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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: Saint Louis County
Description: 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.

Title: Delta Queen
Description: Photograph of passengers on board the DELTA QUEEN looking at the engineer's desk and the gauge panel.

Title: Golden Eagle
Description: Photograph of the GOLDEN EAGLE.

Title: EMMA at Bowling Green, KY.
Description: 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.

Title: Potter
Date: 2008-12
Description: Potter (background) in St. Louis Harbor. Gordon M. Stevens in foreground.

Title: Railway Locomotive With Trainmen
Description: Photograph of rear of a railway locomotive travelling away from the camera. Trainmen and an engineer are on the back of the Tender.

Title: Capitol - 4th deck
Description: Three men with Old Comiskey Brand whiskey on board the lower deck of the excursion steamer CAPITOL. Unnamed officer to their right.

Title: Washington Avenue
Description: 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.

Title: CAPE GIRARDEAU
Description: Photograph of steamer CAPE GIRARDEAU at wharfboat.

Title: Federal Barge Lines Tow
Description: Photo. Federal Barge Lines tow.

Title: Potter
Date: 2008-12
Description: St. Louis Harbor from the bridge of the Potter, December 2008

Title: Portland
Date: 1993
Description: John Shipley's wife in pilot house of the PORTLAND.

Title: Douglass Bridge
Description: Photograph of the Douglass Bridge.

Title: JOHN J. BOHLKEN
Description: John J. Bohlken. Charlie Germann with fish.

Title: Saint Louis Riverfront
Description: Boats lined up along the St. Louis levee. Union Elevator visible on the Illinois shore. Boats are, from left to right, unnamed, the snagboat C. R. Suter, the showboat French's New Sensation, and a steamer ----lyde. Date range of photograph could be from 1888 to about 1910.

Title: Joseph P. Williams
Description: Photograph of the steamer JOSEPH P. WILLIAMS

Title: Del Commune
Description: Photograph of the towboat DEL COMMUNE. In the lower right corner of photograph are the words,“St. Louis MO. Engineer District Floating Plant / Tow Boat Del Commune Broadside View / MAR 28, 1938 / 3377."

Title: Delta Queen
Description: Photograph of the wheel and waves with a shore line view as seen from the cabin deck of the steamboat DELTA QUEEN.

Title: Hannibal, Missouri
Description: Photograph from the steamboat DELTA QUEEN of Hannibal, Missouri, from the Mississippi River

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