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Title: John W. Weeks
Description: Photograph of the steamer JOHN W. WEEKS

Title: Fort Gage
Description: Photograph of the dredge FORT GAGE.

Title: Spread Eagle
Description: Boat name is "Spread Eagle"

Title: New Orleans
Date: 1911
Description: operate west of the Allegheny Mountains. Little information on the New Orleans has survived. There is even some question whether she was a sidewheeler or a sternwheeler. Her first voyage took place in 1811, when she left Pittsburgh in October, doubled back from Louisville to Cincinnati to prove she could run against the current, and reached New Olreans in January, 1812. For the 1911 centennial

Title: Delta Queen
Description: Photograph of the DELTA QUEEN's 10-Ton steam engine. "The Pitman Arm retracted on a 10 foot stroke."

Title: Alice Brown
Description: Empty coal tow. Upbound, Ohio River.

Title: City of St. Louis
Description: Photograph of the steamer CITY OF ST. LOUIS on a river.

Title: Golden Eagle
Date: 1947-05-17
Description: "Golden Eagle" below Eads Bridge St. Louis MO. Picture taken May 17, 1947 before departure for her last trip to Nashville, Tenn. She sank next morning May 18 at Grand Tower Island after striking rock formation and fearing a 6 foot hole in the center seam in the hull. The Pilot Nathan Smith beached her and all passengers & crew were saved. Repeated floods in the summer of 1947 made raising of the

Title: Delta Queen
Description: Photograph of the water pump to the boilers, which was located below the main deck (near the hull) on board the steamboat DELTA QUEEN.

Title: Sequoyah
Description: Photograph of the towboat SEQUOYAH.

Title: Fred Wilson
Description: Photograph of the Steamer FRED WILSON.

Title: Admiral
Description: The Admiral at the Saint Louis riverfront. Gateway Arch in the background. Dec. 2, 1967. Goldenrod Showboat visible as well. Hilton under construction.

Title: Alabama
Description: Photograph of the steamer ALABAMA, going upriver.

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

Title: Golden Eagle
Description: Photograph of the Steamer GOLDEN EAGLE with deckhands at work.

Title: Golden Eagle and Gordon C. Greene
Date: 1946-11-071
Description: Last packet type steamboat race on the Mississippi. GOLDEN EAGLE being passed by the GORDON C. GREENE above Greenville. November 7, 1946.

Title: Dredge
Description: Photograph of a dredge, which features a sign "JADWIN/MEMPHIS DISTRICT."

Title: St. Louis Levee
Description: Photograph of cargo and steamboats lining the Saint Louis levee in the 1890s. GRAND REPUBLIC (second) and BELLE OF CALHOUN, as well as the Anchor Line wharfboat are pictured. Eads Bridge in the background. Railroad tracks to the left.

Title: Admiral and Towboat
Date: 1945
Description: The steamer ADMIRAL under way, passing a towboat and tow. Photograph.

Title: Fracl. Township 45 N. R. 7E.
Date: 1847
Description: Hutawa came to St. Louis from eastern Europe in the early 1830’s with family members and settled in St. Louis, a home base for a lithography business which lasted for many years and which specialized in maps—some of the very first west of the Mississippi for an American city of any kind—and of the American west. See also Fracl. Township 45 N. R. 7E.: Confirmed Claims.

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