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Title: Museum of Fine Arts
Date: 1881-07-08
Description: Drawing of the new Musuem of Fine Arts in St. Louis with accompanying article about its creation.

Title: St. Louis Manual Training School
Date: 1881-05-28
Description: Drawing of the St. Louis Manual Training School, chairs, and faces. A page from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper.

Title: Fleet demonstration of warships of European powers.
Description: A page of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper depicting an image of a fleet demonstration of warships belonging to European powers in the Adriatic sea along the Turkish coast. Also shown is an image of the city of Ragusa (now Dubrovnik) in Austrian Dalmatia on the Adriatic sea. Five sketches of places in a yearly fair are seen at the bottom. In order they depict the Agricultural Hall, the Cascade, the Art Hall, the main entrance to the fair grounds, and the Journal of Agricultre.

Title: Oddfellows Cemetery Dedication
Date: 1881
Description: Drawing show the dedication of the Oddfellows Cemetery at St. Louis on May 30, 1881.

Title: Chaperone
Description: Orginally the J. C. Kerr and later the Choctaw. Built at Clinton, Iowa in 1904. The J. C. Kerr was built at Chambersburg, Ohio in 1884. Later, as the Chaperone she had the same dimensions or :- 121 x 27.8 x 3.0 feet. Tonnage, gross and net, listed as 125. She was taken to Evansville, Indiana by Captain R. H. Williams in the early 1890s and entered the Evansville and Green River trade where she

Title: U.S. Gunboat Cairo
Description: army rifles, 80 hundred weight; and one 12-pounder howitzer. In September of that year she was listed as carrying the six 32-pounders , three army rifles, three 8 inch guns and one 30-pounder Parrot rifle. The Washington records show that the Cairo was sunk within less than five minutes after being struck by a torpedo, 18 miles up the Yazoo river, on December 12, 1862.

Title: St. Louis Levee
Description: St. Louis levee, 1890's. Grand Republic (second), Belle of Calhoun, ?, City of New Orleans. Photographed by Henry Stark, Jr. of St. Louis.

Title: Loading a Mississippi Steamer at East St. Louis, At Night, By the Aid of the Electric Light
Date: 1882-11-25
Description: Image from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper from November 25, 1882. The sketch by Charles Upham depicts workers carrying large bags onto a steamboat under the supervision of a well dressed man with a cane. A large light is positioned on the right and the men cast shadows upon the ground.

Title: View of Kansas City and the Morgan Iron-Works
Date: 1881-06-04
Description: Page from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper from June 4, 1881. The page contains two large images. The image at the top is a view of Kansas City based on a photograph by M. B. Bower. The image at the bottom is of a sixty-thousand-pound steamship bed being poured at the Morgan Iron-Works in New York City.

Title: Oddfellows Cemetery Dedication
Date: 1881-06-18
Description: Page from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper featuring images of Franck C. Morehead, Mrs. Margaret Hughes, and the scene at the dedication o the Odd Fellows' Cemetery on May 30th of 1881.

Title: Chaperone
Description: Chaperone ascending Green River, Kentucky. Length 100 ft; Beam 24 ft; Hold 4.8 ft; Tonnage 98.

Title: Howard Shipyard
Description: Howard Shipyard at Jeffersonville, Indiana. W. C. Hite - Columbia - Morning Star - Harry Brown - Jos. B. Williams.

Title: Sprague
Description: View of the Sprague while towing.

Title: U. S. Gunboat Lexington
Description: repairs. What the Lexington lacked in size, however, she offset by her heavy armamant and her work during the war was among the best. After a series of meritorious engagements she was finally laid up and went out of commission in July of 1865. For the sum of $6000 (she originally cost more than $20, 000) the Lexington was sold at auction at Mound City a month later to Thomas Scott and Woodburn.

Title: Turner's Festival
Date: 1881-06-25
Description: Shows the 23rd Federal Festival of the Turner's of North America in St. Louis. Shows procession past Schnaider's Garden, Turn Hall, and 5th and Elm. Shows the Turner's athletic competition as well.

Title: 20th Annual Fair Association Show
Date: 1880-10-30
Description: 20th annual show of the St. Louis Fair Association. Shows the Agricultural Hall, Art Hall, The Cascade, and the Main Entrance.

Title: Madison Marine Ways
Description: Madison Marine Ways, Madison, Indiana. Tell City - Owensboro - Harry Brown - Alice Brown.

Title: Sprague
Description: is turned at an average speed of 8 1/2 revolutions per minute by two 28 inch x 63 inch by 12 feet compound condensing engines. The Sprague was designed and built to tow coal from the Pittsburgh Coal District, in the spring of each year when river conditions were favorable, down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to Southern ports. It is believed her first large coal tow arrived in the Memphis

Title: Address of Hon. William H. Haywood, Jr. to the People of North Carolina
Date: 1846-08-10
Description: An address on the issues of tariffs and taxation as they relate to the economy of North Carolina, 1846.

Title: The Killing of Colonel Alonzo W. Slayback by John A. Cockerill
Date: 1882-10-28
Description: This page from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper depicts images of Franklin Edson, George O. Barnes, John A. Cockerill, and Alonzo W. Slayback. Edson and Barnes are written about on the page while a popular demonstration in front of the Post Dispatch office following the murder of Slayback by Cockerill is depicted below Slayback's and Cockerill's images.

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