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Title: Clyde Bill of Lading
Date: 1886-05-14
Description: Bill of lading for the Steamer CLYDE for shipment of 27 tons #1 pig iron and 15 tons #2 pig iron, May 14, 1886 to St. Louis, Missouri, for the La Grange Iron Co. at $2.00 per ton.

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: Tenth Annual Report of the Executive Committee of the Young Men's Institute
Date: 1848-06-06

Title: List of Masters, Mates, Pilots, and Engineers of Merchant Steam, Motor, and Sail Vessels
Description: Record of masters, mates, pilots, and engineers of merchant steam, motor, and sail vessels kept by the United States Steamboat Inspection Service

Title: Admiral First Deck
Date: 1978-06
Description: p11-3-1-40-13

Title: City of Kirkwood
Date: 1908
Description: Map of Kirkwood, Missouri.

Title: Admiral First Deck
Description: p11-3-1-40-13

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

Title: Nashville, Tennessee
Date: 1863-12
Description: Loading stores at Nashville, Tennessee, December, 1863. Left to right: Rob Roy, Belle Peoria, Irene, Revelice, Palestine, Lizzie Martin, Mercury. Note: Hard tack in boxes on levee. It is reported that this photograph was taken by a Confederate spy and turned up after the Civil War.

Title: Capitol - 4th deck
Description: Fourth deck lunch area of the excursion steamer CAPITOL.

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

Title: Cairo
Description: 175 x 50 x 6; 512 tons. Casemate 150' x 50' - 21/4\" plating. Torpedoed Yazoo River 1863. Sides 8' high - single wheel. 9 miles per hour. 13 guns mostly 6\" rifles.

Title: Virginia Stranded in Pomeroy Bend
Date: 1910
Description: The Virginia operated in the Pittsburgh-Cincinnatti trade along with the Keystone State, the Iron Queen, the Scotia, the Carrollton, the Hudson and the Queen City. She was owned by the Pittsburgh and Cincinnatti Packet Company. Her career seemed to have been a hectic one. In 1910 high water from the Kanawha River left her stranded up in a field a hundred yards from the river, high and dry in

Title: Map 'A': Time Zones for Street Car and Feeder Bus Lines Based on Service and Routing
Date: 1930
Description: Accompanying report to the transportation survey commission of St. Louis., From: Report of the Transportation Survey Commission of the City of St. Louis / submitted to the Board of Aldermen.

Title: John Gilbert Bill of Lading
Description: Bill of Lading from the Evansville, Paducah & Tennessee River Packet Company for transport of 108 tons of #1 pig iron at $2.00/ton, for the Lagrange Iron Company from La Grange to St. Louis, Missouri. February 19, 1887.

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

Title: Virginia Sunk at Wellsville, Ohio
Description: Virginia steamboat sunk

Title: City of Louisville, Roof Bell
Description: Stories are legion concerning the large bell in the center of the hurricane forward deck of the pilot house. The pealing and ringing of these bells, particularly packets, connote richness of tone, clarity of sound, lavishness of unstinted expenditure, silver used in their casting, and combined melody with harmony. Steamboatmen attached a great deal of sentiment with these bells and they were passed on from one boat to another at the end of a steamer's carreer. The bell of the Valley Belle came from the Science. That of the Fannie Dugan went to the City of Jacksonville... Great expense was involved in the casting of many of these roof bells and many were ornate in design. There was a lot of silver mixed in the metal of the big bell on the Chalmette to enhance it's tonal qualities. It was highly finished and an artistic decorative ornamentation extended entirely around it near the bottom. It is said that the silver toned qualities of the Hudson's bell was ruined after she was destroyed by fire at Cincinnati. Tapping the roof bell by the captain or mate as a packet approached a landing gradually fell into disuse. But the use of the roof bell at the time of departure still continues. Tapping the roof bell often caused the packet's cabin to even vibrate. Captain William Loyd had a unique system in ringing out the Columbia on the Upper Ohio...

Title: Fiala and Haren's New Sectional Map of the State of Missouri
Date: 1861
Description: Gives counties, U.S. land districts, roads, and mines. "Entered according to an act of Congress in the year of 1860, by Gray & Crawford... of the Southern District, of Mo."

Title: Quincy
Date: 1906-07
Description: The Quincy sunk near Trempeleau, Wis., on the Mississippi River.

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