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Title: 2nd and Market Streets
Date: 1860, 1960-07-17
Description: Carl Conrad's "Wine Stube". Second and Market St. "1860". Mr. Conrad brought the formula for pasteurizing beer from Buweis Germany. Named it 'Budweiser'. 2nd and Market Streets. Carl Conrad's Wine Stube. From 100 years ago (1860).

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: New York Philharmonic Society Third Season Second Concert
Date: 1845, 1845
Description: This is a program from an 1845 performance of the New York Philharmonic Society in the Apollo Rooms on January 11th. They played works by Haydn, C.M. Weber, L. Spohr, Mozart, Beethoven, and H. Marschner.

Title: Letter from Maria Moore to Captain Enos B. Moore About Their Travels and Letters
Date: 07-29
Description: Letter from Maria Moore to Enos B. Moore. This letter has 3 parts. In the first, she described how much she missed him while he was on business in New Orleans taking care of the boat. The second part of the letter was written the next day. She received a short communication from him and mentioned the family would be heading to Yazoo City if there was no fever in New Orleans. She also said she may travel to Portsmouth by the time he left. In the third part of the letter, she briefly wrote that she wanted him to send full letters as opposed to just a "line", but even that is better than nothing.

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: Lindell Hotel
Description: Photograph of the Lindell Hotel at Eighth and Washington in 1867 bore it burned down that same year.

Title: Queen of the West
Date: 1863-02-28
Description: The federal ram "Queen of the West" attacking the rebel gunboat "Vicksburg" off Vicksburg.--[See page 139.]

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

Title: Gun-Boats Fitting Out at Cincinnatti
Description: Gun-boats fitting out at Cincinnati, Ohio, for government service on the Mississippi.

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: U.S. Gunboat Cairo
Description: U.S. Gunboat Cairo. Unfortunately, records are not in accord on the U.S.S. Cairo. One possible explanation is that there were two such vessels. This is accountable by the fact that the days of the warbetween the states saw many Federal and Confederate boats changing names as well as affiliations. Official Union Naval records at Washington, D. C., show the Cairo as being built at St. Louis, under Captain James B. Eads and Company. She was officially known as an Eads gunboat, that famous group of vessels that made history on western waters. The Cairo was classified as a steamer, a wooden gunboat, rated like many of her companion vessels of the day as fourth class. Her tonnage is given as 512 and in January of 1862 she carried a battery of six 32-pounders; three 8 inch, 63 hundred weight; four army rifles, 80 hundred weight; and one 12-pounder howitzer. In September of that year she was listed as carrying the six 32-pounders , three army rifles, three 8 inch guns and one 30-pounder Parrot rifle. The Washington records show that the Cairo was sunk within less than five minutes after being struck by a torpedo, 18 miles up the Yazoo river, on December 12, 1862., May be a picture of the U.S. Gunboat Cairo

Title: Indianola
Date: 1863-03-07
Description: The United States gun-boat Indianola (iron-clad) running the blockade at Vicksburg.

Title: Cairo
Description: 175 x 50 x 6; 512 tons. Casemate 150' x 50' - 21/4\" plating. Torpedoed Yazoo River 1863. Sides 8' high - single wheel. 9 miles per hour. 13 guns mostly 6\" rifles.

Title: The Fight at Corney's Bridge
Date: 1863-02-14
Description: The fight at Corney's Bridge, Bayou Teche, Louisiana, and the destruction of the rebel gun-boat "Cotton," January 14, 1863.-Sketched by our special artist.-[see page 103.]

Title: Lindell Hotel-1865
Description: 20x16 in photograph of the first Lindell Hotel in 1865 prior to

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: The Capture of Vicksburg
Date: 1863-08-01
Description: The capture of Vicksburg - arrival of Admiral Porter's Fleet at the Levee on Fourth July, 1863.

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