Box 1
Container
Contains 116 Results:
Business card of Wm. Alter, steamboat agent, St. Louis., ca. 1842-1855
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 5
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:
ca. 1842-1855
Bill of lading for tobacco shipped by R.M. Hening & Co., Alexandria, Missouri, on board the steamboat Rosalie, to Gore & Ridgaway [Ridgway?], St. Louis. (1 item) (accession number 57-0146), 1842 Oct 6
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 5
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:
1842 Oct 6
Bill of lading for lead shipped by C.A. Mackenzie, Potosi, on board the steamboat Chippewa, to K. Mackenzie, St. Louis., 1843 Nov 16
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 6
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:
1843 Nov 16
Bill of lading for corn shipped by Captain Jno. H. Ferry, Louisville, on board the steamboat City Belle, to Captain W. Mills, Nashville., 1863 Feb 17
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 6
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 Feb 17
Bill of lading for corn shipped by Captain Jno. H. Ferry, Louisville, on board the steamboat Glasgow, to Captain W. Mills, Nashville., 1863 Mar 25
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 6
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 Mar 25
Bill of lading for tobacco shipped by A. Fatman, Paducah, on board the U.S. Transport Glasgow, to Morris Ranger, Evansville, Indiana., 1863 Mar 22
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 6
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 Mar 22
Receipt for cattle of Capt. Chas. W. Lyman, Memphis, to be delivered by the steamboat White Cloud to Capt. Henry S. Chubb, Vicksburg., 1863 July 11
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 6
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 July 11
Bill of lading for corn shipped by Barrows, Millard & Co., Rockport Landing, on board the steamboat Island City, to Capt. S. Bagg, Long Lake., 1864 June 3
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 6
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:
1864 June 3
Typescript copies of manuscripts in the LaBarge Collection at the St. Charles County Historical Society, including the following: incomplete letter to the editor of the Missouri Republican containing an account of a trip up the Missouri River in 1843 on the steamboat Omega accompanied by John Audubon; Joseph LaBarge’s account of a trip up the Missouri River on the steamboat Martha in 1848, in which they were attacked by the Yankton Indians; journal entries dated July 1873 regarding the seizure of Capt. LaBarge’s steamer DeSmet by Deputy U.S. Marshal C.D. Hard at Fort Benton, Montana Territory; commercial agreement between Robert H. Lemon, agent for LaBarge, Harkness & Co., and Andrew Dawson, agent for P. Chouteau, Jr. & Co., dated August 31, 1863; Joseph LaBarge’s undated reminiscences of a voyage up the Missouri River in 1863 on the steamboat Robert Campbell, in which they were attacked by Indians at the Tobacco Garden; Joseph LaBarge’s undated reminiscences of a voyage up the Missouri River in 1867 with a government commission to meet with the Indians; and business correspondence of John M. Lee with LaBarge, Harkness & Co., 1862. (22 pages) (accession number 62-0103), 1843-1873
File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
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:
1843-1873
Bill of lading for clothing shipped by J.H. Siegrist, St. Louis, on board the steamboat Die Vernon, to Richardson & Pea, Keokuk, Iowa., 1854 June 8
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:
1854 June 8