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Title: Brooklyn
Description: Photograph of the Pittsburgh & St. Louis packet Brooklyn in front of mailboat.

Title: City of Madison
Date: 1894-06-18
Description: Built in 1882 at Madison, Ind. 265 x 42.1 x 6.3.

Title: St. Louis Riverfront
Date: 1865
Description: Panoramic photograph of St. Louis, Missouri, 1865. Identifiable steamboats (from left to right) are: EDWARD WALSH, WARSAW, U. S. Mail Line C. E. KILLMAN, SULTANA, and EMPRESS. The Old Courthouse rises above the rest of the skyline.

Title: Belle Memphis
Description: The Belle Memphis was a large Anchor Line boat built at the Howard Yard, Jeffersonville, Indiana in 1880. Her dimensions were:- 267 x 42 x 7.5 feet. She operated in the St. Louis - New Orleans trade. On May 13, 1889 she took into the Vicksburg wharfboat the largest cargo of freight ever delivered by one steamer up to that date. It was a manifest of 11,024 packages weighing 813 tons. On

Title: City of Monroe
Description: Pen sketch of the US Mailboat CITY OF MONROE. By Oliver Parmley.

Title: Arkansas City
Description: Built at Jeffersonville, Ind. In 1882. Wrecked in tornado at St. Louis, Mo., June 1896.

Title: Belle St. Louis
Description: Memphis and St. Louis Packet Co. steamer BELLE OF ST. LOUIS mailboat.

Title: Kate Adams, Kate Adams (First)
Description: The first Kate Adams was built in 1872 at SewickleyPennsylvania and then completed at Pittsburgh. Her dimensions were:- 247 x 72.4 x 9.0 feet. Tonnage: gross, 1047; net, 927 tons. She had high pressure engines 24 inches in diameter and 9-foot stroke; also five boilers. Captain James Rees, who had much to do with the biuilding of the Kate Adams and the Will S. Hays, both in 1882, says they were

Title: KATE SWINNEY, FEDERAL ARCH, BELLAGOULD, U.S. Mailboat
Description: Picture of the Kate Swinney, Federal Arch, Bellegould, and U.S. Mail; Upper Missouri River Boats. Probably at Yankton, S.D. Also present are draymen and cargo on the levee, and three other unidentified steamboats. The wharfboat for the Keokuk Daily Packet is located to the mid-ground, right side of the photograph.

Title: Arkansas City on Marine Ways
Description: Arkansas City on Marine Ways at Carondelet, MO. 273 x 44 x 7

Title: Chesapeake
Description: Photograph of U.S. Mail Packet CHESAPEAKE.

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