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Title: Deckhand at Rest On the Natchez
Description: Deckhand on his time off (This one is just to make you laugh, for it is very typical.) M. Rhoads.

Title: Tennessee Bill of Lading
Date: 1898-09-16
Description: Bill of lading for shipment on the steamboat Tennessee for delivery of goods to Jim White at Clifton, Tennessee. Goods were transported from Paducah, Kentucky, September 16, 1898. M. Michael & Bro. Co., wholesale harness and sadlery, buggies, carts, etc.

Title: Cincinnati, Ohio Public Landing
Date: 1893-01-24
Description: Public Landing from Suspension Bridge, Cincinnati, O. Jan. 24, 1893. #1027.

Title: Sunshine Bill of Lading
Date: 1898-09-13
Description: Bill of lading for shipment on the steamboat Sunshine for delivery of 1 box of saddlery to W. H. Huffman at Caruthersville, Missouri. Goods were transported from Paducah, Kentucky, September 13, 1898. M. Michael & Bro. Co., wholesale harness and sadlery, buggies, carts, etc.

Title: Ohio River, Dredging at Mill Creek Bar
Date: 1893-06-29
Description: #1063, June 29, 1893. OHIO RIVER, Dredging at Mill Creek Bar. 140 miles from Pittsburg.
Dredges OHIO and OSWEGO at work in the river.

Title: Capitol
Date: 1924-12-19
Description: Display of presents for My Lady's Boudoir. Wed Mar 12-19-24.

Title: Tow Chains and Ratchets
Description: 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 These, with other modern improvements, have, in part, been replaced by chains or cables with ratchet pulling jacks for tightening or reducing \"slack\".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.

Title: Minutes of the Strait Creek Regular Baptist Association
Date: 1836-08
Description: Held with New Market Church, August 27, 28, 29, 1836, Highland County, Ohio

Title: U. S. Snagboat, E. A. Woodruff at Mariman's Bar
Date: 1889-06-28
Description: With crew on deck. June 28, 1889. #723.

Title: Johnson's Missouri and Kansas
Date: 1864
Description: 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.

Title: Minutes of the Third Annual Meeting of the Red River Regular Baptist Association
Date: 1851-09
Description: Held with Mine Creek Church, Hempstead County, Arkansas

Title: Proceedings at the Seventeenth Anniversary of the Nolachucky Association of United Baptists
Date: 1844-09-04
Description: Held at Blackwell's Branch Church, Grainger County, East Tenneessee

Title: Lift span on highway bridge, lower Illinois River
Date: 1940
Description: View of the lift span from the deck of Golden Eagle.

Title: Lake Pepin
Description: Grand - Spirit - Tables (Lake Pepin)

Title: Katie, Cabin
Description: The negro roustabouts had a song about the Katie called; - "The Katie Looks Good to Me."

Title: Minutes of the Second Anniversary of the White River Baptist Association
Date: 1842-09
Description: Held with Mount Pleasant Church, Izard County, State of Arkansas

Title: African American Boy
Date: 1940
Description: Cairo, Illinois 1940.

Title: Fourth Inter-state Collegiate Oratorical Contest
Description: 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.

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

Title: Remarks of the Hon. J. T. Hughes, of Clinton, Co.
Date: 1855-01-29
Description: A speech on the issues of partisanship in the United States and the effects of it on a recent senatorial election.

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