1. Entrance to Atchafalaya River. 2. A "Swamper's" house on the Atchafalaya. 3. A Swamper. 4. Steamer running the rapids of the Atchafalaya. 5. Red River Landing. 6. Castle on the Atchafalaya. 7. Little Whiskey Bayou. 8. A Swamper's garden (in a Canoe). 9. The ash cabin, Atchafalaya. 10. Map showing changes in the Mississippi's current.
View of Myrtle Street flooded with various goods floating in the foreground. Men in small boats are collecting the goods. A steamboat, horse-drawn vehicles, and a storefront can be seen in the background. This lithograph is based on a sketch by Armand Welcker.
Front page of Um die Welt: Keppler & Schwarzmann's Illustrierte Zeitung (Around the World: Keppler & Schwarzmann's Illustrated Newspaper). View of the Veiled Prophet Parade in front of the old courthouse in St. Louis. Fireworks and various exotic animals can be seen. Revelers can be seen throughout.
An image depicting portraits of C. H. Sampson, C. C, Rainwater, Col J. G. Prather, John W. M'Cullagh, Joseph J. Kreher, and V. O. Saunders. There is also an image of the Nonotuck Silk Company's Corticelli Float.
20x16 in photograph of the downtown home of the St. Louis philanthropist Henry Shaw. The back of the frame reads "H. Shaw's Residence, 7th & Locust 1889." Henry Shaw died in 1889 around the time this photograph was taken. In his will, Shaw requested that this home be dismantled and moved to the grounds of the Missouri Botanical Garden. It was rebuilt on Tower Grove Avenue near Magnolia.
Image from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper from November 25, 1882. The sketch by Charles Upham depicts workers carrying large bags onto a steamboat under the supervision of a well dressed man with a cane. A large light is positioned on the right and the men cast shadows upon the ground.
Page from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper from June 4, 1881. The page contains two large images. The image at the top is a view of Kansas City based on a photograph by M. B. Bower. The image at the bottom is of a sixty-thousand-pound steamship bed being poured at the Morgan Iron-Works in New York City.
The City of Baton Rouge was built at Jeffersonville, Indiana in 1881 for the St. Louis and New Orleans trade. She was an Anchor Liner and her dimensions were: - 290 x 48 x 8.7 feet; tonnage, 1604. Captain Horace Bixby was her master. She was nearly lost on her maiden trip when she struck on the falls at Louisville and stayed there three weeks. While ascending the Mississippi River and about 50 miles above New Orleans on September 16, 1887, a lugger in charge of two boys attempted to cross her bow. The mast of the lugger struck the stage of the Baton Rouge, the lugger capsized and one of the boys drowned. The City of Baton Rouge sank at Hermitage, Louisiana, at 3:00 P. M. on December 12, 1890 on the same snag and at the same spot where the Paris C. Brown sunk in 1889.
Page from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper featuring images of Franck C. Morehead, Mrs. Margaret Hughes, and the scene at the dedication o the Odd Fellows' Cemetery on May 30th of 1881.