P-3: Ruth Ferris Collection of River Life and Lore

Subject Index: Boxes 32-33
Box Number Folder Title
32 RF7 National Trust for Historic Preservation in the U.S. “Saint Louis – Annual Meeting.” June 1967.
32 National Waterways Study
32 National Waterways Conference
32 Nebraska, State of
32 Newspapers – Lists
32 New Carrollton Bridge
32 RF3 New York State, Map, 1975
32 New Orleans, LA – Photos
32 RF2 The Crescent City, Letho (New Orleans) 3 ½ x 6
32 RF3 “New Orleans and her River,” Joseph Judge, National Geographic, pp. 151-187.
32 RF3 New Orleans – Map “Souvenir of New Orleans the Paris of America”, Alfred S. Amer, 1930
32 New Orleans – Photographs
32 New Port News, Virginia
32 New Salem, Il
32 New Ulm, Mn. – Photo
32 Newspaper
32 RF2 “View in Wall-Street from Corner of Broad” from book 5x7 New York, NY
32 RF3 “New Viston Open Before ‘Of’ MO. River,” R.L. Duffins, N.Y. Times May, July 5, 1933.
32 RF3 New York State Barge Canal
32 National Maritime Hall of Fame
32 RF3 New York Canal Tolls
32 RF3 the New York Ledger, Oct. 18,1862 (newspaper)
32 Museum – Strathmont – N.Y.
32 RF3 National Association of Passenger Vessel Owners
32 National Board of Steam Navigation
32 National Maintenance & Repair, Inc.
32 National Marine Electronics
32 RF3 National Marine Service
32 National Waterways Conference
32 National Register of Historic Vessels
32 RF3 National Review Academy
32 RF3 National River Hall of Fame ( David Wright, Capt. Streakfres, Mr. Pott, Capt. Wright, Ruth Ferris, Capt. Burk Leyhe)
32 National rivers Hall of Fame – Photos
32 National Road
32 National road Museum – Photos
32 RF3 National Trust
32 RF3 National Waterways
32 New Orleans, LA – Photos
32 RF3 National Wildlife Restoration Week
32 RF3 Nautical Research Guild
32 RF3 Nauvoo, Il.
32 Navigation
32 RF3 Navigation Aids
32 RF3 Navigation Chronology – American Fur Co. & Others 1831- 1889 List Mo. River
32 RF3 (Navigation on the Missouri river, 1955) (Navigation – Time of War – 1942)
32 RF3 Navig. Dry Dock
32 Neare, Gibbs & Co.
32 Nebraska City Bridge
32 Neely’s Landing
32 Neare, Gibbs & Co.
32 Neely’s Landing, Mo. – Photos
32 Negro Story
32 Neversink Highlands
32 RF3 New Albany, In.
32 New Albin, Iowa
32 Newberry Library
32 RF3 New Cumberland Locks & Dan (Ohio River)
32 New Iberia
32 RF3 New Madrid
32 New Madrid (Harper’s Weekly)
32 New Mexico & Texas
32 RF2 Capture of New Orleans – Fleet Passing Forts on the Mississippi. Fort St. Phillip, Brooklyn (abreast of St. Philip) Fort Jackson, Louisiana (iron plated battery exploding), Varura (fighting through iron clad gunboats), Hartford (flagship), Pensacola, Mississippi, Manassas (Ram) Mortar Vessels in the distance shelling the forts. C-Persons del-4 ½ x 7
