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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: Carte de la Louisiane et du cours du Mississipi
Date: 1718
Description: Guillaume De l’Isle’s “Map of Louisiana and the Mississippi River” is one of the most famous maps in American history, what cartographers call, because of its accuracy and eloquence, a “mother map,” a map in this case that spurred great imitation, innovation, and political thought. The map was originally published in 1718, the year this mapmaker was appointed Chief Geographer to the King (Louis

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

Title: River protection work
Date: 1915
Description: St. Louis Water Department. Mississippi River above Chain of Rocks. Pile dike constructed to shift channel of river.

Title: J. D. Ayers
Description: Union Barge Line Corporation - Pittsburgh, Pa.

Title: Plan of Forest Park
Description: Plan of Forest Park in St. Louis, Missouri, about 1876. Scale 400 feet to 1 inch.

Title: Fairplay
Description: A sternwheel steamboat with white trailing wake.

Title: Stacker Lee, Lee Line Packet - St. Louis to Memphis
Description: The Stacker Lee was built at Jeffersonville, Indiana in 1902. Her dimensions were:- 225.5 x 45.5 x 6.6 feet; tonnage, 710. She had four boilers (six flues each)40 inches in diameter and 22 feet long. Her engines were of two cylinders, each 18 inches in diameter with a nine-foot stroke. She was owned by the Lee Line of Memphis, Tennessee and ran the St. Louis-Memphis trade. On November 19, 1907

Title: Duncan Bruce
Description: The Duncan Bruce is a steel hull, twin-propellor towboat. She was built at Charleston, West Virginia in 1927 by the Charles Ward Engineering Works. Her dimensions are:- 133.6 x 35.1 x 6 feet. Her two National Superior Diesel engines total 1350 horse power. She was originally built as a sternwheel towboat with 750 horse power Fairbanks-Morse engines. In 1939, following damage in a fire, the boat

Title: St. Louis and adjacent Country
Date: 1822
Description: A geographical description of the United States, with the contiguous countries, including Mexico and the West Indies; intended as an accompaniment to Melish's map of these countries ... / by John Melish. Philadelphia : The author, 1822.

Title: Grand Tower Dike and Revetment Work
Date: 1937-09-15
Description: September 15, 1937. - Dike No.79.2L before partial removal. "X" marks shore end of portion removed. Grand Tower Pile Dike and Revetment Contract, 1937-38: Woods Brothers Construction Company. Note: Photographs could not be taken at regular intervals because of adverse weather conditions.

Title: Barge on river
Description: View of a steamboat towing barges on a river, under a bridge.

Title: Valley Queen
Description: The Valley Queen was built at Jeffersonville, Indiana, in 1889 for Captain Geo. W. Rea and others. Her hull was 196.5 feet by 36 feet by 5.5 feet. She had two boilers, each 46 inches by 28 feet. Her machinery came from the La Belle and had cylanders 20.5 inches in diameter with 6.5-foot strock. She had cotton guards and carried 900 tons. This was a New Orleans-Shreveport packet from 1889 to 1894

Title: Just Fishing
Date: 1939
Description: Tennesse River. Sheffield, Alabama. 1939.

Title: C. W. Talbot
Description: The C. W. Talbot is a steel hull, sternwheel towboat. She was built at Midland, Pennsylvania in 1929 by the Midland Barge Company. Her dimensions are:- 151 x 34.7 x 6 feet. She has four boilers. Her compound condensing engines, 15's by 30's with 7-foot stroke, produce 750 horse power. Her paddle wheel is 19 feet 4 inches in diameter, 23 feet long, working 13 buckets of 40-inch dip. The Talbot is

Title: D. H. Pike
Description: . Louis. Later she was sold to a contractor, used as a quarter boat and finally sank about 1934. There was a Bald Eagle that preceded this boat. She was built in 1879 at Madison, Indiana. She was 202.3 x 30 x 5.4 feet. She ran the St. Louis - Clarksville trade until 1895. During the cyclone of 1896 she broke loose, struck the middle pier of the Eads Bridge, St. Louis, Missouri, and sank.

Title: Cairo
Description: 175 x 50 x 6; 512 tons. Casemate 150' x 50' - 21/4\" plating. Torpedoed Yazoo River 1863. Sides 8' high - single wheel. 9 miles per hour. 13 guns mostly 6\" rifles.

Title: Virginia Stranded in Pomeroy Bend
Date: 1910
Description: The Virginia operated in the Pittsburgh-Cincinnatti trade along with the Keystone State, the Iron Queen, the Scotia, the Carrollton, the Hudson and the Queen City. She was owned by the Pittsburgh and Cincinnatti Packet Company. Her career seemed to have been a hectic one. In 1910 high water from the Kanawha River left her stranded up in a field a hundred yards from the river, high and dry in

Title: Boat docked
Description: View of a boat docked by a crane., Inscription on back of photo: Franklin D. Roosevelt

Title: Exporter
Description: The Exporter was built in 1895 at Madison, Indiana, for St. Louis parties. Her dimensions were:- 186.5 x 35 x 6.1 feet; tonnage 578, net and gross. Her horse power was 1127. On April 12, 1902 she was struck by a storm at the mouth of Salt River and three of her coal barges were sunk. On March 29, 1906, the Robert Taylor, while attempting to steer around the Point, on the Ohio River, collided with

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