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Title: Percheron
Date: 1953-06-16
Description: Tug (Percheron) passing service base. This tug sank about 20 months ago at Dam no. 48. on Ohio after hitting submerged barge.

Title: P-074 Dan Owen Boat Photo Museum Collection
Date: 1955
Description: This collection is comprised of the photographic prints, notes, ledgers, photograph negatives, and other ephemera collected by longtime Inland River Record editor and Waterways Journal contributor, Dan Owen. Content includes vessels primarily from the American inland waterways system as well as limited selections from abroad. The entire collection was kept under the name “Dan Owen’s Boat Photo Museum.”

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 the Cost of Boat Repairs 1858
Date: 1858-07-6
Description: approximately 42 inches. The prospect for business looked gloomy. When the boat was complete, she would have cost about sixty-one thousand, which was a good deal of money. Moore writes that he put in $16,852 and Duvall $11,208. He offered his brother William a share in the cost of the boat.

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: Letter from Samuel Moore to Captain Enos B. Moore Expressing Concern For Family and Friends 1864
Date: 1864-07-8
Description: Letter from Samuel Moore to Enos B. Moore. He was worried as he had not heard from him or William, and thought someone in the family may be sick. He mentioned receiving word in Cairo that Captain Young had died. He asked to hear back as soon as the letter was received.

Title: Letter from Maria Moore to Captain Enos B. Moore About Their Travels and Letters
Date: 07-29
Description: Letter from Maria Moore to Enos B. Moore. This letter has 3 parts. In the first, she described how much she missed him while he was on business in New Orleans taking care of the boat. The second part of the letter was written the next day. She received a short communication from him and mentioned the family would be heading to Yazoo City if there was no fever in New Orleans. She also said she may travel to Portsmouth by the time he left. In the third part of the letter, she briefly wrote that she wanted him to send full letters as opposed to just a "line", but even that is better than nothing.

Title: Letter from Captain Enos B. Moore to His Brother Discussing the Effect of the War on Business 1861
Date: 1861-07-8
Description: Letter from Enos B. Moore to his brother discussing the effect of the war on business. He discussed how there was no cotton trade or passengers to have, and that he could not travel south of Cairo, IL. Moore mentioned that even sending letters to the South was not an option at that time. Mention is made of looking for a farm, but that that also would not make sense until the war ended.

Title: Letter from Captain Enos B. Moore About Maintenance Issues For the Boat 1858
Date: 1858-10-6
Description: Letter from Enos B. Moore on maintenance issues the boat was having. He mentioned a poor trip where no passengers were picked up in Cairo, and he was having trouble getting the spark burner put in. He mentioned that Sam got off at Vicksburg but that Moore will travel down the coast as he waits for the boat. He was sure there was no danger but didn't want to risk the striker pilot. He did not know if Duvall would stop but hoped to get the boat taken in. He had only half-freight as he was not able to get the rest.

Title: Letter from Captain Enos B. Moore to His Brother Discussing Business
Date: 08-28
Description: Letter from Enos B. Moore to his brother discussing business. He mentioned being on the steamboat Prentiss. He referred to Captain Jo Brown not being able to dock when he previously travelled. He mentioned Captain Titus Brown was there to help load luggage and move it. The fare was going up from Vicksburg to Cairo or St. Louis.

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: P-098 Letter from Samuel to his Parents December 1, 1847
Date: 1847-12-01

Title: P-098 Rothgeb, Samuel Correspondence Collection
Date: 1847
Description: Two letters written by Samuel Rothgeb to his parents in 1847. Rothgeb was a young man just off the farm when he took up a position as a merchant and cook aboard a flatboat plying the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers at the twilight of the flatboat age. His letters chronicle storms, river trade, daily rafting life, and more.

Title: P-098 Letter from Samuel to his Parents December 11, 1847
Date: 1847-12-11

Title: P-094 Milroy, Henry Bruce Diary
Date: 1836
Description: This diary documents Rebecca and Henry Bruce Milroy’s convalescent journey from Washington County, Indiana to Natchez Mississippi, as well as Henry’s return trip after his wife’s death. The 42 page diary includes near daily entries from October 26, 1836 to January 1, 1837. The author describes several towns they pass through, places they stay, steamboats they take passage aboard, people they

Title: Steamboat R.C. Gunter
Description: Photograph of the steamboat R.C. Gunter. The R.C. Gunter was a sternwheel packet built at Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1886 for the Chattanooga and Decatur Packet Company. R.C. Gunter was the owner and master. By 1896 the boat had been sold to the St. Louis, Harden and Hempsville Packet Company, and then sold again to the Eagle Packet Company a year later in 1901. The latter company ran the boat one

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