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.
Record of masters, mates, pilots, and engineers of merchant steam, motor, and sail vessels kept by the United States Steamboat Inspection Service in 1909.
The Fred Swain was built at Stillwater, Minnesota in 1900. She was a sidewheeler with no texas. Her dimensions were:- 142 x 28.3 x 4.5 feet; tonnage, gross and net, 124 tons. She operated mostly on the Illinois River around Peoria. On August 20, 1909, she burned to the water's edge at Peoria, Illinois; fifty-eight persons were aboard but no lives lost.
Record of masters, mates, pilots, and engineers of merchant steam, motor, and sail vessels kept by the United States Steamboat Inspection Service in 1908.
The twenty-fourth volume of Gould's Blue Books, this directory contains the names of the most prominent householders and businesses in the city of St. Louis and surrounding suburbs, as well as residents from Alton, St. Charles and Carlinville for the year 1909. Residents and businesses are arranged alphabetically by name and street. In addition to the directory, it contains rosters of social clubs and instructions concerning proper etiquette.
Being a complete index of the residents of East St. Louis, Granite City, Madison, Venice, Collinsville and Edwardsville, and a CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY to which is added an appendix containing useful information of the churches, societies, railroads, city, state, and other miscellaneous matter, also STREET AND AVENUE DIRECTORY
Being a complete street and classified list of the manufacturing, mercantile, and professional interests of the entire city, together with statistics in reference to the federal, state and city governments, etc., also containing Business Directories of Alton, Ill., Belleville, Ill., East St. Louis, Ill., Granite City, Ill., Madison, Ill., St. Charles, Mo., and Venice, Ill., Volume 37 of a series originally titled Gould's Commercial Register.
The more complete title reads "Being a Complete Index of the Residents of the Entire City, and a CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY TO WHICH IS ADDED AN APPENDIX CONTAINING USEFUL INFORMATION OF THE CHURCHES, SOCIETIES, RAILROADS, CITY, STATE, AND OTHER MISCELLANEOUS MATTER, ALSO Street and Avenue Directory.
Green postcard with an American flag shield in the center. Inside the shield is a caricature of President William Howard Taft sitting on the ground with his bare feet sticking out, mimicking the Billiken fad of the early 1900's.