Box 2
Container
Contains 143 Results:
Streckfus Steamers advertisement card titled “Springtime and the Boats—Both Are Welcome,” promoting excursions of the steamers St. Paul and J.S. at St. Louis. (1 item), ca. 1920s-1930s
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 13
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. 1920s-1930s
Waterways Journal clipping titled “Records of Old Time Steamboats” (4 pages). Also includes letter from compiler of records, Sam Smith, to Mrs. Beauregard, Missouri Historical Society, providing dates of other issues containing records. (2 items), 1920 Feb 7
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 13
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:
1920 Feb 7
Typescript copy of statement made by Philip W. Coyle, traffic commissioner of the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce, before the Rivers and Harbors Committee of Congress in support of the Newton Bill. (3 pages), 1921 Jan 20
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 13
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:
1921 Jan 20
Letter signed Mrs. Addie Carver McConnell, St. Louis, to Miss Nettie Beauregard, [Missouri Historical Society], discusses the life of her father, John Leroy Carver, and other ancestors. Also includes a photograph of John Leroy Carver and an undated St. Louis Globe-Democrat newspaper clipping titled “A Veteran River Man Has Passed,” which contains a biographical sketch of John L. Carver. (3 items), 1921 Dec 28
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 13
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:
1921 Dec 28
Reminiscences of Captain A.G. LaBarge, Jennings, Missouri, of a voyage of the steamboat Emilie from St. Louis to Fort Benton in 1862. Also includes St. Louis Globe-Democrat clipping titled “Steamboat Captain Recalls W.H.H. Pettus. Tells of Trip Up Missouri River to Fort Benton Sixty Years Ago,” February 4, 1922. (gift of R.J. Boylan, St. Louis Globe-Democrat, February 1922), [1922?]
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 13
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:
[1922?]
Correspondence of Carl W. Veale and Alice Wientge with the Missouri Historical Society, relating to their Piggott family ancestors. Includes Missouri Historical Society family history form filled out by Mrs. Cora Jones Heltzell of St. Louis, which records the descendants of Capt. James Piggott. (10 items) (gift of Mrs. Cora Jones Heltzell, February 1923) (transferred to Piggott Family Papers), 1922-1947
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 13
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:
1922-1947
License to Master of Steam Vessels and Pilot Harry N. Crane. (1 item) (accession number 58-0056), 1922 Sept 15
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 13
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:
1922 Sept 15
Correspondence of Harkness family members with Mrs. N.H. Beauregard of the Missouri Historical Society regarding an Indian riding whip that the family donated to the society, which was owned by James Harkness. Harkness had captured the whip from an Indian chief in the battle of the Tobacco Garden along the Upper Missouri River in 1863., 1923 Apr-May
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 13
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:
1923 Apr-May
Printed card with illustration and description of “The Green Tree, Largest Rock Elm on Record” at LeClaire, Iowa, on the Mississippi River. (accession number 65-0026), after 1924
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 13
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:
after 1924
Typescript biographical sketch of Mississippi River steamboat captain George F. Carvell (died 1920). Also includes brief correspondence of Mrs. George F. Carvell and the Missouri Historical Society, dated circa 1927. (5 items), ca. 1925
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 13
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. 1925