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Title: Marietta, Ohio Flooding
Date: 1941
Description: Photograph of Marietta, Ohio during the Ohio River Flood in 1941.

Title: Illinois River Sandbagging.
Date: 1943
Description: Sandbagging along Illinois River 1943

Title: Looking North
Date: 1943-06-02
Description: Looking North from in front of Box Factory toward Post Engineer Buildings.

Title: Admiral Boarding/Disembarking
Date: 1947-06-25
Description: Photograph of woman standing on the gangplank of the Admiral., p11-3-1-40-5

Title: Sand Fill
Date: 1943-10-28
Description: Looking W. to N.W. showing Sand Fill at Wharf Site previous to slagging.

Title: Admiral and Towboat
Date: 1945
Description: The steamer ADMIRAL under way, passing a towboat and tow. Photograph.

Title: St. Louis Zoo Monkey Show
Date: 1944-05
Description: Photograph of a monkey show at the St. Louis Zoo with monkeys riding on the backs of ponies.

Title: Riviera Club St. Louis
Date: 1947-11-23
Description: A near riot resulted yesterday when teenagers flocked to see Frankie Laine, Cab Calloway, Dinah Washington and Cootie Williams at a free show given at Club Riviera, 4460 Delmar bl. The club was damaged in the rush, although there was no vandalism.

Title: Sporty Days
Description: The Sporty Days was a double deck, combination ferry and packet boat. She was built on the river bank at New Madrid, Missouri, in 1927 by Dick Richardson for John Kirtz, her owner and operator. The dimensions of her wood hull, with a scow bow, were 60 x 26 x 4 feet. Width overall, 30 feet; draught about two feet. She had but one stack and one tubular boiler about 12 feet long and 36 inches in diameter. Her two engines were especially made in Paducha, Kentucky, with a 4-inch bore and 4-foot stroke. The stern paddle wheel was about 12 feet in diameter and 8 feet long. It had ten buckets. Although used as a ferry boat on many occasions during the days of prohibition she made trips to St. Louis. It is reported that her owner returned with suit cases of currency which was deposited in the local bank at New Madrid. She was pulled out on the bank in the winter of 1937 to avoid being crushed by ice. She was never returned to teh river and is rotting awaying out on the bank at New Madrid. This is 1948. Her owner died in poverty on the streets of New Madrid.

Title: Dipper Dredge and Grain Elevator
Date: 1943-09-15
Description: Photo taken looking NW showing dipper dredge removing piling from river.

Title: Ohio River Front in 1940, Cairo Waterfront in 1940
Date: 1940
Description: Cairo, Illinois is located at the southern point of the State of Illinois, between the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. The Shawnee Indians inhabited all of this country around the mouth of the Ohio River. They were joined on the north by the Illini, on the east by the Miami, and on the south by the Cherokee and Creek Indians. All of these tribes belonged to the Great Algonquin Race. Among the first known white settlers was Sieur Charles Juchereau de St. Denis, trapper and fur dealer, a native of France, who with thirty French Canadians built a fort and tannery near the Junction of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers on what is now the site of the Halliday Hotel. This was in 1702. The fort and tannery were later destroyed by an Indian attack, the settlers massacred and their stock of furs seized. Juchereau de St. Denis escaped to Kaskaskia where he lived until 1705. It was 100 years before another settlement was made at the mouth of the Ohio River. The origin of the name CAIRO is somewhat traditional. Because of the character of the low surrounding territory which made the mouth of the Ohio River a delta resembling that of the old Nileriver in Egypt, the new settlement was called Cairo. John G. Comegys, one of the town promoters, named the city. An act to incorporate the city and bank of Cairo was granted by the territorial legislature in January 1818. Trustees named in said act proceeded at once to plat the city, and lots were sold in 1852. Cairo was not incorporated until february 1857. The county in which Cairo is situated is Alexander, established at the second session of the general assembly of the state, March4, 1819, and named for William W. Alexander who lived at America. He was a practicing physician, a politician and public man. He was a member of the legislature in 1882 and 1840 and Speaker of the House in 1822 and 1824. The area of Alexander county is 220 square miles. Cairo yesterday was \"a town set down in a low, flat plain and surrounded by high levees from which one descended to the town's level by long flights of wooden steps at the intersection of the unimproved and often very muddy streets;\" poor houses and still poorer sidewlks; four churches; a public school; a great military camp; Cairo, the central point of all the movements of the Union armies on the western rivers. Cairo today is a town of paved streets, beautiful shade trees, modern schools, churches, hotels, hospital and comfortable homes. Cairo is \"The Gateway to the South.\" Cairo's rivers today are spanned by three mighty bridges, her levees improved; her harbor the home of the great Barrett Fleet and the terminals of the Federal Barge Line and the Mississippi Barge Line, a stopping place for all visiting steamboats. Cairo's rivers yesterday were geographically of tremendous importance. History records that \"To break the central hold of the Confederacy on Kentucky, Gen. Grant saw that the rivers afforded him the best available means.\"

Title: Wharf Access Road
Date: 1943-09-15
Description: Looking W. showing access road to wharf. Landcaster Corp. Work commenced June 5, 1943.

Title: St. Louis Zoo Lion Show
Date: 1947-05-23, 1947-06-15
Description: In the lion's pit at the St. Louis Zoo, three megal beasts extend a greeting at the behest of their trainer.

Title: Shore Slough
Date: 1948
Description: A Glimpse of a shore slough - where barges tie up in northern Iowa. Taken from Str. NATCHEZ 1948. E. Golterman.

Title: Marietta, Ohio Flooding
Date: 1941
Description: Photograph of Marrietta, Ohio at flood stage.

Title: Wooden Beam
Date: 1943-06-28
Description: Portion of wooden beam splintered by lightning in Warehouse #3--Section #3.

Title: War Over, War Over
Date: 1945
Description: Servicemen and Servicewomen holding an issue of the Norfolk Ledger Dispatch with headline "WAR OVER Tokyo Agrees to Terms of Surrender.", V. J. Day Celebrations

Title: Laying Cobblestones
Date: 1943-10-01
Description: Looking E. from foot of Wharf. Lancaster Corp. Work started June 5, 1943.

Title: Dredge Grafton
Date: 1942-04-16
Description: Dredge Grafton in operation, looking upstream.

Title: Granite City Wharf
Date: 1943-10-04
Description: Looking S. to S.W. showing grade of wharf previous to laying cobblestones. Lancaster Corp. Work started June 5, 1943.

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