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Title: Outside of the Galleries of the House of Representatives During the Passage of the Civil Rights Bill.
Description: Originally appeared in Harper's Weekly April 28, 1866. Page 269., M-244-1-04 (physical location)

Title: The Mississippi River
Date: 1867-11-09
Description: The delta of the Mississippi - scene at Southwest Bar. Telegraph station at Southwest Bar. Stake Island. Scene after the hurricane of October 5.

Title: M-010: Augustus A. Blumenthal Letter
Date: 1864-10-01
Description: The St. Louis and Iron Mountain Railroad Company
To Augustus A. Blumenthal Dr.
1864 October 1st
To have my --- Time, thru there carelessness demolished and to totaly destroyed and my driver killd. ----- $200.00
To Dr. Karnsby ---- attendens on the man runnet over $10.00
To Dr. Starkloff for the same $10.00
$220.00
my Attorney John N. Stra-t is hereby authorized to recipt this Bill in my name Aug. A. Blumenthal

Title: Harbor of Saint Louis.
Date: 1869
Description: Map of the Mississippi River stretching from Alton, Illinois to Saint Louis, Missouri and East Saint Louis, Illinois. Includes islands (Kerr's Island; Cabaret Island; Chouteau Island; Wilson's Island; Mobile Island; Ellis Island) and railroads (CH. A. & ST. L. R. R.; St. L. A. & T. H. R. R.; Edwardsville Coal R. R.; O. & M. R. R.)., From: Message of the mayor, and reports of city officers : delivered to the city council.

Title: Burlington
Description: Steamer BURLINGTON at a levee on the Upper Mississippi. Northern Line Packet Company

Title: A View of the Aggregate Population of the several Counties in Missouri
Date: 1862
Description: This map shows the aggregate poplulation, with dots representing 1000 inhabitants, of the counties of Missouri according to the census of 1860., From Bird's-eye Views of Slavery in Missouri / by E. Leigh, M.D. St. Louis: Woods et al, 1862.

Title: NORTH ALABAMA, ANDREW ACKLEY, ZEPHYR
Date: 1868
Description: Photograph of the NORTH ALABAMA, ANDREW ACKLEY and ZEPHYR, in Sioux City, Iowa, 1868.

Title: St. Louis
Date: 1867
Description: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1867 by S. Augustus Mitchell, Jr. in the Clerks Office of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Title: Burning of steamers on the Ohio River at Cincinnati, May 12, 1869.
Date: 1869-05-29
Description: We illustrate on page 349 the disastrous conflagration which took place on the Ohio River, at Cincinnati, on the morning of May 12. A little before two o'clock a fire broke out in the Clifton, caused, it is supposed, by the upsetting of a lamp. Five steamers were lying in close proximity, and above these six others. In less than half an hour the six steamers below were destroyed, nearly all of them being burned to the water's edge. Those on board the Clifton were just able to escape with their lives, so rapid was the conflagration. Before the earliest engines could reach the scene four of the boats were already in flames. The heat was so intense that they could only approach the boats with the greatest difficulty. But their daring was equal to the emergency, and they fought their fierce foe at close quarters. Some of the boats had on board a large quantity of oil, and as the barrels caught fire they floated out into the river, and then down the stream, make it a stream of burning fire. The Kentucky shore was lighted up, and the flames showed its banks filled with spectators drawn from their beds by the magnificent spectacle. A deck-hand was burned to death on the Clifton, and it is reported that five hands on the Cheyenne suffered a similar fate. Three or four men from the Darling were drowned in their attempt to get ashore. The loss of property amounted to nearly $1,000,000, exclusive of cargo.

Title: Bighorn, Montana, Cora
Date: 1865-12-16
Description: Steamers BIGHORN, MONTANA, CORA. Breaking of the ice, St. Louis, 1865 (Dec. 16). Sam G. Smith.

Title: Nashville, Tennessee
Date: 1863-12
Description: Loading stores at Nashville, Tennessee, December, 1863. Left to right: Rob Roy, Belle Peoria, Irene, Revelice, Palestine, Lizzie Martin, Mercury. Note: Hard tack in boxes on levee. It is reported that this photograph was taken by a Confederate spy and turned up after the Civil War.

