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Title: J. R. Wells
Date: 1917
Description: Str. J. R. WELLS 1917. At Chamois MO.

Title: J.S.
Description: p. 1071 - on Upper Mississippi River, believed to be '1902-1910' Davenport, Iowa. First as sternwheel 'J.S' J.S. 'first ' J.S. excursion boat built at Jeffersonville, Indiana. 1901 - size 175'x33'x5.5'. engines 18"x7' stroke, built for Captain John Streckfus Sr. Originally placed in Davenport - Clinton, Iowa daily trade, offering "moonlight excursions". In this trade she was found to be too large and heavy to run the rapids every day. She was withdrawn and operated exclusively as an excursion boat, and made great success as such. She was lost by burning, on June 25, 1910 at "bad ax bend," near Victory Wisconsin. It is said that the fire which caused her destruction was touched off by a passenger who was confined in the jail located in hold.

Title: FAIRMONT
Date: 1917
Description: Photograph of the FAIRMONT in 1917

Title: Kansas City Municipal Wharf
Date: 1915
Description: Photo of the Kansas City Municipal Wharf in 1915.

Title: New Orleans
Date: 1911
Description: Built Pittsburgh, 1811, Length, 138 ft. 371 tons. Robert Fulton's financial success on the Hudson gave him funds to fulfill a second ambition, which John Fitch had also held: introduction of steamboats on the Western Waters, to us the Mississippi River and its tributaries. Fulton sent Nicholas Roosevelt, another steamboat experimenter, to Pittsburgh to build the New Orleans, first steamer to operate west of the Allegheny Mountains. Little information on the New Orleans has survived. There is even some question whether she was a sidewheeler or a sternwheeler. Her first voyage took place in 1811, when she left Pittsburgh in October, doubled back from Louisville to Cincinnati to prove she could run against the current, and reached New Olreans in January, 1812. For the 1911 centennial celebration of this event, a sidewheel replica of the New Orleans was built. It is shown in this photograph. The original boat plied the Lower Mississippi until 1814, when she hit a snag and sank.

Title: Curly
Date: 1918
Description: Curly at Ice Jam at Memphis, Tenn. Probably 1918.

Title: Missouri
Date: 1912
Description: Corps of Engineers Snagboat Missouri on Mo. River, 1912. Burned at Gasconade Mo. July 28, 1928. Was sunk behind dike about 2 miles below Gasconade, Dec. 1929. Winter ice breakup broke hole in dike. March 1930, channel was through hole. March 15, 1930, Dredge Kappa, hit and sank on top, Snagboat Missouri. George Kishmar.

Title: Peoria
Date: 191-
Description: Eagle Packet Co. Built 1914. Lost in ice gorge Tenn River Jan 1918.

Title: Jim Wood
Date: 1917
Description: Photograph of steamer JIM WOOD run aground at Dam 33 near Maysville, Kentucky.

Title: Ain't we Cute Cream of Wheat Kids?
Date: 1917-07-05
Description: Cream of Wheat advertisment. Painted by Harry Stacey Benton for Cream of Wheat Co.

Title: Uncle Sam's Pickling Jars
Description: Two children examine jars of pickled vegetables on display beneath an image of Uncle Sam and a sign that reads, "This is what GOD gives us. What are you giving so that others may life? Eat less WHEAT MEATS FATS SUGAR Send more to Europe or they will Starve." Several jars bear the 4-H logo.

Title: Jim Wood
Date: 1917
Description: Photograph of steamer JIM WOOD run aground at Dam 33 near Maysville, Kentucky.

Title: M-366: Savanna, Illinois Town View
Date: 1910
Description: This collection consists of a single photograph purchased from Ian Brabner Rare Americana. It's a circa 1910 photograph of the town of Savanna, Illinois.

Title: Small Steamboat Album
Description: Photographs and drawings, dated March 1917. Photos, clockwise from top: Bird's eye view of East Nashville, 1916; sternwheeler Nashville at the wharf; decks of the Henry Harley; sternwheeler Robert Rhea on the Cumberland River. Page 13 of small steamboat album.

Title: Liberty
Description: The "big" Liberty, a sternwheel packet built in 1912. Crew are visible on deck and in pilot house, and one man can be seen atop the crane.

Title: Liberty
Description: The "big" Liberty, a sternwheel packet built in 1912, at Mobile, Alabama. Crew are visible on deck.

Title: Liberty
Description: The "big" Liberty, a sternwheel packet built in 1912. Crew are visible on deck.

Title: Liberty
Description: The "big" Liberty, a sternwheel packet built in 1912.

Title: Liberty
Description: The bow of the "big" Liberty, with the Jennie George to starboard.

Title: Princess, Idlewild, and Polly
Description: Excursion packets Princess (right) and Idlewild (center) at Memphis. Smaller rig Polly is docked behind them.

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