Inland waterways research guide
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INLAND WATERWAYS RESEARCH GUIDE Herman T. Pott National Inland Waterways Library St. Louis Mercantile Library-University of Missouri-St. Louis http://www.umsl.edu/pott Libraries with inland river collections include: G.W. Blunt White Library, Mystic Seaport, Mystic, CT, http://www.mysticseaport.org/research ; The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Rare Books and Special Collections, Inland Rivers Collection, Third Floor – Bridge, Main Library/North Building, 800 Vine St., Cincinnati, OH 45202-2071, 513-369-6957; Tulane University Library, New Orleans, LA http://www.tulane.edu/~lmiller/Transportation.html ; and Murphy Library, 1613 Pine St., La Crosse, WI 54601, http://www.uwlax.edu/MarlyLibrary/archome.html Fred A. Bill. Photographs and pictures of river steamers, ca. 1860-1920. 5 vol. Also one box of photographs of river steam boats. http://www.slpl.lib.mo.us/libsrc/phocol.htm http://steamboats.org A steamboat information resource that has a glossary of steamboat terms, interactive steamboat model, books and message board. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lc American Memory from the Library of Congress collections provides free internet access to historical images, maps, newspapers, periodicals, sheet music, narratives of early travel, and steamboat photographs. Other Library of Congress images are included in: Selected Library of Congress Steamboat Photographs and PicturesMicrofilmhttp://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/ The Johns Hopkins University has the Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music of over 29.000 pieces focusing on popular American music from 1780 to 1960: The www.waterwaysjournal.net The Waterways Journal is a weekly trade publication covering news of the inland rivers and Gulf Intracoastal Waterway. http://www.boatnerd.com Great Lakes and Seaway Shipping website. http://ntl.bts.gov/ref/biblio/inland_water/inlandwater_references.html Sources of Information in Transportation. Inland Water Transportation. (Washington, D.C.): U.S. Dept. of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, National Transportation Library, [2001]- Sullivan, Margaret L. “Inland Waterways,” pp. 199–234 in Sources of Information in Transportation. (Evanston, IL): Published for the Transportation Center at Northwestern University by the Northwestern University Press, 1964. HE 191 .A3xBar NCIR Z 7164 .T8 A3BIOGRAPHY AND GENEALOGY Government Recordshttp://tris Largest and most comprehensive source of information of published transportation research on the Web, was a joint project between the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) and the Transportation Research Board. www.nara.gov National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 700 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20408, 1-800-234-8861. The regional (NARA) that includes St. Louis is the National Archives Kansas City Branch, 2312 East Bannister Rd., Kansas City, MO 64131-3011. At the regional archives there are licenses for various positions within their regional jurisdiction. On August 30, 1852, licenses were required of pilots and engineers, and the 1871 Act added masters, chief mates, engineers and pilots of all steam vessels. April 17, 1874 Act licenses required of alien engineers and pilot who declared their intention of becoming citizens. In the May 28, 1896 Act steam vessel officer's licenses were issued for five years, and renewal at any time before expiration. March 23, 1898 Act, extended licensing of steam vessel chief mates to include ocean or coastwise steam vessels' chief mates, and second or third mates in charge of a watch, and mates of river steamers. The 1871 Act was amended by the December 21, 1898 Act to include licensing of masters and chief mates of sail vessels over 700 tons, and all other vessels or barges of over 100 tons carrying passengers. The Steamboat Inspection Service of the Commerce Department administered the acts by creating districts where the licenses were obtained. First Supervising District - Local port: St. Michael, AK Second Supervising District - Local port: Albany, NY Fourth Supervising District - Local ports: St. Louis, MO; Dubuque, IA Sixth Supervising District - Local ports: Louisville, KY; Evansville, IN; Nashville, TN; Memphis, TN Seventh Supervising District - Local ports: Pittsburgh, PA; Cincinnati, OH; Point Pleasant, WVA Eighth Supervising District - Local port: Chicago, IL Tenth Supervising District - Local ports: New Orleans, LA; Mobile, AL. Licenses and records can also be found in State Historical Societies, State Archives, or other collections. Copies of these licenses were not kept by the government, but the names were listed by supervising districts in: Steamboat-Inspection Service. Proceedings of the … Annual Meeting of the Board of Supervising Inspectors of Steam Vessels. Washington: G.P.O. Library has 1874 and 1881. A complete set (1853 - 1893) with the list of vessels and officers licensed is available at the University of Chicago Library: Microforms, microfc J83.U13 1990:T3810-1 to T3810-, and SLU Law Library. Rare VM 600 .U5 Steamboat-Inspection Service. List of Masters, Mates, Pilots, and Engineers of Merchant Steam, Motor, and Sail Vessels, Licensed During the Year Ended December - for a Period of Five Years. Library has 1897 - 1905. Annual publication (1894-1905) that has lists of licenses granted for a five-year period and status of licenses. Publication dates cover the previous year, example, 1894 is for people “licensed during the year ended December 31, 1893”. Merc Ref HE 589 .U5 A25 Steamboat-Inspection Service. List of Officers of Merchant Steam, Motor, and Sail Vessels, Licensed During the Year … for a Period of Five Years. Library has 1906 - 1915. Annual publication continues Steamboat-Inspection Service. List of Masters, Mates, Pilots, and Engineers … (previous entry). Merc Ref HE 589 .U5 A25 http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gmanual/index.html The United States Government Manual. Washington, D.C.: Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, 1973- Lists of government employees Other SourcesEvidence of early steamboat travelers can be found in newspapers of time, for instance travelers placed notices thanking the captain and crew for a particular steamboat trip. 19th Century newspapers carried lists of people with letters waiting to be picked up at the post office, and also list of people staying at different lodgings. Morris, Jean S. Western Migrations by River and Canal from PA & NY: A Bibliography. 2005 Peterson, Ann H. “Finding River People on Western Waters,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly, December 1990, 245-261. Radloff, Herman and Alexander Coyle. "Your ancestor a river captain?" St. Louis, MO: St. Louis Genealogical Society, 1973. Includes references to primary sources and lists of licensed officers from the 1857, 1859 and 1915 St. Louis City Directories Merc Ref F474 .S2 Y68 1973 CIVIL WAR Government Records Names of Civil War masters of vessels contracted by the U.S. Army can sometimes be found in the NARA “vessel papers” in Record Group 92, Records of the Office of Quartermaster General. These “vessel papers” are arranged by vessel name. Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion. Washington: GPO, 1894. Wtr Wys E 591 .U58 1987 (reprint) Silverstone, Paul H., Warships of the Civil War Navies. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1989 Authoritative and illustratedWtr Wys VA 61 .S573 1989Other SourcesGibson, Charles Dana and E. Kay Gibson. Assault and Logistics: Union Army Coastal and River Operations 1861-1866. Camden, ME: Ensign Press, 1995. Role of contracted vessels in the Civil War. Wtr Wys E 591 .G53 1995Gibson, Charles Dana and E. Kay Gibson. Dictionary of Transports and Combatant Vessels Steam and Sail Employed by the Union Army, 1861-1868. Camden, ME: Ensign Press, 1995. Lists contracted vessels and their role in the Civil War.Wtr Wys VA 61 .G53 1995Gosnell, H. Allen. Guns on the Western Waters: The Story of River Gunboats in the Civil War. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1949. Civil War gunboats Wtr Wys E 591 .G67Greene, F.V. The Mississippi. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1882 Campaigns of the Civil War, Vol. VIII Rare E 470.8 .G81 1882, 1892Porter, Admiral David D. The Naval History of the Civil War. New York: Sherman Publishing Co., 1886. Written and illustrated by people with first-hand knowledge of the events Rare E 591 .P84 1886 MACHINERY, MODELS & PLANS http://pc-78-120.udac.se:8001/WWW/Transport/Transport.html Different sections: Air; Rail; Road; Sea Transport, contains Maritime History and Pointers to Other Sites of Nautical Interest. Ashley, Clifford. The Ashley Book of Knots. New York: Doubleday, 1993. Comprehensive book about knots that rivermen used. Wtr Wys VM 533 .A8 1993 Bates, Alan L. The Western Rivers Engineroom Cyclopaedium. Louisville, Ky.: Cyclopaedium Press, 1996. Steamboat machinery Merc Ref VM 343 .B27 1996 Bates, Alan L. The Western Rivers Steamboat Cyclopaedium or American Riverboat Structure & Detail, Salted with Lore With A Nod To The Modelmaker. Leonia, N.J.: Hustle Press, 1968. Steamboat structure
