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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: 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: Man and Boy Rabbit Hunting
Date: 1904
Description: Man and boy rabbit hunting, by A. B. Frost, 1904.

Title: Minutes of the Second Annual Meeting of the Mississippi River Association of Baptists
Date: 1833
Description: Held at Goggin's Creek Meeting House, in Tipton County, Western District of Tennessee, on the Saturday preceding the second Lord's Day in October, 1833.

Title: Minutes of the Straight Creek Baptist Association, 1822
Date: 1822-08
Description: Held at Bethel Meeting-House Highland County, together with their Circular Letter

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: CHESTER
Date: 1908
Description: Mo. River packet boat-first sternwheel-then screw propellers-1908

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

Title: Report of the Commissioners of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum
Date: 1854-12-28
Description: First biennial report of the condition, budget, and treatment of pupils of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum of Missouri, presented in the state General Assembly, 1855.

Title: Just a Pickin'
Date: 1966-03-27, 1966-03-28
Description: Charles Fulks, 5301 Minerva ave., tries out a guitar at the music booth of the E. J. Korvette display. Nearly 100,000 persons attended the Modern Living Show which lasted six days.

Title: Minutes of the Second Anniversary of the White River Baptist Association
Date: 1842-09
Description: Held with Mount Pleasant Church, Izard County, State of Arkansas

Title: Sounding
Description: U. S. Sergeant Floyd. Captain McIntyre pulls on a polished bass knob and a bell sounds somewhere below. A deckhand, equipped with a life belt of Mae West mode and hidden from view on the deck below, picks up an 18-foot pole marked with alternate black and white bands a foot wide and expertly pokes it toward the bottom. We are in 12 feet of water, or two fathoms, and his softly spoken \"Mark Twain

Title: Dakotah, Montana, and Wyoming
Description: Three separate photographs of the steamboats DAKOTAH, MONTANA, and WYOMING. “Designed by Capt. John Todd, these three great boats were the supreme achievements as big carriers on shallow water. They arrived on the Missouri about 12 years to late to reap the golden harvest in the “Mountain Trade”. On a favorable trip they could have made easily $100,000 on the trip to Fort Benton, Montana. But the

Title: St. Louis
Description: Circa 1904 map of Saint Louis, Missouri by the Leipzig firm Wagner and Debes. Shows sight of Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904 (1904 World's Fair).

Title: National Elimination Balloon Races Held at Priesters Park
Date: 1914-07-11
Description: Panoramic photograph depicting six racing balloons still tethered to the ground at the center of the racing track at Priesters Park. Spectators can be seen in the stands to the right and left. The race was presented by the Aero Club of St. Louis.

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