The John A. Wood was built in 1870 at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for the Wood Company. Her dimensions were:- 198 x 40 x 7.0 feet; tonnage, gross and net, 688 tons. On September 7, 1894 she caught fire at night while lying at her landing in Pittsburgh. She was scuttled and sunk. Later raised and repaired; damaged $12,000. While making a landing in the harbor at Cairo, Illinois, on March 24, 1906
Together With A Map of the State of Missouri and Plans of the Cities. Announcement and details regarding the progress of the act to charter the Missouri Iron Company
Annual Report for the Eastern Division of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad Company in 1865. Covers expenses and statistics for passengers, freight, mail, etc.
This is a program from an 1845 performance of the New York Philharmonic Society in the Apollo Rooms on January 11th. They played works by Haydn, C.M. Weber, L. Spohr, Mozart, Beethoven, and H. Marschner.
Complied from survey of Upper Mississippi River from St. Paul to Grafton - made in 1878 and 1879 under direction of Bvt. Lt. Col. F. U. Farquhar, U.S.A. Major, Corps of Engr's; with additions from notes and surveys done under the direction of Bvt. Maj. Gen'l G. K. Warren, U.S.A. Major, Corps of Engr's, Col. J. N. Macomb, Corps of Engr's and Major A. MacKenzie, Corps of Engr's. Drawn under the
The Resolute was a old Pittsburgh towboat owned by the Juttes along with the Joseph B. Williams, Tom Dodsworth, Samual Clark, Valiant, Charlie Jutte, Rescue, W. C. Jutte, Defender and others. She was built in 1872 at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and her dimensions were:- 174 x 33 x 6.0 feet; tonnage, 426. While lying at the wharf, Portland, Ohio in 1872, she exploded her boilers; loss of property
And Of The Sacramento Valley. Book describes the author's trip through California and Oregon, with chapters on climate, agriculture, harbors, rivers, Indian tribes, government, and routes of travel.
Being a complete index of the residents of the entire city, and a classified business directory to which is added a miscellaneous department containing useful information of the churches, societies, railroads, city, state and other matter also street and avenue directory.
This directory predominately lists business in the city of St. Louis, but it does contain brief lists of business from cities and towns in the metropolitan area around St. Louis in both Missouri and Illinois., Includes directories for other Illinois cities: Alton, East Saint Louis, Belleville, Murphysboro, Centralia, Vandalia, Edwardsville, Litchfield, Mt. Vernon, DuQuoin, Chester, Sparta, Collinsville, Waterloo, Nashville, Carlyle, Greenville, Salem, Highland, Lebanon, Carbondale, Hillsboro, Virdin, Pinckneyville, Girard, Mt. Olive, Staunton, Ashley, Carlinville, Carrollton, White Hall, Roodhouse,and Jerseyville; also Missouri cities: Saint Charles, DeSoto, Washington, Sainte Genevieve, Kirkwood, and Webster Groves.