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Contains 116 Results:

Blank bill of lading form of Stock and Pfeiffer, wholesale grocers and commission merchants, St. Louis. (1 item), 185-

 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: 185-

Bill of lading, William H. Russell, Parkville, Missouri. (1 item), 185-

 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: 185-

Broadside advertisement for the passenger steamer Leander, departing twice a week for Hannibal, Quincy, Warsaw, and Keokuk. (1 item) (transferred to Broadsides Collection), ca. 1850

 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: ca. 1850

Circular letter of a committee appointed by the “Rapids Convention” held in St. Louis to “collect statistical and reliable information in regard to the Commerce, Navigation, &c., of the Mississippi River, above St. Louis, and the country depending thereon.” Committee members are A.B. Chambers, Wm. M. Morrison, Wm. L. Ewing, N. Ranney, M. Kennett, and Wm. G. LeDuc., 1852

 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: 1852

Letter signed Dave [Johnson], St. Louis, to his brother, Dan W. Johnson. (1 item) (accession number 75-0053), 1852 Feb 22

 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: 1852 Feb 22

Typescript copy of St. Louis Republic newspaper article describing destructive fire on the St. Louis riverfront, three steamboats burned—Brunette, New Lucy, and New England. (1 item), 1853 Jan 20

 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: 1853 Jan 20

Printed card showing the schedule of the St. Louis & Lasalle regular passenger packet Messenger No. 2. Verso contains chart of distances from St. Louis to Ottawa, Illinois., [1854]

 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: [1854]

Deed of sale of land of Charles Wood in Lakeland, Suffolk County, New York, to Frederick Sebastian of St. Louis, recorded in the Suffolk County clerk’s office January 9, 1855. (1 item) (accession number 61-0042) (transferred to Wood, Charles, deed, December 2004), 1854 Nov 2

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 12
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 Nov 2

Typescript copy of account of a trip on the steamboat Clara from St. Louis to Weston, and on the steamboat Emigrant from Weston to St. Joseph, and then overland to Plattsmouth, Nebraska. (4 pages) (1 item) (accession number 74-0057), ca. 1855

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 12
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. 1855

Two photostat copies of fragmentary manuscript notes titled “Chapter 1” (2 pages), which discuss the history of Indian tribes and the Yellowstone River. (possibly written by Edwin T. Denig, formerly at Fort Union, Upper Missouri, about 1855-56), 1855

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 12
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: 1855