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Title: Ohio River Front in 1940, Cairo Waterfront in 1940
Date: 1940
Description: assembly of the state, March4, 1819, and named for William W. Alexander who lived at America. He was a practicing physician, a politician and public man. He was a member of the legislature in 1882 and 1840 and Speaker of the House in 1822 and 1824. The area of Alexander county is 220 square miles. Cairo yesterday was \"a town set down in a low, flat plain and surrounded by high levees from which one

Title: River Scenes at Cairo, Illinois
Date: 1871-09-30
Description: Cairo at midnight. Coaling in Cairo. On the Mississippi - By our special artist and correspondent.

Title: Areoplane Survey Mississippi River
Date: 1925
Description: R. F., 1:20,000

Title: Rob't. E. Lee
Description: The 1866-built Rob't. E. Lee (Robert E. Lee) & Great Republic at Cairo Wharfboat.

Title: Halliday House
Description: There are few visitors to Cairo who haven't heard of the historic Halliday Hotel, located on Second and Ohio streets, and overlooking the site of old Fort Defiance at the junction of two rivers. It was completed in 1859 and opened under the name \"The St. Charles.\" This hotel early won a reputation for the excellency of its cuisine and for its atmosphere of true southern hospitality. During the

Title: African American Boy
Date: 1940
Description: Cairo, Illinois 1940.

Title: Landing of the Seventh and Twelth Regiments
Date: 1861-06-04
Description: Landing of the Seventh and Twelth Regiments at Cario, June 4, 1861.-Sketched by Mr. A. Simplot.-[See Page 410.]

Title: Street Scene in Cairo, Illinois and Government Auction on the Levee At Cairo, Illinois
Date: 1866-04-28
Description: Passing along the levee at Cairo, with its dust, filth, and obtrusive drinking-saloons, gaping wide open for victims to trash within, ti would appear to a stranger, from the great number of such places, that the people of Cairo had powers not accorded elsewhere to ordinary mortals of resisting the effects of 'tangle-leg,' 'red-eye,' 'twist-knee,' and other brands peculiar to the locality. Outside of each place are gathered a knot of hard-looking fellows. There is a suspicious air of 'lying-in-wait' common to these frequenters of the levee which is not calculated to inspire confidence in a stranger.

Title: Flood! Warning
Description: Broadside printed for flood evacuation, possibly 1927.

Title: The Barrett Line
Description: and rough speaking and rougher acting mates, their venturing and pioneering passengers, the Barrett Line handled greater volumes of freight than did those old packet lines whose histories are told in song and story. The Barrett Line was pushing large tows up and down the rivers not long after that seemingly ancient time - 1870 - when the Robert E. Lee and the Natchez were running their immortal race

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