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Ohio River (4)
Abbot, Henry L. -- Report upon the physics and hydraulics of the Mississippi River (1)
American Civil War (1861-1865) (1)
Arkansas -- Description and travel (1)
Arkansas River (1)
Battle casualties (1)
Canoes and canoeing (1)
Deep Waterways Convention -- (1909 : -- New Orleans, La.) (1)
Ethnology (1)
Great Lakes (1)
Hagen, G. -- (Gottlief), -- 1797-1884 (1)
History (1)
Humphreys, A. A. -- (Andrew Atkinson), -- 1810-1883. -- Report upon the physics and hydraulics of the Mississippi River (1)
Indians -- Origin (1)
Indians of North America -- Northwestern States (1)
Indians of North America -- Southwest, Old (1)
Marine accidents (1)
Marine accidents -- Mississippi River (1)
Mississippi River -- Description and travel (1)
Mississippi River -- Sources (1)
Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel (1)
Monogenism and polygenism (1)
Northwest, Canadian (1)
Northwestern States (1)
Northwestern States -- Description and travel (1)
Ohio imprints 1881 (1)
Ohio imprints 1909 (1)
Ojibwa Indians (1)
Oklahoma -- Description and travel (1)
Prisoners (1)
Reclamation of land -- Mississippi River Valley (1)
Red River of the North (1)
Steam-navigation -- Mississippi River (1)
Steamboat disasters Mississippi River History 19th century (1)
Sultana (Steamboat) (1)
United States (1)
United States -- Description and travel (1)
United States -- Emigration and immigration (1)
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Casualties (1)
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons (1)
United States Military records Civil War, 1861-1865 Prisoners and prisons (1)
Waste lands -- Mississippi River Valley (1)
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1Title:  Report upon the physics and hydraulics of the Mississippi river: upon the protection of the alluvial region against overflow; and upon the deepening of the mouths ... Submitted to the Bureau of Topographical Engineers, War Department, 1861    
 Creator:  Humphreys, A. A. (Andrew Atkinson), 1810-1883 
 Abbot, Henry Larcom, 1831-1927
 Publication:  J.B. Lippincott & Co, Philadelphia,1861. 
 Notes:  LA4544-CMP41 Location: CMP41/CMP40, shelf G. 
 Call #:  LA4544-CMP41 
 Extent:  xxiv, 17-456, cxlvi p. xx fold. pl. (incl. maps, diagrs.) tables. 34 cm. 
 Subjects:  Mississippi River
 
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2Title:  Remaking the Mississippi    
 Creator:  Mathews, John Lathrop, 1874- 
 Publication:  Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, New York,1909. 
 Call #:  TC425 M678M 
 Extent:  5 p. leaves., 264, [2] p. : front., 15 plates. ; 21 cm. 
 Subjects:  Mississippi River
 
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3Title:  Memorial of the Merchants' Exchange, representatives of industrial bodies and the municipal government of Saint Louis, to the Fifty-second Congress of the United States in favor of the improvement of the navigation of the Mississippi River    
 Creator:  Grissom, D. M. (Daniel Morrison), 1829-1930 
 Merchants' Exchange of St. Louis
 Publication:  The Exchange, St. Louis,1892 
 Notes:  Cover title: Memorial to the Fifty-second Congress of the U.S. in favor of the improvement of the navigation of the Mississippi River. 
 Call #:  F25NB S145 
 Extent:  84 p. ; 22 cm. 
 Subjects:  Mississippi River
 
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4Title:  Letter to Samuel J. Peters, esq: president of the New Orleans Chamber of Commerce, in relation to the improvement of the navigation of the Mississippi river    
 Creator:  Stein, Albert. 
 Peters, Samuel Jarvis, 1801-1855
 Publication:  Printed by J. Perry, Philadelphia,1841. 
 Notes:  Imperfect: t.p., map wanting. 
 Call #:  P 5890 
 Extent:  32 p. front. (fold. map) 23 cm. 
 Subjects:  Mississippi River
 
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5Title:  The Mississippi River : what it needs, and why it needs it    
 Creator:  Leach, Smith S. (Smith Stallard), 1851-1909 
 United States Congress. Senate.
 Publication:  Govt. Print Off, Washington,1890. 
 Notes:  Cover title. "This article appeared in Manufacturers' Record of Baltimore, August 14, 1899." 
 Call #:  P 4478 
 Extent:  12 p. (incl. covers) ; 22 cm. 
 Subjects:  Mississippi River
 
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6Title:  The Mississippi and Ohio rivers: containing plans for the protection of the delta from inundation; and investigations of the practicability and cost of improving the navigation of the Ohio and other rivers by means of reservoirs, with an appendix, on the bars at the mouths of the Mississippi    
 Creator:  Ellet, Charles, 1810-1862 
 Publication:  Lippincott, Grambo, and Co, Philadelphia,1853. 
 Call #:  F25NB E45 
 Extent:  viii, [17]-367 p. 12 pl. (2 fold.) tables. 25 cm. 
 Subjects:  Mississippi River | Ohio River
 