Title: Fiala and Haren's New Sectional Map of the State of Missouri
Date: 1861
Description: Gives counties, U.S. land districts, roads, and mines. "Entered according to an act of Congress in the year of 1860, by Gray & Crawford... of the Southern District, of Mo."

Title: Vicksburg Canal
Date: 1863-04-04
Description: Break in the Mississippi Levee near the canal at Vicksburg.-Sketched by Mr. Theodore R. Davis.-[See page 215.]; and Cutting away the dam at the head of the Vicksburg Canal.-Sketched by Mr. Theodore R. Davis.-[See page 215.]

Title: Wild Wagoner
Description: The Wild Wagoner, a handsome sidewheeler, of the Civil War period was built in 1864 at the Knox boat yard of West Marietta, Ohio for the Cincinnati and Wheeling trade. She cost $155,000, a lot of money in those days and had a capacity of 700 tons. She was owned by Captain H. H. Drown of Marietta, Ohio and her dimensions were: 180 x 39 x 5.5 feet. She had three boilers and her engines were 25.5 inches in diameter with an 8-foot stroke. She had an illuminated high top, fancy pilot house. The Wagoner ran in the Cincinnati-Louisville trade in opposition to the U. S. Mail Line Company in 1866 with the St. Charles for a partner boat under management of Captain Jesse K. Bell. In the fall of 1866 she was bought by Captain Charlie Muhleman and ran Wheeling-Cincinnati. He soon sold her to the Memphis-New Orleans trade, and later she ran New Orleans-Natchez. Among her elegant furnishings was a painting of the original \"Wild Wagoner,\" her namesake and the hero of Thomas Buchanan Reed's poem bearing the same title. Reed, a resident of Cincinnati, was teh author of \"Sheridan's Ride\" which had been read and recited in school houses all over the country during that period. A large picture of the Wild Wagoner, built and commanded by Captain H. H. Drown, is one of the relics at the River Museum at Marietta, Ohio. She was later dismantled and tradition has it that her engines, originally on a gunboat, went to the Pittsburgh towboat Joe Nixon, later the Valiant and then the Transporter. The late Captain Charles W. Knox, who for several years commanded the Pittsburg and Cincinnati packet Keystone State, was a clerk on the Wild Wagoner. The late G. C. Best, father of Mrs. Lillian Ede and Mrs. C. F. Speary, was also clerk on this boat.

Title: Gioacchino Rossini
Date: 1867-11-09
Description: The great Italian Composer.

Title: NORTH MISSOURI
Date: 1869
Description: Photograph of the NORTH MISSOURI. "60 Souvenir Postal Cards of St. Charles and Vicinity Transferring Trains at St. Charles, MO., 1869. St. Charles, Mo.," "Transferring trains at St. Charles, Mo., 1869, St. Charles, Mo."

Title: St. Louis Riverfront
Date: 1865
Description: Panoramic photograph of St. Louis, Missouri, 1865. Identifiable steamboats (from left to right) are: EDWARD WALSH, WARSAW, U. S. Mail Line C. E. KILLMAN, SULTANA, and EMPRESS. The Old Courthouse rises above the rest of the skyline.

Title: Flag Ship "Harper" Attacked
Date: 1862-06-14
Description: The flag-ship "Harper" attacked by the ram "Manassas" and a fire-raft in the Mississippi.-[see page 373.]

Title: Landing of the Seventh and Twelth Regiments
Date: 1861-06-04
Description: Landing of the Seventh and Twelth Regiments at Cario, June 4, 1861.-Sketched by Mr. A. Simplot.-[See Page 410.]

Title: Registered Enemies of the United States
Date: 1863-03-07
Description: Departure of registered enemies of the United States from Port Hickok, to Madisonville, LA.-Sketched by our special artist.-[See next page]; Landing of registered enemies of the United States at Madisonville, LA., February 2, 1863.-Sketched by our special artist.-[See next page.]

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