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  • Rebel victory at Vicksburg.

    • Text
    • [Vicksburg, Miss.] Vicksburg Centennial Commemoration Commission [1963]
    • 1963
    • 2 Items
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    Text IKE (Bearss, E. C. Rebel victory at Vicksburg)Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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    Text Sc 973.734-B (Bearss, E. Rebel victory at Vicksburg)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Mark Twain's Mississippi; a pictorial history of America's greatest river, by T. H. Watkins. Also selected excerpts from Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi.

    • Text
    • Palo Alto, Calif., American West Pub. Co. [1974]
    • 1974
    • 1 Item
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    Text IV 74-1836Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • I am the Mississippi / L. G. Sorden, E. Louise Miller.

    • Text
    • Madison, Wis. : Wisconsin House, [1974]
    • 1974
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFE 75-3351Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • The Mississippi River before and after Mark Twain / Gerald M. Capers.

    • Text
    • Hicksville, N.Y. : Exposition Press, c1977.
    • 1977
    • 1 Item
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    Text IT 78-1343Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • The keelboat age on western waters / Leland D. Baldwin.

    • Text
    • Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1980.
    • 1980
    • 1 Item
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    Text JLD 82-205Offsite
  • Mighty Mississippi : biography of a river / Marquis W. Childs ; foreward by Geoffrey C. Ward.

    • Text
    • New Haven : Ticknor & Fields, 1982.
    • 1982
    • 1 Item
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    Text IV 82-1196Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • Mississippi / [Fotos von] Fred Mayer ; Texte von McFadden Duffy ... [et al.].

    • Text
    • Zürich : Atlantis, c1981.
    • 1981
    • 1 Item
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    Text IT+ 84-1350Offsite
  • The Mississippi steamboat era in historic photographs : Natchez to New Orleans, 1870-1920 / Joan W. Gandy and Thomas H. Gandy.

    • Text
    • New York : Dover Publications, 1987.
    • 1987
    • 1 Item
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    Text ITOM+ (Natchez Region) 89-2162Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • Historic names and places on the lower Mississippi River / by Marion Bragg.

    • Text
    • Vicksburg : Mississippi River Commission, 1977.
    • 1977
    • 1 Item
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    Text IXZ 90-5696Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • Gunboats down the Mississippi, by John D. Milligan.

    • Text
    • Annapolis, U.S. Naval Institute [1965]
    • 1965
    • 2 Items
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    Text IKF (Mississippi valley) (Milligan, J. D. Gunboats down the Mississippi)Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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    Text Sc 973.7-M (Milligan, J. Gunboats down the Mississippi)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Tales of the Mississippi; by Ray Samuel, Leonard V. Huber [and] Warren C. Ogden.

    • Text
    • New York, Hastings House [c1955]
    • 1955
    • 2 Items
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    Text IV (Samuel, R. Tales of the Mississippi)Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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    Text Sc 977-S (Samuel, R. Tales of the Mississippi)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Schoolcraft's expedition to Lake Itasca : the discovery of the source of the Mississippi / edited by Philip P. Mason.

    • Text
    • East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 1993.
    • 1993
    • 1 Item
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    Text HBC 94-1016Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Upper Mississippi River history : fact, fiction, legend / by Ron Larson.

    • Text
    • [Winona, Minn. : Steamboat Press, 1995]
    • 1995
    • 1 Item
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    Text ITOM (Mississippi River) 95-2390Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • Recollections of a fire insurance man, including his experience in U.S. Navy (Mississippi squadron) during the Civil War, by Robert S. Critchell.

    • Text
    • [Chicago] The author, 1909.
    • 1909
    • 1 Item

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    Text AN (Critchell) (Critchell, R. S. Recollections of a fire insurance man)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Master of the Mississippi; Henry Shreve and the conquest of the Mississippi.

    • Text
    • Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1941.
    • 1941
    • 1 Item
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    Text AN (Shreve) (Dorsey, F. L. Master of the Mississippi)Offsite
  • The Mississippi, by Francis Vinton Greene ...

    • Text
    • New York, C. Scribner's Sons, 1882.
    • 1882
    • 2 Items

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    Text IKC (Campaigns of the Civil War, v. VIII)Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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    Text IKE (Greene, F. V. Mississippi)Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • North on the great river / Margaret G. 0'Farrell ; illustrators, Gladys Turley Mitchell, H. Elizabeth Story.

