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Title: Carte Nouvelle de la Louisiane, et de la Riviera de MISSISIPI, de'couverte par fell Mr. de La Salle
Date: 1713
Description: Map appears in Henri Joutel's Journal Historique du Dernier Voyage que Feu M. de LaSale Fit Dans le Golfe de Mexique... Published by Chez E. Robinot, 1713.

Title: Chaperone
Description: Orginally the J. C. Kerr and later the Choctaw. Built at Clinton, Iowa in 1904. The J. C. Kerr was built at Chambersburg, Ohio in 1884. Later, as the Chaperone she had the same dimensions or :- 121 x 27.8 x 3.0 feet. Tonnage, gross and net, listed as 125. She was taken to Evansville, Indiana by Captain R. H. Williams in the early 1890s and entered the Evansville and Green River trade where she

Title: Plan of St. Lewis
Date: 1826
Description: autres Rivieres Affluentes &c. Paris: Bertrand, 1826. Scale of 200 Fathoms.

Title: U.S. Gunboat Cairo
Description: army rifles, 80 hundred weight; and one 12-pounder howitzer. In September of that year she was listed as carrying the six 32-pounders , three army rifles, three 8 inch guns and one 30-pounder Parrot rifle. The Washington records show that the Cairo was sunk within less than five minutes after being struck by a torpedo, 18 miles up the Yazoo river, on December 12, 1862.

Title: St. Louis Levee
Description: St. Louis levee, 1890's. Grand Republic (second), Belle of Calhoun, ?, City of New Orleans. Photographed by Henry Stark, Jr. of St. Louis.

Title: Map of the Country of the Illinois
Date: 1826
Description: Collot’s maps of Louisiana were made in 1796 and were most likely planned for military intrigues and colonial conquest, but the work transcended its purpose in thoroughly documenting the earliest settlements of the Illinois Country. These plans were the most detailed to their time.

Title: Chaperone
Description: Chaperone ascending Green River, Kentucky. Length 100 ft; Beam 24 ft; Hold 4.8 ft; Tonnage 98.

Title: Howard Shipyard
Description: Howard Shipyard at Jeffersonville, Indiana. W. C. Hite - Columbia - Morning Star - Harry Brown - Jos. B. Williams.

Title: Sprague
Description: View of the Sprague while towing.

Title: U. S. Gunboat Lexington
Description: repairs. What the Lexington lacked in size, however, she offset by her heavy armamant and her work during the war was among the best. After a series of meritorious engagements she was finally laid up and went out of commission in July of 1865. For the sum of $6000 (she originally cost more than $20, 000) the Lexington was sold at auction at Mound City a month later to Thomas Scott and Woodburn.

Title: Madison Marine Ways
Description: Madison Marine Ways, Madison, Indiana. Tell City - Owensboro - Harry Brown - Alice Brown.

Title: Sprague
Description: is turned at an average speed of 8 1/2 revolutions per minute by two 28 inch x 63 inch by 12 feet compound condensing engines. The Sprague was designed and built to tow coal from the Pittsburgh Coal District, in the spring of each year when river conditions were favorable, down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to Southern ports. It is believed her first large coal tow arrived in the Memphis

Title: Thirteenth Annual Report of the New-York Ladies' Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Date: 1857
Description: Together with the List of Officers and Managers, Committees, Constitution of the Society, and By-Laws of the Board

Title: Address of Hon. William H. Haywood, Jr. to the People of North Carolina
Date: 1846-08-10
Description: An address on the issues of tariffs and taxation as they relate to the economy of North Carolina, 1846.

Title: Fifth Session of the Taunton Baptist Association
Date: 1840-08
Description: Held in the Meeting-House of the First Baptist Church in Swansea

Title: Narrative Journal of Travels From Detroit Through the Great Chain of American Lakes, to the Sources of the Mississippi River
Date: 1821
Description: Performed as a member of the expedition under Governor Cass in the Year 1820

Title: Police Guide and Directory of St. Louis
Date: 1884
Description: A tourist guide and directory for the year 1884, it is authored by a nine year veteran of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Force and contains maps of commuter railroad lines, descriptions of resorts and businesses along each of these lines, and illustrations of prominent buildings and attractions throughout the city.

Title: Speech of Mr . Harmanson, of Louisiana, on the Independent Treasury Bill
Date: 1846-04-01

Title: Memorial of the Pittsburgh and Connellsville Rail Road Co. to Congress asking aid in the completion of their road.
Date: 1862, 1862

Title: The Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railroad Company to the Farmers' Loan & Trust Company and W. H. H. Miller
Date: 1899-08-01

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