Illustrated catalog of this large steamboat yard Wtr Wys VM301 .J35 J35 1972 "The Machinery of Western River Steamboats", from the International Correspondence School Textbook on Marine Engineering, Vol. II. Steamboat machinery Paddlewheels and Props Catalog, John Fryant, 7672 Crystal Cove Pointe, Maineville, Ohio 45039-7008 Model plans and supplies St. Louis Admirals R/C Model Boat Club. Contact: Thomas P. O'Dell, 417 Valley View Drive, East Alton, IL 62024, Telephone: 618-259-3052 Ship Plan List / National Museum of American History. Washington, D.C.: The Museum, 1998. Vessel plans Wtr Wys VN 297 .N3 S5 1998 TERMS Eyden, Pamela. The Little Tow-Watcher’s Guide to Towboats & Barges on the Upper Mississippi. Winona, MN: Big River, 2002. Towboat terms
Wtr Wys TC 623 .H24 1999Noel, John V. The VNR Dictionary of Ships & the Sea. New York: Van Nostrant Reinhold Co., 1981. Wtr Wys V23 .N63 1981 The Oxford Companion to Ships & the Sea. Edited by Peter Kemp. London: Oxford University Press, 1976. Wtr Wys V 23 .O96 1976 Woollam, W.G. Shipping Terms and Abbreviations: Maritime--Insurance--International Trade. Cambridge: Cornell Maritime Press, Inc., 1963. Wtr Wys HE 567 .W6 1963 VESSELS Government Recordswww.nara.gov National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 700 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20408-000. The regional (NARA) that includes St. Louis is the National Archives Kansas City Branch, 2312 East Bannister Rd., Kansas City, MO 64131-3011. Marine Inspection and Navigation, Bureau of (Record Group 41) Steamboat Inspection Service, was created July 7, 1838. Inspectors listed the dates of their first inspections. Local newspapers and The Waterways Journal (1891-present) would likely carry descriptions of these new vessels. Vessels had to be measured before being registered, enrolled, or licensed, and after licensing they were numbered and named. Vessels were required to have a license showing hulls inspected every twelve months, and boilers every six months and to provide safety equipment. The 1871 Act made ferryboats, canal boats, yachts and other small craft subject to vessel inspection. The August 7, 1882 Act provided foreign private passenger vessels between any U.S. port and elsewhere subject to the laws. The Steamboat Inspection Service of the Commerce Department administered the acts by creating districts where the inspections were done. First Supervising District - Local port: St. Michael, AK Second Supervising District - Local port: Albany, NY Fourth Supervising District - Local ports: St. Louis, MO; Dubuque, IA Sixth Supervising District - Local ports: Louisville, KY; Evansville, IN; Nashville, TN; Memphis, TN Seventh Supervising District - Local ports: Pittsburgh, PA; Cincinnati, OH; Point Pleasant, WVA Eighth Supervising District - Local port: Chicago, IL Tenth Supervising District - Local ports: New Orleans, LA; Mobile, AL. Licenses and records can also be found in State Historical Societies, State Archives, or other collections. Steamboat-Inspection Service. Proceedings of the … Annual Meeting of the Board of Supervising Inspectors of Steam Vessels. Washington: G.P.O. Library has 1874 and 1881. A complete set (1853 - 1893) with the list of vessels and officers licensed is available at the University of Chicago Library: Microforms, microfc J83.U13 1990:T3810-1 to T3810--, and SLU Law Library. Rare VM 600 .U5 http://www.cr.nps.gov/maritime/vesnhl.htm List of vessels that have been designated National Historic Landmarks. The full text of many of the nominations is available at this site. For copies of nominations not online robert_sandoval@nps.gov http://psix.uscg.mil The Port State Information Exchange (PSIX) system contains vessel specific information derived from the United States Coast Guard's Marine Safety Information system (MSIS). Annual Report of the Supervising Inspector General, Steamboat Inspection Service to the Secretary of Commerce. Washington, D.C.: GPO. Title varies slightly. Library has 1870-1912. Coverage is for example for 1912 is “fiscal year ended June 30, 1912”. Merc Ref HE 589 .U5 A15Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Washington, D.C.: Navy Dept., Office of the Chief of Naval operations, Naval History Division, 1969-1991. Vol. 1-VIII Comprehensive American naval history with illustrations Gov Docs D207.10:1/pt.A/991- Merchant Vessels of the United States / United States Department of Transportation. