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Title: Towboat on the River
Description: We meet a towboat with two trails of smoke billowing out behind from her stacks.

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: Peerless, An Alabama River Packet
Description: The Peerless, Captain Tom Barry, was an Alabama River packet running from Mobile to Montgomery, Alabama. She was built as the James T. Staples in 1908 at Mobile, Alabama and her net and gross tonnage was 365. The high pressure machinery was rated as 900 horsepower. The wooden hull was 200 x 40 x 5.1 feet. She carried a crew of 41. The Staples exploded her boilers on January 9, 1913, was partially

Title: St. Louis Zoo Lion Show
Date: 1947-05-23, 1947-06-15
Description: In the lion's pit at the St. Louis Zoo, three megal beasts extend a greeting at the behest of their trainer.

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

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: Wild Wagoner
Description: The Wild Wagoner, a handsome sidewheeler, of the Civil War period was built in 1864 at the Knox boat yard of West Marietta, Ohio for the Cincinnati and Wheeling trade. She cost $155,000, a lot of money in those days and had a capacity of 700 tons. She was owned by Captain H. H. Drown of Marietta, Ohio and her dimensions were: 180 x 39 x 5.5 feet. She had three boilers and her engines were 25.5

Title: Queen City
Description: Steamer QUEEN CITY. Her wake of uniform mounds of water, curled at the top and falling forward.

Title: Chas P. Chouteau, Chas P. Chouteau landed at Natchez, Mississippi - December 4, 1878
Date: 1878
Description: Light on the River - August 18, 1880. The Steamer Chas. P. Chouteau, lying at the foot of Market street, attracted considerable attention along the levee last evening by its two electric lights, which shone forth with intense brightness. The Chouteau is the first steamer at this point on the Mississippi River to substitute an electric llight for the old fashioned pine-torch illuminators, and the

Title: J. D. Ayers
Description: The J. D. Ayers is a steel hull, sternwheel towboat. She was built by the Midland Barge Company in 1929 at Midland, Pennsylvania. Her dimensions are: 151 x 34.7 x 6 feet. She has 4 boilers of the return flue type. The condensing engines are 15's - 30's with a seven foot stroke; 750 horsepower. The paddle wheel is ... - 4\" in diameter by 23 feet long working 13 buckets with a ... -inch dip. The

Title: Minutes of the Second Anniversary of the White River Baptist Association
Date: 1842-09
Description: Held with Mount Pleasant Church, Izard County, State of Arkansas

Title: Commodore
Description: Hudson River excursion Commodore.

Title: Index Sheet
Date: 1887-1888
Description: Index of plates numbers 1 - 27. Also contains a Table of Distances in Miles by Steamboat Channel, from St. Paul to St. Louis and points in between.

Title: St. James
Description: The St. James was built at Cincinnati, Ohio. Her dimensions were:- 185 x 35 x 6.5 feet. She had three boilers and her Barnes engines were 17's by 7-foot stroke. She was owned by the Mississippi Packet Company and ran out of New Orleans. She was built in 1898. While descending the Mississippi River she struck some obstruction above New Orleans on March 24, 1901 and sustained a $400 damage. At the

Title: Mobile, Alabama Wharf
Description: Wharf at Mobile, Alabama, in early 1900's. Steamboats AMERICAN, MARY S. BLEES, CITY OF MOBILE, and JOHN QUILL are moored at the wharf.

Title: A Topographical Map of Forest Park
Date: 1876
Description: Topo map of Forest Park in Saint Louis, Missouri. Scale is 400 ft. to the inch.

Title: Bluff City
Date: 1896
Description: The Anchor Liner BLUFF CITY nearing completion at the Howard Shipyards. The only sternwheeler to be built by the ANCHOR LINE.

Title: Improvement Mortgage
Date: 1917-05-01

Title: Report of the Committee Appointed By The Governor to Examine Into the State and Condition of The Bank of the State of Missouri
Date: 1857
Description: And it's Branches, to the Nineteenth General Assembly

Title: Notices of the Harbor at the Mouth of the Columbia River
Description: Report from the Commander and Other Offices of the Exploring Expedition

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