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Title: Cincinnati
Description: Cincinnati, Ohio levee showing Str. "Cincinnati" with "Queen City" outside. New "Island Queen" above. Date about 1925.

Title: Tuscumbia (Steamboat)
Date: 1927
Description: The Tuscumbia with livestock during the Great Flood of 1927.

Title: Bald Eagle and Belle of Calhoun
Date: 1926
Description: R.V. Gerber photo. Bald Eagle & Belle of Calhoun 1926.

Title: Capitol
Date: 1924-12-19
Description: Display of presents for My Lady's Boudoir. Wed Mar 12-19-24.

Title: CHAMP CLARK
Date: 1920, 1920
Description: Str. Champ Clark 1920.

Title: JO HORTON FALL
Date: 1925
Description: Photo. Aground on Head of Billtown Bar, 1925. Cumberland River, sank at Omaha.

Title: Capitol
Date: 1921
Description: Women on the guards of the excursion steamer CAPITOL.

Title: Kate Adams
Date: 1925
Description: Photo taken 1925 at Pittsburgh during her last days. The third KATE ADAMS (1899-1927) was built by the Howard Shipyards Company at Jeffersonville, Indiana, for the Memphis and Arkansas Packet Company. Her steel hull was 240 ft. long, 40 ft. beam, 7 ft. hold, having eighteen water-tight compartments. Her over-all width was 80 ft. Each stateroom had a colonial-arched entranceway. She made her first trip on Thanksgiving Day, 1899. Her run was between Memphis, Tennessee and Arkansas City, Arkansas. The "Lovin' Kate" was the principal actress in the movie "Uncle Tom's Cabin" filmed in 1926. She was remodeled to resemble a pre-Civil War steamboat and re-named La Belle Riviere for the movie. Following her film career, her name was changed back to KATE ADAMS. She burned at the Memphis wharf on January 8, 1927. Her roof bell now hangs over the entranceway to the Mariner's Museum, Newport News, Virginia. Her deep-toned whistle which could be heard thirty miles back in the Delta, was later installed on the towboat "Leona" of Cincinnati. She was a way of life for those who knew her and loved her. As she flashed white on the brown river, the moan of her whistle and the splash and slap of her paddles sang the hymn of life on the Mississippi. Howard Robb - 1960 Arkansas City, Ark., - St. Louis, Mo.

Title: Capitol - 2nd deck
Date: 1924-01-16
Description: Barn dance aboard the excursion steamer CAPITOL. Wed Nite Jan 16th 1924.

Title: Tuscumbia (Steamboat)
Date: 1927
Description: The steamer U. S. Tuscumbia during the Great Flood of 1927.

Title: Tennessee Belle
Date: 1925-04-08
Description: No. 195 Muscle Shoals Dock. Photo by G. W. Landrum Florence, Ala. April-8-1925. Capts Ed-, Charles Beard pilots. Capt. B. J. Carragher master. 83rd anniversary renioun of the Battle of Shiloh survivors.

Title: J. S. "Deluxe"
Date: 1920
Description: J. S. "Deluxe" at Chatauqua. Gerber photo 1921.

Title: Capitol - 2nd deck
Date: 1924-02
Description: Soda bar, second deck of the excursion steamer CAPITOL.

Title: Tennessee Belle
Date: 1924-08
Description: Tennessee Belle in front of Cherry Mansion at Savannah, Tenn. August 1924.

Title: Wright (Snagboat)
Date: 1927
Description: The U. S. Snagboat Wright during the Great Flood of 1927.

Title: Construction of Cape Girardeau Bridge
Date: 1927
Description: Towboat ALMA moored against levee on Illinois shore on-quarter mile inland during flood.

Title: Missouri (Snagboat)
Date: 1921
Description: At S--sh Point, 1921. U.S. Snagboat Missouri. Sent to me by Mrs Thekla M. Baldwin widow of Capt Baldwin on Jan 23, 1930.

Title: Bald Eagle
Date: 1928
Description: "Bald Eagle" at Ft. Madison, Ia. 1928. Rudolph V. Gerber, photographer.

Title: A. O. Ackard
Date: 1922-01-30
Description: Stern view of steam boat A. O. Ackard showing bustle plates.

Title: Capitol - 4th deck
Date: 1921
Description: Women with picnic basket on the fourth deck dining area of the excursion steamer CAPITOL.

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