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Title: Grand Tower Dike and Revetment Work
Date: 1937-11-14
Description: November 14, 1937. - Showing pipe line, graded bank, and bank as left by dredge Grafton.

Title: Grand Tower Dike and Revetment Work
Date: 1938-01-09
Description: Jan. 9, 1938. -- Upstream view over lumber barge showing Ste. Genevieve and dragline

Title: River Improvement Work
Date: 1911
Description: Construction of Brush Mattress - Bird's Point, Missouri.

Title: River Improvement Work
Date: 1911
Description: U. S. Engineer Department. Hydrographic party enroute to work.

Title: Beardstown, Illinois
Date: 1981-08
Description: 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

Title: 7th and Washington
Description: Pedestrians walking in the rain at 7th and Washington, looking east.

Title: J. D. Ayers
Description: Union Barge Line Corporation - Pittsburgh, Pa.

Title: Plan of Forest Park
Description: Plan of Forest Park in St. Louis, Missouri, about 1876. Scale 400 feet to 1 inch.

Title: Wrecked Dorris
Description: Photograph of Dorris automobile that has been in a wreck. An American flag has been tied between the headlamps., The Dorris Motor Car Company was founded and based in St. Louis.

Title: Welcome To St. Louis
Description: This photograph shows of a truck driving in the snow across the Free Bridge (now the MacArthur Bridge), into the city from Illinois. The exit is now near 6th Street., This is a wider view of another photograph in the collection.

Title: Mogul Sprinkling Truck
Description: St. Louis was the first city in the United States to use auto-sprinkling trucks like this. One of these Mogul trucks could sprinkle 22 miles of street from curb to curb in 11 hours.

Title: Jaccard Building Bell Tower
Description: This photograph shows a rooftop view of the domed bell tower at the top of the Jaccard Building. The Jaccard Building stood at the corner of Broadway and Locust Street, at 407 N. Broadway. In the distance there are several industrial buildings and smokestacks billowing streams of gray and white smoke.

Title: Grand Tower Dike and Revetment Work
Date: 1937-09-15
Description: September 15, 1937. - Dike No.79.2L before partial removal. "X" marks shore end of portion removed. Grand Tower Pile Dike and Revetment Contract, 1937-38: Woods Brothers Construction Company. Note: Photographs could not be taken at regular intervals because of adverse weather conditions.

Title: Golden Eagle
Description: Photograph of Steamer GOLDEN EAGLE moving through locks. Photo by Dick Lemen.

Title: Horse And Hole
Description: Photograph of a horse either being lowered into or lifted out of a hole in a city street. A ladder has been lowered into the hole, several men are in the foreground directing the block and tackle. A crowd of observers surrounds the work.

Title: Falls City
Description: The Falls City was built at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1898 for the Louisville and Kentucky River trade. Her dimensions were:- 132 x 32.6 x 6 feet; 235 tons. She was crredited with 200 horsepower. On may 25, 1898 she collided with the Mary Lacey towing a fleet of empty barges on the Kentucky River. Damages amounted to $250. On December 18, 1898, James A. Hughes, the chief enginer in charge permitted

Title: Mat Building
Description: Photograph of John C. DeBolt, Corps of Engineers. Photo 2 of series.

Title: Grand Tower Dike and Revetment Work
Description: Loading dock, Tobin's Quarry. "Devils Bake Oven" or "Oven Rock" in backgound.

Title: St. Louis Lunch Room

Title: Ice, Coal and Wood
Description: Note the top of the front facade central spire visible above the roof line, this was removed in 1936.

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