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P-003: Ruth Ferris Collection Prints
This part of the Ruth Ferris Collection contains prints, mostly lithographs taken from illustrated periodicals in the 19th century.
Herman T. Pott National Inland Waterways Library
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- A Mortar
- Illustration of a mortar gun on board a Civil War gunboat., From Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War.
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- A Trip on the Atchafalaya River
- 1. Entrance to Atchafalaya River. 2. A "Swamper's" house on the Atchafalaya. 3. A Swamper. 4. Steamer running the rapids of the Atchafalaya. 5. Red River Landing. 6. Castle on the Atchafalaya. 7. Little Whiskey Bayou. 8. A Swamper's garden (in a Canoe). 9. The ash cabin, Atchafalaya. 10. Map showing changes in the Mississippi's current.
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- A View of Fort Armstrong
- A view of Fort Armstrong, Rock Island, Mississippi River. Probably 1853.
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- Arrival of the Forty-Ninth Ohio Regiment
- Arrival of the Forty-Ninth Ohio Regiment at Louisville, Kentucky.-Drawn by Henry Mosler.-[See page 671.]
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- Bombardment of Island No. 10
- Bombardment of Island Number Ten by the mortar fleet, March 16, 1862. -- Sketched by Alexander Simplot. -- [ See page 219.] The gun-boat fleet dropping down stream to reconnoitre. Steamers towing mortar-boats into position.
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- Chaperon
- Green River packet "Chaperon"
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- Closing scene of the naval fight before Memphis
- From Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War.
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- Colonel Ellet's Ram Approaching Memphis
- From Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War.
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- Crevasse on the Lower Mississippi
- Illustration of fishermen on the riverbank of the Mississippi at flood stage. House and men in a canoe in the background., From Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War.
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- Difficulties of a Working General Among the Bayous
- Bayou Navigation in Dixie.-From a sketch by Mr. Theodore R. Davis.-[See page 235.]
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- Embarkation of the Ninth Missouri Regiment
- Embarkation of the Ninth Missouri Regiment, Colonel Kelton, at St. Louis, for Lexington. - Sketched by Alexander Simplot. - [See page 658.]
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- Emigrants Crossing the Plains
- F.O.C. Darley, fecit. H. B. Hall, Jr. Sc.
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- Flag Ship "Harper" Attacked
- The flag-ship "Harper" attacked by the ram "Manassas" and a fire-raft in the Mississippi.-[see page 373.]
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- Fort Augustus and Loch Ness
- Fort Augustus and Loch Ness.
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- Fort Benton
- U. S. P. R. R. Exp. and Surveys - 47th and 49th parallels.
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- Fort Snelling
- Fort Snelling (Minnesota). Drawn after nature from the proprietor Herman J. Meyer.
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- General Halleck's Army on the Tennessee
- Commissary store boats. Landing cannon. Interior of a sanitary steamer. The general hospital at Hamburg. Moving siege guns to our lines., From Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War.
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- Gioacchino Rossini
- The great Italian Composer.
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- Government Bridge Between Davenport and Rock Island
- View of the Government Bridge (or Arsenal Bridge) spanning the Mississippi between Rock Island, Illinois, and Davenport, Iowa.
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- Government Snagboat No. 2
- Government snag-boat removing obstructions from the channel of a western river. - Drawn by Schell and Hogan. - [See page 870.]
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- Grand Tower and Devil's Bakeoven
- Grand Tower and Devil's Bakeoven, Mississippi River. Drawn after nature for proprietor Herman J. Meyer.
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- Great Crevasse of the Mississippi
- The great crevasse of the Mississippi on the plantation of Mr. Bell, near New Orleans, April 11, 1858.--See page 7.
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- Great Falls of the Missouri River
- U. S. P. R. R. Exp. and Surveys - 47th and 49th parallels.
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- Gun-Boats Fitting Out at Cincinnatti
- Gun-boats fitting out at Cincinnati, Ohio, for government service on the Mississippi.
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- Indianola
- The United States gun-boat Indianola (iron-clad) running the blockade at Vicksburg.
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- J. M. White
- J. M. White, Hal Henderson sketch. Proof from cut of drawing used on cover of "Steamboat, Art, Decoration and Elegance" by Ruth Ferris.
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- Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana
- Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana. (Near the Mouth of the Great Miami) Drawn and Engraved for the Ladies Repository.
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