 
This is a promotional card, on the back is a bird's eye view map of Cairo and the convergence of the Ohio and Mississippi. I'm not sure how Captain Henry W. Leyhe was related to Captain William H. "Buck" Leyhe of Golden Eagle fame, but they may have been brothers. The Ferd Herold was named for the St. Louis brewer who financed the building of the boat in 1890 and a bust of Mr. Herold was placed on the front of the roof of the Texas and later moved into the main cabin. The boat was dismanteld in 1919 and the hull used as a barge in New Orleans until it sank in the Gulf of Mexico. 
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