Looking into dredge cut face. Advance since start of excavation: 1,500'. Yardage: 325,000. Ste. Genevieve on right. Kansas City District, Pilot Canal Project.
The Proctor and Gamble yearly picnic in Blanchette Park, August, 1952. Here, women are participating in a game where the objective was to collect Proctor and Gamble products in their skirts. Whatever they collected was theirs to keep. Proctor and Gamble held the yearly picnic for employees and their families. Photograph donated to the St. Louis Mercantile Library by Sherlyn Maughs.
Showing completed canal and the plug that separates the old and new channels, which will be blasted out October 4, 1952. Stern of dredge (William H. Black) is shown. Kansas City District, channel diversion.
Location of dredge in Pilot Canal on completion of dredging operations for cut No. 2. Just following departure, the second cut was made on left bank a distance of 1,800 ft. from upper end, which the view is towards.
Showing part of the completed river bank that will be one of the banks when the new river channel is completed. Kansas City District, Pilot Canal Project.
Loading stores at Nashville, Tennessee, December, 1863. Left to right: Rob Roy, Belle Peoria, Irene, Revelice, Palestine, Lizzie Martin, Mercury. Note: Hard tack in boxes on levee. It is reported that this photograph was taken by a Confederate spy and turned up after the Civil War.
Looking down river at completed rock revetment that will serve as the west bank for the new channel. This rocked bank extends approx. 9,000 feet. Kansas City District, channel diversion.