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Title: Tentative valuation of the property of Mascot and Western Railroad Company as of June 30, 1917
Date: 1917, 1922

Title: J. R. Wells
Date: 1917
Description: Str. J. R. WELLS 1917. At Chamois MO.

Title: The Waterways Journal, Volume 22, Number 48
Date: 1910-02-26,
Description: Vol. XXII. No. 48. Devoted to the Marine Profession, Yachting and Commercial Interests. Official Organ of the Western Rivers' Ferry Owners' Association.

Title: River Protection Work
Date: 1910
Description: United States Engineer Department. Placing abatis dike to close gap in driven pile dike. In chute between Establishment Island and Missouri shore near Brickeys.

Title: River Improvement Work
Date: 1911
Description: "Tender No. 9" (rear center) and portion of tow of 27 pieces of river construction equipment enroute from Establishment Island to Liberty Island.

Title: J.S.
Description: 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 She was withdrawn and operated exclusively as an excursion boat, and made great success as such.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.

Title: Steward and Cook Crew
Date: 1910
Description: River improvement work, U. S. Engineer Department. Establishment Island. Steward and Cooks crew in dining room of quarterboat.

Title: FAIRMONT
Date: 1917
Description: Photograph of the FAIRMONT in 1917

Title: Kansas City Municipal Wharf
Date: 1915
Description: Photo of the Kansas City Municipal Wharf in 1915.

Title: Tentative valuation report on the property of the Allentown Terminal Railroad Company as of June 30, 1918.
Date: 1918, 1924

Title: New Orleans
Date: 1911
Description: 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.

Title: Vim
Description: 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.

Title: Curly
Date: 1918
Description: Curly at Ice Jam at Memphis, Tenn. Probably 1918.

Title: River Improvement Work
Date: 1911
Description: U. S. Engineer Department. Hydrographic party enroute to work.

Title: Missouri
Date: 1912
Description: Corps of Engineers Snagboat Missouri on Mo. River, 1912. Burned at Gasconade Mo. July 28, 1928. Was sunk behind dike about 2 miles below Gasconade, Dec. 1929. Winter ice breakup broke hole in dike. March 1930, channel was through hole. March 15, 1930, Dredge Kappa, hit and sank on top, Snagboat Missouri. George Kishmar.

Title: Peoria
Date: 191-
Description: Eagle Packet Co. Built 1914. Lost in ice gorge Tenn River Jan 1918.

Title: Virginia Stranded in Pomeroy Bend
Date: 1910
Description: The Virginia operated in the Pittsburgh-Cincinnatti trade along with the Keystone State, the Iron Queen, the Scotia, the Carrollton, the Hudson and the Queen City. She was owned by the Pittsburgh and Cincinnatti Packet Company. Her career seemed to have been a hectic one. In 1910 high water from the Kanawha River left her stranded up in a field a hundred yards from the river, high and dry in Pomeroy Bend for a whole summer. The owner got tired waiting for another flood, and after three months set to work, dug a little canal, floated the old boat down to the Howard's repair yards. And in a few weeks she was going about her business as though nothing had happened. This was one of the best known accidents on the Mississippi system. Later her name was changed to Steel City; still later it was changed to the East St. Louis. Under her last name of Greater New Orleans she operated as an excursion steamer on the Mississippi, and fire finally destroyed her.

Title: Jim Wood
Date: 1917
Description: The Jim Wood sagging at Dam No. 33 on the Ohio River.

Title: H. K. Bedford
Date: 1912
Description: H. K. Bedford, sunk in 1912 at Carpenter's Bar, above Marietta, Ohio River.

Title: River Protection Work
Date: 1911
Description: River Protection Work - United States Engineer Dept. Making cables for use in Willow mattress - Greenfield Bend near Bird's Point, Mo.

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