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Coast Guard Annual publication, some issues available on microfiche Wtr Wys HE 565 .U5 A27 Appendix to Merchant Vessels of the United States Containing a Complete List of the Vessels of the United States Navy, From 1797 to 1874. Washington, DC: GPO, 1874. Dubuque Permanent Enrollments by Dubuque Steamboat Inspectors, 1870-1888, Steamboats, Steam Ferryboats, Flatboats, and Barges (Record Groups 26) MicrofilmNew Orleans Ship Registers and Enrollments of New Orleans, Louisiana. University, La.: Hill Memorial Library, Louisiana State University, 1941- Vol. I-VI, 1804-1870 Merc Ref HE 565 .U73 New York List of American-Flag Merchant Vessels that Received Certificates of Enrollment or Registry at the Port of New York, 1789-1867. Vol. I-II. Washington: National Archives, 1968. Merc Ref HE 565 .U5 A43 1968 v. 1 & 2St. Louis General Index, Grantor-Grantee, 1867 – 1913Index of Enrollments, and Enrollments at St. Louis (1835, 1844) Steamboats Bill of Sale, Transfers, Power of Attorney, Deeds of Trust, Mortgages, Releases, Shares (Record Group 26)
MicrofilmVessel Documentation Records from the Port of St. Louis, Mo., 1835 – 1944. Copies of Licenses of Vessels Over 20 Tons (1844 – July 1912) Rolls 1 – 17 Copies of Licenses of Vessels under 20 Tons (September 1893 – May 1931) Rolls 18 - 20 Copies of Licenses of Yachts (April 1902 – June 1911); Enrollments, Volumes B90-B92 (May 1835 – December 1901) Roll 21 Enrollments, Volume B93 (January 1902 – July 1911) Roll 22 Combined Certificates of Enrollment and License (August 1911 – June 1918) Roll 23 Accident Reports (May 1884 – 1942) Roll 24 Reports of Vessel Construction, Destruction, and Legal or Physical Alteration (June 1900 – June 1914) Roll 25 Quarterly Abstracts of the Status of Vessels (July 1900 – June 1914); Annual Listings of Vessels (July – June 1911); Annual Vessel Recapitulations (July 1900 – June 1911); Licenses of Vessels Over 20 Tons: Cairo, IL (1867 – 1870) Roll 26 Microfilm City of St. Louis. Index to Steamboat Arrivals and Departures, 1878 to 1881 and 1888 to 1918. (Roll H-379)MicrofilmOther SourcesThe Steamship Historical Society Archives (SSHSA) http://www.sshsa.org consists of over 200,000 steamship photographs including WWII, cargo and inland. Collection is currently unavailable. University of Wisconsin - La Crosse - Murphy Library, Special Collections Department, La Crosse, WI 54601 Tel. 608-785-8511 Extensive collection of photographs of inland river steamboats and river scenes. http://perth.uwlax.edu/murphylibrary/Departments/archome.html Dick’s Towboat Gallery has Mississippi and Ohio River Towboats and links. http://www.towboatgallery.com Baldwin, Leland Dewitt. The Keelboat Age on Western Waters. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1941. Wtr Wys F 351 .B18 1941 Barkhau, Roy L. A History of the Eagle Packet Company. Cincinnati, OH: Young and Klein, 1951. Merc Ref HE 633 .E35 B7 1951Branch, Alan E. Elements of Shipping. Fifth Edition. New York: Chapman and Hall, 1981. Shipping industry, especially ship management
MicrofilmCuster, Jack E. An Investigation of Submerged Historic Properties in the Upper Mississippi River and the Illinois Waterway. Louisville, KY: Steamboat Masters & Associates, 1997 Merc Ref CC 77 .U5 C97 1997 Donovan, Frank. River Boats of America. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1966. Entire history of steamboating Wtr Wys VM 461 .D6 1966Eskew, Garnett Laidlaw. The Pageant of the Packets. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1929 Steamboat history from the opening of the west to towboats Merc Ref VK 23 .E7 1929Flexner, James Thomas. Steamboats Come True: American Inventors in Action. New York: Viking Press, 1944. Early steamboat development
Haites, Erik F., James Mak, and Gary M. Walton. Western River Transportation: The Era of Early Internal Development, 1810-1860. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975. Wtr Wys HE 631 .W4 H35 1975 Hall, James. Notes on the Western States. Philadelphia: Harrison Hall, 1838. Western Steamboats listed on p. 213-263, 290-304 Rare F 353 .H19 1838 Hall, James. Statistics of the West, at the Close of the Year 1836. Cincinnati: J.A. James & Co., 1836. Western Steamboats listed on p. 213-263 Rare F 353 .H17 1836 Heyl, Erik. Early American Steamers. Buffalo, NY: Erik Heyl, 1953 - Merc Ref VM 23 .H4 1964 v.3Hilton, G.W, R. Plummer, J. Jobe. The Illustrated History of Paddle Steamers. Lausanne: Edita; New York: Two Continents, 1976 Many drawings and photos of world steamers Wtr Wys VM 615 .H54 1976 Houseboats and Houseboating. Edited by Albert Bradlee Hunt. New York: Forest and Stream Publishing Co., 1905 Wtr Wys GV 836 .H93 1905 (ovr) Hunter, Louis C. Steamboats on the Western Rivers: An Economic and Technological History. