Box 1
Container
Contains 116 Results:
Petition of John Boley (Boli) to the Justices of the Court of Quarter Sessions, St. Louis, requesting permission to run a ferry across the Meramec River from three miles below his dwelling house to the mouth of Fish Pot Creek. (1 item), 1804 Dec 19
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Steamboats and River History Collection is an artificial, or subject-based, collection comprising a variety of documents that have been placed in this collection over the years due to their common subject matter. The bulk of the collection relates to river travel and commerce primarily in the vicinity of St. Louis and on the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers.
The collection includes more than 60 receipts and bills of lading, mostly dated pre-1900, for...
Dates:
1804 Dec 19
Petition of Jean Baptiste Belan to the Judges of the Court of Quarter Sessions, St. Louis, requesting permission to establish a ferry across the Missouri River opposite St. Charles. (1 item), 1805 Mar 19
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Steamboats and River History Collection is an artificial, or subject-based, collection comprising a variety of documents that have been placed in this collection over the years due to their common subject matter. The bulk of the collection relates to river travel and commerce primarily in the vicinity of St. Louis and on the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers.
The collection includes more than 60 receipts and bills of lading, mostly dated pre-1900, for...
Dates:
1805 Mar 19
Letter signed Robert R. Livingston and Robert Fulton, Clermont, New York, to the governor of Upper Louisiana, petitioning the governor and legislature to grant them a monopoly to operate steamboats on the Upper Mississippi River. (1 item), 1810 Aug 20
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Steamboats and River History Collection is an artificial, or subject-based, collection comprising a variety of documents that have been placed in this collection over the years due to their common subject matter. The bulk of the collection relates to river travel and commerce primarily in the vicinity of St. Louis and on the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers.
The collection includes more than 60 receipts and bills of lading, mostly dated pre-1900, for...
Dates:
1810 Aug 20
Memorandum of agreement between James O’Hara and John Livingston, agent of the Mississippi Steamboat Company, regarding property in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (1 item) (accession number 58-0048), 1813 July 6
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Steamboats and River History Collection is an artificial, or subject-based, collection comprising a variety of documents that have been placed in this collection over the years due to their common subject matter. The bulk of the collection relates to river travel and commerce primarily in the vicinity of St. Louis and on the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers.
The collection includes more than 60 receipts and bills of lading, mostly dated pre-1900, for...
Dates:
1813 July 6
Letter signed Edward Livingston, New Orleans, to Robert Fulton regarding raising money for the building of new boats and purchase of land. Includes typescript copy. (2 items) (purchased from Walter R. Benjamin, New York, April 29, 1952), 1814 Jan 14
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Steamboats and River History Collection is an artificial, or subject-based, collection comprising a variety of documents that have been placed in this collection over the years due to their common subject matter. The bulk of the collection relates to river travel and commerce primarily in the vicinity of St. Louis and on the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers.
The collection includes more than 60 receipts and bills of lading, mostly dated pre-1900, for...
Dates:
1814 Jan 14
Unsigned, incomplete journal describing travels to Turin, New York, including two one-day steamboat trips and intervening visit with Mr. McVickers, near Hyde Park, New York. (12 pages), 1814 July 19-Aug 4
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Steamboats and River History Collection is an artificial, or subject-based, collection comprising a variety of documents that have been placed in this collection over the years due to their common subject matter. The bulk of the collection relates to river travel and commerce primarily in the vicinity of St. Louis and on the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers.
The collection includes more than 60 receipts and bills of lading, mostly dated pre-1900, for...
Dates:
1814 July 19-Aug 4
Bill of lading and receipts for the steamboat General Pike. (5 items), 1819-1825
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Steamboats and River History Collection is an artificial, or subject-based, collection comprising a variety of documents that have been placed in this collection over the years due to their common subject matter. The bulk of the collection relates to river travel and commerce primarily in the vicinity of St. Louis and on the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers.
The collection includes more than 60 receipts and bills of lading, mostly dated pre-1900, for...
Dates:
1819-1825
Typescript extracts (77 pages) from the Missouri Intelligencer and Columbia Patriot regarding steamboat travel and commerce on the Missouri River. Most of the articles relate to General William Ashley’s expedition against the Arikara Indians in 1823. Includes duplicate copy of first 10 pages. (2 items), 1819-1842
File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Steamboats and River History Collection is an artificial, or subject-based, collection comprising a variety of documents that have been placed in this collection over the years due to their common subject matter. The bulk of the collection relates to river travel and commerce primarily in the vicinity of St. Louis and on the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers.
The collection includes more than 60 receipts and bills of lading, mostly dated pre-1900, for...
Dates:
1819-1842
Four letters signed A. Saunders to wife, Catherine Saunders, in Lexington, Kentucky. Letters dated near the mouth of the Arkansas River, January 14, [1821], and Natchez, January 18, 1821, discuss his steamboat voyage on the Mississippi River en route to New Orleans. The other two letters are dated Chillicothe, January 18, 1823, and Wheeling, January 27, 1823. (4 items) (accession number 64-0036), 1821-1823
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Steamboats and River History Collection is an artificial, or subject-based, collection comprising a variety of documents that have been placed in this collection over the years due to their common subject matter. The bulk of the collection relates to river travel and commerce primarily in the vicinity of St. Louis and on the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers.
The collection includes more than 60 receipts and bills of lading, mostly dated pre-1900, for...
Dates:
1821-1823
Bill of lading for the steamboat Maysville, signed R. Buchanan, bound for St. Louis. (1 item) (accession number 64-0065), 1823 Feb 24
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Steamboats and River History Collection is an artificial, or subject-based, collection comprising a variety of documents that have been placed in this collection over the years due to their common subject matter. The bulk of the collection relates to river travel and commerce primarily in the vicinity of St. Louis and on the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers.
The collection includes more than 60 receipts and bills of lading, mostly dated pre-1900, for...
Dates:
1823 Feb 24