This collection consists of digitized photographs relating to the Missouri River, and often specifically to the family of Dorothy Heckmann Shrader. Phtoographs are often of river steamers and crew. The Heckmanns were the last great steamboat family on the Missouri River.
Photograph of the flyers for the Missouri River Passenger Packet on YELLOW-STONE (D.N. Greenleaf, master) and for the Regular Passenger Packet for Lexington, Liberty, Weston, & St. Joseph, Missouri River on the steam boat KATE SWINNEY (P.M. Chouteau, master).