Steamboats
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Mississippi River list of steamboats
Collection — Box 60
Identifier: MS-SC1056
Scope and Contents
List of steamboats and their captains running on the upper Mississippi during the years 1847-1855, taken from the shipping books of S.S. Phelps and Co. and McKinney and Adams both of Oquawka, Illinois.
Dates:
Created: 1921
National Steam Ship Company, Limited, bill of lading
Collection — Box 62
Identifier: MS-SC1092
Scope and Contents
Bill of lading for twenty cattle, one dog and fifty horses to be sent from London to New York. Shipped by J.A. Perry aboard the steamship Greece.
Dates:
Created: July 18, 1884
Washington Jefferson Mowry journal
Collection — Box 62
Identifier: MS-SC1083
Scope and Contents
Journal describes experiences along the way. Vividly describes several bouts of seasickness among the passengers during rough waters, the passengers and their different nationalities, several tales of drunkenness among various passengers and workers and the boat trying to pass through thick ice near Mackinack and being forced to remain there due to ice. Describes the stops at Milwaukee, Madison and Chicago. Traveling by stage he describes the prairies and the towns of Naperville, Aurora and...
Dates:
Created: April 20 - June 1847