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Title: Sainte Genevieve and William H. Black
Date: 1952-10-01
Description: The dredges (Ste. Genevieve) and (William H. Black) as they dredge opposite each other with 100 feet reamining to mark completion of the canal to divert the river channel. An Earth wall 50 feet thick will not be dredged. It will be blasted out October 4, 1052. Dredges now at stations 6+00' and 7+00'. Kansas City District, channel diversion.

Title: LAKE QUEEN
Description: Photograph of the LAKE QUEEN

Title: Mississippi river flood at New Madrid, Missouri, 1913, Frisco Depot
Date: 1913
Description: Frisco Depot flooded

Title: Gordon C. Greene
Description: Photograph of the steamer GORDON C. GREENE, with excursion passengers and crew.

Title: Progress Through Bank-Station 39/50
Date: 1952-09-04
Description: Progress through bank-station 39/50. Kansas City District, Pilot Channel Project.

Title: Admiral in Saint Louis
Description: Photograph of the side of the Admiral steamboat while traveling away from the St. Louis riverfront. The Gateway Arch can be seen in the background.

Title: Bald Eagle
Description: . Louis. Later she was sold to a contractor, used as a quarter boat and finally sank about 1934. There was a bald eagle that preceded this boat. She was built in 1879 at Madison, Indiana. She was 202.3 x 30 x 5.4 feet. She ran the St. Louis - Clarksville trade until 1895. During the cyclone of 1896 she broke loose, struck the middle pier of the Eads bridge, St. Louis, Missouri, and sank.

Title: James Lee II
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Description: The second James Lee was built at Jeffersonville, Indiana in 1898. Her dimensions were 204 feet in length, 36 feet beam and 5 feet depth of hold. She ran in the Memphis and Friar's Point trade, Captain John H. Darragh commanding. She was eventually converted into an excursion boat at Memphis and renamed the DeSoto, about 1917. In January, 1918 she sank in the ice at Memphis along with the Georgia

Title: City of Providence
Description: The City Of Providence ws an Anchor Line boat built in 1880 . For the St. Louis and Natchez trade. She ws a side wheeler with a texas deck and was later made an excursion boat. Shown here from South St. Louis bluffs above the Iron Mountain railroad tracks as an excursion boat operated by Columbia Excursion Company, she finally sunk in a wreck at St. Louis January 20, 1910. A part of the City

Title: Kate Adams (2nd)
Description: The second Kate Adams was built at the Howard yard, Jeffersonville, Indiana in 1888. She was 250 x 36 x 8.5 feet. She had four boilers and her engines were 22 inches in diameter with an 8 foot stroke. When the third Kate Adams was built she was sold in 1901 and renamed the Dewey. She ran in the Memphis and New Orleans trade with the Julia. Later, she was again sold and called the Lotus Sims. She

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: Potter
Date: 2008-12
Description: Potter (background) in St. Louis Harbor. Gordon M. Stevens in foreground.

Title: Flooded Building
Description: Flood waters reaching shoreside building in middleground, waters rise above walkway or dredge.

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

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