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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: Mississippi No. 1
Date: 1825
Description: , Lodge and Fisher, printers, 1825.

Title: Map of the Mississippi from St. Louis to the Marameck River
Date: 1811
Description: sand bars in the river were alarming testament in early maps. This map was an inserted extra leaf in the 1811 edition of Zadok Cramer's Navigator.

Title: Islands and Towheads
Date: 1940-07
Description: Islands and towheads in Illinois River above Kampsville, July 1940.

Title: Mississippi River No. 1
Date: 1822
Description: In the time of the flatboats and the coming of the first steamboats documented so well through the early American navigational river guides, maps clearly indicated a future problem for St. Louis and its highly praised river harbor—the city was essentially on a peninsula which could become a remote island due to floods and other naturally occurring circumstances over time. The many islands and sand bars in the river were alarming testament in early maps.

Title: Grand Tower Dike and Revetment Work
Description: Tower Rock, Grand Tower, Ill. Near Missouri Shore, opposite Grand Tower, Ill. Grand Tower Pile Dike and Revetment Contract, 1937-38: Woods Brothers Construction Company. Note: Photographs could not be taken at regular intervals because of adverse weather conditions.

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