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

Title: Jim Wood
Description: she sagged and broke in two. There was another Jim Wood constructed as the Grand Lake in 1866 at Pittsburgh. Her dimensions were:- 168 x 30.4 x 5.2 feet. Her name was changed to Jim Wood on September 24, 1881. She evidently went out of service prior to 1885.

Title: Towboat on the River
Description: We meet a towboat with two trails of smoke billowing out behind from her stacks.

Title: Minutes of the Thirteenth Annual Session of the Sweet-Water United Baptist Association
Date: 1843-09
Description: Convened at Sweet Water Church, Monroe County, E. Ten.

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: Potter
Date: 2008-12
Description: Deck of the POTTER.

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

Title: Ouachita
Description: Steamboat OUACHITA midstream.

Title: Josephine
Description: The Josephine was built at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1873. Her dimensions were:- 178 x 31 x 4.5 feet; 301 tons. She had two boilers. Her engines were 15 incehs in diameter with a 5-foot stroke. This boat ran as a packet on the Missouri River. She once made a notable exploration trip to the upper Yellowstone, reaching Pompey's Pillar on June 3, 1875; then went up to Hell Roaring Rapids where she

Title: Constitution of the Ohio Association
Date: 1820-12
Description: Founding document of the Tayses Valley Association

Title: Betsy Ann, Betsy Ann near a shore
Description: The Betsy Ann was built in 1899 at Dubuque, Iowa. The dimensions of her steel hull were:- 165 x 39 x 5.5 feet. Tonnage, gross and net, 295 tons. She was originally built for and ran in Natchez-Bayou Sara trade on the lower Mississippi River. About 8:30 A.M. on April 5, 1907, while enroute from Bayou Sara to Natchez, she was struck by a heavy wind near Fordoche Landing, which carried away her

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: Potter
Date: 2008-12
Description: Looking down at the dustpan

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

Title: Grand Tower Dike and Revetment Work
Date: 1937-10-29
Description: October 29, 1937. - Looking upstream from pilot house of Grafton. Graded bank and mattress weaving about station 219-00. Note curve on which Grafton entered below dike No.79.2L.

Title: Address of the Young Men's Democratic Whig Association of St. Louis
Description: To Their Whig Brethren of Missouri. Document talks about the election of the next Vice President and President of the Whigs of Missouri.

Title: City of Ironton
Description: The City of Ironton was built in 1879 at Ironton, Ohio and ran in the Portsmouth and Huntington trade. She was very speedy. Later she was sold to the Mississippi River, rebuilt into the Issaquena and ran on the Mississippi River. In 1884 we find her registered at Vicksburg, Mississippi.

Title: Mississippi river flood at New Madrid, Missouri, 1913, Frisco Depot
Date: 1913
Description: Frisco Depot flooded

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
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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

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