Box 2
Container
Contains 143 Results:
Reminiscences of Joseph Barclay, an old riverboat man who came to St. Louis on a keel boat from Pittsburgh in 1818. Describes his services on the steamboat Mandan in the early 1820s and a keel boat or barge named Antelope built in St. Louis in 1824 or 1825. (3 pages) (1 item), ca. 1868
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 1
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. 1868
Freight bill of Alton & St. Louis Packet Company. (1 item), 1868 July 6
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 1
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:
1868 July 6
Typescript copy of letter signed “A Man on Board” and printed in the Missouri Democrat, describing “A Memorable Trip. The First Steamer at the Great Falls of the Missouri River.” (2 pages) (1 item) (courtesy of Charles A. Murray, Kirkwood, Missouri, April 13, 1954), 1868 July 17
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 1
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:
1868 July 17
Ticket for the steamboat Phil. Sheridan. (1 item), 1868 Dec 9
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 1
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:
1868 Dec 9
Journal of William Hall Delano titled “Tramp in the Northwest” (23 pages), describing his Mississippi River trip on the steamboats Phil Sheridan, Addie Johnson, and Key City from St. Louis to St. Paul, Minnesota. Journal includes accounts of races with the steamboats Andy Johnson and Jennie Baldwin and descriptions of numerous towns and cities along the route. Also includes typescript letter signed Clara Brown, Rolla, Missouri, to Charles Van Ravenswaay, director of the Missouri Historical Society, November 21, 1959, which includes a biographical sketch of William Hall Delano. (2 items) (accession number 59-0121), [1869]
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 1
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:
[1869]
Seven cards of M.S. Mepham & Bro., St. Louis, advertising sailings of the steamboats Fannie Scott and Peter Balen, leaving St. Louis for Fort Benton and the gold mines. Printed on the back are distances on the Missouri River from St. Louis to points on the way to Fort Benton. (7 items), [1869] Mar 25-Apr 1
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 2
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:
[1869] Mar 25-Apr 1
Two receipts of Halliday & Co., Columbus, Kentucky, for coal and cotton shipped on the steamboat St. Louis and on the Iron Mountain Railroad. (2 items) (accession number 62-0074), 1869 Sept 6, 30
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 2
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:
1869 Sept 6, 30
Letter signed Felix Coste, Custom House, Port of St. Louis, to Thomas Allen, president of the St. Louis & Iron Mountain Railroad Company, regarding the need to surrender the current license and take out a new one for the steamboat St. Louis. (1 item) (accession number 62-0074), 1869 Dec 21
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 2
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:
1869 Dec 21
Circular advertisements for steamboats including the Naples Packet steamboat Belle of Pike; the St. Louis and Tennessee River Packet steamboat David Watts; the St. Louis and Keokuk Packet Company steamboats Andy Johnson, Lucy Bertram, Bayard, Rob Roy, and J.H. Johnson; the St. Louis & Peoria Packet Company steamboats Schuyler, City of Pekin, and Illinois; the Miami Packet Company steamboats Post Boy, W.B. Dance, W.J. Lewis, and Clara; the Northwestern Union Packet Company; and the Memphis & Arkansas River Packet Company. (4 items) (accession number 77-0004), ca. 1870
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 2
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. 1870
Business card of James O. Alter, steam syphon and fire pump manufactory, St. Louis., ca. 1870
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 2
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. 1870