Several other Warshaw Subject Categories may have closely related material such as Submarines and Transportation. For casual and recreational boating see Boats and Boating Equipment and Yachts. Other subject categories that may have related materials include: Canals, Dredging, Engines, Menus, Railroads (point of common transportation transfer), and Tours. .
In November 2016, the name of this category was modified from "Steamboats" to "Steamboats [Ships, Boats, and Vessels] to reflect the scope of the content and the integration of two, now obsolete, categories: Sailboats and Ships/Shipping, although a few items leisure type items were moved to Yachts.
In 2016, with funding provided by the Smithsonian Institution's Collections Care and Preservation Fund, the Archives Center at the National Museum of American History implemented the use of minimal level processing standards to increase information about and facilitate access to more of our collections.
For this subject, minimal processing included arrangement to the folder level, based on prior processing and preservation action, with retention of the pre-existing arrangement when possible, if applicable. Otherwise, an order was imposed by the Processing Archivist. Some materials were consolidated to eliminate excess bulk but items within folders were not arranged further. The guide may or may not include a more refined list of folder contents. Nonarchival housing was replaced for long-term stability, but staples and other fasteners have not all been removed.
Minimal level processing and machine-readable finding aid completed by Nicole Blechynden, 2017 February.
Ships, Boats, and Vessels is arranged in three subseries.
Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Ships, Boats, and Vessels, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Forms part of the
Steamboats [Ships, Boats, and Vessels] is a portion of the Business Ephemera Series of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Accession AC0060 purchased from Isadore Warshaw in 1967. Warshaw continued to accumulate similar material until his death, which was donated in 1971 by his widow, Augusta. For a period after acquisition, related materials from other sources (of mixed provenance) were added to the collection so there may be content produced or published after Warshaw's death in 1969. This practice has since ceased.
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Collection is open for research. Some items may be restricted due to fragile condition.
Minimally covers the terminus of the wind-powered (sail) era and more fully documents the peak of the engine (steam) era of commercial cargo and passenger vesselsk, including freight and dockage services, maintenance and provisioning, ferry service, navigation (tug and tow) assistance, plus leisure cruising and touring. There is not a significant amount of material on battle or war ships. Includes both short distance routes such as lakes, rivers, and islets, and longer trans-oceanic crossings.
Documents within the collection consist of handbills, broadsides, leaflets, books, business cards, advertisements, insurance forms, wreck reports, passenger lists, baggage tags, freight manifests, rate cards, correspondence on letterhead stationery, booklets, newspaper clippings, postcards, menus, periodicals, manuals, photographs, engravings, woodcuts, sketches, bills of lading, receipts, catalogues, ledgers, journals, purchase orders, broadsides, brochures, custom forms, schedules, shipping and receiving documents, early steam guides, timetables, lithographs, announcements, etc. There are no navigational nautical maps. There is very little in the way of international import/export records. However, domestic and North American freight services are well-covered through invoices, bills of lading, manifests, and receipts for goods and services.
Some materials cover the history and development of steamships, particularly in the latter half of the nineteenth century with the iron screw replacing the wooden paddle steamer in the 1850s. The late 1860s brought the compound engine, which led to the steamship, previously used for the conveyance of mails and passengers, to compete with the sailing vessel in the carriage of cargo for long voyages. The 1870s brought improvements in accommodation for the passenger, with the midship saloon, conveniences in state-rooms, and covered access to smoke rooms and ladies cabins.
Ownership of specific lines and vessels was very fluid throughout shipping history, including the renaming of vessels. Mergers, dissolution, and absorption of fleets were frequent. Thus, researchers should independently seek out a more detailed history for any entity of particular interest.
The general maritime business series focuses on good and services related to maritime operations such as repair, shipbuilding, parts, ticket agents, chandlers, groceries, coal supply, dockage, wharfs/marinas, etc.
Operation records of named vessels contains primarily bills of lading and similar receipts for the movement of material goods or in-water services such as tow and tug assistance.
The largest series covering shipping lines and conglomerates offers a wide assortment of miscellaneous, nonexhaustive operation records for cargo and passenger lines and corporations, typically those with multiple holdings. These documents may include receipts, bills of lading, correspondence, and financial ledgers, plus promotional material for services and routes offered. Passenger sailings and luxury cruise documentation may contain menus, passenger lists, itineraries, shore excursion information, souveniers such as luggage tags, ticket stubs, and postcards. See also the subject category
When not associated with any of the above, general examples of materials related to the industry have been by arranged by their material type such as images, reports, and serial publications. More formal documentation, especially legal and reports, can be found here.
Narrative type materials related to lore, history, and building and design specifications have been sorted by subject. A scarce amount of material covers ships used for military service. Likewise, there are a few examples of maritime related material from the art world, mostly in the form of catalogues for exhibits or auction of paintings and scale models.
A note on vessel names: those used as contract carriers of mail and when in service, were entitled to unique prefix designations such as Royal Mail Ship (RMS.), otherwise, the ship name may be preceded by the more generic S.S. for single-screw steamer or steamship, SV for sailing vessel, PS for paddle steamer, RV for research vessel or similar type prefix. USS is the standard for the United States Navy commissioned ships while in commission, with HMS used for His/Her Majesty's Ship of the British Royal Navy.
Some of the major lines/companies represented in the collection include: American Line, American Steamship Company, Anchor Line, Compagnie Générale Transatlantique, Cunard-Anchor Line, Cunard Line, Cunard Steam Ship Company, Limited, Cunard White Star Line, Eastern Steamship Lines, Furness, Withy & Company, Hamburg American Line (HAPAG) / Hamburg Amerika Linie, Holland America Line (N.A.S.M. / HAL), Inman Line, International Mercantile Marine Company (IMM), International Navigation Company, North German Lloyd (Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen), Panama Pacific Line, Peninsular and Oriental, Red Star Line, Royal Mail Steam Packet, U.S. Mail Steamship Company, United States Lines, White Star Line.
