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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: J. W. Meredith
Date: 1884
Description: Steamer J. W. Meredith at the St. Louis levee about 1884.

Title: Missouri (Snagboat)
Date: 1888
Description: Photograph of U. S. Snagboat Missouri.

Title: Montana and Penguin
Description: Among the later mountain boats, the Montana was built in 1879 at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by James Rees and Son. Her owners, the Coulson Line, intended her for the Missouri River trade. The steamers Dacotah and Wyoming were duplicates of the Montana and they were three of the largest carriers and best sternwheel boats for shallow rivers ever built for western streams. The Wyoming was somewhat the largest boat. She was deeper in hull, had guards, more of a model head, and carried a larger cargo, but needed more water, which was a handicap on the Missouri. The Montana and Dacotah were sister ships and of the same pattern, built of Pennsylvania oak over a spoonbill pattern designed to be big carriers on minimum draft. They were of broad beam and a duck's breast or almost square head to insure light draft. Their dimensions were: - 252 x 48.7 x 6 feet; 960 tons. They drew 22 inches light, at the stern; 11 inches amidships, and 7 inches forward. Each carried 4 boilers, 42 inches by 26 feet. Their engines were 18 inches with a 7-foot stroke. Each had a long full cabin with very large staterooms. They would carry 250 tons when trimmed up to 22 inches, which alone was a very profitable cargo in the mountain trade. The Dacotah proved by far the better boat of the two. These boats came out ten years too late and would have made a million dollars for Captain Todd if built and operated that much sooner. When these boats started for teh mountains everybody made fun of them, predicting all kinds of disasters on account of their size. Although designed for the Missouri River trade the Montana made many trips to New Orleans. However, most of the time she ran between St. Louis and Kansas City, making occasional trips to Upper Missouri. In addition to being dependable, she was a money maker. Either the Montana or Dacotah could carry twice as much freight on 3 feet of water than any other boat that ever went to Fort Benton. Once, she delivered 800 head of large steers in one herd from that place to Omaha, Nebraska. She had four boilers (2 flues each) 42 inches in diameter and 26 feet long. Her two cylinders were 18 inches in diameter with 7-foot stroke. Her wheel was 22-1/2 feet in diameter with 29 foot buckets. In mover her from the ship yards to the Missouri River she had to be jumped sideways over the Monongahela River dams to get her out. The Penguin was built at Burlington, Iowa in 1877. Her dimensions were: - 80 x 16.6 x 3.4 feet; 61 tons, gross and net. She ran upriver from St. Louis, Missouri until, on October 14, 1886, she broke loose from her moorings and ran on the rocks at Rock Island, Illinois. She was a total loss, her value being estimated at $500.

Title: Photograph of Steamer City of Monroe
Description: Page 3 Carpenter-Moore Family Riverboat Scrapbook A -- City of Monroe was part of the Anchor Line and served cities between St. Louis and New Orleans from 1887 to 1905. 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: 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: Photograph of Steamer City of St. Louis
Description: Page 1 Carpenter-Moore Family Riverboat Scrapbook A -- City of St. Louis was part of the Anchor Line and served cities between St. Louis and New Orleans from 1883 to 1903. 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: Steamboat R.C. Gunter
Description: Photograph of the steamboat R.C. Gunter. The R.C. Gunter was a sternwheel packet built at Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1886 for the Chattanooga and Decatur Packet Company. R.C. Gunter was the owner and master. By 1896 the boat had been sold to the St. Louis, Harden and Hempsville Packet Company, and then sold again to the Eagle Packet Company a year later in 1901. The latter company ran the boat one final year until it sank in 1902 on the Illinois River. This is a unique view of the steamer we've not found elsewhere. Several passengers can be seen posing on the railing of the boiler deck. Photograph ca. 1900.

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