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File Details: ARWTm, 800 DPI, TIFF, Original Photograph, 10.6 Mb

Image ID: ARWT

Credit:

by Brown (George O.)

Date:

1866.04

Negative Size:

5 in. x 8 in. stereo

Locations & Lines:

St. Louis MO; Missouri

Structures & Establishments:

Cracker Castle (St. Louis MO)

Sources:

Library of Congress

American Scenery (Stereosopic). No. __. “Cracker Castle,” built by an army contractor who furnished the Army crackers. [G. O. Brown stereo card]

Library of Congress says: Photograph shows the home of Jonathan O. Pierce, who was a partner in the cracker making business that furnished hardtack for the Union Army, on Chouteau Avenue in St. Louis, Missouri. The house was damaged beyond repair when a tornado hit St. Louis on May 27, 1896.

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