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Title: J. D. Ayers
Description: The J. D. Ayers is a steel hull, sternwheel towboat. She was built by the Midland Barge Company in 1929 at Midland, Pennsylvania. Her dimensions are: 151 x 34.7 x 6 feet. She has 4 boilers of the return flue type. The condensing engines are 15's - 30's with a seven foot stroke; 750 horsepower. The paddle wheel is ... - 4\" in diameter by 23 feet long working 13 buckets with a ... -inch dip. The

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: Wabash-Serving St. Louis Industries
Date: 1956-08, 1856-08
Description: Reverse side of map from the Wabash Railroad Company

Title: City of Madison
Date: 1894-06-18
Description: Built in 1882 at Madison, Ind. 265 x 42.1 x 6.3.

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: 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: Commodore
Description: Hudson River excursion Commodore.

Title: Frank Gilmore
Description: The Frank Gilmore was an old time Pittsburgh towboat of the pool boat type or with the pilot house set down on her boiler deck ahead of the cabin. She was built at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1883. Her dimensions were:- 135 x 24.3 x 4.3 feet. Tonnage: 243 gross; 160, net tons. She collided with the Andrew Axton on the Monongahela River above Elizabeth, Pennsylvania on November 23, 1903. A flat in

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: Map Showing Existing Track Layout in Downtown St. Louis
Date: 1930-03
Description: From: Report of the Transportation Survey Commission of the City of St. Louis / submitted to the Board of Aldermen.

Title: Dave Wood
Description: The Dave Wood was built in 1874 as the Joseph Warne at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Later when taken into the Wood fleet she was renamed the Dave Wood. Her dimensions were:- 130.8 x 22.4 x 4.0 feet. Tonnage: gross and net, 144 tons. In the 1890s she was operating as a Pittsburgh pool boat. On January 19th, 1909, she was stranded at Dam No. 4 on the Ohio River.

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: Index Sheet
Date: 1887-1888
Description: Index of plates numbers 1 - 27. Also contains a Table of Distances in Miles by Steamboat Channel, from St. Paul to St. Louis and points in between.

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.

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