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Title: Outside of the Galleries of the House of Representatives During the Passage of the Civil Rights Bill.
Description: M-244-1-04 (physical location)

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: Government Snagboat No. 2
Date: 1889-11-02
Description: Government snag-boat removing obstructions from the channel of a western river. - Drawn by Schell and Hogan. - [See page 870.]

Title: Queen of the West
Date: 1863-02-28
Description: The federal ram "Queen of the West" attacking the rebel gunboat "Vicksburg" off Vicksburg.--[See page 139.]

Title: A Trip on the Atchafalaya River
Date: 1883-04-11
Description: 1. Entrance to Atchafalaya River. 2. A "Swamper's" house on the Atchafalaya. 3. A Swamper. 4. Steamer running the rapids of the Atchafalaya. 5. Red River Landing. 6. Castle on the Atchafalaya. 7. Little Whiskey Bayou. 8. A Swamper's garden (in a Canoe). 9. The ash cabin, Atchafalaya. 10. Map showing changes in the Mississippi's current.

Title: A Trial of Patience
Date: 1880-03-20
Description: A TRIAL OF PATIENCE. - Drawn by S. G. McCutcheon.

Title: A Government of the People, for the People, and By the People - That Cannot Protect the People, Shall Perish From the Earth
Date: 1876-09-30
Description: Political cartoon illustrated by T.H. Nash. "A Government of the people, for the people, and by the people" - that can not protect the people, shall perish from the earth. "GO ON" -- U. S. Grant The constitution of the United States must and shall be preserved - and protected.

Title: Burning of steamers on the Ohio River at Cincinnati, May 12, 1869.
Date: 1869-05-29
Description: We illustrate on page 349 the disastrous conflagration which took place on the Ohio River, at Cincinnati, on the morning of May 12. A little before two o'clock a fire broke out in the Clifton, caused, it is supposed, by the upsetting of a lamp. Five steamers were lying in close proximity, and above these six others. In less than half an hour the six steamers below were destroyed, nearly all of

Title: Indianola
Date: 1863-03-07
Description: The United States gun-boat Indianola (iron-clad) running the blockade at Vicksburg.

Title: The Fight at Corney's Bridge
Date: 1863-02-14
Description: The fight at Corney's Bridge, Bayou Teche, Louisiana, and the destruction of the rebel gun-boat "Cotton," January 14, 1863.-Sketched by our special artist.-[see page 103.]

Title: Vicksburg Canal
Date: 1863-04-04
Description: Break in the Mississippi Levee near the canal at Vicksburg.-Sketched by Mr. Theodore R. Davis.-[See page 215.]; and Cutting away the dam at the head of the Vicksburg Canal.-Sketched by Mr. Theodore R. Davis.-[See page 215.]

Title: Pasttime Athletic Club of St. Louis
Date: 1916
Description: Drawing of Pasttime Athletic Club of St. Louis. Includes portrait drawings of athletes.

Title: Gioacchino Rossini
Date: 1867-11-09
Description: The great Italian Composer.

Title: The Capture of Vicksburg
Date: 1863-08-01
Description: The capture of Vicksburg - arrival of Admiral Porter's Fleet at the Levee on Fourth July, 1863.

Title: Ice Bridge at St. Louis
Date: 1873-01-18
Description: Ice bridge over the Mississippi at St. Louis.-[Photographed by R. Benecke, St. Louis.]

Title: Mississippi Ku-Klux in the Disguises in Which They Were Captured
Date: 1872-01-27
Description: M-244-1-06a (location)

Title: Flag Ship "Harper" Attacked
Date: 1862-06-14
Description: The flag-ship "Harper" attacked by the ram "Manassas" and a fire-raft in the Mississippi.-[see page 373.]

Title: Registered Enemies of the United States
Date: 1863-03-07
Description: Departure of registered enemies of the United States from Port Hickok, to Madisonville, LA.-Sketched by our special artist.-[See next page]; Landing of registered enemies of the United States at Madisonville, LA., February 2, 1863.-Sketched by our special artist.-[See next page.]

Title: Memphis Before the War.
Date: 1862-04
Description: Old battery at the Navy-yard. Steamboat landing. The cotton levee., From Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War.

Title: St. Louis, Missouri Drawing, Harper's Weekly
Description: business. Several steamboats of various sizes traversed the river and traveled north under the Eads Bridge. In the distance the city of St. Louis was shrouded in a thick cloud of coal smoke. Coal was the primary source of energy used in the city during the 19th century. The image was Drawn by Schell and Hogan, taken from a sketch by C.A. Vanderhoof and published in Harper's Weekly.

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