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Title: M/V AA McKinney (1800hp)
Date: 2006-01
Description: M/V A. A. McKinney - McKinney Towing, Inc. - Baton Rouge, Louisiana - 1,800 horsepower - Avondale Shipyards, Inc. - 1963 - January 2006 at New Orleans, Louisiana --- See also: M/V Paul H. Chotin, M/V Emmanuel Ch 133 --- Boat Photo Museum No. 1850-41918

Title: Beef Noodle Bar
Date: 1977-02-14
Description: Laura Eberhardt, 18, of Metairie, LA, sinks her teeth into a bar of beef noodle soup at the International Food and Agricultural Show in New Orleans.

Title: Heckmann, Edward
Date: 194-
Description: Jackson Square, New Orleans, World War II

Title: Capitol - 2nd deck
Date: 1924-02
Description: Soda bar, second deck of the excursion steamer CAPITOL.

Title: The Mississippi Mission Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Date: 1866-03-03
Description: William Murrill, J.M Bryant, H.G. Jackson, Emporer Williams, E.H. Dicery, R.M. Small, Henry Green, J. Goodwyn, J.P. Newman, Hanly Ryan, Bishop Thomson, N.L. Drakeman, Scott Chitin, W.M. Henry, David Knala, Samuel Osborn, Thomas Kennedy., M-244-1-03 (physical location number).

Title: River Queen

Title: River Queen

Title: Bedford
Description: Photo S.S. Bedford, Joliet to New Orleans, Skipper Martin DeNash, U.S.N., Pilot Ed. Heckmann, W.W. II

Title: James Howard
Description: Side-wheel packet James Howard, built in 1870 for the St. Louis-New Orleans trade. In 1872 she transported the Grade Duke Alexis of Russia and his entourage to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. In March of 1881 she burned at St. Louis while carrying a large cargo of sugar.

Title: Queen City and Cincinnati
Description: Steamers Queen City (left) and Cincinnati (right) at New Orleans during Mardi Gras, 1925.

Title: Captain William F. and Betty Streckfus Carroll Collection Photographs
Description: The photographs of the William F. and Betty Streckfus Carroll Collection are mostly of the boats, people and businesses of the Streckfus Steamers Company, although photographs of other vessels and river personalities can also be found. A finding aid to the full collection, including the photographs, is available.

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: River Queen

Title: Olympic Jazz Company Performers
Date: 1968-10-05
Description: Billie and DeDe Pierce of the Preservation Hall Band, New Orleans, are members of the Olympic Jazz Company which will represent the United States at the Olympics in Mexico City and which will be at The Globe-Democrat concert Oct. 17.

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