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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: Saint Louis County
Description: St. Louis County, MO Unidentified aerial view. At center and lower center of frame, group of white institutional buildings, with water tower and smokestack near center of group. Cultivated fields surround building complex.

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: Gaslight Square
Date: 1962-11, 1963-10-06
Description: Photograph of people standing along a sidewalk located in the Central West End.

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: Railway Locomotive With Trainmen
Description: Photograph of rear of a railway locomotive travelling away from the camera. Trainmen and an engineer are on the back of the Tender.

Title: Headed Overseas
Date: 1953-12-22
Description: Headed overseas before Christmas, Pvt. George A. Posey wistfully spent his last few minutes in St. Louis yesterday at Union Station with his girl friend, Miss Margaret Scheer, 226 Fannie ave., Luxemburg, as the Southwest Hight School Choir strolled through the station singing Christmas carols. Posey, who had been stationed at the Army Medical Depot here, was off for Seattle and duty overseas.

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: Harry S. Truman
Date: 1952-12-21
Description: M/V (Harry S. Truman) at Cape La Croix, mile 47.5.

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.

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