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Title: Wreck of the Chalmette
Date: 1904
Description: The Chalmette was built in 1881 at Jeffersonville, Indiana as the City of Vicksburg for the Anchor Line Packet Company of St. Louis, Missouri. She was wrecked by the cyclone in St. Louis on May 27, 1896 along with four other Anchor Line steamers. In the process of rebuilding by Captain W. H. Thorwegan as an excursion boat she was purchased by the Illinois Central Railroad interests and renamed

Title: Towboats on the Ohio
Date: 1938
Description: Towboats crowd each other along the Ohio, where modern river traffic surpasses anything in tonnage that was known in the days when steamboating was at its height.

Title: Jack Frost
Description: The Jack Frost was built in 1881 at Jeffersonville, Indiana for the St. Louis and Mississippi Valley Transportation Company of St. Louis, Missouri. Her dimensions were: - 165 x 30 x 5.4 feet. Tonnage, gross and net, 351 tons. In the early 1900's she became the property evidently of Ohio River parties. She burned at Galipolis, Ohio, in October, 1914.

Title: Federal Barge Lines towboats
Date: 1946
Description: winter for overhauling. Normally, the screw type boats operate between St. louis and new Orleans during the winter months, but operations will be extended to Chicago this year.\" Color photo by staff photographer Jack Zehrt. November 10, 1946

Title: Belle Memphis, Interior of Belle Memphis
Description: The Belle Memphis was a large Anchor Line boat built at the Howard Yard, Jeffersonville, Indiana in 1880. Her dimensions were:- 267 x 42 x 7.5 feet. She operated in the St. Louis - New Orleans trade. On May 13, 1889 she took into the Vicksburg wharfboat the largest cargo of freight ever delivered by one steamer up to that date. It was a manifest of 11,024 packages weighing 813 tons. On

Title: Construction of Cape Girardeau Bridge
Date: 1928
Description: Cape Girardeau Progress Feb. 9, 1928

Title: City of New Orleans
Description: Interior of the City of New Orleans. Built for the Anchor Line. Later sold and rebuilt as the City of Pittsburg for the Ohio River.

Title: Jefferson City Scenes
Description: Images of Jefferson City: Governor's Residence; Jerrson Enquirer Printing Office; Residence of General T. L. Price; Dietz & Walde; the Capitol Building; Bruns, Dulle & Kroeger (Capitol Mill).

Title: Vim
Description: The Vim was originally built as the Hattie Brown, a single deck sternwheeler at Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania in 1895. Her dimensions were:- 125 x 22.6 x 4.3 feet. She was built for J. W. Rice of Zanesville, Ohio and her engines came from the Lizzie Cassel. They were 12's with a 4-foot stroke. She ran various short trades on the Ohio River. The Hattie Brown was rebuilt at Jeffersonville, Indiana in

Title: Ohio River Front in 1940, Cairo Waterfront in 1940
Date: 1940
Description: assembly of the state, March4, 1819, and named for William W. Alexander who lived at America. He was a practicing physician, a politician and public man. He was a member of the legislature in 1882 and 1840 and Speaker of the House in 1822 and 1824. The area of Alexander county is 220 square miles. Cairo yesterday was \"a town set down in a low, flat plain and surrounded by high levees from which one

Title: Benton
Description: Inscription on back in pencil: Benton 1875-1897.

Title: Grand Tower Dike and Revetment Work
Date: 1937-11-14
Description: November 14, 1937. - Showing pipe line, graded bank, and bank as left by dredge Grafton.

Title: Comanche
Description: Comanche Steamboat passing under a bridge

Title: Grand Tower Dike and Revetment Work
Date: 1938-01-09
Description: Jan. 9, 1938. -- Upstream view over lumber barge showing Ste. Genevieve and dragline

Title: Asleep in the Deep South
Description: An African American cotton worker asleep in the shade by a pile of cotton.

Title: Nashville, Tennessee
Date: 1863-12
Description: Loading stores at Nashville, Tennessee, December, 1863. Left to right: Rob Roy, Belle Peoria, Irene, Revelice, Palestine, Lizzie Martin, Mercury. Note: Hard tack in boxes on levee. It is reported that this photograph was taken by a Confederate spy and turned up after the Civil War.

Title: River Improvement Work
Date: 1911
Description: Construction of Brush Mattress - Bird's Point, Missouri.

Title: Peace
Date: 1934
Description: The Peace is a twin propellor, steel hull towboat and was built at Neville Island, Pennsylvania by the Dravo Corporation in 1934. Her dimensions are:- 153.8 x 34.1 x 7.9 feet. Her Winton Diesels total 750 horse power and are six cylinders, 4 cycle with a 14 inch bore and 18 inch stroke; 250 r. p.m. She has Kort nozzles and her propellors are four-blade, 5 feet - 5 inches in diameter with 4 feet

Title: Belle Creole
Description: The Belle Creole was built in 1823 at Cincinnati, Ohio. Her home port was New Orleans and she was a New Orleans-Bends packet. Captain Champremere was her master. She foundered and sank in 1829. This photograph was reproduced from an old sketch made at New Orleans, Louisiana.

Title: River Improvement Work
Date: 1911
Description: U. S. Engineer Department. Hydrographic party enroute to work.

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