    • Text
    • Dallas : Lyons & Carnahan, 1945.
    • 1945
    • 2 Items
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    Text IV (O'Farrell, M. G. North on the Great river)Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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    Text IV (O'Farrell, M. G. North on the Great river) copy 2Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • Steamboating on the upper Mississippi, the water way to Iowa : some river history / by Wm. J. Petersen.

    • Text
    • Iowa City, Iowa : State Historical Society of Iowa, 1937.
    • 1937
    • 2 Items
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    Text IV (Petersen, W. J. Steamboating on the upper Mississippi. 1937)Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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    Text VXHD (Petersen, W. J. Steamboating on the upper Mississippi)Offsite
  • Steamboating on the Upper Mississippi, by William J. Petersen.

    • Text
    • Iowa City, State Historical Society of Iowa, 1968.
    • 1968
    • 2 Items
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    Text IV (Petersen, W. J. Steamboating on the Upper Mississippi. 1968)Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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    Text NYGB IOWA G 26Offsite
  • Upper Mississippi : a wilderness saga / Walter Havighurst ; illustrated by David and Lolita Granahan.

    • Text
    • New York : Rinehart & Co., c1944.
    • 1944
    • 1 Item
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    Text IW (Havighurst, W. Upper Mississippi. 1944)Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • Civil War on western waters.

    • Text
    • New York, Holt [1956]
    • 1956
    • 1 Item
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    Text IKF (Mississippi river) (Pratt, F. Civil War on western waters)Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • The first steamboat on the Mississippi. Illustrated by Victor Mays.

    • Text
    • Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1962.
    • 1962
    • 1 Item
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    Text D-16 8199Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Frank on a gun-boat / by Harry Castlemon.

    • Text
    • Philadelphia : Porter & Coates ; Cincinnati : R.W. Carroll, 1864.
    • 1864
    • 1 Item
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    Text NAS (Fosdick, C. A. Frank on a gun-boat)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • History of the ram fleet and the Mississippi marine brigade in the war for the union on the Mississippi and its tributaries. The story of the Ellets and their men. Written and published under the auspices of their society of survivors. Two parts in one volume.

    • Text
    • St. Louis [Press of Buschart brothers] 1907.
    • 1907
    • 1 Item

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    Text VYFH (Crandall, W. D. History of the ram fleet and the Mississippi marine brigade in the war)Offsite
  • Steamboats on the Mississippi, by the editors of American heritage. Narrative by Ralph K. Andrist, in consultation with C. Bradford Mitchell.

    • Text
    • New York, American Heritage Pub. Co.; book trade distribution by Meredith Press, c1962.
    • 1962
    • 1 Item
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    Text VXHD (American Heritage. Steamboats on the Mississippi)Offsite
  • From canoe to steel barge on the upper Mississippi [by] Mildred L. Hartsough.

    • Text
    • [Minneapolis] Pub. for the Upper Mississippi waterway association [by] the University of Minnesota press, 1934.
    • 1934
    • 1 Item
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    Text TSB (Hartsough, M. L. From canoe to steel barge on the upper Mississippi)Offsite
  • The keelboat age on western waters [by] Leland D. Baldwin; with chapter decorations by Harvey B. Cushman.

    • Text
    • [Pittsburgh] University of Pittsburgh Press, 1941.
    • 1941
    • 2 Items
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    Text TR (Baldwin, L. D. Keelboat age on western waters)Offsite
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    Text TR (Baldwin, L. D. Keelboat age on western waters)Offsite
  • Father of waters, or why, majestically, the Mississippi river flows on, making American history and legend. By Earl Schenck Miers, with help from Mike Fink, Davy Crockett, Mark Twain and other lovers of the old river. Woodcuts by Fritz Kredel.

    • Text
    • [Newark, Del.] Published for the friends of the Curtis Paper Company; printed at the Spiral Press [New York] 1963.
    • 1963
    • 1 Item
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    Text *KP (Spiral) (Miers, E. S. Father of waters)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Achievements of the western naval flotilla : remarks of Hon. James W. Grimes, of Iowa, delivered in the Senate of the United States, March 13, 1862.

    • Text
    • [Washington : Printed by L. Towers & Co., 1862]
    • 1862
  • A river and its city : the nature of landscape in New Orleans / Ari Kelman.

    • Text
    • Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.
    • 2003
    • 1 Item
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    Text ITQ (New Orleans) 03-2533Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • The river we have wrought : a history of the upper Mississippi / John O. Anfinson.

