Steamboats
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
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Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Amelia Roberts journal
Collection — Box 72
Identifier: MS-SC1278
Scope and Contents
Descriptive diary of trip by waterways through Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. Travels to Charleston, Pekin, Peoria, and to Spoon River. Attends some social activities. Describes a storm and finding a boat wreck while on the river, how helpful the husbands are to wives in the west and several encounters with Indians. Returned to New York via Chicago, Milwaukee, Detroit, Buffalo and on to New York. Includes typed transcript.
Dates:
Created: 1835
Found in:
Manuscript Collection
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Amelia Roberts journal
John W. Smith letters
Collection — Box 81
Identifier: MS-SC1431
Scope and Contents
Letters home to Thomas from Tennessee and Arkansas. Gives a description of Memphis, Arkansas and the hot springs in Arkansas. Discusses life on and the business of the boat. Very descriptive explanation of why steamboating is "a doggs life". Mentions family often. Discusses his plans to stop the river and go into "business".
Dates:
Created: 1852 - 1859
Found in:
Manuscript Collection
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John W. Smith letters
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
Richard Powel journal
Collection — Box 67
Identifier: MS-SC1205
Scope and Contents
Transcript of a journal kept while traveling round trip from Philadelphia to Springfield, Illinois. Describes the scenery along the way, as well as describing Pittsburgh and its smoky atmosphere and Springfield, Illinois. Visits family in Wheeling and attends a barn raising and mound excavation where two human skeletons had been unearthed with copper bracelets and beads around the bones. On steamboat to Cincinnati, his boat picked up passengers from previous night's boat wreck. Describes their...
Dates:
Created: 1838
Found in:
Manuscript Collection
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Richard Powel journal
Thomas Rees letter
Collection — Box 70
Identifier: MS-SC1253
Scope and Contents
Letter to Jessie Palmer Weber re: the Lincoln Birthday Observance aboard the steamship Maui while at sea. Includes program listing Rees as having spoken on "The Four Homes of Lincoln."
Dates:
Created: February 13, 1921
Found in:
Manuscript Collection
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Thomas Rees letter
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