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Title: U. S. Snagboat, E. A. Woodruff at Mariman's Bar
Date: 1889-06-28
Description: With crew on deck. June 28, 1889. #723.

Title: Johnson's Missouri and Kansas
Date: 1864
Description: Map of Missouri and Kansas, as well as portions of Iowa, Arkansas, and Illinois. Detailed map of counties and places, as well as roads. Includes insets titled: "Spearing fish", "Santa Fe from the Great Missouri Trail", and "Fire on the prairie.", From Johnson's new illustrated (steel plate) family atlas : with physical geography and with descriptions geographical, statistical and historical, including the latest federal census, a geographical index, and a chronological history of the Civil War in America / by Richard Swainson Fisher ... ; maps compiled and drawn, and engraved under the supervision of J.H. Colton and A.J. Johnson.

Title: Golden Eagle Cafe
Date: 1962-11, 1963-10-06
Description: Photograph of the outdoor courtyard of the Golden Eagle café, located in Gaslight Square.

Title: Report of the Commissioners of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum
Date: 1854-12-28
Description: First biennial report of the condition, budget, and treatment of pupils of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum of Missouri, presented in the state General Assembly, 1855.

Title: Proceedings at the Seventeenth Anniversary of the Nolachucky Association of United Baptists
Date: 1844-09-04
Description: Held at Blackwell's Branch Church, Grainger County, East Tenneessee

Title: Lift span on highway bridge, lower Illinois River
Date: 1940
Description: View of the lift span from the deck of Golden Eagle.

Title: Police Officer in Gaslight Square
Date: 1963-10-06
Description: Photograph of a child talking to a police officer near Gaslight Square.

Title: Lake Pepin
Description: Grand - Spirit - Tables (Lake Pepin)

Title: Katie, Cabin
Description: The negro roustabouts had a song about the Katie called; - "The Katie Looks Good to Me."

Title: Minutes of the Second Anniversary of the White River Baptist Association
Date: 1842-09
Description: Held with Mount Pleasant Church, Izard County, State of Arkansas

Title: African American Boy
Date: 1940
Description: Cairo, Illinois 1940.

Title: Fourth Inter-state Collegiate Oratorical Contest
Description: A lithograph of the interior of the Mercantile Library Hall in St. Louis, Missouri. A crowd is gathered to watch the Fourth Inter-state Collegiate Oratorical Contest. The figures on the stage stand beneath a very large pipe organ. Based on a sketch by F. J. Howell.

Title: Islands and Towheads
Date: 1940-07
Description: Islands and towheads in Illinois River above Kampsville, July 1940.

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

Title: Sounding
Description: U. S. Sergeant Floyd. Captain McIntyre pulls on a polished bass knob and a bell sounds somewhere below. A deckhand, equipped with a life belt of Mae West mode and hidden from view on the deck below, picks up an 18-foot pole marked with alternate black and white bands a foot wide and expertly pokes it toward the bottom. We are in 12 feet of water, or two fathoms, and his softly spoken \"Mark Twain

Title: Remarks of the Hon. J. T. Hughes, of Clinton, Co.
Date: 1855-01-29
Description: A speech on the issues of partisanship in the United States and the effects of it on a recent senatorial election.

Title: Minutes of the Platte River Association of Regular Baptists
Date: 1843-10
Description: Begun and held with the Union Church in Buchanan County -- inscription on front page: "A different body from 'Platte River United Baptists.' They call themselves 'Regular' but mean: anti [illegible]

Title: Map of Saint Louis
Date: 1989-02-01
Description: This 1898 map of the City of Saint Louis was created by the City Lighting Department.

Title: Flood at St. Louis, June 18, 1858
Date: 1858-06-18
Description: A photograph taken by Marine Co. documented the damage in St. Louis from a severe flood on June 18, 1858. The streets were completely covered in water and make-shift planks provided a safe walking platform for people to safely cross from boats to the semi-submerged buildings. Two people can be seen assessing the flood damage from the rooftop of the tallest building on the left of the photograph

Title: Silas Wright
Description: Silas Wright. Raft boat on Upper Mississippi. The Silas Wright was built at Eau Claire, Wisconsin, during the winter of 1866-67. Her hull was 106 feet long, 20 feet beam and 3 feet depth of hold; 91.51 tons. She was owned by Ingram and Kennedy and operated during 1867 as a packet between Read's Landing, Minnesota, on the Mississippi River, and Eau Claire, Wisconsin, about 70 miles above the mouth

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