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Title: W. F. Nisbet Bill of Lading
Date: 1886-04-28
Description: Bill of Lading for the steamer W. F. NISBET of the St. Louis and Tennessee River Electric Light Packet, for delivery of 102 tons of No. 1 pig iron to St. Louis, Missouri, for the La Grange Iron Company, July 28 1886.

Title: Addie E. Faison
Description: Addie E. Faison on river. Passengers and crew are visible on deck.

Title: City of Baton Rouge
Description: Side-wheel packet City of Baton Rouge, owned by the Anchor Line.

Title: City of New Orleans
Description: The City of New Orleans was built in 1881 at Jeffersonville, Indiana for the Anchor Line. Her dimensions were:- 290 x 48 x 8.5 feet; 1586 tons. Captain A. S. Lightner was her master. In 1889 she was sold to Ohio River parties, taken to Marietta, Ohio under her own steam and dismantled. Then she was rebuilt and renamed the City of Pittsburgh. Her new dimensions then were:- 292.7 x 48.8 x 7.0 feet; 1043 tons. Captain John Phillips became her master. She ran various trades on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers and had divers mishaps. Enrout down the Ohio River on April 20, 1902, when near Ogen's Landing, Kentucky, above Cairo, Illinois, she caught fire and burned to the water's edge. The fire orginated in the hold, which was loaded with hay, and spread so rapidly that it got beyond control. In this disaster the lives of 43 passengers and 21 of her crew were lost. Officers and crew were exonerated from all blame. The steamer was valued at $50,000 and was a total loss.

Title: W. A. Johnson Bill of Lading
Date: 1886
Description: Bill of Lading from the Steamer W. A. JOHNSON of the Evansville, Paducah & Tennessee River Packet Company for transport of 39 tons of #1 pig iron at $2.00/ton, for the Lagrange Iron Company from La Grange to Cincinnati 1886.

Title: Photograph of Steamer City of Natchez
Description: Page 2 Carpenter-Moore Family Riverboat Scrapbook A -- City of Natchez was part of the Anchor Line and served cities between St. Louis and New Orleans from 1885 to 1886. This page is part of a scrapbook that contains hundreds of photographs of riverboats operating on the Mississippi River from the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries.

Title: W. F. Nisbet Bill of Lading
Date: 1886-08-31
Description: Bill of Lading for the steamer W. F. NISBET of the St. Louis and Tennessee River Electric Light Packet, for delivery goods to St. Louis, Missouri, for the La Grange Iron Company, August 31st, 1886.

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