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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: 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."

Title: F.Y. BATCHELOR
Date: 1878
Description: Photograph of steamer F.Y. BACHELOR at the Fort Buford Landing, 1878.

Title: Bound Down the River
Date: 1870
Description: "Bound Down the River" print published by Currier & Ives

Title: Richmond
Description: Scene showing steamer Richmond. Picture taken in the late 1870s.

Title: LIGHT WESTERN and DUGAN
Description: Photograph of the Str. LIGHT WESTERN (1873) and the Str. DUGAN 1874.

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.

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.

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.

Title: St. Louis Riverfront
Description: River view, looking north from Eads Bridge shortly after completion, 1870s.

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.

Title: Up the Hudson
Date: 1870-07-30
Description: Illustration of passengers on a steamboat working up the Hudson River.

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.

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