Kroger Grocery at Virginia Street. (See full image below)
These rare images are the work of J.R. Eike, a local photographer. At least one photo was taken by a A.F. Eike, presumed to be a brother. From 1914-1917, the Eike's captured over a hundred images across St. Louis. In addition, Eike was a photographer for St. Anthony School and Church so there are a few images of school children and Church functions. Thankfully, although these images were almost thrown away by a previous owner, Thomas Kempland saved them from such a fate and has generously made them available here. Note: These images are copyrighted and are NOT public domain. They are not to be used for any publication outside this webpage without the owner's permission. See also Thomas Kempland and the J.R. Eike Glassplate Discovery.
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J.R. Eike, with camera on left. Eike family portrait on right. Click on above images for enlargement.
Anheuser Busch Bevo plant construction
Anheuser Busch (looking north from Arsenal Street, before temporary trestle built)
Anheuser Busch (temporary trestle over RR yards for Bevo plant construction)
Anheuser Busch (Mr. Mathie and other salesmen at Bevo plant)
Anheuser Busch Street Car Stop (at Arsenal and Broadway, corner of Lyon Park)
Anheuser Busch Street Cars (at Arsenal and Broadway, corner of Lyon Park)
Anheuser Busch Street Car (crossing Arsenal street)
Anheuser Busch? (RR car used in Bevo Plant construction?)
Anheuser Busch (railyard, trains, horses with wagon)
Anheuser Busch (railyard, trains, steamshovel)
Anheuser Busch (Bevo Plant construction)
Anheuser Busch (Bevo Plant construction sideview)
Anheiser Busch (construction, railyard)
Anheuser Busch (construction, men tilting a RR car)
Anheuser Busch (construction, tall crane)
Anheiser Busch (construction, church steeple, some buildings visible)
Anheuser Busch (construction, better view of buildings along road)
Anheuser Busch (railyard construction, closeup view of platform supports )
Anheuser Busch (construction, steamshovel, engine and workmen)
Anheuser Busch (close-up of , steamshovel working)
Anheuser Busch ( steamshovel working, workmen)
Anheuser Busch ( railyard, rr cars, steam engine)
Anheuser Busch ( railyard, loaded cars pushed by steam engine)
Anheuser Busch ( railyard, rr cars, gang of men carrying heavy beam)
Anheuser Busch ( Bevo plant construction)
Anheuser Busch Brewery (drawing photographed on plate)
Bevo Mill Grand Opening (exterior)
Bevo Mill Grand Opening (interior, photo 1)
Bevo Mill Grand Opening (interior, photo 2)
Bevo Mill Grand Opening (interior, photo 3)
Bevo Mill Grand Opening (staff)
Bevo Mill (exterior w/ car)
Bevo Mill (exterior w/ group of men and boys)
Bevo Mill, backside
Bevo Mill, corner showing both streets
Bevo Mill Beer Garden (with side of building)
Bevo Mill (interior, fire hearth)
Lastest Bevo Plant Construction Pictures (3/18/2002)
Art Museum (in Forest Park)
Forest Park (Photo 1: landscape looking West)
Forest Park (Photo 2: view of lagoon from "Art Hill")
Forest Park (Photo 3: view of "Art Hill" from lagoon)
Forest Park (Photo 4: pavilion)
Forest Park (Photo 5: view from lagoon to pavilion)
Forest Park (Photo 6: boating in lagoon)
Carondelet Park (Photo 1: lake, boats, and boat house)
Carondelet Park (Photo 2: lake and boaters)
Carondelet Park (Photo 3: lake and boaters)
Highlands Amusement Park (hot air balloon)
Marquette Park Swimming Pool, (circa 1915)
Marquette Park Swimming Pool, (circa 1915)
Marquette Park Swimming Pool, (circa 1915)
Marquette Park Swimming Pool (circa 1915)
Park? Event (Judges?) unknown location
Park? Event (Judges?, and girl with flowers) unknown location
Park? Event (Crowds, large tent, boys playing in shallow pool) unknown location
Park? Event (Crowds, large tent, boys playing in shallow pool) unknown location
Reservoir Park (basin reconstruction 1916)
Shaw's Garden (new greenhouse)
Shaw's Tomb (Statue of Henry Shaw)
Shaw's Tomb (with crowd gathered around Henry Shaw's mausoleum)
Tower Grove Park (Arsenal street entrance)
Tower Grove Park (lake)
Tower Grove (new, added 3/18/2002)
Fire: Christian Brothers College (after fire of Oct 5, 1916)
Fire: Christian Brothers College (school children looking at fire damage, photo by A.F. Eike)
Fire: Christian Brothers College (interior fire damage)
Fire: Christian Brothers College (wreckage where six men killed)
Fire: Christian Brothers College (funeral procession for dead)
Fire: Christian Brothers College (firemen walking in procession for dead)
Fire: Christian Brothers College (window where victim jumped)
Frisco Train Wreck, photo #2: 1920's (from Eike's album, unknown photographer)
Frisco Train Wreck, Photo #3: 1920's (from Eike's album, unknown photographer)
Greenhouse (damaged by hail) unknown location
Greenhouse (photo 2, damaged by hail)
River Des Peres: Flood of 1915 (flooded landscape)
River Des Peres: Flood of 1915 (flooded landscape)
River Des Peres: Flood of 1915 (lumber jam Broadway Bridge)
River Des Peres: Flood of 1915 (Bridge saved by RR cars)
River Des Peres: Flood of 1915 (wreckage and railcars at Broadway Bridge)
River Des Peres: Flood of 1915 (ladies in bathing suits at edge of floodwater)
Washington Ave Fire (building damaged by fire and water) photographed in winter.
