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(N.-pl.): US Army Corps of Engineers, 1881. Ephemera. Near fine. A cabinet view albumen silver print of erosion and bank protection improvements on the Missouri River near St. Charles, Missouri. The image depicts the river and a line of A-frame supports with wire and branches below the waterline to stop debris flows during the rainy season. Two Black men sit in the foreground, one in a canoe and the other seated on the river bank. They may be the photographer's assistants, as a case with a handle is visible in the canoe. The caption of the photograph continues, "Missouri River improvements, St. Charles, Mo. Main Dyke, 3,600 Feet. Cross-Dykes, 2,000 Feet-July, 1881." This view was published as an engraving in the Annual Report of the Chief Engineers, United States Army, to the Secretary of War, for the Year 1882. Part II, following page 1678. Over several decades in the late 19th century the Army Corps of Engineers experimented with many systems to keep the Missouri River channel open. In November…
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Screen Dykes at Downing's Point
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St. Louis Plant Manufactures 6-Ton Bomb
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1944. Original black-and-white gelatin-silver press photograph, October 31, 1944. 7 by 9 inches. Captioned on the back on a mounted label: "A worker at the Scullin Steel Co. in St. Louis moves a completed 6-ton 'earthquake bomb' forward on its platform to a freight car." These bombs were manufactured for the British air force for use on hardened German targets during the Second World War. An usual homefront munitions image. Very good. Some waviness to paper. The print has several areas of professional touch-up work, to remove portions of the background and to increase contrast.
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