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Title: Eleventh Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Pacific Railroad
Date: 1861
Description: 1861 annual report of the Pacific Railroad Company. Includes a report from the chief engineer and superintendent.

Title: Complete Guide to the St. Louis Museum
Date: 1859
Description: This is a guide to the collections of the St. Louis Museum as of the year 1859. It is an update to the earlier catalog of 1856. It includes an introduction by the museum's curator John Bates, statements on the Zeuglodon skeleton excavated by Albert C. Koch, the contents of 51 cases of stuffed birds and other animals, lists of statues and paintings, and other miscellaneous holdings. There is also a statement about the two Egyptian mummies on display previously owned by Joseph Smith of Nauvoo, Illinois.

Title: J. West Goodwin's Pacific Railway Business Guide & Gazetteer of Missouri and Kansas, For 1867-8
Date: 1867
Description: The directory contains a complete business listing of all the towns along the Missouri Pacific and Union Pacific Railway between St. Louis, Missouri and Junction City, Kansas. This listing is complemented by a brief description or history of the most prominent towns along the lines, along with the names of the principle firms doing business, their advertisements, and other information including a fold-out map of Missouri and Kansas, a gazetteer and a shipper's guide.

Title: Edwards' Descriptive Gazetteer and Commercial Directory of the Mississippi River
Date: 1866
Description: Edwards' Descriptive Gazetteer covers the businesses, trades, ports, and telegraphs for the towns and cities along the Mississippi River in 1866.

Title: Eads Bridge in Construction
Date: 1867-08, 1867-08
Description: The Eads Bridge, as it looks under construction in 1867.

Title: Missouri General Assembly: Act to Dispose of the S.W. Pacific R.R.
Date: 1868, 1868

Title: Battles in Missouri.
Description: A map of Civil War battles in Missouri.

Title: Bombardment of Island No. 10
Date: 1862-04-05
Description: Bombardment of Island Number Ten by the mortar fleet, March 16, 1862. -- Sketched by Alexander Simplot. -- [ See page 219.] The gun-boat fleet dropping down stream to reconnoitre. Steamers towing mortar-boats into position.

Title: MONTANA
Date: 1864-08-30
Description: Photograph of bill of lading for a shipment of hemp on the MONTANA in 1864.

Title: A View of the Slave Population of the Several Counties of Missouri, Showing the Whole Number of Slaves in Each County
Date: 1862
Description: This map by Leigh shows visually that Missouri was not split over slavery north to south or east to west, from 1820 and before, slavery followed the Missouri River valley and rich agricultural and industrial heartland of the state out of St. Louis, straight to Kansas City., From Bird's-eye Views of Slavery in Missouri / by E. Leigh, M.D. St. Louis: Woods et al, 1862.

Title: Sectional Dock Co. of St. Louis
Date: 1865-09-01
Description: The Sectional Dock Company have now two complete Docks in successful operation, located at the foot of Lesperance Street. In connection with these Docks they have a Floating Saw Mill, with circular and upright saws and Planing Mill; and have recently added to their facilities a New Saw Mill on shore, 40 by 125 feet, on the most approved plan, with circular and upright saws, and planing mill. They have also a sufficient number of Flats for caulkers' use and guard work when off the Docks; a Blacksmith's Shop, where all chain work, rudder irons, bolting etc., can be done that may be required. With these they have other facilities, sufficient for doing with expedition all repairs properly belonging to ship carpenters' work, including bridgetrees, gallows frames, cullender timbers, water wheel beams, full length floors, etc.; and have always at comand a sufficient number of experienced workmen, with lumber and all other materials for necessary repairs. These Docks possess peculiar advantages for straightening a boat or vessel that has become hoged or twisted, which is done by raising or depressing any one or more sections or either end of them. The management of those Docks and work done on or about them is in charge of a practical and skillful mechanic in that line, and long experience. Parties employing this Company for dockage and repairs may be assured that all repairs and workmanship will be made satisfactory to them...

Title: M-380: Franz Liszt Score of Hungarian March
Description: Hungarian March for orchestra composed for the coronation of Francis Joseph I, Emperor of Austria, as King of Hungary in 1867

Title: M-380: Hungarian March
Date: 1867
Description: Framed musical score for Franz Liszt's Hungarian March, composed for the coronation of Francis Joseph I, Emperor of Austria, as King of Hungary in 1867.

Title: Major-General McPherson
Date: 1863-08-01
Description: The capture of Vicksburg - Major-General McPherson, of Grant's Army, and his chief engineers.-From a sketch by Mr. Theo R. Davis.-[See page 487.]

Title: Foote's Gun-Boats Ascending To Attack Fort Henry
Date: 1862-02
Description: From Harper's History of the Great Rebellion, From Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War.

Title: The Gold Panic in Wall Street
Date: 1863-03-21
Description: The Gold Panic In Wall Street - Entrance of the Public Board. - [See page 187.]

Title: General Halleck's Army on the Tennessee
Date: 1862-04
Description: Commissary store boats. Landing cannon. Interior of a sanitary steamer. The general hospital at Hamburg. Moving siege guns to our lines., From Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War.

Title: Steamboat Wharf Locations at St. Louis
Date: 1953
Description: This map, plotted out by Norbury Wayman, shows the various locations of steamboat lines and related companies on the St. Louis levee, detailing three periods of time; before 1865; 1865 - 1900; and 1900 - 1953. Lines and companies are donated by name, location and years of operation. Nearby streets are mapped as well, for easy frame of reference. Scale in feet: 100 ft. = 1 inch.

Title: The National Colored Convention in Session at Washington, D.C.
Date: 1869-02-06
Description: Sketched by Theo. R. Davis., M-244-1-05 (location)

Title: Pacific Rail Road of Missouri and Its Connections
Date: 1867
Description: From J. West Goodwin's Pacific Railway business guide & gazetteer of Missouri and Kansas for 1867-8 / Saint Louis, Mo : J. West Goodwin, 1867.

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