Scott K. Williams, Florissant, Mo.
A real photo postcard of the St. Louis Levee South of Eads Bridge. Postmarked 1907 and mailed to Miss Maria Phelan of 4646 S. Compton Ave., St. Louis, Mo.
An early card, circa pre-1907 (not postmarked). Titled "St. Louis, Eads Bridge", Raphael Tuck & Sons, Post Card Series "No. 2220, "St. Louis". Art publishers to their Majesties the King and Queen. (printed in Germany).
Ice Gorge Wrecks, Mississippi River, St. Louis, Mo.Published expressly for F.W. Woolworth Co., Made in the U.S.A. Postmarked April 21, 1913.
The Mississippi River at St. Louis, Mo. (St. Louis Post Card Co., St. Louis, Mo.) No Postmark.
Levee near Eads Bridge, St. Louis, Mo. Unloading peanuts from a steamer. Following the Civil War, newly freed slaves took over a niche dominated by the Irish before 1861-1865. (However black rivermen have always worked the river as far back as colonial times.)
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