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Title: Celebration at Opening of Davis Island Dam
Date: 1885-10-07
Description: Crowd lined up to view opening of dam. Steamboats underway in the background, including the steamers GENEVA and ONWARD. Oct. 7, 1885. #455.

Title: Government Snagboat No. 2
Date: 1889-11-02
Description: Government snag-boat removing obstructions from the channel of a western river. - Drawn by Schell and Hogan. - [See page 870.]

Title: A Trip on the Atchafalaya River
Date: 1883-04-11
Description: 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.

Title: A Trial of Patience
Date: 1880-03-20
Description: A TRIAL OF PATIENCE. - Drawn by S. G. McCutcheon.

Title: Chartered Dredge Tender L. A. Fulton at Mustapha Island
Date: 1886-10-23
Description: The Little Andy Fulton of Louisville, KY., at midstream near Mustapha Island in the Ohio River.

Title: Celebration at Opening of Davis Island Dam
Date: 1885-10-07
Description: Crowd gathered to view the opening of the Davis Island Dam. Many steamboats are lined up in the background.

Title: Steamer May Bryan!
Date: 1885
Description: This time table will be in force June 1st, 1885, until October 1st, 1885. There will be no ferrying done with skiff excepting on Sunday, unless some accident on account of boat. Will run until sundown, if called for. Washington Ferry Co. Frank Hoelscher, Master.

Title: Loading a Mississippi Steamer at East St. Louis, At Night, By the Aid of the Electric Light
Date: 1882-11-25
Description: 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.

Title: View of Kansas City and the Morgan Iron-Works
Date: 1881-06-04
Description: 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.

Title: City of Baton Rouge
Date
Description: 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.

Title: U. S. Snagboat, E. A. Woodruff at Mariman's Bar
Date: 1889-06-28
Description: With crew on deck. June 28, 1889. #723.

Title: Montana
Date: 1884-06-22
Description: Steamer MONTANA sunk in Missouri River at St. Charles, Missouri., "Montana's bell is on J. W. Hubbard (washed on shore near Jeffersonville, Ind.) 1934." - Ruth Ferris

Title: Jesse K. Belle
Date: 1880
Description: Crowd of men with the steamer JESSE K. BELLE in background. ca. 1880

Title: The Falls of St. Anthony
Date: 1881
Description: Lithograph, 1881.

Title: J. E. Trudeau
Date: 1889
Description: The J. E. Trudeau just after launching at the Howard Shipyards of Jeffersonville, Indiana for the New Orleans and Bayou trade. The Trudeau ran on Bayous Teche and Bouef. The J. E. Trudeau was built in 1889 at Jeffersonville, Indiana. Her dimensions were:- 162 x 30 x 4 feet; 242 tons. She ran the New Orleans - Black and Ouchita River trades. About 3:00 P. M., on April 10, 1905, she backed out into the river at New Orleans preparatory to leaving for a trip up river. When through backing, and started up the river, she was struck by a strong wind and blown against the mast of the sunken steamship Louisiana and was considerably damaged. Sometime later she finally burned at 100 - Mile Point, ten miles below Plaguemine, Louisiana.

Title: MATTIE LIFE
Description: Photograph of the "Center-wheel ferryboat, MATTIE LIFE, 104 tons. 1881-1894. Miami, MO. Owned by Burruss Bros."

Title: The Railroad and Engineering Journal
Date: 1888-12

Title: The Hand-Book of Sedalia Missouri
Date: 1882
Description: General history and directory of Sedalia, Missouri from 1882. Includes views and illustrations of public buildings.

Title: Silver Cloud Bill of Lading
Date: 1887-03-24
Description: Bill of Lading from the Evansville, Paducah & Tennessee River Packet Company for transport of 30 tons of #2 pig iron at $2.00/ton, for the Lagrange Iron Company from La Grange to Cincinnati Wharf River and Railroad Transfer Co. March 24, 1887.

Title: Report of the president and directors of the Ohio & Mississippi Railway Co. to their stockholders for fiscal year ending 1889.
Date: 1889, 1890

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