. Carondelet mission [women and children in front of building with  sign reads “REC Hammel, 6721 Broadway”] 
  3. Ball teams 
  4. Teaching girls to sew at the playground at Tenth & Russell 
  5. “A little mother,” Girl holding young child at playground 
  6. Children in tent at Carr Park playground, 1908 
  7. Girls transplanting in school garden 
  8. Prize winners in school gardens, 1903.  
  9. Girls working in school garden 
  10. Picnic in Forest Park  
  11. Home improvement – backyard  
  12. “Advertising as bad as the billboard” [man holds umbrella with  wording “BUY UMBRELLAS AT NAMENDORFS’ / Civic Improvement 23. An effort to make a home attractive” [garden plot at rear of flat] 
  1. Federal Reserve Bank, Locust street 
  2. Mercantile Trust Co., Eighth & Locust to St. Charles Street  
  3. Proposed Kingshighway viaduct / Civic Improvement League  
  4. Riverfront showing smoking engine 
  5. Levee south from Pine street, Jan. 1900 
  6. Riverboat “Helena” 
  7. Riverboats “Wright” and “U.S. Knox” at the Arsenal levee 
  8. Riverfront, “close view,” showing houses/businesses and raised railroad 
  1. Eads Bridge 

33a. Steamboat passing under Eads Bridge

33b. River bluffs 

  1. Public bath house no. 1 
  2. Public bath house no. 3 
  3. Carondelet mission 
  4. Custom House & Post Office; Bank of St. Louis 
  5. Meyer Brothers Drug Co., section of sample room, 1890 
  6. Missouri-Pacific building, Thirteenth & Olive streets 
  7. Typical office, 100 block on Market / Civic Improvement League 41. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Ad. & business office 
  8. Continental Life building, Grand & Olive streets 
  9. Continental Life building – detail 
  10. St. Louis Exposition and Music Hall 
  11. Planting : improved factory / Civic Improvement League.  46. St. Louis Globe-Democrat building 
  12. Merchants’ Exchange in 1900 / E. Boehl photo 
  13. Meyer Brothers Drug Co., “a few of the teams,” 1890 
  14. Meyer Brothers Drug Co., main office, 1890 
  15. Evangelical Synod building 
    51. Post Office, Market street 
  1. Old Post Office 
  2. City Hall, reception room 
  3. City Hall, mayor’s office 
  4. City Hall & municipal buildings 
  5. City Hall, east front, 1933 / photograph & slide by W.J. Harris, Jr. 57. City Hall, interior 
  6. City Hall & Wigwam Label: St. Louis Photographic Society 60. Kiel Auditorium 
  7. Police dept. headquarters 
  8. Wainwright Tomb, Bellefontaine Cemetery 
  9. First Catholic church, 1770. West side of Second street between  Walnut & Market streets. Showing Fort San Carlos, Fourth &  Walnut streets. 
  10. St. John’s Church, 1931. NE corner Sixteenth & Chestnut streets 65. St. Mary of Victories, 748 South Third street  
  11. Interior, Old Cathedral  
  12. Old Cathedral of St. Louis of France 
  13. St. Ferdinand Convent, Florissant. Built 1819 for Sacred Heart nuns 69. Christ Church (second site), 1838. SW corner Fifth & Chestnut  streets; razed 1860 
  14. Christ Church Cathedral / St. Louis Camera Club, Lidaker 74. Church of the Messiah, 1836. NW corner Fourth & Pine streets 75. Pilgrim Evangelical Lutheran Church, Fair & West Florissant avenues 76. Interior, Pilgrim Evangelical Lutheran Church

 

