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Title: Remarks of the Hon. J. R. Barrett of St. Louis
Date: 1855-01-30
Description: Pamphlet on the issue of slavery in Missouri, 1855.

Title: Celebration at Opening of Davis Island Dam
Date: 1885-10-07
Description: Crowd lined up to view opening of dam. Steamboats underway in the background, including the steamers GENEVA and ONWARD. Oct. 7, 1885. #455.

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: Minutes of the Twelfth Annual Meeting of the North Grand River United Baptist Association
Date: 1853-08
Description: Held with the Church at Chillicothe, Livingston County, Mo.

Title: Minutes of the Thirty-Fourth Anniversary of the Missouri United Baptist Association
Date: 1851-08
Description: Held with the Second Baptist Church, Saint Louis, Mo.

Title: The City of St. Louis Missouri.
Date: 1855
Description: An 1855 map of the city published by Joseph Hutchins Colton.

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: 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: Map of the State of Missouri and Territory of Arkansas
Date: 1826
Description: 1826 map of the State of Missouri, with counties, mountains, towns and rivers included. Arkansas Territory is also mapped out similarly. Native American villages are noted to the west of Missouri.

Title: Chartered Dredge Tender L. A. Fulton at Mustapha Island
Date: 1886-10-23
Description: The Little Andy Fulton of Louisville, KY., at midstream near Mustapha Island in the Ohio River.

Title: Ohio River, Ice Gorged at Mouth of Little Blue River.
Date: 1893-02-02
Description: #1021, Feb. 2, 1893. OHIO RIVER, Ice Gorged at Mouth of Little Blue River. 673 miles from Pittsburg.
Man standing behind part of ice flow.

Title: Celebration at Opening of Davis Island Dam
Date: 1885-10-07
Description: Crowd gathered to view the opening of the Davis Island Dam. Many steamboats are lined up in the background.

Title: Ohio River Front in 1940, Cairo Waterfront in 1940
Date: 1940
Description: assembly of the state, March4, 1819, and named for William W. Alexander who lived at America. He was a practicing physician, a politician and public man. He was a member of the legislature in 1882 and 1840 and Speaker of the House in 1822 and 1824. The area of Alexander county is 220 square miles. Cairo yesterday was \"a town set down in a low, flat plain and surrounded by high levees from which one

Title: Agricultural and Mechanical Fair
Date: 1871-10-14
Description: The Great Fair at St. Louis, -- A view of the grounds.

Title: Admiral Lido Deck
Description: p11-3-1-41-20

Title: Just Fishing
Date: 1939
Description: Tennesse River. Sheffield, Alabama. 1939.

Title: Cincinnati, Ohio Public Landing
Date: 1893-01-24
Description: Public Landing from Suspension Bridge, Cincinnati, O. Jan. 24, 1893. #1027.

Title: Ohio River, Dredging at Mill Creek Bar
Date: 1893-06-29
Description: #1063, June 29, 1893. OHIO RIVER, Dredging at Mill Creek Bar. 140 miles from Pittsburg.
Dredges OHIO and OSWEGO at work in the river.

Title: Tow Chains and Ratchets
Description: Tows comprised of barges were lashed together by manila ropes called \"lines\" in the early days of towboating. These, with other modern improvements, have, in part, been replaced by chains or cables with ratchet pulling jacks for tightening or reducing \"slack\". Ratchet pulling jacks were originally designed for steamboat and river work in hitching tows, fastening rafts, floats, etc. However, they have been so improved that they are now being extensively used in building construction and shipbuilding for fastening and holding in place the skeleton steel framework, derricks, masts, forms, etc. In railroad work they have proven a valuable tool for wrecking crews. In quarries and coal mines for fastening either permanent or temporary guys.

Title: U. S. Snagboat, E. A. Woodruff at Mariman's Bar
Date: 1889-06-28
Description: With crew on deck. June 28, 1889. #723.

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