branding block

Search results

draggable directories

X

Mercantile Library Special Collections Directory

Pott Library Special Collections Directory

Barriger Library Special Collections Directory

(21 - 40 of 45)

Pages

Title: Uncle Sam
Description: The Uncle Sam was originally constructed as the Jacob Richtman at Sterling Island, Missouri in 1898. Her dimensions were:- 160 x 32 x 5 feet; 469 tons. She had two boilers and her engines were 14 inches with a 6-foot stroke. She was a sternwheel packet. On April 17, 1903 while the Jacob Richtman was descending the Mississippi River with two loaded barges and a log raft in town she struck a span

Title: Golden Eagle
Date: 1947
Description: Clearing channel of Wreckage from the GOLDEN EAGLE by the U S Amry Corps of Engineers.

Title: River Queen
Description: RIVER QUEEN sunk at Saint Louis, Missouri, Dec. 2, 1967. Formerly the CAPE GIRARDEAU and GORDON C. GREENE. Last packet boat built at Howard Shipyards (b. 1923). Looking south towards Eads Bridge.

Title: River Queen
Description: RIVER QUEEN sunk at Saint Louis, Missouri, Dec. 2, 1967. Formerly the CAPE GIRARDEAU and GORDON C. GREENE. Last packet boat built at Howard Shipyards (b. 1923). View from Laclede's Landing.

Title: Fred Swain
Date: 1909-08-20
Description: The Fred Swain was built at Stillwater, Minnesota in 1900. She was a sidewheeler with no texas. Her dimensions were:- 142 x 28.3 x 4.5 feet; tonnage, gross and net, 124 tons. She operated mostly on the Illinois River around Peoria. On August 20, 1909, she burned to the water's edge at Peoria, Illinois; fifty-eight persons were aboard but no lives lost.

Title: Burning of the steamboats "Grand Republic" and "Carondelet" at St. Louis, September 19
Description: This lithograph illustrated the destruction of the steamboats "Grand Republic" and "Carondelet" from September 19, 1877 when the steamboats caught fire and burned to the shore. The boats were shown shrouded in smoke and engulfed in flames as men rushed back and forth along the shore in an attempt to extinguish the fire.

Title: Jim Wood
Date: 1917
Description: Photograph of steamer JIM WOOD run aground at Dam 33 near Maysville, Kentucky.

Title: Bluff City
Date: 1897
Description: In the struggle of the packet boats against rail competition the Anchor Line put up a bold fight. To reduce operating expenses they built the Bluff City, the only stern-wheeler the Anchor Line ever built. She came out new in October 1896, built at Jeffersonville, Indiana. But fate was against her as she lasted but one year. On November 18, 1897 she caught fire at Chester, Illinois on the

Title: The Waterways Journal, Volume 22, Number 7
Date: 1909-05-15,
Description: Vol. XXII, No. 7. Georgia Lee sinks. Tennesse River freight rates. Deep Waterway Convention.

Title: The Waterways Journal, Volume 22, Number 24
Date: 1909-09-11,
Description: Vol. XXII, No. 24. Boat Lines Request Support: Affirms Senator Burton's Statement That People Do Not Utilize Present Depth of Water-Steamboats Begging For Business. U. S. Dredge Engineer Drowned. New Machinery Being Built. The St. Charles (MO.) Boat Races. Gracey Childers Burns to Water's Edge. Hoosier Boy Wins Again.

Title: River Queen
Description: RIVER QUEEN sunk at Saint Louis, Missouri, Dec. 2, 1967. Formerly the CAPE GIRARDEAU and GORDON C. GREENE. Last packet boat built at Howard Shipyards (b. 1923). Looking north.

Title: River Queen
Description: RIVER QUEEN sunk at Saint Louis, Missouri, Dec. 2, 1967. Formerly the CAPE GIRARDEAU and GORDON C. GREENE. Last packet boat built at Howard Shipyards (b. 1923). Photo by Bob Seals.

Title: The Sinking of The Golden Eagle
Description: This picture album was made by Marga Sachse with her photographs taken at the sinking of the Golden Eagle. Marga and other members put more albums together for GE Club members. This one was given to the GE Rive Museum from Oliver Parmely's children after he passed on Dec. 1989.

Title: The Waterways Journal, Volume 22, Number 26
Date: 1909-09-25,
Description: Vol. XXII. No. 26. Belle of the Bends Sunk. Harbor No. 28 Doing Well. Commercial Movements On Rivers And Canals: Report of the Department of Commerce and Labor for the Month of July, 1907, 1908, and 1909.

Title: MONTANA and T.F. ECKERT
Date: 1884
Description: Photograph of the wreck of the MONTANA. Steamer T.F. ECKERT and wreck of MONTANA at St. Charles, MO.

Title: Delta Queen
Description: Photograph of pilot and unknown child in the pilothouse of the steamboat DELTA QUEEN. “Pilot Ware in Pilot House while docked in Hannibal. Note Official Number of ship above windshield. Same as posted in stairwell in engine room. This was about 5:30 PM Saturday on the day of accident. / 1980.”

Title: JO HORTON FALL
Date: 1925
Description: Photo. Aground on Billtown Bar, Tenn., on the Cumberland.

Title: Terrific Fire Among the Steamers In the Harbor of St. Louis, Mo.
Date: 1856-07-26
Description: , although a very old craft, was still in fair condition, and was valued at about $20,000. She, years ago, cost $60,000, but had passed the best of her days, and was not worth more yesterday at the outside than the above amount. The Saranak No. 2 was also an old steamboat, not worth more than about $6000. The St. Clair was an old boat, valued at about $10,000. The total amount of property destroyed would

Title: Island Queen
Date: 1947-09-09
Description: Burning Excursion Str. ISLAND QUEEN after explosion at a Pittsburgh wharf September 1947. Fuel tanks exploded resulting in the destruction of the boat and loss of 19 lives.

Title: Henry M. Stanley
Date: 1907-09-03
Description: Wreck of Str. Henry M. Stanley. Gallipolis, O. 9/3/07

Pages

Mercantile Library Collections Directory

Mercantile Special Collections Directory

Barriger Library Collections Directory

Barriger Special Collections Directory

Pott Library Collections Directory

Pott Special Collections Directory