32 RF3 New Orleans
32 RF3 New Orleans
32 New Orleans 1976 – Map
32 RF3 New Orleans
32 P3 New Orleans – Souvenir Guide
33 New York City
33 Newport, AR - Photos
33 Newport News, Va.
33 Newspaper
33 RF3 Newspaper – 1st Steamboat paper printed on Mississippi – G.W. Ford
33 Nicknames
33 Niggerhead [a 19th/early 20th century term for either submerged logs or a tool to dislodge submerged logs]
33 Night Travel
33 RF3 Nile River
33 Niles Register
33 Niles Works
33 Nilo Barge Line, Inc.
33 Nine Mile Reach
33 Noise
33 Nordberg Manufacturing Co.
33 Norfolk and Washington Steamboat Co.
33 RF3 Norris Dam (TN)
33 RF 1-3- Norris Dam, Tennessee River
33 North Freedom, WI
33 Northern Navigation, 1908
33 Northern Pacific RR
33 Northstar Navigation – Realia
33 RF3 Northwest Ohio – Great Lakes Research Center
33 RF3 Northwestern Treaty Commission – 1866
33 RF3 Nottoway – Antebellum Plantation House
33 Numbering System
33 Nylon
33 RF3 Oahe Damn & Reservation (S.D.)
33 RF3 Oak Alley
33 RF3 Oakley (Home) – Audubon Stayed Here
33 Obstruction
33 RF3 Ocklawaha River, Fl
33 Officers
33 RF3 “The Official Guide of the Railways and Steam Navigation …” Jan. 1942 pp. 1255 – 1258.
33 RF3 Ohio river
33 Ohio river
33 First Railroad Bridge Across the Ohio River Stuebenville, OH, Towboat Advenee, July 1889
33 Ohio Canals
33 RF3 Ohio River Canalization Parade, 1929
33 Ohio River – crossing by team of six horses
33 RF3 Ohio river – Floods (life – few 8?)
33 RF3 Ohio River – Map- existing & replacement navigations structures, Oct. 1961
33 RF3 Ohio River Lecture Series, 1976 – Evansville, In.
33 RF3 Ohio valley Improvement Association, Ca 1962 (Booklet)
33 P3 Ohio – Water Transportation Map
33 RF-2 A Sunday Excursion on the Ohio River. – from a D.C. Redington photo .. 6 ½ x 9
33 RF-2 View of the Ohio (below Cincinnati) drawn & erg. By Nat-Kinsey, Middleton, Wallace & Co. Printers – 9-1857 5 x 9 ½
33 Ohio River – Dams – Photos
33 RF3 Ohio River – “the Ohio river with a job to do,” Prut J. Vesiland, National Geographic, Feb. 1977, pp. 244-273
33 RF3 “Scenes and Songs of the Ohio – Erie Canal”, collected by Capt. Pearl R. Nye, the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, Columbus: 1952
33 The Ohio River co.
33 RF 1-3 Ohio River Museum
33 RF3 Ohio Valley Pilot, Vol. 1, No. 5 Sept. 1985, Marrieta, O.
33 RF1-3 O.L City, PA – Allegheny River
33 RF3 Oil Clean up
33 Oil Spills
33 Ocklawaha River
33 RF3 “ ‘Oh’ Man River
33 Olatha, Kansas
33 Old boat
33 Old boats
33 RF3 “Old Man River,” Stuart Chase, The Readers’ Digest, May, 1935. & original from New Republic, March 27, 1935. (Mississippi River)
33 RF3 “Old Man River Gets in the Fight”, Roderick M. Grant, Popular Mechanics 1943
33 RF3 “Ol’ Miss. In Wartime”, L. C. Turner, Christian Science Monitor, 12-23-44
33 Old River
33 Old river Iron Works, Inc.
33 RF 1-3 Old rock House 1936
33 RF3 Old Salem Park (Lincoln Log village)
33 RF3 “Old Settlement Playgrounds of Missouri.” Mo-State Division of Resource and Development Brochure, CA
33 Old stowboat
33 Old Stone Corporation
33 RF3 Old Sturbridge Village, Mass.
33 RF3 Old West Trail
33 Olympics
33 Omaha – Photos
33 Omega Bend
33 RF3 “On the River,” (Four Seasons of Fine Art) National Bank of Commerce, Charleston, WV 25322. (Brochure)
33 RF3 Onondaga Cave (Mo)
33 Oquwaka, Ill.
33 Oral History
33 RF3 Organ Historical Society, 1989.
33 RF3 Organs
33 Ory BRDS. Marine Service of America, Inc.
33 RF3 Osaga River
33 P3-3- “Steamboat Navigation on the Osage River Before the Civil War,” Gerald Schultz, MO-Hist.-Soc., April 1935
33 Osceola
33 Ottawa Indians [Odawa Indigenous people]

