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.
Chester at K.C. as tunnel boat. Here's how the boys hung their rudders back when. Propeller in tunnel. Originally 3 - took out center. Originally 2 boilers took off one and one stack.
4-3-61. With compliments to my good friend Captain Ed Heckman, Hermann, Missouri. by Courtney M. Ellis. The gentleman on roof with back to you walking forward looks very much like Captain Wm L. Heckman?
I had this picture made from one taken by Art Colwell. Art was US Govt. inspector of boat engines on lower Missouri, and Miss. River from mouth of MO river to Keokuk dam about 1910-1920.
Wreck of steamer Clifton foreground. "CITY OF SAVANNAH" pulling "KENTUCKY" King Hale, Master, from rock, near Clifton Tenn. Small tugboat in background. Note Sparpole KENTUCKY is using.
Mississippi River Reflections: Delta Queen: Henry Miller Shreve of Shreveport, LA, developed the prototype of all Mississippi River steamboats in 1816. The height of the steamboat era was between the years 1820-1870. Sternwheeler Delta Queen was the last paddlewheel steamboat built with wood in the superstructure in the year 1928. As the Delta Queen steams down the River, she provides a view quite common in the 1800s when tons of material and thousand of people moved the easiest or most comfortable way.