Catalog of the Inland Rivers Library
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Catalog of the Inland Rivers Library Supplement Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County Compiled by the Staff of the Catalog of the Department of Rare Books and Inland Rivers Library Special Collections Supplement Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County 1989 CONTENTS Introduction to Supplement 5^ Foreword and Introduction to Original Catalog ■:V Books, pamphlets, separates, etc 1 it# Fiction, drama, poetry, songs 76 & >• -v* > Periodicals 82 Maps and charts 84 v*^ '^0 tv ^ ^ ^ V*. Manuscripts 87 % *2i * P*’®* ' /fl ’V-.. v' . V ^ ■ <oA' £V-’ Photographs 97 \T* * vV\§At^ \ %>! \ »%\V>*<8.^^ V We: O* © ^ \ \ %*z» *^\4Vv W. 'Jr® V A ^ o *A \ o % • %\ *%*'■■ ... &2\\ ©.<* <£* • / t£.A ; -v / ^ C/. v;'4& ' V ^ ^ This Receipt T>>. «£ ■ • ticket for Pi tp'ft't . as entitles t/» per the <Vfv > . to »" M he <k>^: Transportation,r£r arran A*e*/ '"c tear. aS^ > /.A:,. ' a^on rspr /I B, rn oh i. rr. and °rth. "V/5-l, ' ' irom ; * ifd ^ ^ L lamped only on the and passage hereon. point of paid from i the em* 2.>'- ^v*- date S Vx & WT2 -S -4 5 6 7 8.9 10 v-i'j.L ‘ SHIPPING TICKET ' ’ ' • J 1 * Aug fV'^Feb / ' tiM. * 4.. Steamer SENATOR CORDILL $!M*V ■> ; ’»_ , ' ' Oct 1 The holder of this ticket obligates himself to - $KAPr ,,<work one round trip, unless sooner discharged. tyr1^1 ‘ by the Mate. Payday will be when Steamer re* i l Nov turns and to unloaded port/ which, holder has Dec r June j shipped,. 4r, 1G 1 o 20 21 22 23 24 25^26* *• » '27 28-29v 30 /31 . * Ui Catalog of the Inland Rivers Library Supplement, 1969 - 1988 INTRODUCTION Over the past twenty years, the resources of the Inland building of a new bridge or riverfront development. Rivers Library have grown to such an extent that this Historians of the Civil War consult the Inland Rivers Library supplement is vitally necessary to acquaint researchers with about the men and the boats of the western waters, those the vast amount of new material that has been accumulated. involved in minor skirmishes and those involved in major The limits of the collection are still basically those outlined actions. The photograph collection continues to satisfy the by Clyde Bowden in his introduction to the original catalog. needs of river buffs, steamboat modellers, historians, The collection includes printed material, manuscripts, and architects, and publishers. And the hopes of genealogists photographs to which of late have been added films, spring eternal, even though it is easier to provide videotapes, oral history cassettes and microfilm which information about boats than about people. Both national and present the history of commercial navigation and the local media use the Inland Rivers Library. Cincinnati’s development of the steamboat in the Mississippi and Ohio Bicentennial and Tall Stacks brought about a peak of such valleys. For practical purposes this supplement is confined to usage. However, the continuing renaissance of river written records on paper. communities and the continuing economic importance of the river systems insure continued interest by the media. And then there are those who are impelled by nostalgia for whom a picture or a description can conjure up the remembrance of a happy or important event. The continuing interest of the Sons and Daughters of Pioneer Rivermen in what was essentially their creation, the commitment of the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County to the collection, and the active support of many individuals have allowed the Inland Rivers Library to flourish. This updating does not yet cover all the diversity of the collection; a future update will have to address the. numerous pamphlets and the growing audio visual collection. The compilation of this catalog owes much to the work of Yeatman Anderson III, Jean Hamer, and M’Lissa Herrmann. Alfred Kleine-Kreutzmann The original catalog fulfilled its task superbly. Aside from Curator, the Cincinnati Collection, the Inland Rivers Library is the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections most heavily and widely used collection in the Department of August, 1989 Rare Books and Special Collections. Requests come from all over the world and may be as demanding as detailed information on building a steam engine that would be typical of a western steamboat, or as general as a request for suggestions on how to decorate a new London restaurant with a riverboat motif. And then, of course, there are always those from all over the United States who have a family interest in the ways of the western rivers. The collection satisfies a variety of research needs. There are, for example, urban archaeologists who may be consultants in restoring some structure from the past or need to do research to see how the past will impact upon the FOREWORD AN ORGANIZATION based at Marietta, Ohio, called the and a library