Subject Index: Boxes 34-36
Box Number Folder Title
34 RF3 “Our Lady of the Rivers”
34 Outlaws
34 RF3 “Over the Rapids,” Ben Hur Wilson, Article in Palimsest, vol. IV, no. 11, Nov. 1923 pp. 361-378 (copy)
34 RF3 Ozark National Scenic Riverway
34 John H. Overton Lock and Dam
34 RF3 Ozarks
34 PT Boat Museum
34 RF3 Pacific Ocean Map, Sept. 1943, National Geographic
34 Pacific R.R.
34 RF3 Packet Boat Era – C.W. Stall
34 Rf3 Paducah, KY
34 Paddy’s Hens & Chickens
34 RF1-3 Paducah, KY – photos
34 Painters
34 Palisades
34 RF3 panama canal
34 Panama canal – photos
34 Panic
34 Panorama
34 Rf3 Parades
34 Rf3 Parker Towing (map)
34 Parkersburg-Belpre Bridge
34 Parks Metropolitan Airport, IL
34 Passenger Vessel Assoc. (PVA)
34 Passes
34 Past
34 PATCO (Port Arthur Towing Company)
34 Patent – Snag Machine – Capt. Henry Shreve
34 Patents
34 Patton Towing Co.
34 Peabody Coal Co.
34 Peace Commission 1867
34 Pearls
34 Pearl Bridge – Illinois River
34 Pekin, IL – Photos
34 Pelican Island
34 Pelster Housebarn (MO Heritage Trust) Franklin County, MO
34 Pendulum Power
34 Pennsylvania ‘76
34 Pensacola, FL
34 RF1-3 Peoria, IL
34 RF3 Peoria, IL
34 Pepin, Lake
34 RF3 Pere Marquette State Park
34 Pere Marquette State Park
34 Perry County Indiana Map
34 Persian Gulf War Sticker
34 Pets
34 Petticoats
34 Phillips 66
34 Photos
34 Piasa Bird
34 Piasa Bird – Photos
34 Piasa Chautauqua
34 Piasa Island
34 Piasau Rock
34 Pickwick Landing Dam
34 Pierre Menard State Memorial, IL
34 Pig’s Eye Bar
35 Pike County, MO
35 Pike Island Locks and Dam (Ohio River)
35 Pikes Peak
35 Pilot
35 Pilots’ Associations
35 Pilots Convention
35 Pilots and Engineers Association of Missouri
35 Pilots, Masters, Mates Association
35 Pilots – Rules
35 Pilot Rules for the Great Lakes and their Connecting and Tributary Waters,” Rules and Regulations Series No. 12, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, March 14, 1939
35 Pilothouse Memorial, Herman, MO
35 Pilot’s Watches
35 Piloting on the Missouri in Early Pioneer Days,” Paul W. Brown, Chicago Record-Herald, March 22, 1909
35 Piloting, Seamanship and Small Boat Handling,” 1953-54, ed. By Charles F. Chapman, M.E., Motor Boating, New York, Vol. V (copy)
35 Pioneer Fast Line (Train and Canal)
35 Pioneer Riverman’s Association
35 Piqua Historical Area, Great Miami River Valley, Ohio
35 Piqua, OH – Canals – Photos
35 Pirates
35 Piroque
35 Pitman
35 Pittsburgh Landing – TN – 1895
35 Pittsburgh, PA
35 Pittsburgh, PA – Photo
35 Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co.
