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Richmond
Title
Richmond
Description
Scene showing steamer Richmond. Picture taken in the late 1870s.
The City of St. Louis
Title
The City of St. Louis
Date
1874
Description
In the 1870s the great American tradition of bird's eye views became a popular way of depicting the seemingly limitless potential and growth of the great American cities. St. Louis was no exception and several documented the city's prominence in this period. Bird's eye view of the city of St. Louis from the waterfront stretching west. Important places are listed at the bottom of the view: Carondelet, Shaw's Botanical Garden, Compton Hill Reservoir, Market, Insane Asylum, Gas House, R. C. Convent, St. Louis & Iron Mt. R.R. Depot, Pacific and Missouri R.R. Depots, City Hall (Four Courts), St. James Hotel, Southern Hotel, Washington Sq., Masonic Temple, Jewish Synagogue, Laclede Hotel, Court House, Planters House, New Post Office, Missouri Republican Bldg., Missouri Park, New Post Office, St. Louis University, Odd Fellows Hall, St. Louis Life Ins Co, Union Market, New Reservoir, Mississippi Bridge, Fair Grounds, Hyde Park, St. Louis Kansas & Northern R.R., Elevator, Northern Park, Water Works. Many steamboats and much commerce can be seen in the foreground., Statement of responsibility: Sketched & Drawn on Stone by Parsons & Atwater.
LIGHT WESTERN and DUGAN
Title
LIGHT WESTERN and DUGAN
Description
Photograph of the Str. LIGHT WESTERN (1873) and the Str. DUGAN 1874.
J. N. Macomb (Snagboat)
Title
J. N. Macomb (Snagboat)
Description
Improvement of Mississippi, Missouri and Arkansas Rivers. United States Snag Boat J. N. Macomb. Designed by and built under the direction of Major Charles R. Suter. Corps of Engineers, U. S. A. 1874. Longitudinal Section Through Centre.
River Scenes at Cairo, Illinois
Title
River Scenes at Cairo, Illinois
Date
1871-09-30
Description
Cairo at midnight. Coaling in Cairo. On the Mississippi - By our special artist and correspondent.
Thomas Sherlock Bill of Lading
Title
Thomas Sherlock Bill of Lading
Date
1874-03-01
Description
Receipt of goods from commisions agent Jos. Macheca & Co. for delivery from Cincinnati, Ohio to Paducah, Kentucky aboard the steamer Thomas Sherlock, 1874.
MONTANA
Title
MONTANA
Date
1879
Description
Photograph of the steamer MONTANA. "Carried 1000 tons Pittsburgh to St. Louis on maiden trip. Could have easily carried 500 tons more. Greats carrier on shallow water." "Built at California, Pennsylvania in 1879 of finest Pennsylvania oak. Some of the fine boards were 60 feet long. She was extreme shallow draft - 7" forward - 11" amid ship and 14" on the stern when light. On her maiden trip - Pittsburgh to St. Louis - she brought around 1000 tons and carried it with the greatest ease. She could have easily carried 500 tons more. The Montana, Dacotah and Wyoming were sister boats. The Wyoming was slightly larger in tonnage. Each of these great boats went to Fort Benton, Montana in the Mountain trade, but the came to late to reap the golden harvest in that trade. They were to big for the upper Missouri and the wind up in the country made them very difficult to handle. When they came down they never went back again. The wreck of the Montana lies at the St. Charles bridge. These hulls were as fine as any ever built, and those skilled ship carpenters did it all without any blueprints as sternwheel boats go they ranked as the finest."
Burning of the steamboats "Grand Republic" and "Carondelet" at St. Louis, September 19
Title
Burning of the steamboats "Grand Republic" and "Carondelet" at St. Louis, September 19
Description
This lithograph illustrated the destruction of the steamboats "Grand Republic" and "Carondelet" from September 19, 1877 when the steamboats caught fire and burned to the shore. The boats were shown shrouded in smoke and engulfed in flames as men rushed back and forth along the shore in an attempt to extinguish the fire.
M-355: Thomas T. Kerslake Overland Journal from Canada to New Zealand
Title
M-355: Thomas T. Kerslake Overland Journal from Canada to New Zealand
Date
1877
Description
Thomas T. Kerslake writes of his travels from Ontario, Canada to New Zealand in 1877. He leaves Plattsville, Ontario, Canada on September 29, 1877. Traveling across the United States by rail, he gives accounts of large and small cities (Chicago, Des Moines, Council Bluffs, Omaha, Promontory Point, San Francisco) and of the landscape and wild life on the plains and the Mississippi River. At San Francisco he boards the boat "City of Sydney" sailing across the Pacific Ocean, stopping in the Sandwich (Hawaiian) Islands before landing in Wellington, New Zealand in early November 1877.
IDA REES, WESTERN and E.H. DURFEE
Title
IDA REES, WESTERN and E.H. DURFEE
Description
The sternwheeler E.H. Durfee, for example, made regular trips between Pittsburgh and Fort Benton, Montana, between 1872 and 1876, a voyage comparable to going from New York to Copenhagen or from Japan to Honolulu, Fort Benton being 3,495 miles from Pittsburgh.
Up the Hudson
Title
Up the Hudson
Date
1870-07-30
Description
Illustration of passengers on a steamboat working up the Hudson River.
J. N. Macomb (Snagboat)
Title
J. N. Macomb (Snagboat)
Description
Improvement of Mississippi, Missouri and Arkansas Rivers. United States Snag Boat J. N. Macomb. Designed by and built under the direction of Major Charles R. Suter. Corps of Engineers, U. S. A. 1874. Plan of Boiler Deck. Section through officers cabin. Section through dining room. Section through store room. Section through kitchen. Section through laundry. Section through wash room. Section through captain's cabin.
Steamboat Wharf Locations at St. Louis
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.
Bound Down the River
Title
Bound Down the River
Date
1870
Description
"Bound Down the River" print published by Currier & Ives
F.Y. BATCHELOR
Title
F.Y. BATCHELOR
Date
1878
Description
Photograph of steamer F.Y. BACHELOR at the Fort Buford Landing, 1878.

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