  1. Holy corners Kingshighway & Washington blvd. Masonic hall, St.  John’s, etc. 
  2. Second Baptist Church, Kingshighway & McPherson 
  3. Second Presbyterian Church, 1840. NW corner Fifth & Walnut streets. 81. Union Methodist Church, 1853. NW corner Eleventh & Locust streets.  Razed 1901. 
  4. City Art Museum, Forest Park  
  5. Lewis building (City Hall, University City) / St. Louis Camera Club – Lidaker 
  6. House at corner of Lafayette & Jefferson, following 1896 tornado 86. Fairgrounds Park, 1875. From MHS print 
  7. Old St. Louis Zoo at Fairgrounds Park -- buildings 
  8. Colonial headquarters. Built in 1768; corner of Main & Walnut streets  89. Transfer of Upper Louisiana at St. Louis, 1804 
  9. Log cabin [pioneer American type] 
  10. Green Tree tavern 
  11. First theater in St. Louis 
  12. Mansion House; ballroom used as a theater 
  13. Mansion House. Built 1816; first Missouri constitution framed in  house, 1820 
  14. Creole house. 
  15. Residence. 
  16. J.C. Wild print showing levee and streets, 1841 
  17. Olive street, west from Fourth street, 1842. Tom Thumb’s first visit  to St. Louis. 
  18. Chouteau pond, 1850 
  19. Great fire of 1849 from a lithograph by Gast 
  20. Ruins of old tombs of Col. Thomas Hunt and wife, Major Russell  Bissell, child of Gen. Pike, Fort Bellefontaine. Remains were  transferred to Jefferson Barracks, April 1904 
  21. Dimensions of factory buildings at Fort Bellefontaine 
  22. Powder magazine, Fort Bellefontaine 
  23. William Clark letter 
  24. Original log cabin, Fort Bellefontaine 
  25. St. Louis Sanitarium 
  26. Chapel, Desloge Hospital 
  27. Barnum’s Hotel  
  28. Missouri Hotel, 1819. SW corner Main & Morgan. First Genera l Assembly convened here in 1820. [drawing] 
  29. Housing [backyards showing hanging laundry] / Paul Harztke  115. Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery [shows grave stones] /  Keystone View Co. 3 116. Jefferson Memorial, 1913 / E. Boehl photograph
  30. St. Louis, 1780 
  31. Fort [drawing]. Erected in 1792 by Trudeau; at Fourth & Walnut streets  120. St. Louis, 1796, after Collot, JB Musick collection, MHS 
  32. St. Louis, ca. 1804-05 
  33. St. Louis, 1804, showing houses facing Main Street, with back to  river 
  34. St. Louis, 1809 
  35. St. Louis, 1819-20. Beck ms. map, JB Musick collection, MSH 
  36. Stone bastion from plat, ca. 1820-25. JB Musick collection, MHS 135. Old French market  
  37. Soulard Market Square, ca. 1860 
  38. Soulard Market 
  39. Tuscan Lodge, Holy Corners, Kingshighway & Westminster / St. Louis Camera Club - Lidaker 
  1. Sanitary dairy 
  2. Lamp post 
  3. Lamp standard; second prize in Art Commission competition, 1912 144. “Big Bear 5c cigar” billboard at the triangle at Chouteau & Sarah 
  4. “Vote the Wells ticket” ; advertisement on building wall / Civic  Improvement League 
  1. Billboards facing City Hall, 12th & Market streets / Civic  Improvement League 
  1. Advertising on building: “McKinney’s Blue Ribbon Bread” ; “Pearl  milk” / Smith Slide Mfg. Co., St. Louis.  
  2. Billboards on Olive street / Civic Improvement League 
  3. Billboards on Jefferson avenue / Civic Improvement League 150. Mississippi River at Montesano (sp?), Mo. Riverboat “Provide” at  shore 
  4. Riverfront east from Caldwell street 
  5. Statue of Senator Thomas H. Benton by Harriet Hosmer  
  6. Humboldt statue 
  7. Shakespeare statue 
  8. Old Court House, ca. 1850s 
  9. Old Court House, 1859. NW corner, Fourth & Walnut streets. 
  10. Old Court House 
  11. Benton Park : Lake and bridge, 1885 
  12. Benton Park : Houses surrounding the park, Jan. 1900. 
  13. Hyde Park.  
  14. Lafayette Park after 1896 tornado 
  15. Lafayette Park, flower bed, ca. 1857 
  16. Lafayette Park, view of bandstand from lake; people at band concert 164. Lafayette Park, view of lake over park benches 
  17. Saenger fest, 1872; at park located at St. Louis & Glasgow avenues. 166. Lyons  Park
  18. Prospect Hill, Chain of Rocks  
  19. Tower Grove Park Pavilion 
  20. Women cleaning the playground at North Seventh street  170. Playground at 1418 North Seventh street after cleaning 
  21. Children at Carnegie Place playground 
  22. Children at playground at Fifth & O’Fallon streets 
  23. Children on swings, and otherwise playing, Carr Square playground,  1909 
  24. Benton swimming school 
  25. Bridge. Forest Park 
  26. Road in Forest Park, with horse & buggy  
  27. Post-Dispatch Lake.  
  28. 178. Bandstand, 1870 [MHS ] 
  29. [Boating on] Lagoon, 1897 
  30. Cottage restaurant, 1897 
  31. Jewel box; floral conservancy 
  32. Polytechnic Building, 1876 
  33. Billboards on Union avenue, nearby Cabanne Branch Library  184. View of Central Library, 1913 
  34. Olive street entrance to Central Library 
  35. Central Library “rear” view from Locust street 
  36. Central Library entrance hall 
  37. Entrance to Steedman Architectural Library, Central Library 189. Steedman Architectural room, Central Library 
  38. Art dept., Shawl exhibit painting, Central Library 
  39. Delivery hall, Central Library 
  40. Kitchen, Greek lodging house  
  41. Greek lodging house on Second street  
  42. Municipal lodging house, 1912 
  43. Lodging house with 12 beds  
  44. Passageway to tenement  
  45. Backyards of houses at Second & Mullanphy streets 
  46. Housing between Morgan & Linden streets  
  47. Lodging houses on South Seventh street  
  48. Cheap lodging house, 100 block of Market street 
  49. Eleventh street; minimum light and air space between houses 202. Scene from porches  
  50. Kerry Patch housing [shacks]; Kregel Casket Co. in background  204. Cleveland avenue house; porch covered with moon vine 
  51. South Grand blvd. Two-family with moon vine on porch 206. 420 North Seventh street backyard  
  52. Home improvement – shows front yard and house, no address  208. Home improvement – first prize front yard, 718 Cass avenue 

