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Title: Spread Eagle and Annie Spils of St. Louis
Description: The last Spread Eagle, third, at Merchants Bridge, St. Louis. In foreground is the boat Annie Spils of St. Louis.

Title: YELLOW-STONE and KATE SWINNEY
Description: Photograph of the flyers for the Missouri River Passenger Packet on YELLOW-STONE (D.N. Greenleaf, master) and for the Regular Passenger Packet for Lexington, Liberty, Weston, & St. Joseph, Missouri River on the steam boat KATE SWINNEY (P.M. Chouteau, master).

Title: BALD EAGLE
Description: This is the boat I ride. It is the regular Illinois River Packet. After about the first of April, we will make two trips a week from St. Louis to Peoria. Tell May that it would be nice if she could make a trip, with us, on her honeymoon.

Title: Northern Line Steamers
Description: Photo advertisement for the Northern Line. Northerner, Canada, Metropolitan, Sucker State, Pembina, W. L. Ewing, Gray Eagle, Northern Light, Itasca, Key City, War Eagle, Hawkeye State.

Title: Stacker Lee, Lee Line Packet - St. Louis to Memphis
Description: The Stacker Lee was built at Jeffersonville, Indiana in 1902. Her dimensions were:- 225.5 x 45.5 x 6.6 feet; tonnage, 710. She had four boilers (six flues each)40 inches in diameter and 22 feet long. Her engines were of two cylinders, each 18 inches in diameter with a nine-foot stroke. She was owned by the Lee Line of Memphis, Tennessee and ran the St. Louis-Memphis trade. On November 19, 1907

Title: Peoria
Date: 191-
Description: Eagle Packet Co. Built 1914. Lost in ice gorge Tenn River Jan 1918.

Title: Valley Queen
Description: The Valley Queen was built at Jeffersonville, Indiana, in 1889 for Captain Geo. W. Rea and others. Her hull was 196.5 feet by 36 feet by 5.5 feet. She had two boilers, each 46 inches by 28 feet. Her machinery came from the La Belle and had cylanders 20.5 inches in diameter with 6.5-foot strock. She had cotton guards and carried 900 tons. This was a New Orleans-Shreveport packet from 1889 to 1894

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: I. C. Woodward
Description: This was the first Monongahela River packet to have a texas; she came out new in July, 1898. Built at Brownsville, Pennsylvania and was 164 x 42 x 5. She had 50 cabin staterooms and additional space in her texas for passengers. She ran regularly on the Monongahela River. In September, 1902 she ran into the tow of the Twilight at 11:00 P.M. one night and sank about 1000 feet above Redstone Creek

Title: Gordon C. Greene
Description: Photograph of the stern and sternwheel of the Gordon C. Greene.

Title: Buck Elk Bill of Lading
Date: 1905-12-04
Description: Receipt of Shipping for Mr. A. Langenberg, for delivery of good aboard the Str. BUCK ELK, signed by John Heckmann, clerk. Goods shipped include 5000 bricks, rope, and a skiff.

Title: City of Louisville
Description: Louisville and Cincinnati Packet Company. Nicknamed the \"Big Dick\"

Title: Southland
Description: The Southland was originally built as the Nashville at Jeffersonville, Indiana in 1910. Her dimensions were:- 155 x 34 x 4.0 feet; tonnage: gross, 251; net, 116 tons. She had 200 horse power. She ran in the Paducah and Nashville trade but finally dropped out in June 1918 on account of scarcity of labor and high price of coal. The Nashville was the first packet to pass through the new lock in the

Title: Southland
Description: The Southland was originally built as the Nashville at Jeffersonville, Indiana in 1910. Her dimensions were:- 155 x 34 x 4.0 feet; tonnage: gross, 251; net, 116 tons. She had 200 horse power. She ran in the Paducah and Nashville trade but finally dropped out in June 1918 on account of scarcity of labor and high price of coal. The Nashville was the first packet to pass through the new lock in the

Title: America
Description: The America was built at Jeffersonville, Indiana, in 1898 for Captain L. V. Cooley. She was 200 x 38 x 6.5 feet. The America ran out of New Orleans in the cotton trades and was the last surviving sternwheel cotton packet when dismantled.

Title: St. Louis Riverfront
Date: 1865
Description: Panoramic photograph of St. Louis, Missouri, 1865. Identifiable steamboats (from left to right) are: EDWARD WALSH, WARSAW, U. S. Mail Line C. E. KILLMAN, SULTANA, and EMPRESS. The Old Courthouse rises above the rest of the skyline.

Title: A. C. Donnally
Description: Side-wheel packet A. C. Donnally at loading dock. This steamer ran Cincinnati to New Orleans before it burned on the Missouri shore just south of Cairo in February 1879.

Title: A. D. Allen
Description: Sternwheeler A. D. Allen docked.

Title: A. D. Allen
Description: Sternwheeler A. D. Allen at port. Crew is visible on deck.

Title: A. D. Allen
Description: Sternwheeler A. D. Allen at Lock 3 on the Arkansas River.

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