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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: 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: 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. Weaving brush mattress ; showing barge load of willows, weaving way flats and steam tender Greenfield Bend near Bird's Point, Mo.

Title: Wm R. King
Date: 1911
Description: U. S. Towboat "Wm R. King" and tender with dredge, quarterboat, barges, machine shop and pontoons in tow.

Title: Henry Sackman
Date: 1918
Description: Wreck of the Henry Sackman, railroad ferry owned by Wiggins Ferry Company at Saint Louis. Dismantled 1918.

Title: Engine room of Gen. J. H. Simpson
Date: 1912
Description: Chief Engineer Renfro and his striker on watch. U.S. Engineer Dept. 1912

Title: Streckfus Family
Date: 1914
Description: Photograph of Capt. John Struckfus (middle left) practicing the violin with summer excursion boat musicians on the first J. S. (John Streckfus) steamer., p11-4-64-34

Title: River Improvement Work
Date: 1911
Description: Portion of tow of 27 pieces of river construction equipment moved from Establishment Island by a small steam tender.

Title: Alton and Reliance
Description: With the Reliance at St. Louis. The Alton, a beautiful side-wheeler was built in 1906 at Jeffersonville, Indiana. She was 241.1 feet in length, 38 feet beam and 7.3 feet depth of hold. She was of 800 tons, 1350 horse power, and owned and operated by the Eagle Packet Company of St. Louis. A feature of her construction was an octagonal shaped pilot house. In 1913 she was operating as an excursion boat out of St. Louis. In January, 1918 she was completely destroyed by the ice at Paducah, Kentucky.

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