Steamboat JAMES HOWARD at St. Louis, Missouri, circa 1876

stereograph

Stereograph; albumen prints with rounded upper corners; mounted on flat yellow board; sidewheel steamer JAMES HOWARD [built 1870, burned 1881]; at St. Louis Missouri wharf; at left is landing stage for Merchant Southern Packet Company; at right is tow and coal stage with crescent logo; grain elevator at left background; printed along left margin "The Mississippi River"; printed along right margin "St. Louis, Missouri"; reverse has list of 'CITY SERIES A."; with No, 15 "Steamer James Howard, largest boat on the River" underlined; view probably c. 1876, [HOWARD acquired by Anchor Line in 1878].