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Title: Golden Eagle
Date: 1946-09-16
Description: This series was taken Sept 16 - 1946. The Eagle Packet wanted a picture as near like the one they considered their favorite to use for postal cards. So Bill & I visited the boat then went north of the Eads Bridge & took this series.

Title: Golden Eagle and Gordon C. Greene
Date: 1946-11-07
Description: Last packet type steamboat race on the Mississippi. GOLDEN EAGLE being overtaken by the GORDON C. GREENE above Greenville. November 7, 1946.

Title: Golden Eagle
Date: 1947
Description: Photograph of the Steamer GOLDEN EAGLE, sunk at Grand Tower. 1947.

Title: Pearl, Illinois
Date: 1942
Description: Pearl, Ill. July 1942.

Title: Golden Eagle
Date: 1947-05-17
Description: "Golden Eagle" below Eads Bridge St. Louis MO. Picture taken May 17, 1947 before departure for her last trip to Nashville, Tenn. She sank next morning May 18 at Grand Tower Island after striking rock formation and fearing a 6 foot hole in the center seam in the hull. The Pilot Nathan Smith beached her and all passengers & crew were saved. Repeated floods in the summer of 1947 made raising of the

Title: Golden Eagle and Gordon C. Greene
Date: 1946-11-071
Description: Last packet type steamboat race on the Mississippi. GOLDEN EAGLE being passed by the GORDON C. GREENE above Greenville. November 7, 1946.

Title: Eads Bridge and East Saint Louis From the Deck of the Steamer Golden Eagle
Date: 1946-07-13
Description: Golden Eagle trip July 13 - 1946. East St. Louis and Eads Bridge. Motorboat in the foreground.

Title: Golden Eagle
Date: 1947
Description: Clearing channel of Wreckage from the GOLDEN EAGLE by the U S Army Corps of Engineers.

Title: St. Louis Riverfront From the Deck of the Golden Eagle
Date: 1946-07-13
Description: Golden Eagle trip July 13 - 1946. St. Louis riverfront.

Title: Golden Eagle
Date: 1947
Description: From the last St. Louis owned tourist Str. GOLDEN EAGLE, which struck rock bottom 80 miles South of St. Louis May 18, 1947. Passengers and crew left safely. The boat broke up, a total loss. The PILOT HOUSE is now in the River Room of the Jefferson Memorial in Forest Park.

Title: Golden Eagle
Date: 1947
Description: Clearing channel of Wreckage from the GOLDEN EAGLE by the U S Amry Corps of Engineers.

Title: Soldiers Departing, 1942
Date: 1942
Description: Families and residents of St. Louis gather on the levee to send off soldiers departing for World War II, circa 1942. Donated to the St. Louis Mercantile Library by Norbert Rechtien.

Title: Jefferson Barracks Bridge, 1941
Date: 1941
Description: The Jefferson Barracks Bridge in the process of being built, 1941. This shot is looking towards the Illinois shore near the railroad tracks below Jefferson Barracks. Donated to the St. Louis Mercantile Library by Norbert Rechtien.

Title: Golden Eagle
Date: 1946-11-03
Description: GOLDEN EAGLE in mid-stream at New Orleans, La. Starting the return trip to St. Louis, Mo. November 3, 1946.

Title: Wood River
Date: 1946
Description: Str. WOOD RIVER passing Elsah Ill. 1946.

Title: Elsah, Illinois
Date: 1942
Description: Elsah Bluffs as the look to the towboats. Ed Golterman, 1942.

Title: Canton, MO Seawall
Date: 1941
Description: Mississippi River Seawall at Canton - This Scenic view of Canton's new Mississippi River Seawall and parkway shows the lock and dam in the distance and a municipal power plant in the left foreground.

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