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Burford Steamboat Collection
Sc87-182


Box 1 - Assorted Files

f. 1-4 Miscellaneous
f. 5 Mike Fink Legend
f. 6 US Army Corps of Engineers. USE and US Navy
f. 7 It's a Fact
f. 8 Calliopes
f. 9 Publications (P section of notebooks)
f. 10 Journey Down the Mississippi
f. 11 Captain Jesse Hughes
f. 12 Gasoline Boats - General
f. 13 Whistle Blows
f. 14 Marietta Ohio River Museum/Sons and Daughters of the Pioneer Rivermen
f. 15 Elk River Notes
f. 16-18 Kanawha River Notes
f. 19-20 Kanawha River Lock and Dam System (including transcript Lock 7 logbook 1916-1922)
f. 21 Kanawha River Lock 7 logbook 1900 transcript
f. 22 Assorted brochures
f. 23 Ohio River Odyssey exhibit
f. 24 American Canal Society
f. 25 Ohio River notes
f. 26 Allegheny River
f. 27 Coal River
f. 28 Ward Engineering Works
f. 29 Handley Collection
f. 30 Burnside Papers/Campbells Creek Coal Company
f. 31 Riverama, St. Albans 1963
f. 32 V. A. Lewis papers on Kanawha River steamboats
f. 33 1819 Steamboat directory (transcript)
f. 34 Excerpts from Hardesty's
f. 35 Excerpts from History of Great Kanawha Valley
f. 36 Captain Mack Wright's scrapbooks
f. 37-49 Waybills


Box 2

Steamboats - A- Elsie


Box 3

Steamboats - Embassy- Kouns


Box 4

Steamboats - Lady Byron - Sprague


Box 5

Steamboats - Spray - Z. M. Sherley, assorted publications.


Box 6

Assorted publications


Box 7

S and D Reflector. 1964-1987


2 volumes log books - Kanawha River Lock 7, 1900-1908, 1916-1922


List of Publications retained in Sc87-182

American Heritage. August 1960, vol VI, 35.
Belle of Louisville Log, n.d.
Calendar - Pittsburgh and Its Rivers, 198
Catalogue - Gile Boat and Engine Company, ca. 1890-1900
Catalogue - James Rees and Sons Company, 1972 reprint of July 1913 ed.
Catalogue - Truscott Boats, 1906-1907
Charleston Steamboat Regatta Festival - programs, 1975, 1976.
Delta Queen Steamboat Company - Steamboatin' 1985, Steamboatin' 1986.
Great Rivers - "The Mississippi River" National Waterways Foundation, 1984
The Hearthstone Collection - August-September 1987
Ladies Birthday Almanac 1976 - Chattanooga, Chattem Publishing Company, 1975.
National Waterways, May 1929, December 1932.
Ohio River Basin, Washington: League of Women Voters Education Fund, 1964
PPG Products, Winter 1965
Program - Neare, Gibbs Company, 1865-1965
Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County. Inland River Library Annual Report. 1965-1985 (12 Volumes)
Scholastic Scope. "Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi." March 20, 1981
Shipyard Bulletin, June 1965
Simcox, Betty Blake. Greene Line Steamers, Incorporated, Celebrates Its 75th Anniversary, ca. 1964
Smithsonian, August 1975
Sports Afield, December 1912
Talmanac, "Old Man River". Chicago: Talman Federal Savings and Loan Association, 1969
Teuton, Frank L. Steamboat Days on the Tennessee River, n.d.
Teuton, Frank L. Steamboating on the Upper Tennessee, 1975
United States Naval Institute. Proceedings, March 1965
Upper Vandalia Historical Society. The Vandalia Journal, September 1968; July and October 1969; July 1979.
Waterways Journal. December 27, 1941; November 20, 1965; December 25, 1965
Way, Captain Frederick Jr, compiler. Mississippi Stern-Wheelers. Milwaukee: Kalmbach Publishing Company, 1947
Way, Frederick Jr. Oldest Pilothouse, Sons and Daughters of the Pioneer Rivermen, 1978
WV Department of Archives and History. West Virginia History. January 1954; January 1966; January 1969
West Virginia Department of Culture and History. Goldenseal, July-September 1977; July- September1980; Fall 1982
West Virginia Department of Natural Resources. Wonderful WV, December 1975; January and March 1977; February and March 1981


