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Title: Spread Eagle
Description: The Spread Eagle packet is shown heading downstream below the Merchants Bridge. It was owned by Capts. Henry and Buck Leyhe who once operated the Eagle Packet Company. Located near Eads Bridge since 1874.
A member of the famous Eagle fleet, the Spread Eagle was lost Jan. 18, 1918 when it hit an ice wall while at the head of a fleet of four Eagle steamboats on the Tennessee River.

Title: Wooden Mat Construction
Date: 1943-10-15
Description: Looking S. from Barge showing Wooden Mat under construction. Lancaster Corp. Work started June 5, 1943.

Title: Pushing Under MacArthur Bridge
Description: White boat under bridge., Signed lower left: James Godwin Scott

Title: Clarksville, Missouri
Description: Bridge over Mississippi River at Clarksville, Missouri. Writing on wall says "Buy Your Candies."

Title: Cape Girardeau Bridge Construction
Date: 1927-12-20
Description: Construction of Cape Girardeau Bridge 1927. Showing formwork on completed Pier No. 2. Concrete mixer-boat alongside.

Title: Golden Eagle
Date: 1947-05-17
Description: "Golden Eagle" below Eads Bridge St. Louis MO. Picture taken May 17, 1947 before departure for her last trip to Nashville, Tenn. She sank next morning May 18 at Grand Tower Island after striking rock formation and fearing a 6 foot hole in the center seam in the hull. The Pilot Nathan Smith beached her and all passengers & crew were saved. Repeated floods in the summer of 1947 made raising of the

Title: Gordon C. Greene
Description: Photograph of the steamer GORDON C. GREENE mid-stream at St. Louis, Missouri.

Title: Construction of Cape Girardeau Bridge
Date: 1928
Description: Cape Girardeau Progress Feb. 9, 1928

Title: Spread Eagle and Annie Spils of St. Louis
Description: The last Spread Eagle, third, at Merchants Bridge, St. Louis. In foreground is the boat Annie Spils of St. Louis.

Title: Eads Bridge and East Saint Louis From the Deck of the Steamer Golden Eagle
Date: 1946-07-13
Description: Golden Eagle trip July 13 - 1946. East St. Louis and Eads Bridge. Motorboat in the foreground.

Title: Under MacArthur Bridge
Description: Horizontal landscape of a white boat under the MacArthur Bridge on the Mississippi River., Signed lower right: James Godwin Scott; Titled on reverse

Title: Clarksville, Missouri
Description: Boaters at a covered bridge, Clarksville.

Title: Wooden Mat Construction
Date: 1943-10-01
Description: Looking S. W. showing start of Wooden Mat. Lancaster Corp. Work started Une 5, 1943.

Title: Golden Eagle
Description: Photograph of the GOLDEN EAGLE at southbound on the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri. Eads Bridge in background.

Title: Construction of Cape Girardeau Bridge
Date: 1927
Description: Plan view of cofferdam for Pier No. 3. Placing concrete seal for caisson; concrete chute and material lock in upper part of picture. Man lock near center of cofferdam.

Title: KIT CARSON
Description: On the Mississippi - Str. Kit Carson and bow boat, with lumber raft in tow - taken from Wagon Bridge, looking north.

Title: Jefferson Barracks Bridge, 1941
Date: 1941
Description: The Jefferson Barracks Bridge in the process of being built, 1941. This shot is looking towards the Illinois shore near the railroad tracks below Jefferson Barracks. Donated to the St. Louis Mercantile Library by Norbert Rechtien.

Title: Construction of Cape Girardeau Bridge
Date: 1927
Description: Driving steel sheet piling for cofferdam - Pier No. 5

Title: Clarksville, Missouri
Description: Boaters at a covered bridge, Clarksville.

Title: Cape Girardeau Bridge Construction
Date: 1927
Description: Construction of Cape Girardeau Bridge. 1927. View eastwardly from top of Span No. 1. Erecting steel from upper chord, showing rivet forge and traveler.

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