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Description of Pictures: Seeking St. Louis: Currents and Reflections
Exhibit Dates: Continuing Exhibit
Delve into the history of the Gateway City from its founding through the new millennium with the twin galleries that make up Seeking St. Louis.
In Currents, trace the lives of the fur traders and explorers, immigrants and factory workers, soldiers and citizens who played a role in St. Louis’s development. Spanning nearly 200 years, this interactive gallery takes visitors on a journey from early settlement through the Civil War and its aftermath. Experience the city’s disasters and triumphs, from terrible fires and a cholera outbreak to the end of slavery and the growth of local businesses.
In Reflections, witness the cultural and technological changes that reshaped St. Louis into a complex metropolitan region. Check out sports memorabilia from the Cardinals, Blues, Rams, and Browns, then play a game of washers while learning about neighborhood parks. Celebrate the music of legends with a local connection, such as Scott Joplin and Chuck Berry, and read the work of St. Louis writers, including T. S. Eliot and Kate Chopin. Take a walk through local history in the 20th century, from human rights struggles and major wars to the construction of the Gateway Arch.
Organized by the Missouri History Museum. Admission to the Missouri History Museum and this signature exhibit is free.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. MHMSE1_180918_004.JPG: Currents 1764-1904
2. MHMSE1_180918_006.JPG: Currents 1764-1904
3. MHMSE1_180918_018.JPG: History
4. MHMSE1_180918_041.JPG: And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. -- T.S. Eliot
5. MHMSE1_180918_044.JPG: Argument on the Missouri, 1809
6. MHMSE1_180918_047.JPG: Land
7. MHMSE1_180918_050.JPG: Mining
8. MHMSE1_180918_053.JPG: Exploiting Resources
9. MHMSE1_180918_055.JPG: Furs across the World
10. MHMSE1_180918_059.JPG: System of Exchange
11. MHMSE1_180918_064.JPG: Imagining the West
12. MHMSE1_180918_067.JPG: Location, Location, Location
13. MHMSE1_180918_072.JPG: On the Journey
14. MHMSE1_180918_073.JPG: Provisioning Native Americans
15. MHMSE1_180918_075.JPG: Provisioning Native Americans
16. MHMSE1_180918_083.JPG: Gold and Glory In the 1840s and 1850s, gold hunters and soldiers passed through St. Louis in search of profit and conquest in the west.
17. MHMSE1_180918_088.JPG: Gold Seekers
18. MHMSE1_180918_091.JPG: Supplying the Troops
19. MHMSE1_180918_096.JPG: The Things They Took Along
20. MHMSE1_180918_099.JPG: Saying Goodbye
21. MHMSE1_180918_102.JPG: Provisioning Settlers
22. MHMSE1_180918_108.JPG: Passing Through
23. MHMSE1_180918_110.JPG: Timber: One Resource, Many Uses
24. MHMSE1_180918_116.JPG: Working the Land As their city grew, St. Louisans continued to depend on the craftsmen and farmers whose work made the land and its resources useable.
25. MHMSE1_180918_118.JPG: Nettie Weber
26. MHMSE1_180918_123.JPG: Getting Produce to Market
27. MHMSE1_180918_129.JPG: Cash for Crops
28. MHMSE1_180918_131.JPG: How do we buy our food?
29. MHMSE1_180918_141.JPG: Peril
30. MHMSE1_180918_144.JPG: Fuel for the Boats
31. MHMSE1_180918_156.JPG: St. Louis on Fire, 1849
32. MHMSE1_180918_164.JPG: Fire! Fire! Getting Water to the Fire
33. MHMSE1_180918_166.JPG: St. Louis Recognizes a Hero
34. MHMSE1_180918_169.JPG: The Aftermath
35. MHMSE1_180918_174.JPG: Laclede Fire Company, No. 10, ca 1895 Receiving the New Engine, October 1855 by Mat Hastings
36. MHMSE1_180918_183.JPG: Targeting Charity
37. MHMSE1_180918_189.JPG: The Needy
38. MHMSE1_180918_195.JPG: Realizing the Loss
39. MHMSE1_180918_200.JPG: Tornado
40. MHMSE1_180918_207.JPG: Blown Away This cigar-store Indian (ca. 1890) was blown several blocks from its original site at 2010 Gravois Avenue, losing its feathered headdress and its original base along the way. From Compton Heights to Lafayette Park to Soulard Market, debris littered the streets of south St. Louis for weeks.
41. MHMSE1_180918_209.JPG: Crying Out for Help
42. MHMSE1_180918_211.JPG: Fire
43. MHMSE1_180918_221.JPG: Jeannette Forchet's Home
