28 views on 14 fold-out pages of views of the 1913 Columbus, Ohio flood. Photographs were taken in Columbus, Ohio. This was a souvenir booklet, most likely meant to be mailed.
Vol. XXII. No. 48. Devoted to the Marine Profession, Yachting and Commercial Interests. Official Organ of the Western Rivers' Ferry Owners' Association.
United States Engineer Department. Placing abatis dike to close gap in driven pile dike. In chute between Establishment Island and Missouri shore near Brickeys.
p. 1071 - on Upper Mississippi River, believed to be '1902-1910' Davenport, Iowa. First as sternwheel 'J.S' J.S. 'first ' J.S. excursion boat built at Jeffersonville, Indiana. 1901 - size 175'x33'x5.5'. engines 18"x7' stroke, built for Captain John Streckfus Sr. Originally placed in Davenport - Clinton, Iowa daily trade, offering "moonlight excursions". In this trade she was found to be too large and heavy to run the rapids every day. She was withdrawn and operated exclusively as an excursion boat, and made great success as such. She was lost by burning, on June 25, 1910 at "bad ax bend," near Victory Wisconsin. It is said that the fire which caused her destruction was touched off by a passenger who was confined in the jail located in hold.
Built Pittsburgh, 1811, Length, 138 ft. 371 tons. Robert Fulton's financial success on the Hudson gave him funds to fulfill a second ambition, which John Fitch had also held: introduction of steamboats on the Western Waters, to us the Mississippi River and its tributaries. Fulton sent Nicholas Roosevelt, another steamboat experimenter, to Pittsburgh to build the New Orleans, first steamer to operate west of the Allegheny Mountains. Little information on the New Orleans has survived. There is even some question whether she was a sidewheeler or a sternwheeler. Her first voyage took place in 1811, when she left Pittsburgh in October, doubled back from Louisville to Cincinnati to prove she could run against the current, and reached New Olreans in January, 1812. For the 1911 centennial celebration of this event, a sidewheel replica of the New Orleans was built. It is shown in this photograph. The original boat plied the Lower Mississippi until 1814, when she hit a snag and sank.
Photograph of Lucas Gardens Park looking Southeast towards the St. Louis Public Library building. Christ Church Cathedral is visible to the left of the library.
The Vim was originally built as the Hattie Brown, a single deck sternwheeler at Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania in 1895. Her dimensions were:- 125 x 22.6 x 4.3 feet. She was built for J. W. Rice of Zanesville, Ohio and her engines came from the Lizzie Cassel. They were 12's with a 4-foot stroke. She ran various short trades on the Ohio River. The Hattie Brown was rebuilt at Jeffersonville, Indiana in 1915 and renamed the Vim. She was owned by the Louisville and Cincinnati Packet Company. The Vim came out in June, 1919 for the Madison and Kentucky River trade. In August 1919 her name was changed to Richard Roe. In March, 1921 she was in the Madison and Monterey trade, Kentucky River. Later Captain Lewis Tanner bought and used her for towing.
This photograph shows of a truck driving in the snow across the Free Bridge (now the MacArthur Bridge), into the city from Illinois. The exit is now near 6th Street., This is a wider view of another photograph in the collection.
Photograph of Mogul Sprinkling Truck. The city contracted with private companies like F. A. Stiers to sprinkle water on the city streets on a regular basis to keep down the dirt., St. Louis was the first city in the United States to use auto-sprinkling trucks like this. One of these Mogul trucks could sprinkle 22 miles of street from curb to curb in 11 hours.