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

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: Minutes of the Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the Missouri Baptist Association
Date: 1835-09
Description: Held at Goshen Meeting House, St. Louis County, Missouri

Title: Harbor of Saint Louis.
Date: 1869
Description: Map of the Mississippi River stretching from Alton, Illinois to Saint Louis, Missouri and East Saint Louis, Illinois. Includes islands (Kerr's Island; Cabaret Island; Chouteau Island; Wilson's Island; Mobile Island; Ellis Island) and railroads (CH. A. & ST. L. R. R.; St. L. A. & T. H. R. R.; Edwardsville Coal R. R.; O. & M. R. R.)., From: Message of the mayor, and reports of city officers : delivered to the city council.

Title: Minutes of the Twenty-Eighth Anniversary of the Missouri United Baptist Association
Date: 1845-09
Description: Held with the Salem Church, St. Louis County, Mo.

Title: Minutes, of the Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Missouri Baptist Association
Date: 1830-09
Description: Held at Feefe's Creek Meeting-House, St. Louis County, Missouri

Title: Anniversary Address, to Alton Division, No. 4, Sons of Temperance, at their Hall, December 25, 1852
Date: 1852-12-25

Title: Campbell's Political Map of Missouri
Date: 1872, 1873
Description: Engraved expressly for his sectional topographical & descriptive atlas of the state. Contains congressional districts, counties, judicial circuits, cities, roads, railroads, and rivers. Entered according to an act of Congress in the year 1872.

Title: Official Map Chicago Terminal District
Date: 1961, 1961
Description: 1961 map of the railroads serving the Chicago metropolitan area. There is an inset that provides detail on railroad lines and facilities in the downtown core of the city.

Title: Peerless, An Alabama River Packet
Description: The Peerless, Captain Tom Barry, was an Alabama River packet running from Mobile to Montgomery, Alabama. She was built as the James T. Staples in 1908 at Mobile, Alabama and her net and gross tonnage was 365. The high pressure machinery was rated as 900 horsepower. The wooden hull was 200 x 40 x 5.1 feet. She carried a crew of 41. The Staples exploded her boilers on January 9, 1913, was partially

Title: Admiral Construction
Description: P11-3-1-40-8

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

Title: Admiral Construction
Description: P11-3-1-40-8

Title: D. H. Pike
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: Admiral Construction
Description: P11-3-1-40-8

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: St. Louis Municipal Dock
Description: Illustration of St. Louis levee along North Market Street. Steamboats docked in foreground. Warehouses visible behind steamboats. Manufacturing and office buildings visible in background.

Title: Wild Wagoner
Description: The Wild Wagoner, a handsome sidewheeler, of the Civil War period was built in 1864 at the Knox boat yard of West Marietta, Ohio for the Cincinnati and Wheeling trade. She cost $155,000, a lot of money in those days and had a capacity of 700 tons. She was owned by Captain H. H. Drown of Marietta, Ohio and her dimensions were: 180 x 39 x 5.5 feet. She had three boilers and her engines were 25.5

Title: Queen City
Description: Steamer QUEEN CITY. Her wake of uniform mounds of water, curled at the top and falling forward.

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.]

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