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Title: Cincinnati, Ohio Public Landing
Date: 1893-01-24
Description: Public Landing from Suspension Bridge, Cincinnati, O. Jan. 24, 1893. #1027.

Title: Silver Cloud Bill of Lading
Date: 1887-03-24
Description: Bill of Lading from the Evansville, Paducah & Tennessee River Packet Company for transport of 30 tons of #2 pig iron at $2.00/ton, for the Lagrange Iron Company from La Grange to Cincinnati Wharf River and Railroad Transfer Co. March 24, 1887.

Title: W. A. Johnson Bill of Lading
Date: 1886
Description: Bill of Lading from the Steamer W. A. JOHNSON of the Evansville, Paducah & Tennessee River Packet Company for transport of 39 tons of #1 pig iron at $2.00/ton, for the Lagrange Iron Company from La Grange to Cincinnati 1886.

Title: Letter from Captain Enos B. Moore About Description of Recent Trips and the Money Made 1858
Date: 1858-11-23
Description: Letter from Enos B. Moore to William with description of recent trips and the money made. He described a trip with a moderate number of passengers that lost almost a full night due to fog. He made a trip that amounted to about sixty-eight hundred dollars but described being sued by the steamboat Lucy Robinson for $867.00 in addition to a bill he was given of $550.00. They decided they would fight it. He had not heard any news from New Orleans as he continued to carry freight between Cairo and Cincinnati. Moore said he believed the steamboats had seen their best days, at least until they could be revolutionized. He made plans for a pleasure trip to New Orleans when he could hear back from family.

Title: Letter From Captain Enos B. Moore to His Brother About Ordering a Monument 1856
Date: 1856-11-1
Description: Letter from Enos B. Moore to his brother about ordering a monument in Cincinnati. He heard his brother was laid up and feared the monument would not be ready. Moore said he was on the steamboat Mass headed for Cairo, and would return on the steamboat Michigan before attempting to work on the steamboat Crescent.

Title: P-084: Captain Enos B. Moore Diaries and Correspondence
Date: 1853
Description: This collection of letters and diaries of Captain Enos B. Moore preserves a turbulent time in US and river history, the years leading up to and through the Civil War. Moore piloted steamboats on the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers for 45 years, between 1844-1889. The letters date from 1853 to 1865. The four diaries contain daily entries for years 1859, 1860, 1861, and 1865. Subjects include river

Title: P-103 Morse, William H. California Gold Rush Correspondence
Date: 1849-04-04
Description: This letter was written in 1849 by a forty-niner in St. Louis, one William H. Morse, to a friend back home in New England. He’s been in St. Louis for three weeks, the last stop on the frontier, as he prepares to embark on a journey westward on the overland trail, making his way to California in search of gold. He describes his 35 day trip thus far, from an unnamed town in the northeast, south

Title: Cincinnati
Description: Cincinnati, Ohio levee showing Str. "Cincinnati" with "Queen City" outside. New "Island Queen" above. Date about 1925.

Title: Thomas Sherlock Bill of Lading
Date: 1874-03-01
Description: Receipt of goods from commisions agent Jos. Macheca & Co. for delivery from Cincinnati, Ohio to Paducah, Kentucky aboard the steamer Thomas Sherlock, 1874.

Title: Bryant's Showboat and Valley Belle
Description: Photograph of BRYANT'S SHOWBOAT and the VALLEY BELLE, with bridge and houses in the background. Cincinnati, Ohio.

Title: GORDON C. GREENE, CARY-BIRD and TOM GREENE
Description: At Cincinnati. Photo.

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