    • Text
    • Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2003.
    • 2003
    • 1 Item
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    Text IVR 03-2536Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • River of history [microform] : a historic resources study of the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area / by John O. Anfinson, National Park Service, with contributions by Thomas Madigan, Drew M. Forsberg and Patrick Nunnally.

    • Text
    • [St. Paul, MN] : U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, 2003.
    • 2003
  • Black life on the Mississippi : slaves, free Blacks, and the western steamboat world / Thomas C. Buchanan.

    • Text
    • Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2004.
    • 2004
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc E 04-1536Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Immortal river : the upper Mississippi in ancient and modern times / Calvin R. Fremling.

    • Text
    • Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, c2005.
    • 2005
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFE 05-2243Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • When the Mississippi ran backwards : empire, intrigue, murder, and the New Madrid earthquakes / Jay Feldman.

    • Text
    • New York : Free Press, c2005.
    • 2005
    • 1 Item
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    Text IT 05-1939Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • Mama's window / by Lynn Rubright ; afterword by Patricia C. McKissack ; illustrated by Duane Smith.

    • Text
    • New York : Lee & Low Books, c2005.
    • 2005
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc D 06-206Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Mojo triangle : birthplace of country, blues, jazz and rock 'n' roll / by James L. Dickerson.

    • Text
    • New York ; London : Schirmer Trade Books, c2005.
    • 2005
    • 1 Item

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    Text JME 06-291Offsite
  • The plow that broke the plains [videorecording] ; The river / directed by Pare Lorentz ; music by Virgil Thomson.

    • Moving image
    • [S.l.] : Naxos, c2007.
    • 2007-1936
    • 2 Items
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    Moving image *LDV 843 [Notes]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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    Moving image *LDV 843 [Video]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Daily life along the Mississippi / George S. Pabis.

    • Text
    • Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2007.
    • 2007
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc E 08-339Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Daily life along the Mississippi / George S. Pabis.

    • Text
    • Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2007.
    • 2007
    • 1 Item

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    Text *R-USLHG F351 .P22 2007Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Reference Room 121

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  • Steamboats on the Mississippi, by the editors of American heritage. Narrative by Ralph K. Andrist, in consultation with C. Bradford Mitchell.

    • Text
    • New York : American Heritage Pub. Co.; book trade and institutional distribution by Harper & Row, c1962.
    • 1962
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text J 977 AOffsite
  • Mississippi waters [videorecording] / producer, Gary Burger.

    • Moving image
    • New York, NY : Carousel Film and Video, c1991.
    • 1991
    • 1 Item
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    Moving image VTH 3313Offsite

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  • Mississippi calling. Illustrated by Manning de V. Lee.

    • Text
    • New York : Dodd, Mead, 1957.
    • 1957
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text J 977 EOffsite
  • Wicked river : the Mississippi when it last ran wild / Lee Sandlin.

    • Text
    • New York : Pantheon Books, c2010.
    • 2010
    • 1 Item
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    Text ITO 10-8176Temporary Storage

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  • The city, the river, the bridge : before and after the Minneapolis bridge collapse / Patrick Nunnally, editor ; preface by E. Thomas Sullivan.

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    • Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2011.
    • 2011
    • 1 Item
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    Text IVM (Minneapolis) 11-1002Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • Achievements of the western naval flotilla [electronic resource] : remarks of Hon. James W. Grimes, of Iowa, delivered in the Senate of the United States, March 13, 1862.

    • Text
    • [Washington : Printed by L. Towers, 1862?]
    • 1862
    • 1 Resource

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  • Lives on the Mississippi : literature and culture along the Great River from the collections of the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association : a checklist for an exhibition held at the Grolier club in New York, February 23-May 1, 2010.

    • Text
    • St. Louis, Mo. : St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, 2010.
    • 2010
    • 1 Item
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    Text Berg Coll+ Clemens ZA2 L54 2010Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320

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  • Working the Mississippi : two centuries of life on the river / Bonnie Stepenoff.

    • Text
    • Columbia, Missouri : University of Missouri Press, [2015]
    • 2015
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFE 15-4846Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Rivers, memory, and nation-building : a history of the Volga and Mississippi rivers / Dorothy Zeisler-Vralsted.

    • Text
    • New York : Berghahn Books, [2015]
    • 2015-2015
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFE 15-6000Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Working the Mississippi [electronic resource] : Two Centuries of Life on the River / Bonnie Stepenoff.

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    • Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2015
    • 2015-2015
    • 2 Resources

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