 

  1. Home improvement – backyard, 4448 Olive street, unimproved 210. Home improvement – 5181 Kensington, 1903 
  2. Porch garden 
  3. Beverly Allen house, 1845, Bellefontaine raod, overlooking  Mississippi River  
  4. Governor Frederick Bates house, “Thornhill”, 1819. Olive street  road. Bought by Leicester B. Faust, 1929. 
  5. Bartholomew Berthold house, 1829. NW corner, Fifth & Pine  streets. Razed 1866 
  6. Bienvenue house / sketch by Clarence Hoblitzelle 
  7. Bienvenue house, Third & Plum streets; demolished 1876 [photograph]  217. Gen. Daniel Bissell house, Bellefontaine road, 1875. Built in 1812 218. Gen. Daniel Bissell house, built in 1812. In 1931 occupied by his  grandson, Daniel Russell Bissell 
  8. Henry Blow house, Carondelet, 1870 
  9. Home of M.P. Burroughs, with plans. Trueblood & Graf, architects 221. Pierre Chouteau house, 1785; east side Main street between Vine &  Washington [drawing] 
  10. Auguste Choueau house, 1795. Remodeled from Laclede house, 1764. 223. Pierre Chouteau house, 1832. Eastside Main street between Vine & Washington [1870 Bank of the State of Missouri] 
  11. Henri Chouteau house, Twelfth & Clark streets. Built 1830 225. J.O. Pierce house – Cracker Castle. Built 1868, Chouteau & St.  Ange avenues. 
  12. DeMenil house, built 1842 
  13. Charles Gratiot country home, 1790; on Gratiot League Square, near  Kingshighway [drawing] 
  14. Theodore LaBeaume house, 1848. 
  15. Manuel Lisa house; purchased by Theodore Hunt. [drawing] 230. J.B.C. Lucas house, 1834, Normandy, Mo. Built in 1828 and  remodeled. [drawing] 
  16. D.A. McMillen house, dining room 
  17. McNair house, Main & Spruce streets 
  18. House at nw corner of Sixth & Olive streets, 1852. Owned by Mrs.  William Maffitt (nee Julie Chouteau); later by Charles P. Chouteau  [drawing] 
  19. Roi residence, at Second & Plum streets, 1830 
  20. Dr. Anthony Saugrain house, 1767; west side between Mulberry &  Lombard [drawing] 
  21. Henry Shaw town house, 1850 
  22. W.J. Stevens house. Color slide  

238, L.W. Thomson house, Wydown Blvd. Hall & Proetz, archts 239. High School, Fifteenth & Olive streets. 1856-1893 

