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

Title: M-172: John O'Fallon Letter
Date: 1828-05-02
Description: One letter, dated May 2, 1828, to the Honorable James Barbour, regarding the recommendation of Thomas McNight for the appointment of superintendent of the Upper Lead Mines.

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: Construction of Cape Girardeau Bridge
Date: 1927
Description: Plan view of cofferdam for Pier No. 3. Placing concrete seal for caisson; concrete chute and material lock in upper part of picture. Man lock near center of cofferdam.

Title: The Emigrants.

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: Street Scene in Cairo, Illinois and Government Auction on the Levee At Cairo, Illinois
Date: 1866-04-28
Description: Passing along the levee at Cairo, with its dust, filth, and obtrusive drinking-saloons, gaping wide open for victims to trash within, ti would appear to a stranger, from the great number of such places, that the people of Cairo had powers not accorded elsewhere to ordinary mortals of resisting the effects of 'tangle-leg,' 'red-eye,' 'twist-knee,' and other brands peculiar to the locality. Outside of each place are gathered a knot of hard-looking fellows. There is a suspicious air of 'lying-in-wait' common to these frequenters of the levee which is not calculated to inspire confidence in a stranger.

Title: Construction of Cape Girardeau Bridge
Date: 1927
Description: Driving steel sheet piling for cofferdam - Pier No. 5

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

Title: Cyclone View, May 27,1896
Date: 1896-05-27
Description: The debris and structural damage of a barn, building, and wagon caused by a tornado on May 27,1896 in St. Louis, Missouri,

Title: J. E. Trudeau
Date: 1889
Description: The J. E. Trudeau just after launching at the Howard Shipyards of Jeffersonville, Indiana for the New Orleans and Bayou trade. The Trudeau ran on Bayous Teche and Bouef. The J. E. Trudeau was built in 1889 at Jeffersonville, Indiana. Her dimensions were:- 162 x 30 x 4 feet; 242 tons. She ran the New Orleans - Black and Ouchita River trades. About 3:00 P. M., on April 10, 1905, she backed out into

Title: Delta Queen
Description: Photograph taken of the bow of the steamboat DELTA QUEEN. Photograph by Andrew J. Lodder, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Title: Pargoud
Description: The Pargoud was a large cotton carrier built at Jeffersonville, Indiana, in 1884. Her dimensions were: - 242 x 43 x 8 feet; 712 tons, net and gross. She ran the New Orleans and Greenville trade. In 1886 Captain J. W. Carlton was master. Captain Mike Corbine was in command in 1897.

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