St. Louis Mercantile Library
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The St. Louis Mercantile Library, founded in 1846 in downtown St. Louis, Missouri, was originally established as a membership library, and is the oldest extant library west of the Mississippi River. S
Current home of the library on the UMSL Campus
Mercantile Library Hall, ca. 1870
Statue of Beatrice Cenci (1857)
Anzeiger des Westens
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The Anzeiger des Westens, which operated from 1835 to 1912, was the first German-language newspaper in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Alongside the Westliche Post and the Illinois Staats-Zeitung,
Anzeiger des Westens building, in a woodcut from 1887
Henry Boernstein, one of several editors and proprietors, starting in 1850
Carl Daenzer, Editor of the Anzeiger des Westens. Carte de visite by Cramer, Gross and Co., c. 1879 Missouri History Museum Photograph and Print Collection.
A Soulard neighborhood brick house