Browse Items (7 total)

• 

  Travels on an inland voyage: through the states of New-York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee and through the territories of Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi and New- Orleans: performed in the years 1807 and 1808: including a tour of nearly six thousand miles

  Covers travels through Ohio and Kentucky and observations on mammoth bones (antiquities), floating mills, land prices and navigating the Ohio. Covers types of river transportation and shipment of goods between Natchez and Kentucky.

  Tags antiquities; bones; fossils; Illinois; Indiana; land prices; mammoth; mills; Mississippi; navigation; New Orleans; New York; Ohio; pamphlets; Pennsylvania; river; river navigation; river transport; Tennessee; Virginia; waterway
• 

  Domestic manners of the Americans, 1832

  Titlepage of A description of the customs and manners of the Americans.
  
  Full version of this text available at Domestic Manners of the Americans.

  Tags chapel; cholera; church; Cincinnati; clergy; climate; clothing; customs; domesticity; drawing; Equality; feminism; fever; fine arts; food; gender; health; holidays; hotel; independence day; literature; Louisville; market; museum; Native American; Ohio River; pamphlets; parties; phrenology; picture gallery; pigs; religion; river navigation; school; servants; shakespeare; sickness; social life; society; storms; Theology; travel; Women; working class
• 

  Considerations, on some of the matters to be acted on, or worth acting on, at the next session of the General Assembly of Kentucky, 1824

  First, the sphere of powers of the Judiciary. Second, the ways and means by which the people may extricate themselves from difficulties and raise to happiness. Includes two extracts from the Morning Post.

  Tags banking; banks; contracts; courts; falls of the ohio; government; Kentucky Court of Appeals; Louisville and Portland Canal Company; navigation; pamphlets; politics; Replevin; river navigation
• 

  Letter from Patrick Henry to William Christian, 25 February 1786

  Henry writes Christian on various subjects including the navigation of the Mississippi, treaty negotiations with Spain, the scarcity of cash, and the cost of enslaved laborers.

  Tags enslavement; Letters; Patrick Henry; river navigation; Spanish Conspiracy; tobacco
• 

  Letter from Francis H. Gaines to David L. Ward, 20 August 1814

  Letter to David L. Ward about Ohio river traffic and water levels.

  Tags Letters; Ohio River; river navigation; salt industry
• 

  Letter from Francis H. Gaines to David L. Ward, 15 January 1814

  Letter to David L. Ward from Marietta, Ohio, discusses high water levels on the river.

  Tags commerce; Kanawah; Letters; river navigation
• 

  Proceedings of the managers of the Ohio Canal Company, 1805 September 11

  Proceedings of the managers of the Ohio Canal Company, at Louisville, on Wednesday, the 11th day of September, 1805.

  Tags Canals; falls of the ohio; Louisville and Portland Canal Company; map; Ohio Canal Company; Ohio River; river navigation