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Title: Capitol
Date: 1939-06
Description: Excursion steamer CAPITOL underway.

Title: Capitol
Description: Elks' Excursion Boat, Hudson, Wis. F383.

Title: Admiral Construction
Description: P11-3-1-40-8

Title: Capitol Kids Party
Date: 1922-01-18
Description: Capitol Kids Party at New Orleans Jan- 18-1922

Title: Capitol, Entrance
Date: 1929-02-08
Description: Close-up of Entrance to Capitol. 2/8/29 N.O. La.

Title: Map 'A': Time Zones for Street Car and Feeder Bus Lines Based on Service and Routing
Date: 1930
Description: Accompanying report to the transportation survey commission of St. Louis., From: Report of the Transportation Survey Commission of the City of St. Louis / submitted to the Board of Aldermen.

Title: John Gilbert Bill of Lading
Description: Bill of Lading from the Evansville, Paducah & Tennessee River Packet Company for transport of 108 tons of #1 pig iron at $2.00/ton, for the Lagrange Iron Company from La Grange to St. Louis, Missouri. February 19, 1887.

Title: Admiral Construction
Description: P11-3-1-40-8

Title: Admiral
Description: Aerial photograph of the Admiral steamboat traveling down a river. Passengers can be seen on the top deck.

Title: Capitol, Dock Work
Description: Workers leaving work on boat

Title: City of Louisville, Roof Bell
Description: Stories are legion concerning the large bell in the center of the hurricane forward deck of the pilot house. The pealing and ringing of these bells, particularly packets, connote richness of tone, clarity of sound, lavishness of unstinted expenditure, silver used in their casting, and combined melody with harmony. Steamboatmen attached a great deal of sentiment with these bells and they were passed on from one boat to another at the end of a steamer's carreer. The bell of the Valley Belle came from the Science. That of the Fannie Dugan went to the City of Jacksonville... Great expense was involved in the casting of many of these roof bells and many were ornate in design. There was a lot of silver mixed in the metal of the big bell on the Chalmette to enhance it's tonal qualities. It was highly finished and an artistic decorative ornamentation extended entirely around it near the bottom. It is said that the silver toned qualities of the Hudson's bell was ruined after she was destroyed by fire at Cincinnati. Tapping the roof bell by the captain or mate as a packet approached a landing gradually fell into disuse. But the use of the roof bell at the time of departure still continues. Tapping the roof bell often caused the packet's cabin to even vibrate. Captain William Loyd had a unique system in ringing out the Columbia on the Upper Ohio...

Title: Capitol, Wheel Rebuilding
Description: Wheel shaft in place, man in background

Title: Capitol Kids Party
Date: 1922-91-18
Description: Capitol Kids Party at New Orleans Jan-18-1922

Title: Capitol
Description: Excursion steamer CAPITOL loading passengers.

Title: Capitol - 4th deck
Description: Passengers aboard the fourth deck of the excursion steamer CAPITOL.

Title: Fiala and Haren's New Sectional Map of the State of Missouri
Date: 1861
Description: Gives counties, U.S. land districts, roads, and mines. "Entered according to an act of Congress in the year of 1860, by Gray & Crawford... of the Southern District, of Mo."

Title: President Interior
Description: Photograph of the empty ballroom of the President steamboat., p11-3-3-57-6

Title: Quincy
Date: 1906-07
Description: The Quincy sunk near Trempeleau, Wis., on the Mississippi River.

Title: Capitol, Wheel Rebuilding
Date: 1929
Description: close-up of wheels parts "knuckle" and batton

Title: Capitol, Wheel Rebuilding
Description: Stern of boat in water with partial wheel

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