Box 1
Container
Contains 116 Results:
Receipt for military stores of Capt. Charles Parsons, St. Louis, to be delivered on the steamboat Die Vernon to Rev. Lewis Hamilton, 2nd Colorado Cavalry, Kansas City, Missouri., 1863 Nov 25
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 8
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:
1863 Nov 25
Contemporary copy of An Act for Improvement of the Harbor of St. Louis. (4 pages), 1845 Mar 27
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 9
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:
1845 Mar 27
Receipt for wharfage of the steamboat White Cloud. (1 item), 1845 May 4
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 9
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:
1845 May 4
Two ledgers recording transactions of James K. Boyles, Pittsburgh, on Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. (2 items) (accession number 75-0046), 1846-1857
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 9
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:
1846-1857
Typescript list of number of steamboat arrivals, departures, and tonnage, by year, at port of St. Louis. (2 pages), 1846-1860
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 9
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:
1846-1860
“Journal of Trip of steamer Clermont from St. Louis to the mouth of the Yellowstone River on the Missouri,” presumed to have been written by Daniel G. Taylor. (4 pages) (gift of Daniel G. Taylor’s son, Hon. D.G. Taylor, January 1921), 1846 July 7-28
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 9
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:
1846 July 7-28
Letter signed J.I. Dales, Louisville, to J.T. Hogg, Brownsville, Pennsylvania, January 26, 1847, with instructions regarding alterations in a steamboat being built by Prinkle. Also includes five receipts for goods furnished for the steamboat Alton. (gift of Biederman Furniture Company, January 13, 1938) (6 items), 1847-1849
File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
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:
1847-1849
Letter signed Rice & Headington, Cincinnati, Ohio, to William Dovenor, St. Louis, regarding debts created by the steamboat Admiral and requesting information about the boat’s ownership. (purchased from Kelly’s Antique Shops, St. Louis, April 1, 1951) (1 item), 1847 Jan 16
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 11
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:
1847 Jan 16
Typescript copy of information concerning river conditions and related damage to steamboats, property, and farms, excerpted from the Missouri Republican. (3 pages), 1832 Jan 17-June 12
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:
1832 Jan 17-June 12
Photocopy of typescript extract from Rambler in North America, 1832-1833 (published in 1835) by Charles Joseph Latrobe, describing first voyage of the steamboat New Orleans from Pittsburgh to Natchez. (2 items), 1835
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:
1835