Saturday, March 28, 2009
I took passage on the " Belle Sheridan," one of the finest boats on the river, commanded by the gallant and obliging Cap- tain Key. The accommodations on this boat are equal to the best regulated hotels, and the journey of fifteen hundred miles was achieved in this float- ing palace with perfect ease and comfort. Her state rooms are larger and better furnished than some of the single rooms in the fashionable hotels of New York. She had seventy-five or a hundred passengers, and a more happy or merry party I Way-side glimpses, north and south (1860) Author: Foster, Lillian Subject: United States -- Description and travel Publisher: New York, Rudd & Carleton Year: 1860 Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT Language: English Call number: b4526304 Digitizing sponsor: MSN Book contributor: New York Public Library SOU'rflERN SCENERY. 147 have seldom met. The only murmur of dissatis- faction I heard was the trip had been too short, whereupon the company invited Captain Key, in the handsomest manner, to make a pleasure excur- sion without unloading, but he is too great a dis- ciplinarian, and too successful in commanding "a Belle" to be persuaded even by the ladies.
posted by Lloyd at 1:36 PM
Title: Lloyd's steamboat directory, and disasters on the western waters, containing the history of the first application of steam, as a motive power; the lives of John Fitch and Robert Fulton ... History of the early steamboat navigation on western waters ... Full accounts of all the steamboat disasters ... A complete list of steamboats and all other vessels now afloat on the western rivers and lakes ... maps of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers ... List of plantations on the Mississippi river ... One hundred ... engravings, and forty-six maps ... By James T. Lloyd. Author: Lloyd, James T. NOTES: (pp 142-144) Explosion of the Lucy Walker, October 1844, 4 miles below New Albany. mentions a witness to the explosion, one Capt. Vann, in charge of the U.S. Snag boat. Interesting concept.
posted by Lloyd at 10:39 AM
Okay, some neat stuff, found originally while looking for information on steamboat captains. According to the New Albany Historical Society's Main Street Preservation Project, http://www.countyhistory.com/fchs/tour.htm (Saved in /imbook) "James Collins House, 917 E. Main. Built in 1852 this brick Federal/ Greek Revival style house was the home of James and Angelina Maria Lorraine Collins, who wrote the first cookbook published in Indiana, Table Receipts Adapted to Western Housewifery." Mrs. A.M. Sloan wrote this cookbook. This is available at the MSU "Feeding America" project: http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/cookbooks/coldfusion/display.cfm?ID=grea&PageNum=9
posted by Lloyd at 9:17 AM
Title: Bill of fare of the Louisville & New Orleans packet Eclipse, E.T. Sturgeon, Commander Publication Info: Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, Digital Research Library 2007-12-04 Availability: These pages may be freely searched and displayed. Permission must be received for subsequent distribution in print or electronically. Please contact drl-uls@library.pitt.edu for more information. Print source: Bill of fare of the Louisville & New Orleans packet Eclipse, E.T. Sturgeon, Commander Louisville: J.F. Brennan, 1855. Subject terms: Eclipse (Steamboat). Menus. Packets. URL: http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/t/text/text-idx?idno=31735054851351;view=toc;c=darltext
posted by Lloyd at 8:42 AM
The Conquest of the Missouri Being the Story of the Life and Exploits of Captain Grant Marsh w JOSEPH MILLS HANSON WITM MAT AND It ILLBtTMATIOHl THIRD EDITION CHICAGO A. C McCLURG & CO. 1916 "The big steamer Ellipse, Captain Sturgeon, built in the '50s, had a battery of fifteen boilers, eight large and seven small, and to keep them heated required wood by the car load. "
posted by Lloyd at 8:31 AM
Title: Lloyd's steamboat directory, and disasters on the western waters, containing the history of the first application of steam, as a motive power; the lives of John Fitch and Robert Fulton ... History of the early steamboat navigation on western waters ... Full accounts of all the steamboat disasters ... A complete list of steamboats and all other vessels now afloat on the western rivers and lakes ... maps of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers ... List of plantations on the Mississippi river ... One hundred ... engravings, and forty-six maps ... By James T. Lloyd. Author: Lloyd, James T. Publication Info: Cincinnati, P.,: J. T. Lloyd & co., 1856. Collection: Making of America Books
posted by Lloyd at 8:12 AM
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
From Andrew Weise, _Places of their Own: African American Suburbs in the Twentieth Century_ pp. 32-33 "Just as apparent, the places they made were intentional communities, reflecting the agency of men and women who believed they could make a better life on the outskirts of the city than in its center."
posted by Lloyd at 8:15 PM
The Choreography of Existence: Comments on Hagerstrand's Time-Geography and Its Usefulness The Choreography of Existence: Comments on Hagerstrand's Time-Geography and Its Usefulness o Allan Pred o Economic Geography, Vol. 53, No. 2, Planning-Related Swedish Geographic Research (Apr., 1977), pp. 207-221 * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/142726 Abstract The need for human geography to turn inward with respect to the definition of research problems and the use of conceptual structures is pointed to, and it is suggested that Hagerstrand's time-geography is especially appropriate for this purpose. The contents and intents of Hagerstrand's time-geography are briefly presented. The planning applications of time-geography are sketched, and the possible applications of the framework to traditional themes in human geography are discussed. Other possible uses for the time-geography framework are also considered. Finally, the challenge posed by Hagerstrand's time-geography is summarized.
Citation * The Intimate Geography of Family Farms * Author(s): Michael Donovan * Source: Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 43, No. 2 (Apr., 2001), pp. 273-297 * Published by: Cambridge University Press * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2696655 ------------------- # * Knowledge-Dependent Models of Spatial Behavior Knowledge-Dependent Models of Spatial Behavior * C. Gustav Lundberg * Geografiska Annaler. Series B, Human Geography, Vol. 73, No. 3 (1991), pp. 157-173 * * Item Information Page of First Match PDF Export this Citation # 10. * New Paths for Time-Geography? New Paths for Time-Geography? * Per Olof Hallin * Geografiska Annaler. Series B, Human Geography, Vol. 73, No. 3 (1991), pp. 199-207 * * Item Information Page of First Match PDF Export this Citation # 11. * The Two Traditions of Geography, Historical Geography and the Study of Landscapes The Two Traditions of Geography, Historical Geography and the Study of Landscapes * John Langton * Geografiska Annaler. Series B, Human Geography, Vol. 70, No. 1, Landscape History (1988), pp. 17-25
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