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7Title:  Mississippi steamboatin': a history of steamboating on the Mississippi and its tributaries    
 Creator:  Quick, Herbert, 1861-1925 
 Quick, Edward C.
 Publication:  H. Holt and Company, New York,[c1926] 
 Notes:  Bibliography: p. 341-342. 
 Call #:  VM623 Q6 
 Extent:  xiv p., 3 Á., 3-342 p. front., illus., plates. 22 cm. 
 Subjects:  Steam-navigation -- Mississippi River | Mississippi River
 
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8Title:  Riparian lands of the Mississippi River, past--present--prospective: being a collection of essays and discussions of problems affecting the improvement of navigation of the Mississippi River, bank protection, harbor improvement, its levee system and the permanent deepening of the channel at its mouth, together with some legal aspects and economic features, by various contributors; also a brief review of the attractions of, and the possibilities of development in, the largest alluvial basin in the world    
 Creator:  Tompkins, Frank H. 
 Publication:  A. L. Swift & co.], Chicago,c1901. 
 Notes:  A folded map takes the place of p. 217-224. 
 Call #:  F25X T66 
 Extent:  216, 225-640 p. incl. front., illus., plates, ports., maps. 31 cm. 
 Subjects:  Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel | Mississippi River
 
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9Title:  The Mississippi River and what its proper utilization will accomplish for those who may avail themselves of advantages offered    
 Creator:  Osborn, J. M. 
 Publication:  Blade, Toledo [Ohio?],1881. 
 Notes:  Cover title. 
 Call #:  P 5861 
 Extent:  16 p. ; 22 cm. 
 Subjects:  Mississippi River | Ohio imprints 1881
 
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10Title:  Physics and hydraulics of the Mississippi: Reply to criticism made by Dr. Hagen, director of public works, Prussia    
 Creator:  Humphreys, A. A. (Andrew Atkinson), 1810-1883 
 Abbot, Henry L.
 Publication:  Van Nostrand's Engineering Magazine, New York,1878. 
 Notes:  Cover-title. Reprint: Van Nostrand's eclectic engineering magazine, Jan. 1878. 
 Call #:  Pam. H1057 
 Extent:  8 p. 25 cm. 
 Subjects:  Hagen, G. -- (Gottlief), -- 1797-1884 | Mississippi River
 
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11Title:  A review of the Report upon the physics and hydraulics of the Mississippi River: upon the protection of the alluvial region against overflow; and upon the deepening of the mouths; based upon surveys and investigations made under Acts of Congress prepared by Capt. A. A. Humphreys and Lt. H. L. Abbot    
 Creator:  Abbot, Edwin Hale, 1834-1927 
 Publication:  Crosby and Nichols, Boston,1862. 
 Notes:  "Reprinted from the North American Review, April, 1862." 
 Call #:  TC425 M67H8 
 Extent:  [1-3] 4-42 [43-44] p., stabbed ; 22.2 cm. 
 Subjects:  Humphreys, A. A. -- (Andrew Atkinson), -- 1810-1883. -- Report upon the physics and hydraulics of the Mississippi River | Abbot, Henry L. -- Report upon the physics and hydraulics of the Mississippi River | Mississippi River
 
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12Title:  Sailing on the Great Lakes and rivers of America: embracing a description of lakes Erie, Huron, Michigan & Superior, and rivers St. Mary, St. Clair, Detroit, Niagara & St. Lawrence; also, the copper, iron and silver region of Lake Superior, commerce of the Lakes, etc. Together with notices of the rivers Mississippi, Missouri and Red River of the North; cities, vilages and objects of interest. Forming altogether a complete guide to the upper Lakes, upper Mississippi, upper Missouri. With map and embellishments    
 Creator:  Disturnell, John, 1801-1877 
 Publication:  Philadelphia,1874. 
 Call #:  F39JA D614S 
 Extent:  xii, 13-266 p. front., illus., plates, fold. map. 19 x 15 cm. 
 Subjects:  Great Lakes | Mississippi River | Northwestern States
 
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13Title:  Memorial of Brevet Brig. Gen. B. S. Roberts: on a plan for reclaiming the waste lands of the lower Mississippi    
 Creator:  Roberts, B. S. (Benjamin Stone), 1810-1875 
 Humphreys, A. A. (Andrew Atkinson), 1818-1883
 Publication:  Government Printing Office, Washington,1870. 
 Notes:  Contains two letters by A. A. Humphreys. 
 Call #:  TC425 M67R 
 Extent:  17 p. ; 22 cm. 
 Subjects:  Waste lands -- Mississippi River Valley | Reclamation of land -- Mississippi River Valley | Mississippi River
 
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14Title:  Talk of Hon. C.H. Gallup before the Norwalk Chamber of Commerce on the problem of the mighty Mississippi: December 8, 1909    
 Creator:  Gallup, Caleb Hathaway, 1834-1915 
 Publication:  Norwalk, O,1909] 
 Notes:  Caption title. 
 Call #:  Pam. G154 
 Extent:  10 p. 23 cm. 
 Subjects:  Deep Waterways Convention -- (1909 : -- New Orleans, La.) | Mississippi River | Ohio imprints 1909
 