44. MHMSE1_180918_225.JPG: Jeannette Forchet's Home, 1790
45. MHMSE1_180918_249.JPG: The General Strike, 1877
46. MHMSE1_180918_260.JPG: From Pond to Sewer
47. MHMSE1_180918_266.JPG: Medicine case, c 1867
48. MHMSE1_180918_270.JPG: Epidemic
49. MHMSE1_180918_275.JPG: In 1850, where would your drinking water come from?
50. MHMSE1_180918_281.JPG: A Struggle to Cope
51. MHMSE1_180918_291.JPG: The St. Louis Levee
52. MHMSE1_180918_294.JPG: Labor
53. MHMSE1_180918_301.JPG: Adam Lemp
54. MHMSE1_180918_307.JPG: Innovating for Success
55. MHMSE1_180918_310.JPG: Jacob Meyer
56. MHMSE1_180918_318.JPG: Shoes: Industry Replaces Craft
57. MHMSE1_180918_324.JPG: Powering the Factory
58. MHMSE1_180918_335.JPG: The Beginnings of Mass Production
59. MHMSE1_180918_340.JPG: Age after age thus slowly passed away, and still the Mississippi onward pours... -- George Smoote, 1890
60. MHMSE1_180918_345.JPG: What's in a Name?
61. MHMSE1_180918_352.JPG: Rails
62. MHMSE1_180918_354.JPG: Stations
63. MHMSE1_180918_363.JPG: Who decides what land to set aside for transportation routes?
64. MHMSE1_180918_366.JPG: Wrought-iron drift, ca 1872 Used to line up river holes during construction of the Eads Bridge
65. MHMSE1_180918_373.JPG: Parks
66. MHMSE1_180918_376.JPG: Private Property to Public Park
67. MHMSE1_180918_380.JPG: Lafayette Park
68. MHMSE1_180918_385.JPG: In-line roller skate, ca 1850
69. MHMSE1_180918_392.JPG: The City/County Split
70. MHMSE1_180918_394.JPG: Changing Motivations
71. MHMSE1_180918_399.JPG: Subdivisions
72. MHMSE1_180918_401.JPG: Selling Subdivisions
73. MHMSE1_180918_403.JPG: Private Streets
74. MHMSE1_180918_406.JPG: Local Boundaries
75. MHMSE1_180918_408.JPG: Last Sale of Slaves, 1870 by Thomas S. Noble
76. MHMSE1_180918_411.JPG: Last Sale of Slaves
77. MHMSE1_180918_422.JPG: The Exodusters
78. MHMSE1_180918_424.JPG: The Triumph of Liberty
79. MHMSE1_180918_428.JPG: George Brooks
80. MHMSE1_180918_431.JPG: Cross, pocket knives, eyeglasses, and pocket watch, early 1900s belonged to George Brooks
81. MHMSE1_180918_434.JPG: After Slavery
82. MHMSE1_180918_439.JPG: Coming to Terms
83. MHMSE1_180918_442.JPG: "In the center of the hall was a large long table, at one end of which sat [Clark] with a sword lying before him..." -- William C. Preston, 1833
84. MHMSE1_180918_445.JPG: Peace Medals
85. MHMSE1_180918_458.JPG: William Clark's sword, c 1815
86. MHMSE1_180918_464.JPG: The Council Room of William Clark
87. MHMSE1_180918_469.JPG: Hunting for Resources
88. MHMSE1_180918_474.JPG: Treaties: An Expression of Power
89. MHMSE1_180918_479.JPG: International Boundaries
90. MHMSE1_180918_482.JPG: Claiming St. Louis A Timeline
91. MHMSE1_180918_485.JPG: Governing the Louisiana Territory
92. MHMSE1_180918_491.JPG: The Tools of Conquest
93. MHMSE1_180918_494.JPG: English flintlock musket, ca 1775
94. MHMSE1_180918_497.JPG: The Battle of Fort San Carlos
95. MHMSE1_180918_503.JPG: Tools of War
96. MHMSE1_180918_507.JPG: Belgian flintlock pistol, ca 1780
97. MHMSE1_180918_515.JPG: The Clash of Empires
98. MHMSE1_180918_520.JPG: The Governor
99. MHMSE1_180918_523.JPG: Adopting to New Ways
100. MHMSE1_180918_535.JPG: The Surveyor
101. MHMSE1_180918_537.JPG: The Tools of the Trade
102. MHMSE1_180918_540.JPG: How did they do that? How did surveyors work in the field?
103. MHMSE1_180918_543.JPG: Henry Miller, St. Louis Voter
104. MHMSE1_180918_546.JPG: Fighting to Vote
105. MHMSE1_180918_552.JPG: Virginia Minor, Early Suffragist
106. MHMSE1_180918_563.JPG: National Boundaries
107. MHMSE1_180918_566.JPG: Choosing Sides
108. MHMSE1_180918_569.JPG: Camp Jackson, May 10, 1861
109. MHMSE1_180918_579.JPG: Secessionists
110. MHMSE1_180918_581.JPG: Unionists
111. MHMSE1_180918_584.JPG: Then And Now
112. MHMSE1_180918_587.JPG: Unionists Take Camp Jackson
113. MHMSE1_180918_590.JPG: St. Louis at War "A General Stampede"
114. MHMSE1_180918_593.JPG: Embattled City
115. MHMSE1_180918_596.JPG: Filling the Hours
116. MHMSE1_180918_601.JPG: The Cost of Treason
117. MHMSE1_180918_604.JPG: The Oath
118. MHMSE1_180918_607.JPG: The Military Prison
119. MHMSE1_180918_610.JPG: Gratiot Street Prison key, c 1864
