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Title: Agricultural and Mechanical Fair
Date: 1871-10-14
Description: The Great Fair at St. Louis, -- A view of the grounds.

Title: Admiral Lido Deck
Description: p11-3-1-41-20

Title: Plan of Forest Park
Description: Plan of Forest Park in St. Louis, Missouri, about 1876. Scale 400 feet to 1 inch.

Title: Just Fishing
Date: 1939
Description: Tennesse River. Sheffield, Alabama. 1939.

Title: Steamer May Bryan!
Date: 1885
Description: This time table will be in force June 1st, 1885, until October 1st, 1885. There will be no ferrying done with skiff excepting on Sunday, unless some accident on account of boat. Will run until sundown, if called for. Washington Ferry Co. Frank Hoelscher, Master.

Title: D. H. Pike
Description: . Louis. Later she was sold to a contractor, used as a quarter boat and finally sank about 1934. There was a Bald Eagle that preceded this boat. She was built in 1879 at Madison, Indiana. She was 202.3 x 30 x 5.4 feet. She ran the St. Louis - Clarksville trade until 1895. During the cyclone of 1896 she broke loose, struck the middle pier of the Eads Bridge, St. Louis, Missouri, and sank.

Title: Cairo
Description: 175 x 50 x 6; 512 tons. Casemate 150' x 50' - 21/4\" plating. Torpedoed Yazoo River 1863. Sides 8' high - single wheel. 9 miles per hour. 13 guns mostly 6\" rifles.

Title: Virginia Stranded in Pomeroy Bend
Date: 1910
Description: The Virginia operated in the Pittsburgh-Cincinnatti trade along with the Keystone State, the Iron Queen, the Scotia, the Carrollton, the Hudson and the Queen City. She was owned by the Pittsburgh and Cincinnatti Packet Company. Her career seemed to have been a hectic one. In 1910 high water from the Kanawha River left her stranded up in a field a hundred yards from the river, high and dry in

Title: Virginia Sunk at Wellsville, Ohio
Description: Virginia steamboat sunk

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

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: Wild Wagoner
Description: The Wild Wagoner, a handsome sidewheeler, of the Civil War period was built in 1864 at the Knox boat yard of West Marietta, Ohio for the Cincinnati and Wheeling trade. She cost $155,000, a lot of money in those days and had a capacity of 700 tons. She was owned by Captain H. H. Drown of Marietta, Ohio and her dimensions were: 180 x 39 x 5.5 feet. She had three boilers and her engines were 25.5

Title: Queen City
Description: Steamer QUEEN CITY. Her wake of uniform mounds of water, curled at the top and falling forward.

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: Map of the Lands Granted to the Pacific Railroad Company in 1852
Date: 1856
Description: Map of the lands granted to the State of Missouri by Act of Congress June 10, 1852, and by Act of the Missouri Legislature December 25, 1852 to the Pacific Railroad Company to aid in the construction of a railroad from St. Louis to the Western Boundary of the State, South of the Osage river said road known as the Soutwestern Branch of the Pacific Railroad. Map accompanying the 1856 Sixth Annual

Title: Map of the Eighth Federal Reserve District
Description: St. Louis, the metropolis of the district is the home of the Mercantile Trust Company and Mercantile National Bank, both members of the Federal Reserve Bank system. The combined deposits of these two institutions aggregate $32,169,674.84., Statement of responsibility: The Federal Reserve Bank with special reference to District No. 8 : the resources and chief products of the district / compiled and issued by Mercantile Trust Company and Mercantile National Bank.

Title: Grand Era
Description: Seal and packaging of Fleischmann and Co.'s Compressed Yeast, featuring the steamer Grand Era.

Title: Chas P. Chouteau, Chas P. Chouteau landed at Natchez, Mississippi - December 4, 1878
Date: 1878
Description: Light on the River - August 18, 1880. The Steamer Chas. P. Chouteau, lying at the foot of Market street, attracted considerable attention along the levee last evening by its two electric lights, which shone forth with intense brightness. The Chouteau is the first steamer at this point on the Mississippi River to substitute an electric llight for the old fashioned pine-torch illuminators, and the

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: City of Baton Rouge
Description: City of Baton Rouge, snagged at the Louisville falls or at Hermitage, Louisiana, 1881 or 1899.

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