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Title: Steward and Cook Crew
Date: 1910
Description: River improvement work, U. S. Engineer Department. Establishment Island. Steward and Cooks crew in dining room of quarterboat.

Title: Grand Tower Dike and Revetment Work
Date: 1937-10-29
Description: October 29, 1937. - Closeup view of dredge spoil from Grafton. Note comparative size of boulders with hat.

Title: Betsy Ann, Betsy Ann - view of the cabin
Description: The Betsy Ann was built in 1899 at Dubuque, Iowa. The dimensions of her steel hull were:- 165 x 39 x 5.5 feet. Tonnage, gross and net, 295 tons. She was originally built for and ran in Natchez-Bayou Sara trade on the lower Mississippi River. About 8:30 A.M. on April 5, 1907, while enroute from Bayou Sara to Natchez, she was struck by a heavy wind near Fordoche Landing, which carried away her

Title: Charter, Constitution, By-Laws, and Rules and Regulations of the Mercantile Library Association of Baltimore
Date: 1851
Description: A compiled print of the founding documents - charter, constitution, by-laws, and rules of the Mercantile Library Association of Baltimore, Md.

Title: Pacific No. 2
Description: The Pacific No. 2 was built at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1893. Her dimensions were:- 176 x 32 x 5.0 feet. Tonnage, gross, 570; net, 416 tons. The Marmet Coal Company sold the machinery of the Lioness No. 2 to the Captains Joseph and Abe Gould who placed them in the Pacific No. 2. She was a coal towboat operating out of Pittsburg. On January 23, 1900, the Pacific ascending the Ohio River

Title: Grand Tower Dike and Revetment Work
Date: 1937-11-18
Description: November 18, 1937. - General upstream view of full cut from stern of Grafton at station 235-00.

Title: Peerless, An Alabama River Packet
Description: The Peerless, Captain Tom Barry, was an Alabama River packet running from Mobile to Montgomery, Alabama. She was built as the James T. Staples in 1908 at Mobile, Alabama and her net and gross tonnage was 365. The high pressure machinery was rated as 900 horsepower. The wooden hull was 200 x 40 x 5.1 feet. She carried a crew of 41. The Staples exploded her boilers on January 9, 1913, was partially

Title: Cape Girardeau Bridge Construction
Date: 1927-12-20
Description: Construction of Cape Girardeau Bridge 1927. Showing formwork on completed Pier No. 2. Concrete mixer-boat alongside.

Title: Portland
Date: 1993
Description: Woman in pilot house of "Portland"

Title: Belle of the Bends
Description: Liberty and she was shifted to Cairo. On September 27, 1919, the boat was sold by a U. S. Marshal to satisfy debts. She was purchased by Captain John F. Klein for a reported $1250. She was finally crossed out by the Inspectors and dismantled. The fine bell, containing $1500 in silver dollars, was bought by Captain Jeff Hicks for $650. He also bought the electric plant and shipped both to his home in

Title: M-002: John Jacob Astor Collection
Description: This collection contains two letters written by the New York fur trade executive John Jacob Astor to Charles Gratiot of St. Louis in July of 1811 and to Anthony Charles Cazenove in July of 1813. Both have been transcribed.

Title: Ferd Herold
Description: A steel hull packet built at Dubuque, Iowa in 1894. Her dimensions were 244.6 x 34 x 7.2 feet. She had four boilers and her engines were 20 inches in diameter with an 8-foot stroke. On her maiden trip she came out in charge of Captain Browlaski. In landing at Cape Girardeau, she came in too hard and punched a hole in her head on a rock. Although this filled her forward compartment she made the

Title: Minutes of the Stillwater Baptist Association
Date: 1822-09
Description: Held Agreeably to Appointment, at Wills Creek, Guernsey County, Ohio

Title: Grand Tower Dike and Revetment Work
Date: 1937-10-29
Description: October 29, 1937. - Looking downstream from pilot house of Grafton, about station 223-00. Note face of cut standing practically vertical, also water and sand running out gut about where dragline is located

Title: Belle of the Bends
Description: The engines were 18 inches by 8 feet, with three boilers made of Park Brothers' black diamond steel which were 44 inches by 28 feet, and were allowed 178 pounds of steam. There were six flues in each boiler. The wheels were 26 feet in diameter; the buckets 12 feet long and 26 inches wide. There was 14 feet between her main and boiler decks. The cabin was 13 feet wide in the clear, with 17 large

Title: James H.
Description: The James H. is a steel hull, twin-propellor towboat. She was built at Nashville, Tennessee in 1940 by the Nashville Bridge Company. This boat has Atlas Imperial Diesel engines which total 800 horse power. She is owned by the Walter G. Hougland Lines of Paducah, Kentucky.

Title: Minnesota
Description: The Minnesota is a steel hull, twin propeller towboat built at Stillwater, Minnesota in 1921. Her dimensions are:- 223.7 x 58 x 8.0 feet. She has triple expansion condensing engines, 16-3/4\" x 26-1/2\" x 31-1/2\" x 31-1/2\" by 22-inch stroke; 2400 horsepower are developed at 185 r. p. m. Water tube boilers with oil burners. She was originally built as a sternwheel towboat, one of a series of

Title: Potter
Date: 2008-12
Description: Potter on the river

Title: Sabrina
Description: The Sabrina was a small, sidwheel towboat built for the U. S. Engineers at Carondelet, Missouri in 1878. Her dimensions were: - 82.9 x 12.7 x 3.6 feet. Tonnage: gross, 30; net, 19 tons. She was used for towing on the Missouri River. Later he name was changed from the U. S. Sabrina to just plain Sabrina.

Title: Jesse K. Bell
Description: The Jesse K. Bell was built in 1879. Her dimensions were:- 220 x 41 x 7 feet. Captain Jesse K. Bell became president of the New Orleans National Bank and befriended Captain Dick Sinnot who built and owned her. Later Captain Sinnot was appointed Collector of the Port of New Orleans by President Cleveland and he then sold his boat to Captain George Washington Rea who ran her for several years and

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