Cyanotype print. Description on reverse: I. & M. Canal – 1st mile section
View of finished work looking west from cross-bank.
Mr. Keane – sub-contractor
F.S.H. – Engr. in charge
Taken Dec. 1892
Cyanotype print. Description on reverse: I. & M. Canal
Exc. At Lock #37
Steamer A.J. Whiney in distance
Taken Nov. 1892 by J.W. Woermann
F.S.H. – Engr. in charge
Cyanotype print. Description on reverse: I. & M. Canal – 1st mile section
Excavating in canal prism at beginning of 2nd mile.
Mr. Keane – sub-contractor
F.S.H. – Engr. in charge
Taken Oct. 1892
Cyanotype print. Description on reverse: I. & M. Canal
Construction of concrete abutments for dams.
Forms ready to fill. South shore Carr’s Island.
September, 1892
Cyanotype print. Description on reverse: I. & M. Canal – 5th mile
Commencement of the North River Erub.
U.S. Govt. work.
JW. Woermann – Engr. in charge
October 1892
Cyanotype print. Description on reverse: I. & M. Canal
Exc. At Lock #37
View of pit just after dredge went out and coffer-dam was put in. Pump-house at end of pit. Steamer A.J. Whitney in Rock River to right.
Taken Oct. 1892 by J.W.W.
F.S.H. – Engr. in charge
Cyanotype print. Description on reverse: I. & M. Canal
Rock excavation at the Guard Lock (head of rapids)
U.S. Govt work
David Sears – contractor
J.W. Woermann – Engr. in charge
October 1892
Cyanotype print. Description on reverse: I. & M. Canal – 4th mile
Constructing crib to protect the Erub. from floods from Mill Creek. Rock River at left of picture.
November 1892
Cyanotype print. Description on reverse: I. & M. Canal
View of traps for loading wagons with wheel scrapers. Construction River Erubs.
U.S. Govt work.
October 1892
Cyanotype print. Description on reverse: I. & M. Canal
Construction of abutments for dams.
Filling the forms of the abut. on south side Carr’s Island
September 1892
Record of masters, mates, pilots, and engineers of merchant steam, motor, and sail vessels kept by the United States Steamboat Inspection Service in 1897.
Bill of lading for shipment on the steamboat Buckeye State, for delivery of 1 box of saddlery. Goods were transported from Paducah, Kentucky to Wrightsville, Missouri, 1898. M. Michael & Bro. Co., wholesale harness and sadlery, buggies, carts, etc.
The State of Kansas was a big carrier built at Madison, Indiana in 1890. Her dimensions were: 252 x 52.5 x 6.0 feet. She ran in the St. Louis and Cincinnati trade. Captain Don A. Marr was her master. On December 18, 1899, enroute from Memphis to Cincinnati, she burned while lying at the wharf at New Madrid, Missouri. She was a total loss; cause of fire unknown. The vessel was valued at $30,000 but insured for only $20,000. The cargo, valued at $60,000 was damaged about $55,000.