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Title: City of Providence
Description: The City Of Providence ws an Anchor Line boat built in 1880 . For the St. Louis and Natchez trade. She ws a side wheeler with a texas deck and was later made an excursion boat. Shown here from South St. Louis bluffs above the Iron Mountain railroad tracks as an excursion boat operated by Columbia Excursion Company, she finally sunk in a wreck at St. Louis January 20, 1910. A part of the City of Providence's superstructure was destroyed in the cyclone of 1896. Ws an excursion boat owned by Capt. W. H. Thorwegan she ran in competition with City of Alton and defeated the latter boat in many races.

Title: St. Louis Riverfront
Date: 1935-06-09
Description: Ed Bruckner Mate. 6/9/35. Saint Louis, Missouri riverfront at flood stage. Eads Bridge in background. Elevated railroad tracks to the left of photo.

Title: St. Louis Levee
Description: Photograph of cargo and steamboats lining the Saint Louis levee in the 1890s. GRAND REPUBLIC (second) and BELLE OF CALHOUN, as well as the Anchor Line wharfboat are pictured. Eads Bridge in the background. Railroad tracks to the left.

Title: Madell
Date: 1896
Description: This levee scene taken just after the cyclone of 1896, shows the damage to the transfer boat Ma dell.

Title: St. Louis, Missouri Drawing, Harper's Weekly
Description: This image provides a northwestern view of the Mississippi River and the city of St. Louis, Missouri from the banks of East St. Louis in Illinois. In the foreground, on the eastern edge of the river, laborers are shown working in an industrial area. Both sides of the Mississippi River were inundated with industry. Laborers utilized steam power, hydraulic power, and a small railroads to benefit business. Several steamboats of various sizes traversed the river and traveled north under the Eads Bridge. In the distance the city of St. Louis was shrouded in a thick cloud of coal smoke. Coal was the primary source of energy used in the city during the 19th century. The image was Drawn by Schell and Hogan, taken from a sketch by C.A. Vanderhoof and published in Harper's Weekly.

Title: Union Station, St. Louis, Missouri
Description: View of Union Station hotel and train station from the corner of Chestnut Street and 18th Street in downtown St. Louis. Numerous commuters and vehicles are shown entering and exiting the immense station.

Title: In the Cut at Iron Mountain
Description: This page is an excerpt from an unknown text. The page includes text describing the role of the Mississippi Valley and St. Louis in the areas of railroad industry and river trade during the 1870s. The lithograph in the top right corner of the page illustrates a mining operation at Iron Mountain, an important source of minerals for the region, Men are shown hard at work among loose boulders with various tools and railroad equipment.

Title: St. Louis Riverfront
Date: 1927-04
Description: Looking north from bridge. Eads Bridge in distance. Valentine Warehouse and elevated railroad in foreground. April, 1927.

Title: Railway Construction Site
Description: Photograph of construction site at railway interchange. Tunnels are being dug under existing railroad tracks. A steam shovel is loading dirt onto rail cars. Men with teams of horses are visible in the trench.