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Title: John Gilbert Bill of Lading
Date: 1887-04-18
Description: Bill of Lading from the Evansville, Paducah & Tennessee River Packet Company for transport of 65 tons of #4 pig iron at $1.25/ton, for the Lagrange Iron Company from La Grange, Tennessee to St. Louis, Missouri. April 18, 1887.

Title: Man Overboard!
Description: $50 Reward. DROWNED OFF OF THE STEAMER Henry Lourey, opposite Newtown, September 27th, 1885, Charles Coyle, watchman. Description - 5 feet 7 or 8 inches tall, dark hair and moustache, had on dark jeans pants, gray flannel drawers, clouded undershirt, gola watch and bunch of keys in pockets. Any information address, John H. Long, in care of St. Louis and Mississippi V. T. Co, at St. Louis or New Orleans. JNO. H. LONG, Master Steamer Henry Lourey. Natchez papers please copy. sep29-4t

Title: The Manual Training School of St. Louis, MO.
Date: 1881-05-28
Description: The page depicts Nicholas, the future Czar of Russia, Mustapha-Ben-Ismail of Tunisia and Lord Salisbury of England. There are a couple of chairs used by President Garfield and the Mayor of Boston in the middle of the page. At the bottom of the page is an illustration of the Manual Training School of Washington University in St. Louis.

Title: The Valley of the Upper Mississippi
Date: 1883-10-06
Description: Flat boats. Rafting. Lake Pepin. Sugar Loaf. Chimney Rock on Turkey River.

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

Title: St. Louis Manual Training School
Date: 1881-05-28
Description: Illustration of the Manual Training School of Washington University in St. Louis. This illustration was from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper.

Title: City of Baton Rouge, Cabin
Date
Description: Cabin of the City of Baton Rouge, with workers leaning against the walls and tables set for meal service.

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: B-137 New York, West Shore and Buffalo Railroad Photographs
Date: 1883, 1883
Description: A collection of photographs from the construction of the New York, West Shore and Buffalo Railway circa 1883.

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: Gould's St. Louis Directory, for 1880
Date: 1880
Description: This directory contains an introduction entitled St. Louis, featuring statistics related to growth, public improvements, and finances, followed by an index to advertisers, a street directory, a St. Louis City residential and business directory, and a city and county record listing civic and social institutions for the year 1880.

Title: W.S. Hancock/W.H. English Medal
Date: 1880
Description: Medal reading "W.S. Hancock" and "W.H. English" surrounding an image of a rooster, representing the former symbol of the Democratic Party. On the opposite side of the medal are side-by-side profiles of presidential candidate Winfield S. Hancock and vice presidential candidate William H. English.

Title: How the Public Domain has Been Squandered
Date: 1884, 1884
Description: Poster from the 1884 Democratic Party advertising part of the party's platform for the 1884 election pitting Democrat Grover Cleveland against Republican James G. Blaine.

Title: President and Mrs. Grover Cleveland Medal
Date: 1887-10
Description: 1-inch round, bronze-tone medal with facing, low-relief jugate portraits of President Grover Cleveland and First Lady Frances Cleveland. The portraits are each framed by an oval of raised dots. An eagle is centered above the portraits and below is a shield with stripes resembling the American flag. On the reverse are the words "Souvenir of tour through West & South, President and Mrs. Cleveland Oct. 1887".

Title: S. Grover Cleveland, President of the U.S. Medal
Date: 1884
Description: 1 and 3/8-inch medal with profile portrait in relief of Stephen Grover Cleveland. Surrounding the portrait are the words "S. Grover Cleveland, President of the U.S." On the reverse are the words "Welcome to the President and Mrs. Cleveland" surrounded by a laurel wreath.

Title: Ulysses Grant - The Final Photograph
Date: 1885
Description: Sepia photograph of Grant, as per writing on the back this is the "final photograph" of him. He is seated on the porch, reading a newspaper. On the front bottom "copyright" is written. On the back, the logo for Gilman is printed. There is a medal of a cross with "Gilman," written inside. Below the cross "Canajoharie, N.Y." is printed.

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