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Title: Islands and Towheads
Date: 1940-07
Description: Islands and towheads in Illinois River above Kampsville, July 1940.

Title: Sounding
Description: U. S. Sergeant Floyd. Captain McIntyre pulls on a polished bass knob and a bell sounds somewhere below. A deckhand, equipped with a life belt of Mae West mode and hidden from view on the deck below, picks up an 18-foot pole marked with alternate black and white bands a foot wide and expertly pokes it toward the bottom. We are in 12 feet of water, or two fathoms, and his softly spoken \"Mark Twain

Title: J. E. Trudeau
Date: 1889
Description: The J. E. Trudeau just after launching at the Howard Shipyards of Jeffersonville, Indiana for the New Orleans and Bayou trade. The Trudeau ran on Bayous Teche and Bouef. The J. E. Trudeau was built in 1889 at Jeffersonville, Indiana. Her dimensions were:- 162 x 30 x 4 feet; 242 tons. She ran the New Orleans - Black and Ouchita River trades. About 3:00 P. M., on April 10, 1905, she backed out into

Title: The City of St. Louis Missouri. The City of Chicago Illinois.
Description: Map from an early atlas comparing the 1855 Colton maps of Saint Louis, Missouri, and Chicago, Illinois. The plans of Chicago and St. Louis are on the same scale.

Title: Queen of the West and Engagement at Butte la Rose
Date: 1863-05-30
Description: Destruction of the "Queen of the West" by Union Gun-Boats. Engagement at Butte la Rose. Bank's campaign in Louisiana.-Sketched by Ms. H. Holtz.-[See page 357.]

Title: California
Date: 1924
Description: 1924 guide to California published by the Union Pacific System. Includes illustrations, photographs, and descriptive text.

Title: Annual Convention of the Lakes-to-the-Gulf Deep Waterway Association
Date: 1908
Description: ...Page 101. Remarks on Southern Co-operation in Works of Improvement, by Governor X. O. Pindall, or Arkansas...Page 104. Remarks on Freight Transportation by Canals, by Mr. J. W. Simmonds, of Michigan...Page 106. Remarks on the Cheapness of Water Transportation, by Mr. Charles S. Bash, of Indiana...Page 107. Remarks on Kentucky Waterways, by Mr. James F. Bucklin, of Louisville...Page 109. Water

Title: Speech of Hon. Thomas H. Benton of Missouri
Date: 1842-01-13
Description: Speech from Thomas Hart Benton in opposition to the cabinet plan for a Federal Exchequer.

Title: Address of Hon. William H. Haywood, Jr. to the People of North Carolina
Date: 1846-08-10
Description: An address on the issues of tariffs and taxation as they relate to the economy of North Carolina, 1846.

Title: Ead's Bridge.
Date: 1895
Description: Ead's Bridge, Art Work of St. Louis. On the riverfront are the IDA PATTON (1888-1937). Tug - built at Dubuque. Iron Hull, steam propeller. Capt. L.E. Patton had her built for towing logs up Wolf River to Mills. GOLDEN GATE (1878-1903). Stern only shown. Built at Dubuque. 131.4 x 30 x 4.

Title: Speech of Hon. J. H. Clarke, of Rhode Island, on the Subject of Intervention
Date: 1852-02-09

Title: St. Louis Directory of Charitable, Philanthropic, and Humane Societies, 1902
Date: 1902
Description: Presenting a brief statement of the special work, location, officers and necessities of the most prominent of such institutions; with a mention of such other organizations as look to public for support. A hand-book for charity workers and a ready reference book for the benevolent public., The digitization of this directory was made possible through the support of the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by the Missouri State Library, a division of the Office of the Secretary of State.

Title: Temperance Tract No. 1: An Address to the People of Ohio
Date: 1852-10-20
Description: Tract written in support of a proposed law banning the manufacture, sale, and possession of liquor in Ohio.

Title: The War With Mexico
Date: 1848-02-09
Description: Speech of Hon. J.H. Thomas of Tennessee in the House of Representatives. In Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union, on the Bill to Authroize a Loan Not Exceeding Eighteen Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars.

Title: Speech of William H. Seward
Date: 1854-05-26
Description: Speech to the President of the Senate of the United States

Title: An Inaugural Dissertation on the Sanguinaria Canadensis of Linnaeus
Date: 1822-04-02
Description: Dissertation on Sanguinaria Canadensis (Blood Root) Submitted to the Public Examination of the Trustees of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the University of the State of New York

Title: Address to the People of the State of Missouri
Date: 1840-05
Description: An address describing the differences between duties of a king and duties of a president, as well as the benefits of limiting presidential terms and the state of the Whig party at the time of publication.

Title: The Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railroad Company to the Farmers' Loan & Trust Company and W. H. H. Miller
Date: 1899-08-01

Title: Minutes of the Seventh Annual Session of the Saline Regular Baptist Association
Date: 1843-09
Description: Held at Mine Creek Church, Hempstead County, Arkansas

Title: Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Session of the Northern Association of United Baptists
Date: 1842-10
Description: Convened at Zion Hill Meeting House, Anderson County, Tennessee

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