1925 OOAK TYPE-1 Photo: SS ST LOUIS Steamboat Steamer Docked by Eads Bridge For Sale

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Taken / shot by famous photojournalist, Robert Froelich.
Very good condition - watermark only added to scans uploaded to this listing.
The Steamer Saint Louis was constructed upon a wooden hull measuring 210 feet in length by 37 feet in width. At a January 19, 1912, board meeting of the St. Louis & Tennessee River Packet Company, it was announced by Capt. John Massengale that the firm had contracted with the Howard Shipyard at Jeffersonville, Ind., to build a new sternwheeler, costing $21,950, and that the riverboat, capable of carrying 180 passengers and 1,000 tons of freight, would be named Saint Louis.
The vessel had its trial trip on November 24, departing from the shipyard the next day for Paducah and reaching that city on the 27th. Because ice was beginning to form on the Mississippi, the owners did not want to take any risks with their fine new steamboat and placed it into winter quarters at the Duck’s Nest, where it would safely remain until spring. The Saint Louis departed Paducah on February 22 and arrived in St. Louis on the 24th.
The steamboat left its namesake city on April 2 with 200 soldiers going to Shiloh and returned on April 11 with its main deck loaded with a cargo of peanuts. The boat again departed April 14 with its full capacity of passengers and the lower deck full of buggies, made by the famous Banner Buggy Company of St. Louis.Russell Froelich, Sr. (1890–1958) was a pioneer of both early aviation and aerial photography who took thousands of lasting images of the St. Louis region for the city’s newspaper outlets from 1911 to the 1950s, helped the war effort in WWI with aerial mapping, was a color photography innovator and even invented a monoplane.
The monoplaneFroelichdesigned and built in 1911 pioneered the fixed-wing aircraft configuration with a single mainplane (in contrast to biplanes of the era) which became the most common structure of aircraft after the 1930s. In his twenties, he began both designing and helping to build airplanes with early local flyers, such as Tom Benoist of the Benoist Aircraft Company, leading to the role as official photographer for the manufacturer.
American entry into WWI led Froelich to put his talents and skills to wartime use. He began taking aerial photographs from wing-mounted cameras that he improvised to fit given situations and flight conditions, helping the US Army Signal Corps develop terrain maps of Europe.
After the War, Froelich worked as a beat photographer for St. Louis newspapers, including the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, and the St. Louis Star. He eventually managed the photography team which gave him access to a wide range of subject matter and the ability to experiment with action photography and the evolution of color techniques
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