35 Pittsburgh Steamboat Centennial 1911
35 Places
35 Plantation Homes
35 Plates
35 Plates, Souvenir
35 Plum Point
35 Plymouth Cordage Co.
35 Poems (1)
35 Poems (2)
35 Point
35 Point Aux Herbes
35 Point Coupee
35 Point Kaskaskia – Miss. River
35 Point Pleasant, WV
35 Polk Stalks
35 Pollution “Last Chance for the Nation’s Waterways,” Sat. Rev. 5-22-65, Pelicans – Sewage – Miss. River – Thames – Oil
35 Pomeroy
35 Pomme de Terre Dam (MO)
35 Pompey’s Pillar
35 Pontoon Bridge
35 Pontoon Bridges
35 St. Charles – Portage des Sioux District Flood Control Project
36 Poppleton Lodge – Calhoun County, IL
36 Population
36 Port Allen Lock – Photos
36 Port and Starboard
36 Port Arthur
36 Jetties Drawing, Port Eads
36 Port City Barge Line Inc
36 Port Hudson
36 Port Neches Towing
36 Portage des Sioux
36 Portage des Sioux (see RF11-2 Ruth Ferris MSS. “Indians”)
36 Portage Book
36 Portage des Sioux-Missouri
36 Ports
36 Ports and Waterways Institute, LSU
36 Porter’s Dummy
36 Possum Belly
36 Post Offices-MO
36 Postal, Captain William C.
36 Potomac River-Map of Potomac River Steamers, 1914
36 Powerway
36 Prairie Du Chien, IL
36 Prairie du Rocher, IL
36 Prairie du Rocher, IL 2
36 Prairies
36 Prentise, City of
36 Precision Machine Shop, Ltd.
36 Preservation
36 President’s Island
36 Presidential Boat Parades, 1907-1909
36 Price Inland Terminal
36 Principia College, Elsah, IL
36 Prints-Catalog
36 Prints-Currier & Joes-Seth Eatman-Civil War
36 Proctor & Gamble River Signs
36 Produce
36 Proform SFRP
36 Prohibition
36 Propeller
36 Propeller Club of the United States
36 Propeller Club-Photos
36 Puller
36 Pull Tight Bar
36 Pumps
36 Pure Oil Company, Smith’s Bluff Refinery, Beaumont, TX- Photos
36 Puzzles
36 Quachita River
36 Quarter Master
36 Queen’s Bluff
36 Quilts
36 Quincy, IL
36 Quincy, IL 2
36 Quincy, IL-Photos
36 Quincy, IL-Realia
36 Quotations
36 RF Communications, Inc.
36 RRL Club
36 Racing-Horse
36 A Race on the Missouri”, Charles D. Stewart, The Century Magazine, February 1907, Pages 579-594
36 Raccouci
36 Radar
36 Radio Heliphone
36 Rafts, Drift
36 Railroad Competition (Thomas Good, 1933)
36 Union Depot-Color Illustration 3 1/2x4 Railroads
36 Railroads
36 Rainbow Plan (Bridge)
36 Ramrod Eddy
36 Rand McNally Road Atlas & Radio Guide, 1953
36 Randolph, TN
36 Randolph County, IL
36 Ranges
36 Rapids
36 Rat Row
36 Ratchets
36 Rates
36 Ram Fleet & Marine Brigade
36 Ration Book, Pocket Book 2, Book 1
36 Ravenswood, MO
36 Raythem (River Radar)
36 Reading on Steamboat
36 Read’s Landing
36 Read’s Landing Bridge
36 Read’s Landing, Looking Into Lake Pepin
36 Recipes
36 Recreational Use (River)
36 Redfish Bay Terminal, Inc.
36 Red Ribbon of Murphy (Temperance)
36 Red River
36 Red River-Photos
36 Red Star Towing Company
36 Redwing Iron Works, Redwing, MN
36 Refrigeration
36 Register
36 Regulations
36 Religion
36 Reminiscence
36 Reminiscence of a Towboat Trip”, Barney Rogers
36 Rendelman House Museum of the Mississippi”, Howard F. Rissler, Journal Illinois State Historical Society, Autumn, 1957
36 Rendezvous
36 Reno-Ohio
36 Repairs
36 Report of Casualty-U.S. Coast Guard
36 Report on the Internal Commerce of the United States”, William F. Sevetzler, 1/30/1888, Part II, Commerce & Navigation, Gorst Printing, (Copy)
36 Report of the Postmaster General”, 12/1/1857, Volume II-61, Pages 961-966
36 Reserve Towing & Fleeting

