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Steamboat disasters

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Badger Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A0073
Scope and Contents Collection contains material of the St. Louis-based Badger family, including letters of Capt. Alexander Badger, Sr. and Jr.; newsclippings; bonds; steamboat memoranda; a pilot certificate issued to William H. Cable in 1852; envelopes of Wells Fargo and Overland Mail; cards of steamboat Magnolia and a timetable of St. Louis railroads and steamships; material concerning the Badger, Cable and Cayton families; two Missouri defense bonds issued in 186-; and several letters...
Dates: 1852-1950

Couzins Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A0335
Scope and Contents The Couzins Family Papers contain papers relating to John E.D. Couzins’s efforts to hold Missouri in the Union during the Civil War, including letters, commissions, and a loyalty oath; papers relating to Mrs. Adaline Couzins’s work as a volunteer nurse during the Civil War, including printed memorials to the U.S. Senate, dated March 27, 1888, praising her work; papers relating to Phoebe Couzins, including articles and addresses by her; correspondence and articles regarding Couzins family...
Dates: 1825-1950

Edmund Flagg Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A0499
Scope and Contents The collection consists of correspondence, account books, daybooks, travel journals, receipts, land descriptions, business cards, calling cards, manuscripts, newspaper clippings, photographs, and lecture notes. The Autobiography Series consists of volumes I and II of Edmund Flagg’s handwritten autobiography. The manuscript was written around 1879, but was never published. The manuscript contains a genealogy of the Flagg...
Dates: 1825-1925

Sinking of the Steamer Golden Eagle album

 Collection
Identifier: P1159
Scope and Contents The Sinking of the Steamer Golden Eagle album contains snapshots documenting the sinking of the Golden Eagle steamboat in the Mississippi River. Each photograph is accompanied by a caption providing a first-hand narrative account of the events. Photos show passengers boarding the boat at the St. Louis levee; passengers on a wooded island after being evacuated from the sinking boat; and the Golden Eagle listing and half-submerged in the river. The album was created by an unknown passenger on...
Dates: 1947