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Title: Joseph B. Williams
Date: 1905-08
Description: On August 10, 1905, while enroute up the Ohio River, she struck a snag at Sister's Island, below Golconda and near Bay City, Illinois and tore a hole 40 feet long in her hull, causing the boat to sink in shallow water. Three towboats went to the rescue of the wreck - the Fulton, Ranger and Wash Honshell - assisted in raising the Williams. She was then placed on the ways for repairs; damage

Title: Silver Bow
Description: The Silver Bow was owned and commanded by Captain Thomas W. Rea and was built by the James Rees and Sons Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1869. Official records show her to have been 212 by 32 by 5 1/2 feet. She had three boilers each 40 inches in diameter by 26 feet with cylinders 18 inches by 5 feet. The tonnage is give as 335; carried tonnage is listed as 600 tons. Missouri River

Title: Chaperon
Description: Green River packet "Chaperon"

Title: Golden Eagle
Date: 1942-06
Description: The Golden Eagle near Chattanooga on the first trip she had made to a point that far up the Tennessee River.

Title: Golden Eagle
Description: Excursion steamer Golden Eagle on a drydock.

Title: Grand Republic II
Description: . This Grand Republic ran excursions out of St. Louis in 1896, 1897 and 1898. She burned at the mouth of the River Des peres, St. Louis, on March 13, 1898.

Title: Marker at Beginning of Mississippi River
Description: Inscription on monument: Here 1475 ft. above the ocean the mighty Mississippi begins to flow on its winding way 2552 miles to the Gulf of Mexico.

Title: Construction of Cape Girardeau Bridge
Date: 1927
Description: Cape Girardeau Ferry A. C. Jaynes and concrete mixer plant. Moored along Water Street during a flood.

Title: Chaperone
Description: Orginally the J. C. Kerr and later the Choctaw. Built at Clinton, Iowa in 1904. The J. C. Kerr was built at Chambersburg, Ohio in 1884. Later, as the Chaperone she had the same dimensions or :- 121 x 27.8 x 3.0 feet. Tonnage, gross and net, listed as 125. She was taken to Evansville, Indiana by Captain R. H. Williams in the early 1890s and entered the Evansville and Green River trade where she

Title: Emerson's New Grand Floating Palace, Emerson's New Grand Floating Palace and Steamer Emerson

Title: Sidney
Description: Excursion steamer Sidney on a river.

Title: Jefferson City Scenes
Description: Images of Jefferson City: the Capitol building; te Governor's Mansion; the riverfront, and a city view.

Title: Mississippi river flood at New Madrid, Missouri, 1913, An Outing
Date: 1913
Description: A family in front of their flooded house

Title: H. R. W. Hill, H. R. W. Hill operated as Confederate troopship during Civil War
Description: The H. R. W. Hill, a Memphis and New Orleans Packet, was built at New Albany, Indiana in 1852 and, is reported to have had an iron hull. She was a large boat, owned by captain Thomas H. Newell, and registered in Cincinnati. Her engines were 30 inches in diameter with 10 foot stroke. A big carrier, she brought 5162 bales of cotton in to New Orleans in 1858, a record to that date. When the Civil

Title: Superjam '80
Date: 1980-06-29
Description: About 40,000 rock and rollers at Busch Stadium for Superjam '80.

Title: Portland
Date: 1993
Description: To be able in small way to be part of the restoration and preservation of our history and of the steamboats that made it possible for this country to become truly great is a great satisfaction. Signed: John Shipley

Title: U.S. Gunboat Cairo
Description: army rifles, 80 hundred weight; and one 12-pounder howitzer. In September of that year she was listed as carrying the six 32-pounders , three army rifles, three 8 inch guns and one 30-pounder Parrot rifle. The Washington records show that the Cairo was sunk within less than five minutes after being struck by a torpedo, 18 miles up the Yazoo river, on December 12, 1862.

Title: Grand Tower Dike and Revetment Work
Date: 1930-01-14
Description: January 14, 1938. - From upper landing, showing sheer boom for ice.

Title: Mat Building
Description: Workers, probably of the Army Corps of Engineers, building a wooden mat. Barge in foreground has rock, barge behind wooden mat has logs. Steamboat in the background. Photograph of John C. DeBolt, Corps of Engineers. Photo 4 of series.

Title: Sporty Days
Description: The Sporty Days was a double deck, combination ferry and packet boat. She was built on the river bank at New Madrid, Missouri, in 1927 by Dick Richardson for John Kirtz, her owner and operator. The dimensions of her wood hull, with a scow bow, were 60 x 26 x 4 feet. Width overall, 30 feet; draught about two feet. She had but one stack and one tubular boiler about 12 feet long and 36 inches in

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