Transferred to the Library

Abdy, Harry Bennett, On the Ohio. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1919.
American Heritage. Steamboats on the Mississippi. New York: American Heritage Publishing Company, Incorporated, n.d.
Banta, R. E. The Ohio. New York: Rinehart and Company, 1949.
Bates, Alan L. Belle of Louisville Ohio River Steamboat. Berkeley: Howell-North Books, 1965.
Bissell, Richard. High Water. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1954.
Bissell, Richard. The Monongahela. New York: Rinehart and Company, Incorporated, 1952.
Bissell, Richard. My Life on the Mississippi or Why I Am Not Mark Twain. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1973.
Browne, George W. The St. Lawrence River. New York: Weathervane Books, n.d.
Brunner, John. The Great Steamboat Race. New York: Ballantine Books, 1983
Burman, Ben Lucien. Steamboat Round the Bend. New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1946.
Cap'n Hughes Steamboat Sketche s. Cincinnati: The Picture Marine Publishing Company, 1951.
Coleman, J. Winston Jr. Steamboats on the Kentucky River. Lexington: Winburn Press, 1960.
Dayton, Fred Erving. Steamboat Days, New York: Tudor Publishing: 1939
Douglas, Byrd. Steamboatin' on the Cumberland. Nashville: Tennessee Book Company, 1961.
Drago, Harry Sinclair. Canal Days in America. New York: Clarkson N. Potter Incorporated, 1972
Drago, Harry Sinclair. The Steamboaters. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1967
Elliott, James W. Transport to Disaster. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962
Firestone, Clark B. Sycamore Shore s. New York: Robert M. McBride and Company, 1936.
Gamble, J. Mack. Steamboats of the Muskingum. Staten Island: The Steamship Historical Society of America, 1971.
Gibbs, Mildred Chapman, Hartford City - West Virginia 1853-1922. 1973.
Graham, Philip. Showboat s. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1951.
Hale, John P. Trans-Allegheny Pioneers. Raleigh: Derreth Printing Company, 1971.
Hill, Ralph Nading. Robert Fulton & the Steamboat. New York: Random House, 1954
Hunter, Louis C. Steamboats on the Western Rivers. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1949
Hutchins, Frank and Cortelle. Houseboating on a Colonial Waterway. Boston: L.C. Page and Company, 1910.
Johnson, Leland R. Men, Mountains and Rivers. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1977.
Keyes, Frances Parkinson. Steamboat Gothic. New York: Julian Messner Incorporated, 1952
Klein, Benjamin F, (ed.) The Ohio River Handbook and Picture Album. Cincinnati: Young and Klein, Incorporated, 1958.
Locher, Harry O. (ed.) Waterways of the United States. New York: National Association of River and Harbor Contractors, 1961.
Lythe, William M. and Forrest R. Holdcamper. Merchant Steam Vessels of the United States 1790-1868. Revised by C. Bradford Mitchell. Staten Island: The Steamship Historical Society of America, Incorporated, 1975.
McCague, James. The Cumberland. New York; Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973.
McCall, Edith. American Steamboats. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1961.
McCall, Edith. Pioneers on Early Waterways. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1961.
McCormick, Kyle. The New-Kanawha River and The Mine War of West Virginia. Charleston: Mathews Printing and Lithographing Company, 1959.
McDermott, John Francis. The Lost Panoramas of the Mississippi. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958.
Mathews, John L. The Log of the Easy Way. Boston: Small. Maynard, and Company, 1911.
Miller, A. (ed.) The Mississippi. New York: Crescent Books, 1975
Miller, William H. Jr. The Fabulous Interiors of the Great Ocean Liners. New York: Dover Publications, Incorporated, 1985.
Morrison, John H. History of American Steam Navigation. New York: Stephen Daye Press, 1958.
Newstead, Ralph. Audel's Ship Fitters' Guide. New York: Theodore Audel and Company, 1919
Patterson, H.W. Small Boat Building. New York: Macmillan Company, 1932
Patterson, William J. Steamboating on the Upper Mississippi. Iowa City: State Historical Society of Iowa, 1968
Quick, Herbert and Edward. Mississippi Steamboatin'. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1926.
Riesenberg, Felix. The Men on Deck - Master, Mates and Crew, Their Duties and Responsibilities. New York: D. Van Nostrand Company, 1918.
Russell, Charles Edward. A-Rafting on the Mississip'. New York: The Century Company, 1928.
Samuel, Ray et al, Tales of the Mississippi. New York; Hastings House Publishers, 1955.
Sanborn, Margaret. The American. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1974.
Stokes, Thomas L. The Savannah. New York: Rinehart and Company, Incorporated, 1951.
Streckfus, Steamers Magazine. S.S. Admiral. St. Louis: Streckfus Steamers Incorporated, ca. 1961-1962.
Tracy, Don. The Last Boat Out of Cincinnati. New York: Trident Press, 1970.
Trout, W.E. III. A Guide to the Works of the James River and Kanawha Company from the City of Richmond. Virginia Canals and Navigations Society, April 1986.
Twain, Mark. Life on the Mississippi. New York: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1951.
US Army Chief of Engineers. The Ohio Rive r. Washington: US Government Printing Office, 4th ed. 1929; 5th ed. 1935
US Army Corps of Engineers. Ohio River Navigation Past - Present - Futur e. October 1979
US Department of Commerce, Bureau of Navigation. List of Merchant Vessels of the US, 1892, 1892, 1895, 1898 (typed copy in box)
US Department of Commerce, Bureau of Navigation. List of Merchant Vessels of the US, 1914, 1916, 1921, 1931, 1937, 1939, 1943.
US Department of Commerce and Labor, Bureau of Navigation. Navigation Laws of the US, 1911
US Department of Transportation, US Coast Guard. Merchant Vessels of the US, 1973
US Inland Waterways Commission. Preliminary Report of the Inland Waterways Commission. Senate: Document # 325, 60th Congress, 1st session, 1908.
Vestal, Stanley. The Missouri. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1945.
Waterways Journal, Inc. River Drift 1 & 2. St. Louis; Waterways Journal Inc., 1969 and 1970
Way, Frederick Jr. The Log of the BETSY ANN. New York: Robert M. McBride and Co., 1933
Way, Frederick Jr. Pilotin' Comes Natural. New York: Rinehart and Co., Inc., 1943.
Way, Frederick Jr. The Saga of the Delta Queen. Cincinnati: The Picture Marine Publishing Company, 1953.
Way, Frederick Jr. She Takes the Horn. Cincinnati: Young and Klein, 1953
Way, Frederick Jr. Way's Directory of Western Rivers Packets. 1950.
Way, Frederick Jr. Way's Directory of Western Rivers Steam Towboats. 1954
Way, Frederick Jr. Way's Packet Directory of 1848-1983. Athens, OH: Ohio University, 1980
Wayman, Norbury L. Life on the River. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc. 1971
Wheeling Bicentennial 1769-1969.


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West Virginia Archives and History