120. MHMSE1_180918_612.JPG: Then and Now
121. MHMSE1_180918_616.JPG: An Ordinance Abolishing Slavery in Missouri, 1865
122. MHMSE1_180918_620.JPG: Emancipation
123. MHMSE1_180918_624.JPG: Fighting Slavery in St. Louis
124. MHMSE1_180918_626.JPG: The Cruelty of Enslavement
125. MHMSE1_180918_629.JPG: The Results of War Soldiers Killed: 620,000 Slaves Freed: 4,000,000
126. MHMSE1_180918_632.JPG: Dred Scott
127. MHMSE1_180918_637.JPG: Coming to Terms
128. MHMSE1_180918_658.JPG: After Slavery
129. MHMSE1_180918_675.JPG: Crowd gathering around table, late 19th century by Mat Hastings
130. MHMSE1_180918_679.JPG: Mat Hastings
131. MHMSE1_180918_689.JPG: The Eyes of the Beholder
132. MHMSE1_180918_692.JPG: What Were They Thinking?
133. MHMSE1_180918_709.JPG: A Life on the Frontier
134. MHMSE1_180918_717.JPG: Staging an Image
135. MHMSE1_180918_725.JPG: Carl Wimar
136. MHMSE1_180918_728.JPG: Starting Over In St. Louis
137. MHMSE1_180918_740.JPG: David Nicholson
138. MHMSE1_180918_750.JPG: Inventing an Image
139. MHMSE1_180918_753.JPG: Establishing an Identity
140. MHMSE1_180918_763.JPG: The Picture of Success
141. MHMSE1_180918_766.JPG: How so we know that?
142. MHMSE1_180918_771.JPG: Joseph Pulitzer, 1907 by Auguste Rodin
143. MHMSE1_180918_774.JPG: A Portrait Unseen
144. MHMSE1_180918_777.JPG: How did they do that?
145. MHMSE1_180918_782.JPG: Making a Legend
146. MHMSE1_180918_787.JPG: Col. Daniel Boon [sic], 1820 by J.O. Lewis after Chester Harding
147. MHMSE1_180918_790.JPG: Dressing the Part
148. MHMSE1_180918_793.JPG: Claiming a Place in History
149. MHMSE1_180918_802.JPG: Reading a Portrait
150. MHMSE1_180918_807.JPG: The Promise of Childhood
151. MHMSE1_180918_812.JPG: From Cradle to Grave
152. MHMSE1_180918_817.JPG: Belonging in St. Louis
153. MHMSE1_180918_820.JPG: Who are your people?
154. MHMSE1_180918_823.JPG: Image
155. MHMSE1_180918_826.JPG: Keokuk's Portrait, 1847
156. MHMSE1_180918_834.JPG: The Great Fire in St. Louis
157. MHMSE1_180918_838.JPG: A Family Dynasty Expands
158. MHMSE1_180918_841.JPG: The Chouteaus
159. MHMSE1_180918_844.JPG: The Chouteaus Conduct Business
160. MHMSE1_180918_859.JPG: Seeking St. Louis
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Wikipedia Description: Missouri History Museum
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Missouri History Museum is located in St. Louis, Missouri in Forest Park. The museum is operated by the Missouri Historical Society and was founded in 1866.

Museum facilities:

The Jefferson Memorial Building, built in 1913 with profits from the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, is the current home of the museum.

In 2000, the Emerson Center, a significant building addition was completed, boosting attendance and exhibition capacity. The Emerson Center, featuring a ground-to-roof southern glass facade, was designed by Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum, and included substantially more exhibition space, as well as an auditorium, classrooms, a restaurant and gift shop. The Emerson Center was selected by the American Institute of Architects's Committee on the Environment as an example of architectural design that protects and enhances the environment. It is an example of a green museum.

Collections and Exhibits:

The museum permanent collection includes both national artifacts, as well as Missouri and St. Louis related materials, such as local colonial and native artifacts, Louisiana Purchase Exhibition artifacts, and items relating to Charles Lindbergh and his trans-Atlantic flight in the "Spirit of St. Louis". A replica of the "Spirit of St. Louis" can be found in the museum. A large amount of artifacts from the Lewis and Clark Expedition are also housed in the permanent collection, as St. Louis was the starting point for that venture.

Recent travelling exhibits and events have included items related to the Fox Theatre's restoration and renovation, the Road to Freedom tour (celebrating the Americans with Disabilities Act), and, prominently, the Lewis and Clark National Bicentennial Exhibition.
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