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Steamboats

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: https://lccn.loc.gov/sh85127732

Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:

Alan V. Weinberg Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2012-031
Abstract Two color photographs of a medal presented to Captain [Quarrier] by the Citizens of Tuscaloosa for, "an act that ennobles the man," ca. 1847. Possibly to commemorate a heroic action following a steamboat disaster. See engraved scene on medal. Medal is in Weinberg's private collection.
Dates: 1994

Bert Neville Collection of Steamboat Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2008-014
Abstract Photographs of steamboats on Alabama rivers and street scenes from Selma and Mobile, Alabama.
Dates: 1854 - 1920

Charles Scott Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2012-017
Abstract Black and white photographs taken by Charles Scott and exhibited at the World's Fair in New York, 1936. Scenes of rural people and life, New York City and Jersey City, and industrial scenes in the northeastern United States.
Dates: 1888 - 1930

Edward R. Norville diary

 Collection
Identifier: W-0105
Overview Diary of Edward R. Norville, a Mobile, Alabama, river pilot.
Dates: 1873 - 1891

Captain Simon Peter Gray papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0586
Overview Photocopies of newspaper and magazine articles and photographs about steamboats collected by this Mobile, Alabama, researcher.
Dates: 1934-1963

Harold Gibson Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2008-010
Overview Collection consists of eight photographs depicting a ship going through a lock and dam.
Dates: 1900 - 1909

J. H. Lakin Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2008-009
Overview This collection consists of eleven cartes de visite, taken by J. H. Lakin, Montgomery photographer.
Dates: 1860 - 1880

Joseph Johnson and Company Steamboat Receipts, 1836-1837

 File — Box 4267.001: [1005680107], Folder: 6
Scope and Contents This file contains a statement and a receipt from Whiteman, Crew and Company of Knoxville, Tennessee, to Joseph Johnston and Company of Madisonville, Tennessee, regarding materials shipped on the steamboat Guide in the Holston River bound for Decatur. The shipped materials included cotton, cotton gin, and bundle cords, and the total bill came to $70.00. The receipt is dated May 14, 1836. The file also contains a receipt dated June 2, 1837, to Joseph Johnson and...
Dates: 1836-1837

Loading Cotton on the Alabama River caption, 1857

 File — Box WSC001: [1006241611], Folder: W0129.01
Scope and Contents This two-page typescript, titled "Loading Cotton on the Alabama River," is the caption of an illustration initially published in Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion on November 28, 1857. The caption describes an illustration featuring African-American boatmen using hooks to load cotton bales onto a steamboat. This collection only contains a typescript of the caption; a copy of the illustration is not included.
Dates: 1857

Mears Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4294
Overview Contains diary kept by Virginia Henry Mears while on a journey with her husband from Philadelphia to New Orleans shortly before the Civil War, along with other family materials and photographs.
Dates: 1850-1919

Nehemiah Denton Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1602
Abstract Correspondence and other business materials of this Brooklyn, New York, resident with business interests in Mobile, Alabama. Aside from extensive business correspondence, it includes detailed descriptions of Mobile's antebellum social life, and accounts of yellow fever epidemics and fires.
Dates: 1831 - 1844

Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Alabama Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2007-003
Abstract This collection consists of one thousand seventy five photographs depicting street scenes in Tuscaloosa, Selma, and other cities in Alabama; portraits of famous people: Will Chambers, Augusta Evans Wilson, Margaret Zehmer Searcy, Roger Lee, Booker T. Washington, Samuel M. Stafford, George C. Wallace, Carl Elliot, Sr., Winton M. Blount, Jefferson Davis, and many others. Also collection consists of numerous images of Alabama rivers steam boats, Joe Sewell and Lou Gehrig in 1933 World Series;...
Dates: 1823 - 1975; Majority of material found within 1860 - 1945

Photographs, 1910

 File — Box 6148: [1006100295], Folder: 3
Identifier: Folder 3
Scope and Contents Images of Smith's family, steamboats, and surveying.
Dates: 1910

Photographs, 1910

 File — Box 6148: [1006100295], Folder: 4
Identifier: Folder 4
Scope and Contents Images of Smith family, steamboats, and surveying.
Dates: 1910

Reade family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3674
Overview Materials from three generations of the Reade family
Dates: 1917-1982

Steamship log books collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1343
Overview Contains an assortment of steamships log books: "Lord William Bentinck" (Aug. 11, 1832 - Dec. 25, 1833), "Eugenio Perini," Giornale Private (May 1886 - Sept. 1890), "Bogota" (Dec. 1903) a work book for navigating officers of H.M. ships, "Baroque Slains Castle" (Dec. 27, 1836 - May 17, 1837) a journal, and "Baroque British Sovereign" (July 26, 1835 - Aug. 17, 1836) a journal.
Dates: 1830s -1903

Truman S. Smith Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2012-020
Abstract Family photos of Truman A. Smith (son of Eugene Allen Smith) and his wife Pearl Boyles of Mobile.
Dates: 1890 - 1910

W. A. Mair Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2008-025
Overview This collection consists of two photographic albums with 230 photographs showcasing highlights of W. A. Mair travels with his friends and family through Michigan, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Florida, Indiana, Illinois, Mexico, and Tennessee.
Dates: 1900 - 1901

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2009-100
Overview This collection consists of 248 photographs depicting people, and scenes from Louisville, Kentucky and New Albany, Indiana.
Dates: 1910 - 1950

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

 Collection — Box 2009001.011: [1006241508]
Identifier: 2009-046
Abstract This collection consists of thirty-five black and white photographs depicting scenes from Louisville, Kentucky.
Dates: 1913 - 1915

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

 Collection — Box 2009001.016: [1006241513]
Identifier: 2009-067
Abstract This collection consists of six photographs depicting scenes along the Hudson River.
Dates: 1913-07