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Title: Flying kites off stern
Date: 1972-07
Description: Two Men handle a kite on a boat's stern.

Title: Last Look, Steamer Delta Queen
Date: 1972-07
Description: The Delta Queen, viewed at the stern.

Title: Golden Eagle
Date: 1942-07
Description: 7/42 Ill R. STR. GOLDEN EAGLE

Title: Illinois River Sandbagging.
Date: 1943
Description: Sandbagging along Illinois River 1943

Title: Beardstown, Illinois
Date: 1981-08
Description: The enclosed pictures were taken during August 1981 on the Beardstown Illinois waterfront showing typical river scenes with the usual amount of tugs and other equipment. The B&N RR bridge in its river mode. The stern-wheel river tug is a locally built boat, original builders and name still showing = LOGSDON = built sometime in the 1930s more details could be obtained. These pictures were taken

Title: Beardstown, Illinois
Date: 1981-08
Description: The enclosed pictures were taken during August 1981 on the Beardstown Illinois waterfront showing typical river scenes with the usual amount of tugs and other equipment. The B&N RR bridge in its river mode. The stern-wheel river tug is a locally built boat, original builders and name still showing = LOGSDON = built sometime in the 1930s more details could be obtained. These pictures were taken

Title: Above Hardin Bridge
Date: 1972-07
Description: A Woman looks out towards Hardin bridge.

Title: Meredosia Bridge
Description: Bridge over Illinois River at Meredosia, Illinois. Meredosia lift span.

Title: Queen returns to starting line
Date: 1972-07
Description: A group of people look at the Delta Queen from the shore at the end of the race.

Title: Beardstown, Illinois
Date: 1981-08
Description: The enclosed pictures were taken during August 1981 on the Beardstown Illinois waterfront showing typical river scenes with the usual amount of tugs and other equipment. The B&N RR bridge in its river mode. The stern-wheel river tug is a locally built boat, original builders and name still showing = LOGSDON = built sometime in the 1930s more details could be obtained. These pictures were taken

Title: Beardstown, Illinois
Date: 1981-08
Description: Burlington Northern Railroad bridge over the Illinois River.

Title: White Eagle
Description: Season's Greetings from Bob Roehrig. Steamer White Eagle (Illinois River, 1892) Owned by Captain Rob Roehrig, Sr. and W. K. Kavanaugh.

Title: Lift span on highway bridge, lower Illinois River
Date: 1940
Description: View of the lift span from the deck of Golden Eagle.

Title: Islands and Towheads
Date: 1940-07
Description: Islands and towheads in Illinois River above Kampsville, July 1940.

Title: Helena
Description: The Helena is a steel hull, twin-propellor towboat. She was built in Midland, Pennsylvania in 1938 by the Midland Barge Company. Her dimensions are:- 148.4 x 40.1 x 8.1 feet. She is an oil burner and has water tube boilers. The triple expansion engines, 10-1/4\" x 17\" x 27\" with an 18-inch stroke total 1,000 horse power. Her propellors are 6 feet 5 inches in diameter. She is owned by the Inland

Title: Fred Swain
Date: 1909-08-20
Description: The Fred Swain was built at Stillwater, Minnesota in 1900. She was a sidewheeler with no texas. Her dimensions were:- 142 x 28.3 x 4.5 feet; tonnage, gross and net, 124 tons. She operated mostly on the Illinois River around Peoria. On August 20, 1909, she burned to the water's edge at Peoria, Illinois; fifty-eight persons were aboard but no lives lost.

Title: Towboat descending Peoria Lake on Illinois River
Description: Towboat descending Peoria Lake on Illinois River

Title: Idle time during shore trip
Date: 1972-07
Description: The Delta Queen seen from shore where children play on rocks.

Title: No hard feelings
Date: 1972-07
Description: The Delta Queen appears to be docked. A sign reading "Go Julia Belle Swain" in the foreground.

Title: Group picture of crew
Date: 1972-07
Description: The boat crew poses for pictures.

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