Illustration of St. Louis levee along North Market Street. Steamboats docked in foreground. Warehouses visible behind steamboats. Manufacturing and office buildings visible in background.
Tows comprised of barges were lashed together by manila ropes called \"lines\" in the early days of towboating. These, with other modern improvements, have, in part, been replaced by chains or cables with ratchet pulling jacks for tightening or reducing \"slack\". Ratchet pulling jacks were originally designed for steamboat and river work in hitching tows, fastening rafts, floats, etc. However, they have been so improved that they are now being extensively used in building construction and shipbuilding for fastening and holding in place the skeleton steel framework, derricks, masts, forms, etc. In railroad work they have proven a valuable tool for wrecking crews. In quarries and coal mines for fastening either permanent or temporary guys.
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.
A lithograph of the interior of the Mercantile Library Hall in St. Louis, Missouri. A crowd is gathered to watch the Fourth Inter-state Collegiate Oratorical Contest. The figures on the stage stand beneath a very large pipe organ. Based on a sketch by F. J. Howell.
Three separate photographs of the steamboats DAKOTAH, MONTANA, and WYOMING. “Designed by Capt. John Todd, these three great boats were the supreme achievements as big carriers on shallow water. They arrived on the Missouri about 12 years to late to reap the golden harvest in the “Mountain Trade”. On a favorable trip they could have made easily $100,000 on the trip to Fort Benton, Montana. But the
Begun and held with the Union Church in Buchanan County -- inscription on front page: "A different body from 'Platte River United Baptists.' They call themselves 'Regular' but mean: anti [illegible]
Silas Wright. Raft boat on Upper Mississippi. The Silas Wright was built at Eau Claire, Wisconsin, during the winter of 1866-67. Her hull was 106 feet long, 20 feet beam and 3 feet depth of hold; 91.51 tons. She was owned by Ingram and Kennedy and operated during 1867 as a packet between Read's Landing, Minnesota, on the Mississippi River, and Eau Claire, Wisconsin, about 70 miles above the mouth
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
Circa 1904 map of Saint Louis, Missouri by the Leipzig firm Wagner and Debes. Shows sight of Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904 (1904 World's Fair).