Map of Missouri and Kansas, as well as portions of Iowa, Arkansas, and Illinois. Detailed map of counties and places, as well as roads. Includes insets titled: "Spearing fish", "Santa Fe from the Great Missouri Trail", and "Fire on the prairie.", From Johnson's new illustrated (steel plate) family atlas : with physical geography and with descriptions geographical, statistical and historical, including the latest federal census, a geographical index, and a chronological history of the Civil War in America / by Richard Swainson Fisher ... ; maps compiled and drawn, and engraved under the supervision of J.H. Colton and A.J. Johnson.
Plan view of cofferdam for Pier No. 3. Placing concrete seal for caisson; concrete chute and material lock in upper part of picture. Man lock near center of cofferdam.
Passing along the levee at Cairo, with its dust, filth, and obtrusive drinking-saloons, gaping wide open for victims to trash within, ti would appear to a stranger, from the great number of such places, that the people of Cairo had powers not accorded elsewhere to ordinary mortals of resisting the effects of 'tangle-leg,' 'red-eye,' 'twist-knee,' and other brands peculiar to the locality. Outside of each place are gathered a knot of hard-looking fellows. There is a suspicious air of 'lying-in-wait' common to these frequenters of the levee which is not calculated to inspire confidence in a stranger.
The Pargoud was a large cotton carrier built at Jeffersonville, Indiana, in 1884. Her dimensions were: - 242 x 43 x 8 feet; 712 tons, net and gross. She ran the New Orleans and Greenville trade. In 1886 Captain J. W. Carlton was master. Captain Mike Corbine was in command in 1897.
The enclosed pictures were taken during August 1981 on the Beardstown Illinois waterfront showing typical river scenes with the usual amount of tugs and other equipment. The B&N RR bridge in its river mode. The stern-wheel river tug is a locally built boat, original builders and name still showing = LOGSDON = built sometime in the 1930s more details could be obtained. These pictures were taken
Shewey's Pictorial St. Louis is an illustrated guide to the life and times of St. Louisans and the buildings around them. Detailed descriptions of significant structures and historical events.
Late commissioner employed by the United States to negotiate with the Indians of the Upper Mississippi, for the purchase of mineral country, and author of western antiquities
Comprising: I. Sermon on Jesuit Instruction, by W. S. Potts II. Review of Dr. Potts' Sermon, by O. A. Brownson III. Reply to Brownson's Review by W. S. Potts