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Title: Capitol - 2nd deck
Description: Stairwell of the excursion steamer CAPITOL.

Title: On the Mississippi River
Description: A landscape with a dark tree in the foregoround.

Title: The Mississippi River
Date: 1867-11-09
Description: The delta of the Mississippi - scene at Southwest Bar. Telegraph station at Southwest Bar. Stake Island. Scene after the hurricane of October 5.

Title: Capitol - 2nd deck
Date: 1930-01
Description: Ballroom on the second deck of the excursion steamer CAPITOL. Jan, 1930.

Title: Capitol - 4th deck
Description: Three men with Old Comiskey Brand whiskey on board the lower deck of the excursion steamer CAPITOL. Unnamed officer to their right.

Title: P-011: Captain William F. and Betty Streckfus Carroll Collection
Description: The Captain William F. and Betty Carroll Collection traces the history and development of Streckfus Steamers Inc., as well as its antecedent and descendant companies through correspondence, financial documents, business documents, photographs and memorabilia. In addition, the collection boasts a sizable number of photographs, blueprints, documents and ephemera related to river vessels, including but not limited to all of the Streckfus vessels. Captain Carroll also collected information on the history of steamboating, packet and excursion businesses, and river information, history, heritage and life, mostly through clippings and transcriptions; however the collection also contains some photographs, publications, charts and correspondence relating to the above subjects. There is also information regarding river personalities, including people involved with the Streckfus family and businesses, as well as river life and river work in general. Most of the biographical information takes the form of photographs or clippings. Currently, the photographs have been digitized. A finding aid to the entire collection is available.

Title: Breweries on the River
Date: 1940
Description: A view of a river in the foreground and breweries in the background.

Title: Marblehead Harbor Mass
Description: A view of boats on a body of water with a harbor in the background lined with buildings.

Title: Minutes of a Convention held October 8th, 9th and 10th, Inclusive, 1853, With Mount Gillead Church
Date: 1853-10

Title: Capitol - 2nd deck
Date: 1930-01
Description: Bandstand located in the ballroom of the excursion steamer CAPITOL. Jan, 1930.

Title: Capitol - 2nd deck
Date: 1930-01
Description: Streckfus CAPITOL ballroom Jan. 1930.

Title: Flour Mills in Minneapolis Minn
Description: A depiction of flour mills, smokestacks, and buildings with people in the foreground.

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: Marblehead Harbor
Description: A view of boats on a body of water with one boat in the foreground that has a figure on board.

Title: Self-Portrait 1928
Date: 1928
Description: An oval head-and-shoulder self-portrait of Gustav Goetsch.

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: On the St. Lawrence
Description: A landscape with a view of trees in the foreground and a body of water in the distance lined with trees.

Title: Notre Dame Paris, France
Description: Notre Dame cathedral is silhouetted against the sky. There are people in the foreground by the river and bridge.

Title: Capitol - 2nd deck
Date: 1930-01
Description: Ballroom, second deck of the excursion steamer CAPITOL.

Title: Capitol - 4th deck
Description: Fourth deck lunch area of the excursion steamer CAPITOL.

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