Side-wheel packet A. C. Donnally at loading dock. This steamer ran Cincinnati to New Orleans before it burned on the Missouri shore just south of Cairo in February 1879.
Adam Jacobs (built 1885 in Brownsville, Pa.) at port. Vessel had electric lights and an arc searchlight (seen at far right), one of the first see in the region.
Cabin of the Alabama owned by St. Louis and Tennessee River Packet Co. This steamer was built in 1912 and retired around 1932. Note the Great Seal of Alabama at right.