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Title: Delta Queen
Description: Photograph of passengers on board the DELTA QUEEN looking at the engineer's desk and the gauge panel.

Title: Golden Eagle
Description: Photograph of the GOLDEN EAGLE.

Title: EMMA at Bowling Green, KY.
Description: Bowling Green, KY. B.G. Ice and Cold Storage Co. Str. EMMA in foreground. 11-22-1962 Steamer Emma – 1901-1923 at Bowling Green Ky. on Barren River head of navigation. In 1924 she was renamed M.C. Clay. Built at Evansville Ind. In 1901, size 85’x22’x3.9. She had two boilers, western river type engines were – 10”x4½’ stroke slide value poppet cut-off. She towed, RR cross ties, coal, and asphalt

Title: Mark Twain
Date: 1953-05-13
Description: Steamer (Mark Twain), one of the few remaining stern wheel steam vessels, passing service base.

Title: Watching the lock walls rise beside them
Date: 1972-07
Description: Watching the lock walls rise beside them, the Delta Queen's passengers are all well aware that they are experiencing the final act in a chapter of American history. How sad to think that future generations may well be deprived of this unique mode of travel and escape from our society's breakneck pace.

Title: The Delta Queen approaches Lock 26 at Alton
Date: 1972-07
Description: The Delta Queen approaches Lock 26 at Alton, downbound on her last trip before being taken out of overnight passenger service. The Queen made a stately and forlorn appearance as she eased into the locks, heightened by the melancholy mood of a still early morning haze.

Title: Admiral Captain's Office
Date: 1967-08
Description: Photograph of female passenger Pat Flanagan approaching the Captain's office window on the Admiral steamboat with Slick Flanagan on the left.

Title: Queen City
Description: The Queen City, midstream and understeam.

Title: Left Bank of Pilot Canal
Date: 1952-10-02
Description: Showing left bank of Pilot Canal as dredge backs out after completing the first cut. On left bridge is (Miller) and wife. Kansas City District, diversion channel.

Title: Iron Age
Description: The Iron Age was built for the Gray's Iron Line at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1880. Her dimensions were: - 176 x 38 x 5.5 feet. Tonnage, gross and net, 385 tons. She towed coal south from Pittsburgh and was the first towboat to leave that place with an electric headlight.

Title: Capitol - 4th deck
Description: Three men with Old Comiskey Brand whiskey on board the lower deck of the excursion steamer CAPITOL. Unnamed officer to their right.

Title: Steam Harbor Tug
Date: 1927
Description: Steam Harbor Tug at full steam during the Great Flood of 1927.

Title: CAPE GIRARDEAU
Description: Photograph of steamer CAPE GIRARDEAU at wharfboat.

Title: Portland
Date: 1993
Description: John Shipley's wife in pilot house of the PORTLAND.

Title: Deckhands, U. S. Sergeant Floyd
Description: Deckhands tightening headline with capstan.

Title: JOHN J. BOHLKEN
Description: John J. Bohlken. Charlie Germann with fish.

Title: Saint Louis Riverfront
Description: Boats lined up along the St. Louis levee. Union Elevator visible on the Illinois shore. Boats are, from left to right, unnamed, the snagboat C. R. Suter, the showboat French's New Sensation, and a steamer ----lyde. Date range of photograph could be from 1888 to about 1910.

Title: Joseph P. Williams
Description: Photograph of the steamer JOSEPH P. WILLIAMS

Title: Delta Queen
Description: Photograph of the wheel and waves with a shore line view as seen from the cabin deck of the steamboat DELTA QUEEN.

Title: Golden Eagle and Admiral
Description: Steamers GOLDEN EAGLE and the ADMIRAL at the Saint Louis riverfront.

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