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Title: Map 'A': Time Zones for Street Car and Feeder Bus Lines Based on Service and Routing
Date: 1930
Description: Accompanying report to the transportation survey commission of St. Louis., From: Report of the Transportation Survey Commission of the City of St. Louis / submitted to the Board of Aldermen.

Title: Falls City
Description: The Falls City was built at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1898 for the Louisville and Kentucky River trade. Her dimensions were:- 132 x 32.6 x 6 feet; 235 tons. She was crredited with 200 horsepower. On may 25, 1898 she collided with the Mary Lacey towing a fleet of empty barges on the Kentucky River. Damages amounted to $250. On December 18, 1898, James A. Hughes, the chief enginer in charge permitted

Title: Mat Building
Description: Photograph of John C. DeBolt, Corps of Engineers. Photo 2 of series.

Title: Carte de la Louisiane cours du Mississipi et Pays Voisins
Date: 1744
Description: With numerous botanical illustrations and splendid maps by hydrographer, Jacques-Nicholas Bellin, Charlevoix represents a culmination in the middle of the eighteenth century of what the French knew, or thought they knew, about North America and its rivers and varied lands drained by them. He was sent to North America to find a route to the Pacific and through years of travel and study recommended doing this by the ascent of the Missouri River or through the establishment of posts along traditional native trading routes in Canada, through strategic stepping stones. Charlevoix and Bellin set out to prove that the Missouri and the Mississippi had basically the same headwaters, and the maps in these volumes reflect that thinking in the supposed nearness of the sources of both rivers. The Great Lakes through a vast system not only were connected to the Atlantic but to the Pacific as well. the works of the French explorers and cartographers heavily interested Thomas Jefferson. Charlevoix considered the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers the finest in the world., Statement of Responsibility: Histoire et description generale de la Nouvelle France : avec le Journal historique d'un voyage fait par ordre du roi dans l'Amérique Septentrionnale / par le P. de Charlevoix.

Title: Virginia Sunk at Wellsville, Ohio
Description: Virginia steamboat sunk

Title: City of Louisville, Roof Bell
Description: Stories are legion concerning the large bell in the center of the hurricane forward deck of the pilot house. The pealing and ringing of these bells, particularly packets, connote richness of tone, clarity of sound, lavishness of unstinted expenditure, silver used in their casting, and combined melody with harmony. Steamboatmen attached a great deal of sentiment with these bells and they were passed on from one boat to another at the end of a steamer's carreer. The bell of the Valley Belle came from the Science. That of the Fannie Dugan went to the City of Jacksonville... Great expense was involved in the casting of many of these roof bells and many were ornate in design. There was a lot of silver mixed in the metal of the big bell on the Chalmette to enhance it's tonal qualities. It was highly finished and an artistic decorative ornamentation extended entirely around it near the bottom. It is said that the silver toned qualities of the Hudson's bell was ruined after she was destroyed by fire at Cincinnati. Tapping the roof bell by the captain or mate as a packet approached a landing gradually fell into disuse. But the use of the roof bell at the time of departure still continues. Tapping the roof bell often caused the packet's cabin to even vibrate. Captain William Loyd had a unique system in ringing out the Columbia on the Upper Ohio...

Title: Grand Tower Dike and Revetment Work
Description: Loading dock, Tobin's Quarry. "Devils Bake Oven" or "Oven Rock" in backgound.

Title: A sternwheeler kicking water
Description: A sternwheeler kicking water from blade to blade which falls back upon her again.

Title: I. C. Woodward
Description: This was the first Monongahela River packet to have a texas; she came out new in July, 1898. Built at Brownsville, Pennsylvania and was 164 x 42 x 5. She had 50 cabin staterooms and additional space in her texas for passengers. She ran regularly on the Monongahela River. In September, 1902 she ran into the tow of the Twilight at 11:00 P.M. one night and sank about 1000 feet above Redstone Creek

Title: African American Boys
Description: St. Louis, Missouri, circa 1940.

Title: Louisiana
Description: Louisiana at a levee. Bluff City Excursion Company.

Title: Fiala and Haren's New Sectional Map of the State of Missouri
Date: 1861
Description: Gives counties, U.S. land districts, roads, and mines. "Entered according to an act of Congress in the year of 1860, by Gray & Crawford... of the Southern District, of Mo."

Title: Jim Wood
Date: 1917
Description: The Jim Wood sagging at Dam No. 33 on the Ohio River.

Title: Quincy
Date: 1906-07
Description: The Quincy sunk near Trempeleau, Wis., on the Mississippi River.

Title: Joe Wheeler
Description: The Joe Wheeler was built in 1898 at Chattanooga, Tennessee and spent most of her life on the Upper Tennessee River. Her dimensions were:- 155.8 x 33.5 x 3.5 feet. Tonnage: gross and net, 192 tons. In 1902 she was owned by the Tennessee River Navigation Company: W. C. Wilkie was the manager. They also ran the N. B. Forrest, Gasconade and Sam Davis. The Joe Wheeler was the last packet to run out

Title: Portland
Date: 1993
Description: Steel bridge over Willamette River.

Title: H. K. Bedford
Date: 1912
Description: H. K. Bedford, sunk in 1912 at Carpenter's Bar, above Marietta, Ohio River.

Title: Charlotte Boeckeler
Description: Charlotte Boeckeler

Title: Sandbagging
Description: Men sandbagging along a swollen river.

Title: Ohio
Description: others under the White Collar Line. Enroute from Memphis to Cincinnati on February 17, 1894, she struck a stump in backing out from the landing at Cottonwood Point, Missouri, 120 miles above Memphis, Tennessee. She then sank proving a total loss. The boat was valued at $25,000. The cargo was damaged $9,000. No lives were lost.

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