Photograph with 2 captions: (1) Improvement of the Mississippi River between the Illinois and Ohio Rivers and (2) Details of Construction. Negative 20. Taken Sept. 8, 1882. View showing the barge from which the up-stream end of the mattress is held, 215 feet of mattress floating on the surface of the water, and the ways barge on which more mattress is under construction.

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