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View of the outside of Union Station at night. The area is lit up, providing backlight to some of the statues of Carl Milles' Fountain in Aloe Plaza. Photograph titles supplied from Chicago, Burlingto…

Includes records of the Chicago Field Office and the St Louis Field Office. There are photographs, cuttings, maps, employment brochures and sets of statistics. Much of the material is promotional in n…

Order, dated April 29, 1808, written by Meriwether Lewis while serving as governor of the Louisiana Territory headquartered at St. Louis. In this document Lewis authorizes the Bank of the United State…

Includes typed transcript; Mr. [Robert] McKnight's statement for Matthew Kerr for the purchase of handkerchiefs.

March 25, 1833, letter from Clark to Brig. Gen. Henry Atkinson, founder and commander of the Jefferson Barracks, introducing Mr. Braunsberg (Prince of Wied-Neuwied), who was touring the country as an…

November 22, 1823, letter from O.N. Bostwick at Vincennes to Samuel Abbott, since 1822 acting agent for the American Fur Company in St. Louis, together with annexed letter of the same date from Bostwi…

Annual license, April 22, 1836, granted by William Clark, superintendent of Indian affairs, St. Louis Superintendency, to Pratte, Chouteau and Company permitting trade throughout the west with the Ind…

List of skins received from the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, prepared in St. Louis, June 25, 1822, by James Kennerly, U.S. factory system forwarding agent (1813-1822) and submitted to Ramsay Crook…

Includes records of the Chicago Field Office and the St Louis Field Office. There are photographs, cuttings, maps, employment brochures and sets of statistics. Much of the material is promotional in n…

June 2, 1835, letter written for Keokuk aboard the steamboat Warrior and signed with his mark, to Pierre Chouteau, St. Louis fur trader and financier, containing instructions regarding the delivery of…

Letter written by the firm of Menard and Valle on July 9, 1822 to Ramsay Crooks, general manager of the American Fur Company. In this letter Crooks is advised that the firm was unable to sell their de…

Letter, dated March 18, 1836, from Michel Giraud, from his trading post on the Marais des Cygnes River (Kan. and Mo.), to Pierre Chouteau of the Pratte Chouteau fur company in St. Louis, concerning a…

Policeman stands in a busy downtown intersection, directing traffic. Behind him, people are crossing the street and a bus waits for the light to change. Tall buildings with many stores line the street…

Pass issued in St. Louis, Apr. 2, 1833, by William Clark, superintendent of Indian affairs, formally granting Prince Maximilian of Wied (""Baron Braunsberg"") permission to pass through Indian territo…

Three letters (one in French), 1823-1826, from Farnham to Samuel Abbott and O.N. Bostwick, both American Fur Company agents in St. Louis, regarding trade with the Iowa, Sauk, and Fox Indians. Letters…

Instructions to Mr. Turcotte (initially addressed to Mr. Hays), May 16, 1815, signed by William Clark, Ninian Edwards, and Auguste Chouteau, regarding the notification of hostile tribes of the commiss…

Diary kept by Moore on his July 3 - Sept. 20, 1845, excursion from New York City to the Mississippi. Entries contain full descriptions of steamboat travel aboard the Empire, Great Western, Champion, C…

Includes records of the Chicago Field Office and the St Louis Field Office. There are photographs, cuttings, maps, employment brochures and sets of statistics. Much of the material is promotional in n…

Includes records of the Chicago Field Office and the St Louis Field Office. There are photographs, cuttings, maps, employment brochures and sets of statistics. Much of the material is promotional in n…

Bound diary documenting Joseph Sumner's travels by rail and steamboat around Northeastern US, beginning and ending in Boston and visiting Detroit, Chicago, Burlington (IO), St. Louis, Cincinnati, Phil…