Picture of five city employees with protest signs. One reads "Cost of Living Increased Wages Must Advance." Another reads "Employees of the City of St. Louis Protest No Paybill Unfair"
Illustration of fishermen on the riverbank of the Mississippi at flood stage. House and men in a canoe in the background., From Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War.
Drawn, engraved & printed by J. M. Kershaw, 34 Second St. St. Louis. Kershaw’s plans shows in the border the great building occurring in St. Louis in the 1840’s, truly a frontier metropolis in the making.
Together With the Proceedings Had In Aid of the Objects of That Incorporation By the Carlinville Convention, And the Reports of the Engineer And Executive Committee of the Convention Upon the Practicability And Advantages of the Undertaking.
And of the Twelfth Annual Meeting of the New Jersey Baptist Education Society, Held in the Meeting House of the First Baptist Church at Plainfield, N. J.
The enclosed pictures were taken during August 1981 on the Beardstown Illinois waterfront showing typical river scenes with the usual amount of tugs and other equipment. The B&N RR bridge in its river mode. The stern-wheel river tug is a locally built boat, original builders and name still showing = LOGSDON = built sometime in the 1930s more details could be obtained. These pictures were taken