Box 1
Container
Contains 116 Results:
United States Order for Transportation for shipment of ordnance on board the steamer W.H. Russell from Jefferson City to Kansas City. Document contains the stamp of Capt. Charles Parsons, assistant quartermaster at St. Louis., 1862 Oct 3
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:
1862 Oct 3
Receipt of payment of the steamer Davenport to Marshall & Bannon, St. Louis, for bread and yeast. Document contains the stamp of Capt. Charles Parsons, assistant quartermaster at St. Louis., 1862 Nov 12
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:
1862 Nov 12
Two stock certificates in the St. Louis Floating Dock and Insurance Company issued to Kenneth Mackenzie, with engraving of floating dock on the certificates. Dated November 22, 1848, and August 30, 1849, and signed Joseph Charless and Charles Mullikin, respectively, and witnessed by William G. Pettus. (2 items), 1848-1849
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:
1848-1849
Letter signed Orton L. Stoddard, Steels Bayou, Yazoo River, Mississippi, to Oralenna Stoddard, Waitsfield, Vermont, describing adventures since leaving Lowell for Boston, New Orleans, and Vicksburg, where he hired out a raft. Includes typescript copy. (2 items) (purchased from Symmachus Trading Co., Boston, Massachusetts, August 1942), 1848-1849
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:
1848-1849
Receipt book of steamboat Columbian for wood and coal purchased on several voyages between Pittsburgh and the following cities: Cincinnati, Nashville, St. Louis, Louisville, and Wabash. Also includes a passenger list for a trip from Pittsburgh to Cincinnati and a list of officers of the steamboat Potomac. The receipt book was later used as a scrapbook, and newspaper clippings have been affixed over many of the pages. The book was kept by John Reno of Rochester, Pennsylvania. (132 pages) (1 item) (accession number 60-0029) (shelved with bound volumes), 1848-1851
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:
1848-1851
Typescript copy of article titled “Henry Miller Shreve: Political Portraits With Pen and Pencil” (28 pages) by Honorable Samuel Treat, published in The Democratic Review, February-March 1848. Includes note by Treat, an engraved portrait of Shreve, and a newspaper article dated circa 1851 titled “Navigation on the Mississippi Forty Years Ago.” (4 items), 1848 Feb-Mar
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:
1848 Feb-Mar
Letter signed Elijah Dunbar, Memphis, Tennessee, to his sister, Chloe Dunbar, Canton, Massachusetts, giving an eyewitness account of the burning of the steamboat Clarksville, about 600 miles above New Orleans. (1 item), 1848 May 30
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:
1848 May 30
Two letters signed Jas. S. Watson, Boonville, to G.W Garriott, St. Charles, Missouri, regarding the sale of wheat. (2 items) (accession number 57-0146), 1848 June 16, 27
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:
1848 June 16, 27
Typescript copy of letter by Thaddeus C. Gray, St. Louis, to Samuel Gordon, Montebello, Illinois, describing experiences as part of the crew on the river boat Martha. (1 item) (purchased from Pearl Avis Gordon Vestal, Hamilton, Illinois, May 15, 1953), 1849 Jan 31
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:
1849 Jan 31
Letter signed John D. Wilson, New Orleans, to J.G. Weld, St. Louis, discussing business and grocery prices. (1 item) (accession number 57-0146), 1849 Apr 25
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:
1849 Apr 25