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Title: View of Progress Made to Date
Date: 1952-09-13
Description: View of progress made to date. Total advance since start of dredging: 3,000 ft. Total time: 3 weeks this date. Average 1,000' per week. Total production to date for job: 658,489 cu. yds. Total dredged length of canal by both dredges: approx. 6,000'. Overall length of canal project: 9,000'. Dredge now at station 27/100. Started at station 57/100. Kansas City District, Channel Diversion Project.

Title: Lift Bridge at Kansas City
Date: 1952-10-20
Description: Approaching lift bridge at Kansas City when enroute from St. Joseph, Mo. To St. Louis. Dredge (William H. Black) is passing through bridge. Kansas City District.

Title: Sainte Genevieve and William H. Black
Date: 1952-10-01
Description: The dredges (Ste. Genevieve) and (William H. Black) as they dredge opposite each other with 100 feet reamining to mark completion of the canal to divert the river channel. An Earth wall 50 feet thick will not be dredged. It will be blasted out October 4, 1052. Dredges now at stations 6+00' and 7+00'. Kansas City District, channel diversion.

Title: Progress Through Bank-Station 39/50
Date: 1952-09-04
Description: Progress through bank-station 39/50. Kansas City District, Pilot Channel Project.

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: Shoreline and Equipment
Date: 1952-09-05
Description: Showing shoreline and equipment used for the bank revetment that will form new channel shore. Kansas City District, channel diversion.

Title: Dredge Cut Face
Date: 1952-09-03
Description: Looking into dredge cut face. Advance since start of excavation: 1,500'. Yardage: 325,000. Ste. Genevieve on right. Kansas City District, Pilot Canal Project.

Title: A Game at the Proctor and Gamble Picnic, 1952
Date: 1952
Description: The Proctor and Gamble yearly picnic in Blanchette Park, August, 1952. Here, women are participating in a game where the objective was to collect Proctor and Gamble products in their skirts. Whatever they collected was theirs to keep. Proctor and Gamble held the yearly picnic for employees and their families. Photograph donated to the St. Louis Mercantile Library by Sherlyn Maughs.

Title: Sainte Genevieve Wheel
Date: 1952-08-19
Description: Levee break fill at (Kansas Bend) mile 562.5. (Omaha District) wheel has just been painted.

Title: William H. Black at Completed Canal
Date: 1952-10-02
Description: Showing completed canal and the plug that separates the old and new channels, which will be blasted out October 4, 1952. Stern of dredge (William H. Black) is shown. Kansas City District, channel diversion.

Title: Lady Linda
Date: 1952-12-19
Description: M/V (Lady Linda) at Goose Island, mile 34.9.

Title: Upper End of Pilot Canal
Date: 1952-10-19
Description: Location of dredge in Pilot Canal on completion of dredging operations for cut No. 2. Just following departure, the second cut was made on left bank a distance of 1,800 ft. from upper end, which the view is towards.

Title: Part of the Completed River Bank
Date: 1952-09-03
Description: Showing part of the completed river bank that will be one of the banks when the new river channel is completed. Kansas City District, Pilot Canal Project.

Title: Passing Through Drawbridge
Date: 1952-10-20
Description: Passing through drawbridge at Atchison, Kan. Enroute from St. Joseph, Mo. To St. Louis. Kansas City District.

Title: Completed Rock Revetment
Date: 1952-09-21
Description: Looking down river at completed rock revetment that will serve as the west bank for the new channel. This rocked bank extends approx. 9,000 feet. Kansas City District, channel diversion.

Title: William H. Black at Upper End of Pilot Canal
Date: 1952-09-03
Description: Dredge (William H. Black) working at upper end of Pilot Canal. Station 6+00'. Channel diversion.

Title: Material Removed from Pilot Canal
Date: 1952-10-01
Description: Material removed from Pilot Canal being discharged into Rover channel that is going to be diverted. Dredging for canal will be completed tonight. Dredge is at station 7+00'. The earth plug to be blasted is at station 6+50'. Kansas City District, channel diversion.

Title: Union Station
Date: 1952-03-11
Description: The midway at Union Station was almost deserted last night as a result of the strike of three railroad brotherhoods which has paralyzed operations of the Terminal Railroad Association in St. Louis. All railroads except the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio have suspended passenger service at Union Station.

Title: Str. Buna
Date: 1952-12-14
Description: View of Str. (Buna) attempting to navigate shoal opposite dredge at Burnham Island, mile 37.7.

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