Steamboats
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: https://lccn.loc.gov/sh85127732
Found in 17 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
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
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 — 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
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