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Title: Non-Streckfus Vessels: Cincinnati
Description: p11-3-1-59-47

Title: Admiral First Deck
Description: p11-3-1-40-13

Title: President Lido Deck
Date: 1963-08
Description: Photograph of passengers on the top deck of the President steamboat overlooking the Mississippi River. Photograph is taken from within the pilothouse., p11-3-3-58-8

Title: President Exterior
Date: 1988
Description: Photograph of the starboard side of the President steamboat as it sails the Mississippi River., p11-3-3-57-4

Title: Burning of the steamboats "Grand Republic" and "Carondelet" at St. Louis, September 19
Description: This lithograph illustrated the destruction of the steamboats "Grand Republic" and "Carondelet" from September 19, 1877 when the steamboats caught fire and burned to the shore. The boats were shown shrouded in smoke and engulfed in flames as men rushed back and forth along the shore in an attempt to extinguish the fire.

Title: St. Louis, Missouri Drawing, Harper's Weekly
Description: business. Several steamboats of various sizes traversed the river and traveled north under the Eads Bridge. In the distance the city of St. Louis was shrouded in a thick cloud of coal smoke. Coal was the primary source of energy used in the city during the 19th century. The image was Drawn by Schell and Hogan, taken from a sketch by C.A. Vanderhoof and published in Harper's Weekly.

Title: President Lido Deck
Date: 1947-08
Description: Photograph of passengers overlooking the Mississippi River as they visit the top deck of the President steamboat., p11-3-3-58-8

Title: President Lido Deck
Description: Photograph of the port side of the President steamboat on the Mississippi River., p11-3-3-58-8

Title: Jefferson Barracks - View of Mississippi River
Date: 1960-06-20, 1962-06-24
Description: "Large paved area outside museum soon to be completed in this historical park section of Jefferson Barracks provides a fine view of the Mississippi River. The museum, in a renovated munitions depot, will contain many momentos of events associated with the history of the army and St. Louis."

Title: P-065 Mississippi-Illinois River Canal (Hennepin Canal) Construction Photographs
Date: 1892
Description: rivers while working on Lock 36 and Lock 37. The prints cover much of the construction involved in building canals in the 19th century, and include portrayals of excavation and dredge work, extension and widening of rivers work on Carr Island (in the western portion of the Rock River), use of dynamite in lock building, pile driving, construction on concrete abutments, and other equipment and processes

Title: Image 13: February 1893
Date: 1893-02
Description: Cyanotype print. Description on reverse: I. & M. Canal. Excavating and driving piles at Lock #37, outlet lock into the Miss. River. A. J. Whitney – Contractor F.S.H. – Engr. in charge Taken Feb. 1893

Title: President Lido deck
Date: 1963-08
Description: Photograph of passengers on the top deck of the President steamboat overlooking the Mississippi River. Photograph is taken from within the pilothouse., p11-3-3-58-8

Title: Admiral First Deck
Description: p11-3-1-40-13

Title: Missouri Portland Cement Docks
Description: Photograph of the Missouri Portland Cement Company factory and loading docks on the Mississippi River. A steamboat (the Belle of Calhoun) is visible in the background at one of the docks., This is the full image of a duplicate photograph in the collection, which identifies the steamboat.

Title: Speech of Mr. Bowlin, of Missouri
Date: 1844-01-16
Description: Speech discussing the management of the Mississippi River and its tributaries.

Title: Photograph of Steamer City of Monroe
Description: Page 3 Carpenter-Moore Family Riverboat Scrapbook A -- City of Monroe was part of the Anchor Line and served cities between St. Louis and New Orleans from 1887 to 1905. This page is part of a scrapbook that contains hundreds of photographs of riverboats operating on the Mississippi River from the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries.

Title: Photograph of Steamer City of Natchez
Description: Page 2 Carpenter-Moore Family Riverboat Scrapbook A -- City of Natchez was part of the Anchor Line and served cities between St. Louis and New Orleans from 1885 to 1886. This page is part of a scrapbook that contains hundreds of photographs of riverboats operating on the Mississippi River from the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries.

Title: Photograph of Steamer City of St. Louis
Description: Page 1 Carpenter-Moore Family Riverboat Scrapbook A -- City of St. Louis was part of the Anchor Line and served cities between St. Louis and New Orleans from 1883 to 1903. This page is part of a scrapbook that contains hundreds of photographs of riverboats operating on the Mississippi River from the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries.

Title: Carpenter-Moore Family Riverboat Scrapbook A (full book)
Description: This is the first of six scrapbooks acquired from the estate of Dorothy Jane Mahaffey Carpenter Moore. The scrapbook contains hundreds of photographs of riverboats operating on the Mississippi River from the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries. Many pages include captions, newspaper clippings, and information about the vessels including where they were built, cost of construction, and significant

Title: Cotton Blossom Paddlewheel
Date: 1978-10-13
Description: Image of a crane lifting the paddle-wheel of the Cotton Blossom riverboat restaurant from the Mississippi River.

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