October 29, 1937. - Looking upstream from pilot house of Grafton. Graded bank and mattress weaving about station 219-00. Note curve on which Grafton entered below dike No.79.2L.
St. Louis, MO - Aerial view of portion of Missouri Botanical Garden. Several greenhouses visible at center of frame, and Henry Shaw home visible in upper left center area. Aircraft wing intrudes into most of right side of frame. Image is flipped horizontally.
St. Louis County, MO Unidentified aerial view. At center and lower center of frame, group of white institutional buildings, with water tower and smokestack near center of group. Cultivated fields surround building complex.
Bowling Green, KY. B.G. Ice and Cold Storage Co. Str. EMMA in foreground. 11-22-1962 Steamer Emma – 1901-1923 at Bowling Green Ky. on Barren River head of navigation. In 1924 she was renamed M.C. Clay. Built at Evansville Ind. In 1901, size 85’x22’x3.9. She had two boilers, western river type engines were – 10”x4½’ stroke slide value poppet cut-off. She towed, RR cross ties, coal, and asphalt, under command of Capt’n J. Mike Speck, Teb Howell, Jessie L. Wilson, and Captain James E. Wallace, on the Emma, I was a member of her crew under Captn Jessie L. Wilson, and Captain Jas. E. Wallace, Charlie Lucas was chief engineer (Cylinder Cock Charlie as he was known). Had my real, really first pay job as a deckhand on this boat at age 15, under command of Captn Jessie L.
Wilson. I was a little too light for decking especially when we hit a coal pile.
Captain Wilson and my father were very close friends and Captain Jessie carried
me on the payroll as a deckhand, but put me in the firebox to haul ashes down
through the ash well. At other times, I spent in the engine room with Chief
Lucas. Then later on when was about 19, I was a watchman on her, in command
of Captain James E. Wallace. Captain Wallace is now living in Bowling Green, Ky.,
in his 91st year. By Courtney M. Ellis, Nashville, Tenn.
A photograph of Washington Avenue looking west. Automobiles, pedestrians, electric streetcars and horse-drawn wagons are visible., This is a wider view of another photograph in the collection.