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| Title | Steamer HELENA receiving passengers from a Northern Pacific Railroad train, 1887 |
| Photographer | Unknown |
| Date | 1887 |
| Notes | On verso of image: This old photo, made in the spring of 1887, shows transfer of passengers and baggage from a Northern Pacific train to the steamer HELENA of the Benton Package Co., at the bridge across the Missouri River between Bismarck and Mandan, N.D. The river was at flood stage, 27 feet above low water level, and trains could not pass Mandan. Passengers were taken by river steamer up the Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers and transferred back to trains at Glendive or Miles City to continue their westward journey. For some years the NP and river steamers carried on a lucrative passenger and freight business to settlements on the river above Bismarck, except during the winter freeze-up. |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Missouri River
Rivers--North Dakota
Helen (Steamship)
Steamboats--North Dakota
Benton Packet Company (Bismarck, N.D.)
Railroads--North Dakota
Railroad bridges--North Dakota
Northern Pacific Railroad Company
Passengers--North Dakota
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| Location Depicted | United States--North Dakota |
| Digital Collection | Transportation Collection
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| Order Number | TRA0173 |
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| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division. |
| Repository Collection | Transportation Collection |
| Object Type | Photograph |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 100 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x512 ppi. 2001. |