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1949. Authoritative overall history of the steamboat age Merc Ref HE 627.H8 1949 Inland River Guide. St. Louis, Mo: The Waterways Journal, Inc. Annual publication of barge and towing companies, terminals, services, shipyards on Midwestern and southern rivers, professionals and agencies Wtr Wys HE 627 .I54, current year in Merc Ref Inland River Record. St. Louis, Mo.: The Waterways Journal, Inc. Annual publication of stack logos, pertinent information about river boats and their owners on Midwestern and southern rivers Wtr Wys VM 23 .I5, current year in Merc Ref Kane, Adam I. The Western River Steamboat. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2004. Scholarly combination of historical sources and steamboat archaeology Wtr Wys VM 461 .K35 2004 Klein, Eugene. United States Waterway Packetmarks: Handstamped and Printed Names of Mail Carrying Steamboats on the United States of America Inland and Coastal Waters 1832-1899. Federalsburg, Md: J.W. Stowell Printing Co., 1940. Merc Ref HE 6185 .U5 K54 1940 Lane, Carl D. American Paddle Steamboats. New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1943 Many images of steamboats Wtr Wys VM 623 .L3 1943Lyford, W.G. The Western Address Directory. Baltimore: Printed by J. Robinson, 1837. Alphabetical List of Steamboats on the Western Waters, pp. 461-468
Merc Ref VM 461 .M3 1944McCall, Edith. Conquering the Rivers: Henry Miller Shreve and the Navigation of America’s Inland Waterways. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1984 History of early steamboats
VM 140 .S57 M35 1984, Pott VM 140 .S57 M35 1984Milgram, James W. Vessel-Named Markings on United States Inland and Ocean Waterways, 1810-1890. Collectors Club of Chicago, 1984. 19th century mail steamers and postmarks
Mills, John M. Canadian Coastal and Inland Steam Vessels, 1809-1930 and Supplement No. 1. Providence, RI: Steamship Historical Society of America, 1979 and 1981. Merc Ref HE 565 .C2 M54 and Suppl. 1 Morris, Ann. An Inventory of the Federal Barge Lines Collection. St. Louis, MO: St. Louis Mercantile Library Association, 1988. http://www.umsl.edu/pott/pmore/fblcoll/fblcoll.htmMerc Ref and TJ Ref Z 881 .S85 S82 1988Morrison, John H. History of American Steam Navigation. New York: Stephen Daye Press, 1958. Merc Ref VM 623 .M87 1958 Naval & Maritime History: An Annotated Bibliography and A Supplement to Naval & Maritime History: An Annotated Bibliography. Wtr Wys Z 6834 .H5 A4 1972, 1988 Peel, Bruce Braden. Steamboats on the Saskatchewan. Saskatoon: Western Producer, 1972. Saskatchewan River steamboats F 1071 .P3x Preble, George Henry. A Complete List of Vessels of the United States Navy, from 1797 to 1874 … Philadelphia?: For private Distribution, 1874 Merc Ref VA 61 P69 1874Rhodes, Thomas G. and Harley E. Scott. Steamboats Today: A Pictorial Directory of North American Vessels. Cayuga Creek Historical Press, 1986. Merc Ref VM 461 .R48 1986 Steamboat History of Lee Line, Illustrated 1832-1930; The Great Steamboat Race, A History of the Eagle Company, Capt. Roy Barkhau; Doxology of Anchor Line, Capt. William H. Tippitt MicrofilmWay's Packet Directory 1848-1983. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1983. http://www.steamboats.org/cgi-bin/database.pl includes photos Merc Ref HE 565 .U5 W39 1994 Wtr Wys HE 565 .U5 W39 1983 Way's Steam Towboat Directory. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1990. Wtr Wys HE 565 .U71 W3 1954Merc Ref HE 565 .U71 W33 1990Directory: mercantile -> collections -> pott-library-special-collections -> assets -> rtf rtf -> Pike, August 1817 (steamboat) 1818 collections -> Collection m-233 Kyse Manley Barnett Collection collections -> General remarks collections -> Collection m-236 Mid Coast Aviation Photographs collections -> ST. louis mercantile library at the university of missouri-st. Louis collections -> Items listed below are located in the General Subject files, which have not yet been added to the searchable database. For more information see the website collections -> Transcription of letter to an Unknown Person rtf -> Guide to the rose barge line collection Download 103.84 Kb. Share with your friends:
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