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Title: Wharf Access Road
Date: 1943-08-12
Description: Looking S.W. showing access road topping levee to wharf. Landcaster Corp. Work commenced June 5, 1943.

Title: New Levee
Date: 1942-09-08
Description: Completed New Levee from point under Terminal R.R. Bridge looking N. E. U.S. Pt. and Hired Labor Hydraulic Construction. Started 8-3-42.

Title: Saint Louis Riverfront
Description: Boats lined up along the St. Louis levee. Union Elevator visible on the Illinois shore. Boats are, from left to right, unnamed, the snagboat C. R. Suter, the showboat French's New Sensation, and a steamer ----lyde. Date range of photograph could be from 1888 to about 1910.

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: Saint Louis Riverfront, Circa 1900
Description: Photograph of the St. Louis Riverfront, circa 1900. The U. S. Snagboat Horatio G. Wright is in the background. Positioned in front of it is the steam tug, Ella St. Clair, which operated on the riverfront from 1898 - 1902. An excursion steamboat and another boat are to the right of the image. Women and children are walking the levee.

Title: Farm Animals on a Levee
Date: 1927
Description: Farm animals on a Louisiana levee during the 1927 Mississippi River flood.

Title: McCrea Levee
Date: 1927
Description: McCrea Levee, McCrea, Louisiana, during the 1927 Mississippi River flood.

Title: Refugees and Animals
Date: 1927
Description: Refugees and animals on a levee during the 1927 Mississippi River flood.

Title: Levee Break
Date: 1942-06-27
Description: Break in unfinished new levee near terminal. Railroad bridge, looking N. E.

Title: Wharf Access Road
Date: 1943-09-15
Description: Looking S to SW showing access road topping levee to wharf. Landcaster Corp. Work commenced June 5, 1943.

Title: Louisiana - Inhabitants of - Levees - Mississippi. Petition Relative to Levees on the Mississippi.
Date: 1836
Description: A request from the citizens of Louisiana to the United States Congress for the government to build six-foot levees along the Mississippi River in the state of Louisiana and the Arkansas Territory. At head of title: 24th Congress, 1st session Doc. no. 265 Ho. of Reps.

Title: Refugees and Animals
Date: 1927
Description: Refugees and animals sitting on a levee during the 1927 Mississppi River flood.

Title: High Water
Date: 1942-06-27
Description: High water, looking North along new levee.

Title: Pile Dike
Date: 1952-10-08
Description: Showing pile dike that is being contructed across river channel made by flood to black and divery flow into new channel made by dredge. The second cut is just being started thru Pilot Canal from upper end. Kansas City District, channel diversion.

Title: Great Crevasse of the Mississippi
Date: 1858-06-05
Description: The great crevasse of the Mississippi on the plantation of Mr. Bell, near New Orleans, April 11, 1858.--See page 7.

Title: Cows on a Levee
Date: 1927
Description: Cows on a levee during the Mississippi River flood of 1927.

Title: Levee Repair
Date: 1927
Description: Levee Repair, Great Flood of 1927.

Title: Whbe. No. 2
Date: 1942-05-23
Description: Whbe. No. 2, looking N. from Old Levee. Work commenced 5-23-42.

Title: Refugees and Tents
Date: 1927
Description: Refugees and tents on a levee during the Great Flood of 1927.

Title: Cotton Blossom, Cotton Blossom and other boats
Date: 1911

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