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Title: Constitution of the Ohio Association
Date: 1820-12
Description: Founding document of the Tayses Valley Association

Title: Map of the State of Missouri and Territory of Arkansas
Date: 1826
Description: 1826 map of the State of Missouri, with counties, mountains, towns and rivers included. Arkansas Territory is also mapped out similarly. Native American villages are noted to the west of Missouri., From: A new American atlas designed principally to illustrate the geography of the United States of North America, in which every country in each state and territory of the Union is accurately delineated, as far as at present known : the whole compiled from the latest and most authentic information. / A. Finley

Title: Geographical, Statistical, and Historical Map of Missouri.
Date: 1823
Description: From The Historical, Chronological and Geographical American Atlas. Philadelphia: Carey and Lea: 1823. Depicts Missouri at the time of statehood, which happened in 1820.

Title: Plan of St. Lewis
Date: 1826
Description: Collot’s maps of Louisiana were made in 1796 and were most likely planned for military intrigues and colonial conquest, but the work transcended its purpose in thoroughly documenting the earliest settlements of the Illinois Country. These plans were the most detailed to their time. Voyage dans l’Amerique Septentrionale ou Description des Pays arroses par le Mississipi, l’Ohio, le Missouri, et autres Rivieres Affluentes &c. Paris: Bertrand, 1826. Scale of 200 Fathoms., From Collot's work "Voyages dans l'Amérique Septentrionale, ou Description des pays arrosés par le Mississippi, l'Ohio, le Missouri et autres rivières affluentes..." Published in Paris by A. Bertrand, 1826.

Title: Belle Creole
Description: The Belle Creole was built in 1823 at Cincinnati, Ohio. Her home port was New Orleans and she was a New Orleans-Bends packet. Captain Champremere was her master. She foundered and sank in 1829. This photograph was reproduced from an old sketch made at New Orleans, Louisiana.

Title: St. Louis and adjacent Country
Date: 1822
Description: Melish accompanied his map of the region of St. Louis at the same time with glowing words for the city, the largest west of the Mississippi, with a reported census of 5000 inhabitants and 550 houses, “of which a great proportion were well constructed buildings of brick and stone.” He reported that St. Louis, “Standing near the confluence of such mighty streams, the produce of an almost immeasurable extent of back country must flow into it, and that country must be supplied from it, with merchandise.”, A geographical description of the United States, with the contiguous countries, including Mexico and the West Indies; intended as an accompaniment to Melish's map of these countries ... / by John Melish. Philadelphia : The author, 1822.

Title: Mississippi No. 1
Date: 1825
Description: In the time of the flatboats and the coming of the first steamboats documented so well through the early American navigational river guides, maps clearly indicated a future problem for St. Louis and its highly praised river harbor—the city was essentially on a peninsula which could become a remote island due to floods and other naturally occurring circumstances over time. The many islands and sand bars in the river were alarming testament in early maps., The western pilot : containing charts of the Ohio River, and of the Mississippi from the mouth of the Missouri to the Gulf of Mexico, accompanied with directions for navigating the same, and a description of the towns on their banks, tributary streams, etc. Also, a variety of matter interesting to all who are concerned in the navigation of those rivers / by Samuel Cumings. Cincinnati : Morgan, Lodge and Fisher, printers, 1825.

Title: M-172: John O'Fallon Letter
Date: 1828-05-02
Description: One letter, dated May 2, 1828, to the Honorable James Barbour, regarding the recommendation of Thomas McNight for the appointment of superintendent of the Upper Lead Mines.

Title: Map of the Country of the Illinois
Date: 1826
Description: Collot’s maps of Louisiana were made in 1796 and were most likely planned for military intrigues and colonial conquest, but the work transcended its purpose in thoroughly documenting the earliest settlements of the Illinois Country. These plans were the most detailed to their time., From Collot's work "Voyages dans l'Amérique Septentrionale, ou Description des pays arrosés par le Mississippi, l'Ohio, le Missouri et autres rivières affluentes..." Published in Paris by A. Bertrand, 1826.

Title: The American Tract Magazine Vol. IV
Date: 1829, 1829
Description: A compilation of stories on the missionary successes of members of the American Tract Society.

Title: Address Delivered by Robert Owen, of New-Lanark in the New Church of New-Harmony, Indiana
Date: 1825-04-27
Description: Together with the Constitution of the Preliminary Society; and the Proposed Rules and Regulations for the Establishment of a Perfect Community

Title: The American Sunday-School Magazine. April, 1829, Vol. VI -13. II A Voice from Ohio. II
Date: 1829-04, 1829-04

Title: Narrative Journal of Travels From Detroit Through the Great Chain of American Lakes, to the Sources of the Mississippi River
Date: 1821
Description: Performed as a member of the expedition under Governor Cass in the Year 1820

Title: An Inaugural Essay on The Bilious Typhus Which Prevailed in Bancker-Street And Its Vicinity
Date: 1821
Description: In the City of New York, In the Summer and Autumn of 1820

Title: An Examination of Essays on Fevers, and Other Medical Subjects
Date: 1824
Description: With Some Observations on Their Doctrines and Practice

Title: The State of the Case and the Argument for the Appellants
Date: 1823
Description: In the Case of The Bank of the United States Versus the Auditor and Treasurer of the State of Ohio, and Others in the Supreme Court of the United States. Supreme Court case of Ralph Osborn and others, Ads. Bank of the the United States. Upon an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court for the District of Ohio

Title: M-111, Series 1: Baptist Pamphlet Collection
Description: Historically, the Mercantile Library had several bound volumes of "Baptist Pamphlets" which were initially part of John Mason Peck's library but catalogued together under one call number. These volumes have been disbound and each pamphlet put in a separate, non-acidic enclosure. A number has been added to an alphabetical arrangement. The list is roughly arranged alphabetically by the first important word of the Church, benevolent Society, or other organization's title or name concerned.

Title: Mississippi River No. 1
Date: 1822
Description: In the time of the flatboats and the coming of the first steamboats documented so well through the early American navigational river guides, maps clearly indicated a future problem for St. Louis and its highly praised river harbor—the city was essentially on a peninsula which could become a remote island due to floods and other naturally occurring circumstances over time. The many islands and sand bars in the river were alarming testament in early maps.

Title: Sixth Report of the Directors of the American Education Society
Date: 1821-10-21

Title: Strictures, By Robert Hare, M.D., Professor of Chemistry in the University of Pennsylvania
Date: 1820
Description: In Reply to Remarks on the Calorimotor. Published at different times in the American Medical Recorder

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