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Title: Harbor of Saint Louis.
Date: 1869
Description: Map of the Mississippi River stretching from Alton, Illinois to Saint Louis, Missouri and East Saint Louis, Illinois. Includes islands (Kerr's Island; Cabaret Island; Chouteau Island; Wilson's Island; Mobile Island; Ellis Island) and railroads (CH. A. & ST. L. R. R.; St. L. A. & T. H. R. R.; Edwardsville Coal R. R.; O. & M. R. R.)., From: Message of the mayor, and reports of city officers : delivered to the city council.

Title: Address of the Young Men's Democratic Whig Association of St. Louis
Description: To Their Whig Brethren of Missouri. Document talks about the election of the next Vice President and President of the Whigs of Missouri.

Title: Gaslight Square
Date: 1962-11, 1963-10-06
Description: Photograph of people standing along a sidewalk located in the Central West End.

Title: Minutes of the Twelfth Annual Meeting of the North Grand River United Baptist Association
Date: 1853-08
Description: Held with the Church at Chillicothe, Livingston County, Mo.

Title: Minutes of the Twenty-Eighth Anniversary of the Missouri United Baptist Association
Date: 1845-09
Description: Held with the Salem Church, St. Louis County, Mo.

Title: Address, Before the Members of the General Assembly of the State of Missouri
Date: 1842-12-22

Title: Thomas Jefferson Handwritten Document
Date: 1819-05-30
Description: 1 document, May 30, 1819, D. S., transcribing the agreements made to widen a canal and create a reservoir by the Rivanna Company. Original minutes of the Rivanna company were taken by N. H. Lewis and transcribed by Jefferson to this document.

Title: Deckhands, U. S. Sergeant Floyd
Description: Deckhands tightening headline with capstan.

Title: The City of St. Louis Missouri.
Date: 1855
Description: An 1855 map of the city published by Joseph Hutchins Colton.

Title: Anniversary Address, to Alton Division, No. 4, Sons of Temperance, at their Hall, December 25, 1852
Date: 1852-12-25

Title: To the People of Missouri
Date: 1832, 1832
Description: A report on activities from the 1832 Congressional Session by the Missouri Territorial Representative to the Congress.

Title: Map of the State of Missouri and Territory of Arkansas
Date: 1826
Description: 1826 map of the State of Missouri, with counties, mountains, towns and rivers included. Arkansas Territory is also mapped out similarly. Native American villages are noted to the west of Missouri.

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

Title: Tow Chains and Ratchets
Description: Tows comprised of barges were lashed together by manila ropes called \"lines\" in the early days of towboating. These, with other modern improvements, have, in part, been replaced by chains or cables with ratchet pulling jacks for tightening or reducing \"slack\". Ratchet pulling jacks were originally designed for steamboat and river work in hitching tows, fastening rafts, floats, etc. However, they have been so improved that they are now being extensively used in building construction and shipbuilding for fastening and holding in place the skeleton steel framework, derricks, masts, forms, etc. In railroad work they have proven a valuable tool for wrecking crews. In quarries and coal mines for fastening either permanent or temporary guys.

Title: Golden Eagle Cafe
Date: 1962-11, 1963-10-06
Description: Photograph of the outdoor courtyard of the Golden Eagle café, located in Gaslight Square.

Title: Report of the Commissioners of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum
Date: 1854-12-28
Description: First biennial report of the condition, budget, and treatment of pupils of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum of Missouri, presented in the state General Assembly, 1855.

Title: Lift span on highway bridge, lower Illinois River
Date: 1940
Description: View of the lift span from the deck of Golden Eagle.

Title: Police Officer in Gaslight Square
Date: 1963-10-06
Description: Photograph of a child talking to a police officer near Gaslight Square.

Title: African American Boy
Date: 1940
Description: Cairo, Illinois 1940.

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