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  Carter's Dry Goods Store

  Page from Louisville, KY- Resources and Industries highlighting the Carter's Dry Goods Company, located at 727 W. Main Street in Louisville.
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  B. F. Avery & Sons: The Genuine Avery Plow

  Annual catalog no. 86, 1911-1912; Plows and cultivating implements, B. F. Avery & Sons, Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.A., established 1825.
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  Belknap Hardware & Manufacturing Co. Catalog, 1932

  Front cover of the Belknap Catalog book
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  Letter from Samuel Sevey, Jr. to E. Smith, 2 February 1819
  

  Sevey reports to his uncle on health, education, business, hunting, family and steamboats from both a personal and general perspective. Speaks specifically of personal business and profits, number of steamboats built in town and misfortunes and death of Captain Clough and his crew of the steamboat Buffaloe.
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  Letter from Richard Taylor to Edmund Taylor, 15 November 1834

  A letter of 15 November 1834 from Richard Taylor to Edmund Taylor describing the escape of John Taylor and an enslaved man named Toney from the steamboat accident involving the Missouri Belle and Boones Lick.
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  Letter from D. McNaughtan to John Brunton, 24 March 1840

  Letter to John Brunton. On page 1 is a unique pencil sketch of the Louisville waterfront, head of the Portland Canal, and the steamboat Louisville drawn and described by McNaughtan.
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  Letter from Samuel Wigglesworth to Thomas Wigglesworth, 17 July 1839

  Letter from Samuel Wigglesworth, a physician from Boston, to his father Thomas Wigglesworth of Boston, written at Cleveland, Ohio, Cincinnati, on board Steamer "Elk" near Louisville and St. Louis. Wigglesworth travelled from Boston to Buffalo, then to Cleveland. He crossed the state of Ohio on the canal via Munroe Falls to Portsmouth near Cincinnati, where he took a boat down the Ohio River to visit the medical college and anatomical museum at Louisville. He passed through the canal and went aground every day en route to St. Louis, mentioning along the way the irregularity of steam boat arrivals and departures, robberies committed on the boats, manners of other passengers, and his care of a patient who was suffering with fever and ague at St. Louis.
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  Letter from W. N. Carroll to Jane Carroll, 9 December 1838

  Letter from W. N. Carroll to his mother Jane Carroll from the steam boat Campte, which is "hard and fast aground" at Flint Island, located on the Ohio River in far western Meade County, approximately 45 miles southwest of Louisville. He reports that he has been there for one week and that there are "6 or 8" other boats in the same situation.
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  Captain Madison Dugan Certificate, 22 May 1888

  Inspectors Certificate of Captain Madison “Big Matt” Dugan (1860-1917). Dugan lived in Jeffersonville, Ind., and came from a steamboating family. He captained the ferries City of Jeffersonville and Gen. George Rogers Clark between Louisville and Jeffersonville. He kept a diary for thirty-one years (1886-1917). He was murdered on board the Clark in the early morning hours of August 19, 1917.
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  Jonathan Clark Steamboat Ride Diary Entry, 9 November 1811

  Shortly before his death, on 9 November 1811, Jonathan Clark recorded in his diary his ride on the first steamboat on western waters, the New Orleans. He rode from Louisville upstream to Diamond [Eighteen Mile] Island and back.
  
  
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  Maggie Harper (Steamboat) Broadside, n.d.

  This broadside advertises a July 4 excursion on the steamer Maggie Harper for a day trip from Carrollton, Ky. to Louisville, Ky. Notes include that music and refreshments are to be provided, but "Positively no liquors allowed."
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  Maggie Harper (Steamboat) Broadside, 1884

  Advertisement for an excursion on the steamboat Maggie Harper on 17 May 1884 to travel from Carrollton (Ky.) to Louisville (Ky.) to attend a choice of events at McCauley's Theater, Whallen's Theater, the Louisville Jockey Club, or the baseball field.
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  Louisville City Directory Advertisements, 1838-1839

  These two ads from the 1838-1839 Louisville Directory document the importance of steamboats to the area’s economy. Merchants and shipbuilders such as J. C. Buckles at the mouth of Beargrass Creek and Robert Baldwin Jr. & Co. on Water Street relied on a thriving steamboat industry.
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  Conclin's New River Guide, Cover, 1850

  Cover from the Conclin's New River Guide, which provided river travelers with important navigation and travel information.
  
  Also called "a gazetteer of all the towns on the western waters," Conclin's guide contains sketches of cities, towns, and countries bordering the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, along with their tributaries, populations, products, commerce, etc. The guide was published in 1850 but uses data from 1848.
  
  
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  The Western Pilot, Ohio River sections, 1834

  Pages from The Western Pilot, which provided river travelers with important navigation and travel information.
  
  The book contains charts of the Ohio River and the Mississippi, from the mouth of the Missouri to the Gulf of Mexico. Also includes directions for navigating the rivers, a gazetteer, descriptions of towns along the waterways, tributary streams, etc.
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  Louisville and Portland Canal Company Annual Report, 1851

  Annual report of the president and board of directors of the Louisville and Portland Canal Company, showing its balance of cash, tolls received, expenses, and stock sales. This table lists the amount of goods and tolls paid, along with the number of vessels that passed through the canal for each year from 1831 to 1851.
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  Steamboat Tickets, 1880-1885

  Three steamboat tickets from 1880, 1884, and 1885 used by Samuel Ira Monger Major in Frankfort Kentucky. Two of the tickets were issued by the Green and Barren River Navigation Company.
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  Signature of Fanny Thruston Ballard, from letter to Cecelia Larrison, 2 August 1855

  Signature of Fanny Thruston Ballard (1826-1896), from one of five letters written to Cecelia Larrison (1831-1909).
  
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  Signature of Cecelia Larrison, from letter to Rogers Clark Ballard Thruston, 5 April 1898

  Signature of Cecelia Larrison (1831-1909), from one of six letters written to Rogers Clark Ballard Thruston (1858-1946).
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  Letter from Cecelia Larrison to Rogers Clark Ballard Thruston, 31 March 1898

  One of six letters to Rogers Clark Ballard Thruston (1858-1946) from Cecelia Larrison (1831-1909), a woman formerly enslaved by the Thruston family.