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15Title:  The emigrant's directory to the western states of North America: including a voyage out from Liverpool; the geography and topography of the whole western country, according to its latest improvemtnes; with instructions for descending the rivers Ohio and Mississippi, also, a brief account of a new British settlement on the headwaters of the Susquehanna, in Philadelphia [!]    
 Creator:  Amphlett, W. (William), fl. 1796-1819 
 Publication:  Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London,1819. 
 Call #:  E165 A526 1819 Vault 
 Extent:  viii, 208 p. 22 cm. 
 Subjects:  United States -- Description and travel | United States -- Emigration and immigration | Ohio River | Mississippi River
 
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16Title:  How the world was peopled: Ethnological lectures    
 Creator:  Fontaine, Edward, 1814-1884 
 Publication:  D. Appleton & company, New York,1872. 
 Notes:  "How America was peopled before its discovery by Columbus. A lecture on the aborigines and aboriginal remains of America.": p. [233]-269. "The physical geography of the Mississippi River. Extracts from lectures": p. [271]-331. Autographed copy. 
 Call #:  GN353 F678 
 Extent:  viii, [9]-341 p. illus. 20 cm. 
 Subjects:  Ethnology | Monogenism and polygenism | Indians -- Origin | Mississippi River
 
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17Title:  Down the great river: embracing an account of the discovery of the true source of the Mississippi, together with views, descriptive and pictorial, of the cities, towns, villages and scenery on the banks of the river, as seen during a canoe voyage of over three thousand miles from its head waters to the gulf of Mexico    
 Creator:  Glazier, Willard W., 1841-1905 
 Publication:  Hubbard Brothers, Philadelphia,1893. 
 Call #:  B 8490 
 Extent:  xxvi, 20-443, lxiii p. : illus., plates, map. front.(port) plates. 2 maps (1 fold) ; 20 cm. 
 Subjects:  Ojibwa Indians | Canoes and canoeing | Mississippi River -- Description and travel | Mississippi River -- Sources | Mississippi River
 
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18Title:  La dâecouverte des sources du Mississippi et de la riviáere Sanglante: description du cours entier du Mississippi, qui n'âetait connu, que partiellement, et d'une grande partie de celui de la riviáere Sanglante, presque entiáerement inconnue; ainsi que du cours entier de l'Ohio. Apercus historiques, des endroits les plus intâeressans, qu'on y recontre. Observations critico-philosophiques, sur les moeurs, la religion, les superstitions, les costumes, les armes, les chasses, la guerre, la paix, le dâenombrement, l'orgine, &c. &c. de plusieurs nations indiennes. Parallele de ces peuples avec ceux de l'Antiquitâe, du Moyen Age, et du Moderne. Coup-doeil, sur les compagnies nord-ouest, et de la baie d'Hudson, ainsi qui sur la colonie Selkirk. Preuves evidentes, que le Mississippi est la premiáere Riviáere du monde    
 Creator:  Beltrami, Giacomo Costantino, 1779-1855 
 Publication:  B. Levy, Nouvelle-Orlâeans,1824. 
 Call #:  F42J B453D Vault 
 Extent:  v, 327 p. ; 22 cm. 
 Subjects:  Indians of North America -- Northwestern States | Northwestern States -- Description and travel | Mississippi River | Red River of the North | Ohio River | Northwest, Canadian
 
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19Title:  A journal of travels into the Arkansas territory: during the year 1819. With occasional observations on the manners of the aborigines. Illustrated by a map and other engravings    
 Creator:  Nuttall, Thomas, 1786-1859 
 Publication:  T. H. Palmer, Philadelphia,1821. 
 Notes:  A journey from Philadelphia, down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to the Arkansas; thence across Arkansas to the interior of the modern Oklahoma; returning via the Arkansas and Mississippi rivers, and then to New Orleans. 
 Call #:  F29J N981 
 Extent:  xii, 296 p. front. (fold. map) plates, tables. 23 cm. 
 Subjects:  Indians of North America -- Southwest, Old | Arkansas River | Arkansas -- Description and travel | Oklahoma -- Description and travel | Ohio River | Mississippi River
 
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20Title:  The Sultana saga: the Titanic of the Mississippi    
 Creator:  Jackson, Rex T. 
 Publication:  Heritage Books, Bowie, Md,2003. 
 Notes:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 75-78) and index. 
 Call #:  E611 J13 2010 
 Extent:  ix, 135 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm 
 Subjects:  Sultana (Steamboat) | Sultana (Steamboat) | American Civil War (1861-1865) | Marine accidents -- Mississippi River | Battle casualties | Marine accidents | Prisoners | Sultana (Steamboat) | Steamboat disasters Mississippi River History 19th century | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Casualties | Mississippi River | United States | United States Military records Civil War, 1861-1865 Prisoners and prisons | History
 
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