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

Title: Campbell's Political Map of Missouri
Date: 1872, 1873
Description: Engraved expressly for his sectional topographical & descriptive atlas of the state. Contains congressional districts, counties, judicial circuits, cities, roads, railroads, and rivers. Entered according to an act of Congress in the year 1872., From: Campbell's new atlas of Missouri : with descriptions historical, scientific, and statistica. Maps constructed and drawn on the polyconic projection / by R.A. Campbell.

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

Title: A Government of the People, for the People, and By the People - That Cannot Protect the People, Shall Perish From the Earth
Date: 1876-09-30
Description: Political cartoon illustrated by T.H. Nash. "A Government of the people, for the people, and by the people" - that can not protect the people, shall perish from the earth. "GO ON" -- U. S. Grant The constitution of the United States must and shall be preserved - and protected.

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: 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.

Title: Mississippi Ku-Klux in the Disguises in Which They Were Captured
Date: 1872-01-27
Description: MISSISSIPPI KU-KLUX IN THE DISGUISES IN WHICH THEY WERE CAPTURED. [From a Photograph.], M-244-1-06a (location)

Title: Chas P. Chouteau, Chas P. Chouteau landed at Natchez, Mississippi - December 4, 1878
Date: 1878
Description: Light on the River - August 18, 1880. The Steamer Chas. P. Chouteau, lying at the foot of Market street, attracted considerable attention along the levee last evening by its two electric lights, which shone forth with intense brightness. The Chouteau is the first steamer at this point on the Mississippi River to substitute an electric llight for the old fashioned pine-torch illuminators, and the enterprise is one that will amply repay the owners of the boat for the expensive outlay. There were two lights on the boat, near the bow one on each side pendant upon the end of a boom about 30 feet long. The lights were surrounded by a crystal globe similar but smaller than the one used on 6th street. The experiment was made under the direction of Mr. H. Heisler who was present with a corps of assistants, managing the engine and regulating the lamps. The engine used is of 6 horsepower of the Smith & Rankin make, an upright piece of machinery and a little beauty. It requires three horsepower for each light, which is of 10,000 candle power. When the engine was first put in motion the lights were disposed to flicker, owing to the unsteady running of the engine, caused by the slipping of the band as it stretched. This difference was obviated by tightening the band, after which the light burned steadily and without difficulty. It was a fine exhibition, taken all in all, and the officers of the boat as well as the spectators generally expressed their satisfaction with the experiment.

Title: M-370: German Sisters Captivity Letter
Date: 1875-01-20
Description: This retained manuscript copy of an autograph letter by Thomas Neill to the sisters Sophia and Catherine German, was an attempt to secure their release from Cheyenne Indians that had captured the girls., John and Lydia German, as well as their seven children, were moving by wagon via the Smoky Hill Trail to Colorado when they were attacked by a hostile Cheyenne war party. Both parents and three of the seven children were killed and scalped. Four girls were taken captive. The two youngest girls, Addie and Julie, aged 5 and 7 respectively, were rescued in a military raid in November 1874. After the rescue of the two youngest girls, a letter was written, addressed to Sophia, aged 12, and Catherine, aged 17, by Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Neill. The letter advised the sisters to read it Grey-Beard or Stone-Calf to secure the sister's release and for the Cheyennes to submit themselves to the mercy of the government. The sisters were rescued in March 1875 and reunited with their sisters at Fort Leavenworth.

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: Christmas in Virginia
Date: 1871-12-30
Description: CHRISTMAS IN VIRGINIA - A PRESENT FROM THE GREAT HOUSE. - [Drawn by W. L. Sheppard.]

Title: Charters and Organization
Date: 1876
Description: Articles of incorporation and charter for the Ohio & Mississippi Railway Company published in 1876. Includes a history of the creation of the company through the incorporation of railroad and railway companies in the states of Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, and Ohio from 1848 to 1872.

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.

Title: American Railroad Journal
Date: 1878-12-28

Title: The Denver Pacific Railway : its present position and future prospects.
Date: 1870

Title: Old Courthouse. 1870.
Date: 1870
Description: 20x16 in photograph of a one-story log structure. The front is labeled Old Courthouse. 1870. On the back is written "1st Theatre / Blacksmith."

Title: Addie Johnston
Description: Addie Johnston at port. Numerous passengers are visible on deck and preparing to board.

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: Wood-sellers, Richmond, Virginia
Date: 1872-01-27
Description: WOOD-SELLERS, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. -[Drawn by W. L. Sheppard.], M-244-1-06b (location)

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