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	Planners originally scheduled tours of St. Louis in open cars for delegates, members and friends attending the American Woman's League Convention in June 1910, but inclement weather forced a change in plans and special streetcar tours were arranged instead. This photograph appeared in "The Woman's National Daily" on June 11, 1910.
	Following the groundbreaking for the new Lewis Publishing Company headquarters on Delmar Boulevard in St. Louis County in 1903, friends, associates and employees went home by streetcar. This streetcar line ran out Delmar, and then "looped" through the southwest corner of Delmar Garden Amusement Park, just east of the site for the new building, before returning to downtown St. Louis.
	This is an early view of the Delmar Loop taken looking east from the top floor of the Woman's Magazine Building in September, 1907. Delmar Garden Amusement Park is on the left, and a streetcar is just making the "loop" through the southwest corner of the Park to return to St. Louis. The Park Hotel is on the upper right, with Parkview Subdivision just beyond.
	Lewis Publishing Company used both trucks and street cars to transport mail from the printing plant to the railroad station. Streetcar tracks ran from Delmar Boulevard on Oberlin (now Harvard Avenue) to the back of the Press Annex to facilitate loading.
	The streetcar "Mabel," named for Edward Gardner Lewis' wife, was built by the St. Louis Car Company, and was on display at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904. This may have been more of a promotion for the magazines and an opportunity for Lewis to keep the company name in front of the public visiting the Fair than for actual transportation. A leather bound log was printed for guests to sign. The streetcar was rarely seen after the Fair.
	The streetcar "Mabel," named for Edward Gardner Lewis' wife, was built by the St. Louis Car Company, and was on display at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904. This may have been more of a promotion for the magazines and an opportunity for Lewis to keep the company name in front of the public visiting the Fair than for actual transportation. The interior was divided into two compartments - a parlor and a buffet. It was decorated with inlaid woods, and was green with yellow upholstery. The car was rarely seen after the Fair.
	The St. Louis Star, a daily newspaper, was purchased by the Lewis Publishing Company in the fall of 1908. The newspaper occupied a building at 12th and Olive Streets in downtown St. Louis. This photograph, taken looking north on 12th Street, shows the St. Louis Star building, and just beyond it, the Hotel Jefferson. Typical of the times, street traffic includes horses and wagons, street cars and automobiles.
	This photograph was taken about 1907 from the Washington University campus, looking northwest toward Edward Gardner Lewis' monumental Woman's Magazine Building and Woman's National Daily Building. To the left is University Heights #1, Lewis' residence park. On the lower right is the southwest corner of Parkview, showing the intersection of Westgate and Berlin Avenues. The Kirkwood-Ferguson Streetcar tracks follow the western edge of Parkview, while the Chicago, Rock Island, Pacific Rail Road tracks are to the south.
	This photograph was taken from an upper story of the Woman's Magazine Building about 1904. The intersection of Oberlin Avenue and Harvard Avenue in University Heights #1 is at the left. The tracks for the Creve Coeur streetcar are center to right, and a streetcar is headed north. Some of the buildings in Delmar Garden Amusement Park are on the right.

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