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Title: Providence and Ferryboat
Description: Ferry boat and steamer Providence. Wiggins ferry? Note bull rail on main deck. Julius Walsh, Kuntz; ferryboater, 3; working --- North Market, 24 hr. service = ran to Venice on Sun. beer open. Capt. Menke got showboat for Sunday trade

Title: Grand Tower Dike and Revetment Work
Date: 1937-10-29
Description: October 29, 1937. - Closeup view of dredge spoil from Grafton. Note comparative size of boulders with hat.

Title: Pacific No. 2
Description: The Pacific No. 2 was built at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1893. Her dimensions were:- 176 x 32 x 5.0 feet. Tonnage, gross, 570; net, 416 tons. The Marmet Coal Company sold the machinery of the Lioness No. 2 to the Captains Joseph and Abe Gould who placed them in the Pacific No. 2. She was a coal towboat operating out of Pittsburg. On January 23, 1900, the Pacific ascending the Ohio River

Title: Golden Eagle
Description: Gerber and Mrs. RVG. In GOLDEN EAGLE lifeboat.

Title: Ohio River Shipyard
Date: 1942-02-05
Description: February 5, 1942. From bottom left: Gulf Barge OSAGE; USCGC AZALEA; NUGENT Sandi Gravel Dredge; USCG Quarter Boat #12; mv BETTY GARDNER; mv JANE RHEA; mv ANKER L. CHRISTY; Str. KENOVA.

Title: Mary Morton
Description: Steamer MARY MORTON was built in Dubuque, Iowa in 1880, owned by the Diamond Jo Line and named for the wife of Diamond Jo Reynolds. The Mary Morton once sank near Clarksville, Missouri (Sept. 10, 1882) and was raised. The boat was chartered to the Anchor Line in 1897 and continue running the St. Louis - Memphis trade. She sank in October that year at Crain's Island near Grand Tower, Illinois, and

Title: A. M. SCOTT - Kansas City Missouri Navigation Co.
Description: K. C. Missouri River Navigation Co. Str. A. M. SCOTT with barge. Photograph.

Title: Sainte Genevieve
Description: Dredge Ste. Genevieve at midstream. Photo.

Title: Golden Eagle
Date: 1946-09-16
Description: This series was taken Sept 16 - 1946. The Eagle Packet wanted a picture as near like the one they considered their favorite to use for postal cards. So Bill & I visited the boat then went north of the Eads Bridge & took this series.

Title: ASHBY No. 2
Description: Photograph of the Str. ASHBY II.

Title: FAIRMONT
Date: 1917
Description: Photograph of the FAIRMONT in 1917

Title: Portland
Date: 1993
Description: Woman in pilot house of "Portland"

Title: Golden Eagle and Gordon C. Greene
Date: 1946-11-07
Description: Last packet type steamboat race on the Mississippi. GOLDEN EAGLE being overtaken by the GORDON C. GREENE above Greenville. November 7, 1946.

Title: Belle of the Bends
Description: Liberty and she was shifted to Cairo. On September 27, 1919, the boat was sold by a U. S. Marshal to satisfy debts. She was purchased by Captain John F. Klein for a reported $1250. She was finally crossed out by the Inspectors and dismantled. The fine bell, containing $1500 in silver dollars, was bought by Captain Jeff Hicks for $650. He also bought the electric plant and shipped both to his home in

Title: ADVANCE
Description: Steamer ADVANCE, photograph.

Title: Delta Queen
Description: Photograph of the steamboat DELTA QUEEN's cabin deck chairs.

Title: HENRY FRANK
Description: Great cotton boat. Photo.

Title: Ferd Herold
Description: A steel hull packet built at Dubuque, Iowa in 1894. Her dimensions were 244.6 x 34 x 7.2 feet. She had four boilers and her engines were 20 inches in diameter with an 8-foot stroke. On her maiden trip she came out in charge of Captain Browlaski. In landing at Cape Girardeau, she came in too hard and punched a hole in her head on a rock. Although this filled her forward compartment she made the

Title: BENTON
Description: Photograph of the BENTON on the Missouri River. "Washington, Mo. Steamboating on the Missouri"

Title: Julia Belle Swain
Description: Photograph of passengers on deck of excursion steamer JULIA BELLE SWAIN. Galena, Il. Trip.

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