is quite another thing. Both have a job to do, Sons and Daughters of Pioneer Rivermen, established a and each is a highly specialized organization requiring know¬ River Museum at that place in 1941 designed to tell the how and equipment for its own business. River Story visually with boat models, paintings, pictures, relics and steamboat haberdashery. The enthusiastic members Carl Vitz knew, and said so, that his Cincinnati Library had brought in material hoarded privately for generations, built on hand a considerable accumulation of river books, maps the models and put cases around them; river artists painted and documents, and these properly should be incorporated pictures, and the problem was where to put it all. The into the new Inland Rivers collection. This bonding of what quarters were enlarged. The Marietta River Museum Cincinnati had, and of what Marietta contributed, became became, and remains, the most popular feature of the Ohio Historical Society’s Campus Martius Museum. These Sons and Daughters, who call themselves S&D for short, also accepted documentary material in connection with their Museum. Sometimes they felt they had made a mistake in so doing. Within a decade they had a wareroom filled with books, pamphlets, ledgers, maps, records and the like. Such source fragments, priceless to the researcher, were cached and stashed on basement shelves vulnerable to moisture and grime, and, worse, not catalogued or indexed. Nobody knew what, exactly, was in the heap. The only certainty was that the pile was growing into a No. 1 dead storage problem. The easy way out would have been to have gotten rid of it. The River Museum had succeeded as a worthy visual exhibit, justifying the original intent. Why not let well enough alone? But S&D learned as its Museum grew that a large share of the visitors coming to snoop stayed to ask penetrating questions. The visual exhibits had excited curiosity. Of the questions asked, the answers for the most part were buried in the paper material downstairs gathering dust. One day while in Cincinnati S&D’s president peddled this problem to Carl Vitz, librarian of the Cincinnati Public Library. This happened in 1955 even as the Library recently had moved into its new quarters at Eighth and Vine. Carl Vitz listened patiently and after a time unfolded his hands and said quietly, “We must do something about this.’’ At that moment the idea of the Inland Rivers Library was germinated. S&D a held notable board meeting punctuated with some fireworks — for there were dissenters to the unthinkable plan of moving possessions from Marietta to Cincinnati and relinquishing them — but the majority ruled favorably. The deciding truth was the realization that a museum is one thing jrimmmfii' the foundation in 1955 for what since has become, with all Cincinnati Library, pertaining to rivers and steamboats, has due modesty, the grandest collection of inland rivers material no peer. extant. Granted these triumphs, the Inland Rivers collection Mrs. Dorothy Powers, a Boston native with Vassar training, nevertheless has been bothered with enervation, a low became the first curator of the Inland Rivers Library at metabolism. The symptoms date back to 1955 although Cincinnati. She came to the task not knowing a timberhead systematic treatment has been deferred. Until now. from a fantail, but with a great fund of enthusiasm so contagious that the river people took her to their hearts. To attain widespread usefulness, the vigor of the project, the What she asked for, with her down-east accent, Dorothy Inland Rivers collection is to be made known in its details to Powers usually got. And so the snowball did grow. As Mrs. public and university libraries. A kind and understanding Powers quickly discovered, and pursued in her acquisitions, soul, Alfred H. Perrin, has appeared, as though from the is that the Story of Inland Rivers is not solely a sources where rivers commence, to underwrite and assist in the documentation of steamboats. No — equally important are publication of this catalog. The information on index the shipyards, the river people, the makers of boilers, cards has been assembled, thousands of details have been engines, bells, whistles, calliopes and kevels. Also the organized and edited, and hopefully a researcher in Boston complex story of river improvement, locks, dams, or Bolivia may now discover at a glance what is contained in revetments, levees, snagboats and dipper dredges. Also the 1968 at the Cincinnati Inland Rivers Library. A New development of “government lights,” buoys and such aids to Orleans harbor salute to Alfred H. Perrin, and to the navigation. Barges, terminals, wharfboats. The ever-changing Library personnel who have performed the labors of this character of water-borne traffic; the exploration of the book. streams. Add to this sampling of the complexity that the so- called Mississippi steamboat had a habit of wandering far afield.