Washington Ave Fire (back side of above building, firemen spraying water)
Washington Ave Fire (ice covered building)
Catholic Religious Event Photo 1 (at unknown location)
St. Anthony's Church (ushers, photographer J.R. Eike: top row, 1st on left)
Girls in blackface and African style attire (probably St. Anthony School)
Children in wigs and colonial attire (probably St. Anthony School)
Schoolchildren, St. Anthony School (boys dressed in World War I period uniforms, circa 1917)
Schoolchildren, St. Anthony School (boys in school attire)
Schoolchildren, St. Anthony School (girls in fancy dresses, wearing bows and wreaths)
Schoolchildren, St. Anthony School (boys in formal attire, corsages)
Schoolchildren, St. Anthony School (girls, 1917)
Schoolchildren, St. Anthony School (boys, 1917)
Schoolchildren, St. Anthony School (boys with coats and hats)
Schoolchildren, St. Anthony School (girls in costume w/ picture blur from movement)
St. Anthony Church (boys Communion Class, 5/27/1917)
Pastor and Assistants (St. Anthony Church)
Church Clergy and Ushers (making a toast at dinner)
St. Louis Cathedral ("new")
793 Lbs. Man (attended by clergy and possibly nurses)
Most Recent Church Pictures (added 3/18/2002)
Aeronautical Balloon with crowd
Aeronautical Balloon (men inflating large balloon)
Aeronautical Balloon (in flight)
Broadway (looking north from Arsenal Street, before temporary trestle built)
Carondelet Ford Dealer (store front)
Chain of Rocks Water Treatment Plant (mixing chemicals)
Chain of Rocks (Mississippi river, treatment plant, water intake tower)
Circus Wagon (passing Johansen Bros. Shoe Co.)
Circus Wagon (with people on sidewalk)
Circus Wagon and Streetcar
Circus Elephants on Parade (with automobile and crowd looking on)
Dr. Bachrath's Residence (w/ Dental office)
Downtown, unknown location
Eads Bridge Trolley Station, "The Electric Way" (see zoom below)
"Free Bridge" later named MacArthur Bridge (special event with crowds, vehicles)
"Free Bridge" later named MacArthur Bridge (Mississippi River bridge with traffic)
"Free Bridge" view from bridge looking north (Eads Bridge, landing, buildings, river, boats)
"Free Bridge" view from bridge looking south (factories, river, skyline) 1915
"Free Bridge" looking East.
"Free Bridge" looking down the center of traffic, with autos.
Hill Top Sweet Shop (location unknown, possibly on "the Hill"??)
Kroger Grocery Store (Virginia Street) (full image)
Laylow H. & F. Club (clubhouse with men drinking)
Laylow Club (large group of men in front of clubhouse. One man with badge and gun.)
Laylow Club (men drinking beer w/ building made from boxcars)
Liberty Bell (in St. Louis on traveling display, 1915)
Liberty Bell (on flat car, flags waving, 1915)
Liberty Bell (leaving Forest Park, 1915)
Liberty Bell (on train leaving St. Louis, 1915)
"M.A.A." Building (view of the decorative ceiling in dinning room)
Motordrome (portable wooden motorcycle racetrack) 30 Aug 1914
Motordrome Racer: Wells Bennett
Motordrome Racer: John B. Hoefeler
Motordrome Racer: Paul Schmidt
Motordrome Racers: group photo
Motordrome Racer: unknown1 racer
Motordrome Racer: two racers
Motordrome Racer: Wells Bennett, 2nd photo
Motordrome Racer: outside drome, unknown2 on bicycle
Motordrome Racer: Wells Bennett ?
Motordrome Racer: unknown3 racer
Motordrome: with bicycle, two unknown racers
"New School" name/location not known
New York Life Insurance Co. Office (St. Louis office)
NYLIC (at New York Life Insurance office, St. Louis office)
Parade (marchers on street w/ patriotic decorations)
Plaza (with Chevrolet dealership across street)
Riverfront (steamboats and landside damage of RR tracks)
Sears Breaking Ground, Photo 1 (Sears Store on S. Grand) J. R. Eike album.unknown photographer
Sears Breaking Ground, Photo 2 (Sears Store on S. Grand) J. R. Eike album, unknown photographer
Statler Hotel (under construction on Lindell)
Steam Engine Locomotive (on levee)
Steam Engine Locomotive No. 9 (track along riverfront)
Street Scene (automobiles, shops)
Street Scene ("new wall" on street w/ bicycle)
Women (women lined up on a street, possibly a women's rights march)
New Misc. Images: (added 3/18/2002)
Kroger Store (Virginia Street)
Eike's Bike Shop (store located at 3137 w/ Bicycle to be raffled for St. Anthony's Fall festival)
Eike's Bike Shop (Store front at 3426 Montana Street w/ bicycles)
Eike's Flat (exterior)
Eike's Flat (interior)
Music Box (probably in Eike's home)
Eike on bike (w/ toy wagon and ride-on car for toddler)
Bikes, with toddler (probably, J.R. Eike, jr.)
Eike Family Xmas (xmas tree w/ train set)
1916 New Year Greetings (w/ Jos. R. Eike, Jr.)
J.R. Eike with a "Smith Motor Wheel" Bike
Ducks, baby inspecting live ducks held by mother (Mrs. Eike)
Ducks, Eike, jr. w/ mother (w/ shadow of photographer visible)
Sleeping Baby (cute picture of child sleeping with pull toy)
Boy w/ dog (unknown)
3 Girls (unknown, probably sisters.)
Woman (unknown)
2 Women (unknown)
Recent Pictures of People (added 3/18/2002):
Boy in Car (Eike, Jr.)
See also Thomas Kempland and the J.R. Eike Glassplate Discovery.
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