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Title: Senator Cordill
Description: SENATOR CORDILL at Reedsville, Ohio. Independent Packet Line. Built at Jeffersonville, Indiana for Natchez and Vicksburg trade. Operated on Upper Ohio in later years of career. Came out in May, 1902 - Dismantled in 1939.

Title: Franklin Avenue Restaurant
Description: Restaurant and café on Franklin Avenue.

Title: Wine of Cardui
Description: Photograph of drugstore window advertising "Wine of Cardui", a patent medicine in the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth centuries.

Title: These 14 Cars Sold To The City Of St. Louis
Description: Photograph of fleet of Ford Model T automobiles in front of St. Louis city hall. Drivers are in each car, several men are standing in front of the cars holding a banner that reads "These 14 cars sold to the city of St. Louis, watch the Fords go by."

Title: Minutes of the Fifth Anniversary Meeting of the Union Baptist Association
Date: 1844-08
Description: Convened at Plum-Grove Church, Fayette County, Texas

Title: Bald Eagle
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: James Lee II
Date
Description: The second James Lee was built at Jeffersonville, Indiana in 1898. Her dimensions were 204 feet in length, 36 feet beam and 5 feet depth of hold. She ran in the Memphis and Friar's Point trade, Captain John H. Darragh commanding. She was eventually converted into an excursion boat at Memphis and renamed the DeSoto, about 1917. In January, 1918 she sank in the ice at Memphis along with the Georgia

Title: John W. Barriger III Collection Maps
Date: 1984, 1984
Description: Maps from collection B-1; The John W. Barriger III Papers.

Title: Railway Locomotive With Trainmen
Description: Photograph of rear of a railway locomotive travelling away from the camera. Trainmen and an engineer are on the back of the Tender.

Title: Washington Avenue
Description: A photograph of Washington Avenue looking west. Automobiles, pedestrians, electric streetcars and horse-drawn wagons are visible., This is a wider view of another photograph in the collection.

Title: River Protection Work
Date: 1910
Description: United States Engineer Department. Placing abatis dike to close gap in driven pile dike. In chute between Establishment Island and Missouri shore near Brickeys.

Title: River Improvement Work
Date: 1911
Description: "Tender No. 9" (rear center) and portion of tow of 27 pieces of river construction equipment enroute from Establishment Island to Liberty Island.

Title: Government Equipment in tow of U. S. General J. H. Simpson, M
Date: 1910
Description: Miscellaneous government equipment in tow of U. S. Gen. J. H. Simpson. Morning construction outfit from Establishment Island to Crain's Island - U. S. Engineer Department

Title: Smokestack Repair
Description: Photograph of a pair of smokestacks, one of which is being worked on by a group of men near the top of the stack. The upper stories and roofs of 901 and 911 Washington Avenue are visible in the background., 901 Washington Avenue is the Bankers Lofts building. 911 Washington is the Lammert Building. Note the eagle sculptures, which have been removed, along the top of the cornice.

Title: F. Weyerheuser
Description: The F. Weyerheuser was built at Rock Island, Illinois in 1893. Her dimensions were: 1 140 x 31 x 4.5 feet; 216 tons. Her horse power was 300. She was built as a rafter for the Weyerheuser and Denkmann fleet and operated on the Upper Mississippi River. Later she was acquired by the U. S. Government, converted into a \"light house tender\" and renamed the U. S. Dandelion. Still later, after serving

Title: Steward and Cook Crew
Date: 1910
Description: River improvement work, U. S. Engineer Department. Establishment Island. Steward and Cooks crew in dining room of quarterboat.

Title: Charter, Constitution, By-Laws, and Rules and Regulations of the Mercantile Library Association of Baltimore
Date: 1851
Description: A compiled print of the founding documents - charter, constitution, by-laws, and rules of the Mercantile Library Association of Baltimore, Md.

Title: Sidewalk, Street And Lot
Description: Photograph looking along city sidewalk with major street on one side and vacant lot on the other. Horse-drawn carriages and electric streetcars are visible in the street. A surveyor is working in the vacant lot and a couple of men on the sidewalk are looking towards the camera., There is a building in the background with "W. J. Lemp Brewing Co." on the front.

Title: Urban Horse Herd
Description: Photograph of herd of horses in urban neighborhood. Two men appear to be trying to corral the horses.

Title: River Des Peres Construction
Description: Photograph of the River des Peres being enclosed in a concrete tunnel in Forest Park. The Missouri History Museum is in the background.

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