Guide to Photographs and Print Collections - Missouri History Museum
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Lafayette Hook <strong>and</strong> Ladder Company #1, Liberty Fire Company #6, Mound Fire<br />
Company #9.<br />
Subjects include: Central Fire Company #1; Engine House B; Union Fire Company #2;<br />
St. Louis Fire Company #4; Al<strong>to</strong>n, Illinois; Webster Fire Company; horses; fire engines<br />
(horse-drawn <strong>and</strong> mo<strong>to</strong>rized); Underwriters Salvage Corps; Webb Mo<strong>to</strong>r Fire Equipment<br />
Apparatus Company; identified group pho<strong>to</strong> of Veteran Volunteer Firemen's His<strong>to</strong>rical<br />
Society in front of <strong>Missouri</strong> His<strong>to</strong>rical Society building, 1902; fire engine built by<br />
General Manufacturing Company.<br />
5 boxes; 1 oversize folder 1848 - ca 1960<br />
Fires<br />
The Fires file contains images of St. Louis area fires <strong>and</strong> fire-related destruction.<br />
Pho<strong>to</strong>graphs <strong>and</strong> small prints are arranged <strong>to</strong>pically. Large format lithographs are<br />
accessible through the print catalog.<br />
Subjects include: Great Fire of 1849; firemen; fire engines; ruins; winter scenes; Robison<br />
Field stadium gr<strong>and</strong>st<strong>and</strong>; Au<strong>to</strong> Club of <strong>Missouri</strong> fire; Casa Loma Ballroom fire; 212<br />
South Fourth Street fire; Huttig Sash <strong>and</strong> Door Company fire; League Park fire; Lindell<br />
Hotel fire; <strong>Missouri</strong> Athletic Club fire; St. Nicholas Hotel fire; Southern Hotel fire;<br />
steamboat fires; victims of Allen Street tenement fire.<br />
2 boxes, 1 oversize folder 1867 - 1975<br />
Forest Park<br />
In 1876 St. Louis City designated 1,371 acres west of down<strong>to</strong>wn St. Louis as Forest Park.<br />
By the 1890s the public park was widely used <strong>and</strong> included bicycle paths, baseball<br />
diamonds, <strong>and</strong> lawn tennis courts. A lake allowed citizens <strong>to</strong> go boating <strong>and</strong> ice-skating.<br />
The western half of the park was the site of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1904.<br />
Forest Park is currently the nation's seventh-largest urban park. It contains sports <strong>and</strong><br />
recreation facilities, as well as public buildings like the St. Louis Art <strong>Museum</strong>, the<br />
<strong>Missouri</strong> His<strong>to</strong>rical Society's Jefferson Memorial Building (now known as the His<strong>to</strong>ry<br />
<strong>Museum</strong>), the St. Louis Zoo, <strong>and</strong> the Jewel Box conserva<strong>to</strong>ry.<br />
This file contains views of Forest Park <strong>and</strong> its sites <strong>and</strong> buildings arranged by date <strong>and</strong><br />
alphabetically by site.<br />
Subjects include: the Municipal Opera (now known as the Muny); Tent City for World<br />
War II soldiers; winter scenes; entrances; boating scenes; Boat House; pavilions; bridges;<br />
Cottage Restaurant; tennis courts; b<strong>and</strong>st<strong>and</strong>s; fountains; McDonnell Planetarium; St.<br />
Louis Zoo.<br />
3 boxes ca 1876 - ca 2000<br />
Forts<br />
The Forts file contains pho<strong>to</strong>graphs <strong>and</strong> prints of forts arranged alphabetically by name.<br />
Subjects include: St. Louis Arsenal; Fort As<strong>to</strong>r; Fort Atkinson; Fort Baker; Fort<br />
Bellefontaine; Fort Benicia; Fort Ben<strong>to</strong>n; Fort Block Isl<strong>and</strong>; Fort Chartres; Fort Clagett;<br />
Fort Coleville; Camp Jackson; Fort Phil Kearny; Fort Laramie; Fort Mackinac; Fort<br />
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