The scrapbook contains mostly newspaper clippings in English and German relating to the 28th Ohio Infantry and to the St. Louis Police Department. The front cover of the scrapbook is embossed, “J. Lang & Co. / Hotel Garni & Restaurant / No. 8 N. Fifth St. St. Louis,” and the first few pages are a guest register. The pages appear in numerical order, and blank pages have been removed from the disbound volume. The scrapbook spans from 1866 to 1892 with a large gap between 1867 and 1880. Many of the Civil War clippings concern the 28th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and there is one about the Battle of Droop Mountain (p.58). There are also several clippings about Civil War generals including John S. Marmaduke (p.17), August Moor, William V. Averell, and the death of George T. Sherman. Additional Civil War items include a leaflet of a Camp Fire Drill for Col. Hassendeubel Post No. 13 of the Department of Missouri, Grand Army of the Republic (GAR); GAR song lyrics; and an 1888 reprint of the ordinance abolishing slavery in Missouri from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch . Several of the police department clippings allege misconduct within the department such as blackmail and police relief association fraud (1889). Related clippings report alleged transgressions of other city officials such as James Butler, city attorney (p.33). Some clippings relate to specific cases: Mrs. Charles Clarke’s postal privacy and her husband’s allegations of “safe blowing” and Julia Utz who was handcuffed to a man when taken into police custody. There are also notices of prices for entirely new summer and winter uniforms for the police department in 1889. Other St. Louis-related clippings include coverage of Henry Shaw’s funeral in 1889 (p.30), a story about famous men who lived at Jefferson Barracks (p.37), and a story celebrating the 127th anniversary of the City of St. Louis (p.51).