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Title: Steamboat fire at Keokuk Landing
Date: 1853-06-18
Description: Portrait of Thomas H. Benton. Text documents his views concerning the Pacific Railroad.

Title: High School, Olive Street
Description: Printed illustration of horse drawn carriage on Olive Street in St. Louis, Missouri. A large high school can be seen in the background. The building was built in 1855 in the Lucas Place neighborhood.

Title: Chouteau Pond. 1850.
Date: 1850
Description: 20x16 in photograph of Chouteau Pond in 1850 with what may be McDowell Medical College in the distance.

Title: Thomas Hart Benton Portrait
Description: Engrave portrait of Thomas Hart Benton ca. 1850 by J. Rogers Co. with train vignette underneath.

Title: Eclipse
Description: Painting of the side-wheel packet Eclipse, commemorating her famed (and hotly contested) speed trial of 1853. The boat was designed for the Louisville-New Orleans trade and was given great power with the expectation that she could make the upstream voyage in four days; she never did.

Title: Breaking of the Ice
Date: 1856, 1946-04-07
Description: Fire was not the only cause of disaster along the riverfront, for spring thaws took their toll, too. This scene shows some of the damage which resulted from ice breaking up in '56. Note throng attracted to levee. Spring thaws that took their toll along St. Louis riverfront in the days of heavy steamboat...shows some of the damage which resulted from ice breaking up in 1856. Note crowd attracted to levee... Ice was a deadly menace to the wooden-hulled steamboats, locking them to the shore and then crumpling them into splintered wrecks when it thawed and began to break. This was a typical mid-winter scene on the St. Louis riverfront in the 1850s.

Title: Riverfront Old Pix St. Louis Levee
Date: 1858 or 1859
Description: Boats in the picture (from left to right) are: Kate Sweeney, Federal Arch, and Belle Gould. Takes place in St. Louis Levee in 1858 or 1859.

Title: Awful Accident on the North Pennsylvania Rail Road on Thursday July 17, 1856
Date: 1856, 1856

Title: Fourth and Olive Streets
Date: 1857, 1938-12-01
Description: Fourth and Olive streets, looking west (in the top photo). The Ohio & Mississippi Railroad offices were in the building on the right. Its tracks got to Illinois-town, now East St. Louis, in 1857. An 1865 advertisement said the Ohio & Mississippi was "the Great Broad Gauge Route to New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Boston. Only route to Cincinnati without change of cars. Trains are run by Telegraph. Only route running those elegant state room sleeping cars." The Ohio & Mississippi is now part of the Baltimore & Ohio- and Fourth and Olive has also changed (as shown in the lower of the two photos).

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