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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: Potter
Date: 2008-12
Description: Deck of the POTTER.

Title: Potter
Date: 2008-12
Description: Looking down at the dustpan

Title: Potter
Date: 2008-12
Description: Potter (background) in St. Louis Harbor. Gordon M. Stevens in foreground.

Title: Potter
Date: 2008-12
Description: St. Louis Harbor from the bridge of the Potter, December 2008

Title: Del Commune
Description: Photograph of the towboat DEL COMMUNE. In the lower right corner of photograph are the words,“St. Louis MO. Engineer District Floating Plant / Tow Boat Del Commune Broadside View / MAR 28, 1938 / 3377."

Title: Ohio River Shipyard
Date: 1942-02-05
Description: February 5, 1942. From bottom left: Gulf Barge OSAGE; USCGC AZALEA; NUGENT Sandi Gravel Dredge; USCG Quarter Boat #12; mv BETTY GARDNER; mv JANE RHEA; mv ANKER L. CHRISTY; Str. KENOVA.

Title: James H.
Description: The James H. is a steel hull, twin-propellor towboat. She was built at Nashville, Tennessee in 1940 by the Nashville Bridge Company. This boat has Atlas Imperial Diesel engines which total 800 horse power. She is owned by the Walter G. Hougland Lines of Paducah, Kentucky.

Title: Grand Tower III
Description: Photograph of the towboat GRAND TOWER. Corps of Engineers boat.

Title: Potter
Date: 2008-12
Description: Potter on the river

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: Jayne Houghland
Description: Photograph of the Houghland Barge Line Inc. towboat JAYNE HOUGHLAND. WJ

Title: Spirit of St. Charles
Description: Photograph of the SPIRIT OF ST. CHARLES

Title: Peace
Date: 1934
Description: The Peace is a twin propellor, steel hull towboat and was built at Neville Island, Pennsylvania by the Dravo Corporation in 1934. Her dimensions are:- 153.8 x 34.1 x 7.9 feet. Her Winton Diesels total 750 horse power and are six cylinders, 4 cycle with a 14 inch bore and 18 inch stroke; 250 r. p.m. She has Kort nozzles and her propellors are four-blade, 5 feet - 5 inches in diameter with 4 feet

Title: Admiral
Description: Photograph of the motor vessel ADMIRAL at the St. Louis levee with Eads Bridge in the foreground and the Gateway Arch in the background.

Title: Duncan Bruce
Description: The Duncan Bruce is a steel hull, twin-propellor towboat. She was built at Charleston, West Virginia in 1927 by the Charles Ward Engineering Works. Her dimensions are:- 133.6 x 35.1 x 6 feet. Her two National Superior Diesel engines total 1350 horse power. She was originally built as a sternwheel towboat with 750 horse power Fairbanks-Morse engines. In 1939, following damage in a fire, the boat

Title: E. B. Inge
Date: 1949-05-12
Description: Photograph of the towboat E. B. INGE. Sent by Mrs. E. L. Rhoads by Capt. Noble L. Gordon. May 12 1949.

Title: Gale C
Description: Photograph of m/v GALE C. with tow, going under a bridge.

Title: Socony II
Description: Photograph of the motor vessel SOCONY II.

Title: J. M. S.
Description: Photograph of the J. M. S. towboat with tow. Woman with back facing the camera in the foreground.

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