Approaching lift bridge at Kansas City when enroute from St. Joseph, Mo. To St. Louis. Dredge (William H. Black) is passing through bridge. Kansas City District.
Page from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper from June 4, 1881. The page contains two large images. The image at the top is a view of Kansas City based on a photograph by M. B. Bower. The image at the bottom is of a sixty-thousand-pound steamship bed being poured at the Morgan Iron-Works in New York City.
Showing dredge (William H. Black) on upper side of Pilot Canal at station 6 + 00 dredging towards the 50' wide plug that will be blasted out. The (Black) dredged out the channel entrance for upper end. Dredging operations will be completed tonight.
The Uncle Sam was originally constructed as the Jacob Richtman at Sterling Island, Missouri in 1898. Her dimensions were:- 160 x 32 x 5 feet; 469 tons. She had two boilers and her engines were 14 inches with a 6-foot stroke. She was a sternwheel packet. On April 17, 1903 while the Jacob Richtman was descending the Mississippi River with two loaded barges and a log raft in town she struck a span
Approaching Kansas City while enroute from St. Joseph, Mo. To St. Louis. At right is dredge (William H. Black), which preceded us down river. Kansas City District.
Chester at K.C. as tunnel boat. Here's how the boys hung their rudders back when. Propeller in tunnel. Originally 3 - took out center. Originally 2 boilers took off one and one stack.
4-3-61. With compliments to my good friend Captain Ed Heckman, Hermann, Missouri. by Courtney M. Ellis. The gentleman on roof with back to you walking forward looks very much like Captain Wm L. Heckman?
The body of Charles Binaggio was taken to Holy Rosary Church at 529 Campell st. in Kansas City for a requiem high mass. A crowd of 600 packed the small church.
Approaching Kansas City while enroute from St. Joseph, Mo. To St. Louis. At right is dredge (William H. Black), which preceded us down river. Kansas City District.
According to General Manager Dal Maxvill, the Cardinals have no intention of trading their \"highly volatile\" pitcher Joaquin Andujar, shown here being restrained by teammates after being ejected by umpire Don Denkinger from the seventh game of the World Series.
Novelty postcard. At the top is text reading "Pull for your candidate". Below the text is an image of an elephant with a red cloth on its back reading "For President". By pulling the elephant's string tail, an image of presidential candidate William H. Taft pops up from behind the elephant. The opposite side of the postcard is formatted with a place for a message, address, and stamp. Manufactured by Elite Post Card Co., Kansas City, Mo.