  1. Central High School. Color slide
  2. Clark School 
  3. Columbia School 
  4. Elliott School 
  5. [Harris] Teachers College and Wyman School 
  6. Industrial School 
  7. Irving School 
  8. Lyon School, Vermont & Koeln streets 
  9. Mary Institute, Warson & Ladue roads 
  10. Patrick Henry School, from rear [shows playing fields] 
  11. St. Louis University 
  12. Soldan High School 
  13. Sumner High School 
  14. Washington University, Administration building [1904?]/ Erker  Bros. Optical Co. 
  15. Washington University, Administration building / St. Louis Camera  Club – Lidaker 
  16. Washington University, Administration building / St. Louis Camera  Club - Lidaker 
  17. Washington University, Physical laboratory [rendering] 
  18. Wyman School 
  19. Harlan sewer in course of construction 
  20. Missouri Botanical Garden : lily ponds, 1933 / photograph & slide  by W.J. Harris, Jr. 
  21. Soldiers Memorial 
  22. Saint Louis. By Niehaus 
  23. Saint Louis of France [wood carving] 
  24. Olive street, looking west from Third street, 1840. 
  25. View of Front Street, St. Louis, in 1840. St. Louis Riverfront, 19th c. print 266. Olive street, looking west from Fourth street, 1850 
  26. Olive street, looking west from Fourth street, 1872 
  27. Broadway, looking north from Chestnut street, 1872 
  28. Main street, looking north from Walnut street, 1875 
  29. Fourth street looking north from Chestnut 
  30. Twelfth street, 1903 
  31. Proposed improvements for Twelfth street, 1891 / Civil  Improvement League  
  32. Birdseye view of Market & Chestnut streets 
  33. Northside of Market street, west from 13th street 
  34. Northside of Market street, west from Twelfth street  
  35. Ninth & Market streets, 1900  
  36. Handbills on building at Broadway & Market street / Civic  

Improvement League, 19— 

  1. Broadway & Locust street  
  2. Olive street west from Broadway
  3. Olive street looking west from Fourth street 
  4. Thirteenth & Chestnut streets, sw corner 
  5. Memorial Plaza, looking east 
  6. 1322 Chestnut street [building] 
  7. Jefferson avenue & Lafayette street 
  8. Jefferson avenue, “ a street which might be made attractive” 287. Looking east from Lindell, west of Channing 
  9. Leffingwell & Lawton, nw corner 
  10. Kingshighway, looking south from Delmar  
  11. Washington Avenue Square 
  12. Triangle at Olive & Walton  
  13. Kingshighway, east addition 
  14. Suburban car crossing, Union & Hodiamont avenues  294. Billboards at Taylor & Olive streets / Smith Slide Mfg. Co., St. Louis 295. St. Louis avenue, east from Twenty-third street 
  15. Sullivan avenue, east from Grand 
  16. Branch street, west from Blair avenue 
  17. Broadway, north from Dover, April 1903 
  18. Children at playground at Fifth & O’Fallon streets 
  19. Yeatman Square playground 
  20. Union avenue tracks  
  21. Garden at the playground at Seventh & O’Fallon streets 303. Playground at Tenth & Mullanphy streets 
  22. Playground at Tenth & Mullanphy streets 
  23. Chouteau & Sarah triangle / Smith Slide Specialist, St. Louis. Sign  on building “Give –Redeem Eagle Stamps.” 
  24. Seventh –Ninth, Soulard – Julia streets; site for new park, February 1909 307. Tower Grove & Shaw avenues 
  25. Pennsylvania avenue & Steins street, stone houses 
  26. Utah street 
  27. North Broadway, houses on the bluffs overlooking the Mississippi River 312. Portland Place, looking west 
  28. Kingsbury Place. Color slide 
  29. Vandeventer Place; automobile at gates 
  30. Westminster Place 
  31. Theater posters, Olive street / Smith Slide Mfg. Co., St. Louis 317. Varieties Theatre, 1852. Southside Market street between Broadway  & Sixth street 
  32. St. Louis Theatre, 1837. SE corner Third & Olive streets 319. Suburban car line / Smith, Slide specialist, St. Louis 
  33. Suburban tracks, station building at Union avenue 
  34. Suburban tracks, looking west from Taylor 
  35. Union Station 
  36. McNair house
  37. Veiled Prophet ball 
  38. Veiled Prophet parade 
  39. Water tower, East Grand Avenue. Color slide 
  40. Reservoir Park watertower / St. Louis Camera Club – Lidaker 
  41. Indian mounds/ Fifteenth & Chestnut streets, sw corner 
  42. H. Gropius drawing 
  43. 20th Century H.Gropius 
  44. Virgil Lewis residence, interior 

Notes: Slides 59, 80, 83, 91, 93, 94, 119, 121, 125, 126, 29, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 138, 141,  262, 272, and 308 missing at processing.

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