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Title: Broadway North From Market Street
Description: Photograph of the intersection of North Broadway looking north from Market Street. The Old Courthouse is visible on the right, theaters and a hotel are visible on the left across from the Courthouse.

Title: Railway Construction Site
Description: Photograph of construction site at railway interchange. Tunnels are being dug under existing railroad tracks. A steam shovel is loading dirt onto rail cars. Men with teams of horses are visible in the trench.

Title: City of Clifton
Date: 1903
Description: The City of Clifton destroyed by fire in 1903 at Clifton, TN.

Title: Children Along Rope
Description: Photograph of children standing along and hanging on a rope near a construction site. A large portion of the street has been excavated, a worker is visible in a hole in the street digging with a shovel. A couple of horse-drawn wagons are visible in the background.

Title: Columbia
Description: The Columbia was built at Jeffersonville, Indiana in 1903. She was 170 feet long, 29 feet beam and four feet depth of hold. Her registry indicateds that her tonnage, both net and gross, was 139, and her indicated horse power 185. She had her first inspection on October 27, 1903. She was named for the town of Columbia, Louisiana. This boat is the sternwheeler that ran in the New Orleans and Bends trade, and later up the Red and Ouachita Rivers for the Carter Packet Company of New Orleans. Charges filed by J.L. Ross, pilot of the Columbia, against the steamer St. James, charging violation of pilot rules was investigated on November 23, 1905. The case was a near collicion of the two vessels on October 30th. As a result, the licenses of pilots E. R. Daigre of the St. James, and Ross of the Columbia, were suspended 10 days each. Her life was comparatively short - less than seven years. On February 26, 1910, while she was coming up pthe Mississippi, she started to make a landing at Grand Levee, nine miles above Bayou Sara, Louisiana. She hit a submerged obstruction and knocked a large hole in her port side, abreast of the derrick. She started to sink. As she listed over at a 45 degree angle, fire broke out, and that part of her cabin that was above water was destroyed. A negro fireman named John Henry left the boat as she started down, but for some unknown reason went aboard her again. He was forced to jump into the river and was drowned. Whether this is the Joh Henry written about by Roark Bradford we do not know. The Columbia was a total loss, but insurance amounting to $12,000 coverred most of her value; this was estimated at $16,000. \"Columbia\" has always been a popular name for nessels and there were many \"gems of the rivers\" as well as \"gems of the ocean.\" For instance, in 1904 there was a Pittsburgh - Monongahela River packet; a Kanawha River boat out of Wheeling, West Virginia; a Louisville ferry; two Upper Mississippi River packets, one in the Clinton and Davenport trade and the other out of St. Paul - and two boats on the Missouri River, one registered in Kansas City, Missouri, and the other Great Falls, Montana, all bearing the patriotic name. In addition there two steamers named Columbia in New Orleans.

Title: Jack Powell
Description: Saint Louis Browns pitcher Jack Powell warming up. Brown played for the Browns from 1902-1903 and again from 1905-1912.

Title: Expansion
Date: 1904
Description: Excursion on Expansion Washburnites on their way to Mannhaven. 1904.

Title: Henry M. Stanley
Date: 1907-09-03
Description: Wreck of Str. Henry M. Stanley. Gallipolis, O. 9/3/07

Title: Washington Avenue
Description: Photograph looking east along Washington Avenue from approximately North Tucker Boulevard. The street is very busy with automobiles, pedestrians and street cars. The present-day Merchandise Mart building is visible on the right side of the street in the middle ground of the photo.

Title: Beautiful Suburban Towns
Date: 1909, 1909
Description: A guidebook promoting various suburbs around Chicago that were served by the Chicago and North Western Railway

Title: American Engineer and Railroad Journal March 1900
Date: 1900-03

Title: American Engineer and Railroad Journal September 1900
Date: 1900-09

Title: American Engineer and Railroad Journal October 1900
Date: 1900-10

Title: American Engineer and Railroad Journal April 1900
Date: 1900-04

Title: American Engineer and Railroad Journal June 1900
Date: 1900-06

Title: American Engineer and Railroad Journal May 1900
Date: 1900-05

Title: American Engineer and Railroad Journal July 1900
Date: 1900-07

Title: American Engineer and Railroad Journal August 1900
Date: 1900-08

Title: American Railroad Journal September 26, 1874
Date: 1874-09-26

Title: American Engineer and Railroad Journal January 1900
Date: 1900-01

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