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Title: Tom Dodsworth and Charley Jutte
Description: Photo of TOM DODSWORTH and barges. Unidentified boat to the right. Levee in the foreground with R. C. 20 boat. CHARLEY JUTTE in the background, docked at the far bank.

Title: Delta Queen
Description: Photograph of the steamboat DELTA QUEEN near a railroad bridge north of Hannibal, Mo. "15 barge tow ran into this bridge knocking down center span. April 1981. Turn table swing section on left side of picture in open position. No loss of life or boat. Accident caused by swing section tender not opening section after train passed over. Fast currant and slow opening left no place to go for the tow.”

Title: Lift Bridge at Kansas City
Date: 1952-10-20
Description: 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.

Title: Douglass Bridge
Description: Photograph of the Douglass Bridge.

Title: Golden Eagle
Description: Photograph of the GOLDEN EAGLE traveling under the Eads Bridge at St. Louis, Missouri.

Title: Golden Eagle
Description: Photograph of the GOLDEN EAGLE at St. Louis, Missouri. Eads Bridge in background.

Title: Spread Eagle
Description: The Spread Eagle packet is shown heading downstream below the Merchants Bridge. It was owned by Capts. Henry and Buck Leyhe who once operated the Eagle Packet Company. Located near Eads Bridge since 1874.
A member of the famous Eagle fleet, the Spread Eagle was lost Jan. 18, 1918 when it hit an ice wall while at the head of a fleet of four Eagle steamboats on the Tennessee River.

Title: Wooden Mat Construction
Date: 1943-10-15
Description: Looking S. from Barge showing Wooden Mat under construction. Lancaster Corp. Work started June 5, 1943.

Title: Pushing Under MacArthur Bridge
Description: White boat under bridge., Signed lower left: James Godwin Scott

Title: Clarksville, Missouri
Description: Bridge over Mississippi River at Clarksville, Missouri. Writing on wall says "Buy Your Candies."

Title: Cape Girardeau Bridge Construction
Date: 1927-12-20
Description: Construction of Cape Girardeau Bridge 1927. Showing formwork on completed Pier No. 2. Concrete mixer-boat alongside.

Title: Kansas City Municipal Wharf
Date: 1915
Description: Photo of the Kansas City Municipal Wharf in 1915.

Title: Golden Eagle
Date: 1947-05-17
Description: "Golden Eagle" below Eads Bridge St. Louis MO. Picture taken May 17, 1947 before departure for her last trip to Nashville, Tenn. She sank next morning May 18 at Grand Tower Island after striking rock formation and fearing a 6 foot hole in the center seam in the hull. The Pilot Nathan Smith beached her and all passengers & crew were saved. Repeated floods in the summer of 1947 made raising of the

Title: Construction of Cape Girardeau Bridge
Date: 1927
Description: Cape Girardeau Ferry A. C. Jaynes and concrete mixer plant. Moored along Water Street during a flood.

Title: St. Louis Levee
Description: Photograph of cargo and steamboats lining the Saint Louis levee in the 1890s. GRAND REPUBLIC (second) and BELLE OF CALHOUN, as well as the Anchor Line wharfboat are pictured. Eads Bridge in the background. Railroad tracks to the left.

Title: Portland
Date: 1993
Description: To be able in small way to be part of the restoration and preservation of our history and of the steamboats that made it possible for this country to become truly great is a great satisfaction. Signed: John Shipley

Title: Gordon C. Greene
Description: Photograph of the steamer GORDON C. GREENE mid-stream at St. Louis, Missouri.

Title: Construction of Cape Girardeau Bridge
Date: 1928
Description: Cape Girardeau Progress Feb. 9, 1928

Title: Spread Eagle and Annie Spils of St. Louis
Description: The last Spread Eagle, third, at Merchants Bridge, St. Louis. In foreground is the boat Annie Spils of St. Louis.

Title: Pluck
Description: The steamer PLUCK of the Henry W. Alsop Line. Barge in foreground. Barge or ferry in the mid-ground, along with the boat WINNIPEG. A Northern Pacific train runs in the background, where there is also a railroad bridge.

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