Subject Index: Boxes 37-40
Box Number Folder Title
37 Rescue
37 Research
37 Restaurants
37 Restoration Grants
37 Rhine River-Map-Lithograph
37 Rhode Island Rivers
37 Rifle-Henry
37 Rigging
37 Riot in the River
37 Riot of 1853
37 Rising Gun Trade
37 River
37 River Academy (National River Academy)
37 River Bed
37 River Bend Marine Company
37 River Bluff Dwellers”, (Newman, Mesker, Piper) Post Dispatch, 9/23/84
37 River Cities
37 River College Course
37 River Column
37 River Commentary
37 River Cruises
37 River Days Proclemation-6/23/70
37 River Drift
37 River Hall of Fame (Sprague)
37 River Highway
37 River Improvement Convention
37 River Language
37 River Line, Inc.
37 River Navigation
37 River Parade
37 River Reporters
37 River Road
37 River Stage Bulletin, 1893-94, 1948, 1921, 1942
37 River Room-M.H.S.
37 River Scenes-General
37 River Valley Terminal-Photos
37 River Watch
37 Rivers Joint Organizing Committee
37 Riverboat Calendar-1982-Misslehorn Drawings
37 Riverdale, IL-Photos
37 The Rivers”-St. Louis Daily Globe Democrat, 9/21/1880 (Boat Sailings & News)
37 Rivers and Harbors Convention
37 Rivers Institute at Hanover College
37 The Rivers of Missouri”, The Missouri Conservationist 02/49 Care Nonan
37 Riverscene
37 Untitled-Riverscene, Photoprint 6 1/4x 4 ¾
37 Riverton-Locks, Tennessee River
37 Rivertronics
37 Riverway Company
37 Riverway Harbor Service St. Louis, Inc.
37 Robbery
37 Rocheport, MO
37 Rocine, Oh-Photos
37 Rock Island, IL
37 Rock Island, U.S. Engineers, Clock Tower & Bell
37 Rock Island District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
37 Rock Island, IL-Photos
37 Rocks
37 Rockwood, TN-Photos
37 Rodeco
37 Rodgers Marine Towing Service, Ltd.
38 Roe, John J.
38 Roger J. Au & Son, Inc.
38 Rogers Diesel Engineering, Co.
38 Roll Missouri,” Roy de S. Horn, Argosy Monthly (March 29, 1941-April 5, 1941)
38 Rolling Pin’s Almanac 1880
38 Rooms
38 Rope
38 Rope “The Patient Spinners of Plymouth” The Saturday Evening Post, 12-7-1946
38 Rope – Turk’s Head – Braiding
38 Roscoe Village (Coshocton, OH)
38 Rose Island
38 Rosedown” – St. Francisville, LA
38 Rosiclare, IL – Goetzman’s Landing
38 Round Butte
38 A Round Trip to Lake Superior and the Mississippi from New York,” Francis Vinton, Appleton’s Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 10-29-1870 pp. 521-526 – Nov. 5 1870 pp. 545-548 (Part 1 & 2)
38 Rowing
38 Rucker’s Point
38 Rudd, Capt. David/Family – Leonard, James, Johnson/Genealogy (1)
38 Rudd – Family Genealogy (2)
38 Rudd, IA
38 Rudders
38 Rudder Indicator
38 Rules
38 Runners
38 Russian River
38 Ryland, Stanley
38 SCNO Terminal Corp.
38 Sag Junction – Photo
38 St. Albans – Missouri
38 St. Anthony Falls
38 View of the Falls of St. Anthony from below Cataract Island, drawn after Nature for the Proprietor Hermann J. Meyer and published by him
38 St. Charles, MO
38 St. Charles & Mississippi
38 St. Charles Highway & Bridge – Photo
38 St. Charles on the Mississippi, drawn after Nature, for the Proprietor Hermann J. Meyer (also published) tinted
38 St. Charles Historical Society
38 St. Charles – Map
38 St. Clair, IL
38 St. Croix River
38 St. Francisville, IL
38 St. James, MO
38 St. Joseph
38 St. Lawrence Seaway Power
38 St. Louis County – History-in-Miniature, St. Louis County Bank, includes written info (includes historic map)
38 St. Louis County Medical Assn. Women’s Aux.
39 St. Louis Admirals R/C Model Boat Club DVD
39 Airport Selection Controversy
39 Aloe Plaza
39 St. Louis – Aloe Plaza – Photos
39 Alton Trade
39 American Heart Print – 1987 – copy
39 Anheuser-Busch Brewing
39 Arch Dedication
39 Arch (1)
39 Arch (2)
39 Arch (3)
39 Arch (4)
39 Arch (5)
39 Arch (6)
39 Arch (7)
39 Arch (8)
39 Arch (9)
39 Arch (10)
39 Arch (11)
39 Arch (12)
39 Arch (13)
39 Arch Dedication – Notes by Ruth Ferris
39 St. Louis – Arch – Photos
39 Architects
40 Architectural Buildings of Architectural Value and Historic Significance 1969
40 Argus
40 Arsenal
40 Arsenal Island
40 Art Museum
40 Art Museum “Panorama” 1949 (2)
40 Art Museum – “Place of Art” Picture – 1904
40 An Artists Impression of Little Old St. Louis Back in 1857”, Reprinted St. Louis Globe-Democrat, 3/27/27 (Newspaper Clipping)
40 Arts and Education Council of Greater St. Louis (1984 Trip)
40 Automobiles
40 Barthold’s Inn
40 Baseball
40 Battle of the Boats Booms Along the Riverfront, Globe-Democrat, 10/6/71
40 Bayou Belle Riverfront