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Title: Letter from Captain Enos B. Moore About Boat Scheduling With Ice 1858
Date: 1858-12-15
Description: Letter from Enos B. Moore to William, sent from about fifty miles south of Memphis. He mentioned that Captain Gould, the superintendent of the line, was on board and stated the boats would not try to make their regular time until after the ice cleared. Their schedules had run out and other boats were laying up. He planned to spend three days in St. Louis to do some sheet iron work and would write again from Memphis.

Title: Letter from Captain Enos B. Moore to His Brother Discussing Business
Date: 08-28
Description: Letter from Enos B. Moore to his brother discussing business. He mentioned being on the steamboat Prentiss. He referred to Captain Jo Brown not being able to dock when he previously travelled. He mentioned Captain Titus Brown was there to help load luggage and move it. The fare was going up from Vicksburg to Cairo or St. Louis.

Title: P-086 Frank Fiske Missouri River Photograph Album
Date: 1918-06
Description: Dakota on June 16, 1918 and arrived in St. Louis on July 2. The album contains 100 silver gelatin photographs that capture largely undocumented aspects of life along one of America's great western rivers. Each image provides viewers the intimate feeling of standing on the deck of the Scarab, alongside Fiske, as he makes his journey. The album includes views of the Scarab and the passing boats, Missouri

Title: Lemasson or Henry Lewis, St. Louis Riverfront after the Great Fire, 1849
Date: 1849
Description: Panoramic watercolor painting depicts the aftermath of a fire that destroyed much of the St. Louis riverfront in 1849, showing burned out buildings, the wreckage of steamboats and damaged docks. Signed lower right "Lemasson" and inscribed lower margin "Locust St."

Title: Map of the Properties and Railway Terminals of the Wiggins Ferry Company
Date: 1897-03-30, 1897-03-30
Description: Maps showing railroads and ferry operations across the Mississippi River between East St. Louis, Illinois and St. Louis, Missouri.

Title: P-084: Captain Enos B. Moore Diaries and Correspondence
Date: 1853
Description: This collection of letters and diaries of Captain Enos B. Moore preserves a turbulent time in US and river history, the years leading up to and through the Civil War. Moore piloted steamboats on the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers for 45 years, between 1844-1889. The letters date from 1853 to 1865. The four diaries contain daily entries for years 1859, 1860, 1861, and 1865. Subjects include river

Title: Streckfus Family Photograph Album
Description: Early 20th century Streckfus family photograph album.

Title: P-103 Morse, William H. California Gold Rush Correspondence
Date: 1849-04-04
Description: This letter was written in 1849 by a forty-niner in St. Louis, one William H. Morse, to a friend back home in New England. He’s been in St. Louis for three weeks, the last stop on the frontier, as he prepares to embark on a journey westward on the overland trail, making his way to California in search of gold. He describes his 35 day trip thus far, from an unnamed town in the northeast, south

Title: P-098 Letter from Samuel to his Parents December 1, 1847
Date: 1847-12-01

Title: P-025 Bruckner, Edward Narrative About Breaking of 1910 Ice Gorge at St. Louis
Description: This narrative was written by Edward Thomas Bruckner, a mate aboard the steamer Republic, on January 15, 1910. In it, he details the breaking of the 1910 ice gorge at St. Louis. The damage caused by this event would forever reshape river commerce on the Mississippi. Entire fleets were destroyed and companies collapsed, paving the way for new names in the river trade.

Title: P-098 Rothgeb, Samuel Correspondence Collection
Date: 1847
Description: Two letters written by Samuel Rothgeb to his parents in 1847. Rothgeb was a young man just off the farm when he took up a position as a merchant and cook aboard a flatboat plying the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers at the twilight of the flatboat age. His letters chronicle storms, river trade, daily rafting life, and more.

Title: P-098 Letter from Samuel to his Parents December 11, 1847
Date: 1847-12-11

Title: P-094 Milroy, Henry Bruce Diary
Date: 1836
Description: This diary documents Rebecca and Henry Bruce Milroy’s convalescent journey from Washington County, Indiana to Natchez Mississippi, as well as Henry’s return trip after his wife’s death. The 42 page diary includes near daily entries from October 26, 1836 to January 1, 1837. The author describes several towns they pass through, places they stay, steamboats they take passage aboard, people they

Title: Steamboat R.C. Gunter
Description: Photograph of the steamboat R.C. Gunter. The R.C. Gunter was a sternwheel packet built at Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1886 for the Chattanooga and Decatur Packet Company. R.C. Gunter was the owner and master. By 1896 the boat had been sold to the St. Louis, Harden and Hempsville Packet Company, and then sold again to the Eagle Packet Company a year later in 1901. The latter company ran the boat one

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Ridge Road
Date: 1958-06-18, 1958-11-23
Description: "Ridge Road in the county's 147-acre historical park at Jefferson Barracks leads to several old buildings being restored and to a bluff view of the Mississippi River."

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