The history of water-based transportation related companies is complex in that vessels, lines, and branding contain many joint ventures, mergers, and consolidations. Routes are often incorporated into names and brands, so there is often one or more companies that operated lines with very similar names, but having no business association whatsoever. In addition, there were a myriad of independent operators owning a single vessel or a small fleet. Many companies used name derivatives. Researchers are advised that sorting errors and disassociation of related entities may be present and the researcher should review all sections of the guide or perform a keyword search to help identify possible relevant material.
When agents represent one or more lines or routes, they are filed by their business name or proprietorship in this subseries rather than with the line(s) they represent. Folders in this subseries are marked BUS.
Exception: Several agent files have a small volume of bills of lading. To provide an example of business operations from the agent perspective, in a few instances these have been kept together under the agent name, rather than sorted by the vessel.
Contains general receipts for goods and services including but not limited to: brokers, freight and forwarding agents, packet agents, ticketing, fuel suppliers (coal), carpenters, caulkers, dry docking, repair, riggers and rigging, shipwrights, hardware, galley, cabin outfitters, chandlery, groceries, provisions, engineers, pumps, blocks, spar makers, shipbuilders, power capstans, engines, steering apparatus, winches, joiners, furnace grates, anchors, chain cables, bunting, submarine metallic compounds, paints and painting, sail makers, harbor and ballast, windlass, wharfage, and tug and tow operations.
Brochure for 10th Anniversary Small Party Cruises. Note: damaged with large sections missing.
Includes love letters to Lloyd Minturn from his wife, Annie (1849-1851).
Includes a pamphlet about shipbuilder Donald McKay,
Several documents, including correspondence, pertaining to Captain Snow's service.
Bills of Lading for: Balwin and Forbes; Abraham Bell and Company; Abraham Bell and Sons; W and R Brodie of Quebec; James M. Burroughs; William Cramond; John Hutchinson and Company; Thomas Lockyer and Company; Benjamin Greenwood; Lewis C. Drake; Hermann Heye; Richle Brothers; John D. Thornely and Son; and others.
Daily transaction records, many relating to maritime goods and services. Note: no covers.
General store transactions, with many boat provisioning entries.
General store transactions, with many boat provisioning entries.
Detailed lists of vessels departing Savannah, Georgia and related transactions, plus and copied correspondence for Harbor Master bid.
Written on inside cover: Bascom And Gaylord Whitehall NY Erie Canal 1856. Spine marked John C. Beale 78 Wall Street New York. Contains transaction records for goods and services.
Primarily handwritten financial receipts and related business records. In most cases, an identifiable name is either illegible or missing on these documents.
A very small sampling of customs house documentation from Philadelphia, New York, St. Johns, Newcastle, London, Montreal, Antwerp, Naples. Includes both domestic and international port-to-port documentation. May contain article and goods lists, manifests, appraisals and customs house transactions, plus port inspections.
These folders are marked VES. Documents within folders are loosely arranged alphabetically by vessel name. Those vessels having a significant volume of material are interfiled between the general alphabetical folders.
These materials represent transactions involving named vessels that do not have an identified association with a specific company, line, or operation. In many cases these are smaller operations or independently owned vessels. Unless otherwise noted, documents are service receipts, bills of lading, charter party and service contracts, and shipping manifests related to cargo and passenger transfer.
Tonnage measurement record with handwritten entries on form, Port of Philadelphia.
Of note: Account of Seamen for the schooner named
Expense and crew accounts book.
There are a significant number of receipts for the
Includes two Disneyland
Cash and pay book.
Coastwide Districts 1-6, plus Bristol.
These folders are marked LINES. Arranged alphabetically by company or line in bulk folders; material within each folder is not ordered. Companies with significant brand recognition or a volume of material have been foldered individually.
Some documents have been affixed together and contain receipts for multiple lines; these have been foldered separately in
Locations served, line names, and vessels in fleet have been noted when available to aid in those researching by geographical and name parameters, although these details should not be considered complete and exhaustive as other locations and routes may have also been served. None of the supplemental information should be considered exhaustive as the materials represent only a sampling of operations records and advertising produced by the companies listed.
Materials may include promotional and marketing circulars, bills of lading, receipts for services, time tables and schedules, price lists, correspondence, tickets, baggage tags, company history, menus, passenger lists, travel and tour guides, etcetera. Some effort has been made to identify certain items when present, such as passenger lists.
Serving Providence, Baltimore.
Serving Rochester.
Affiliated with British and African Steam Navigation Company Limited. Serving Liverpool, West Coast of Africa, South-West Coast of Africa, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Havre.
Serving New York, Albany.
Serving New Orleans, Caribbean, South America.
Royal Mail Steamers. Serving Montreal, Glasgow, Boston, Londonderry, Liverpool, New York, Portland, Baltimore, Halifax, Quebec, Philadelphia, Dundee, Belfast. Fleet: Laurentian, Carthaginian, Mongolian, Numidian.
Serving Providence. Fleet: Echo.
Serving Lowell.
Serving Mackinac Island, Michigan.
Affiliated with Clyde Steamship Company, Mallory Steamship Company, New York and Cuba Steamship Company, NY and Porto Rico Steamship Company.
Serving Boothbay Harbor, Maine. Fleet: Anna Laura McKenney.
Serving New York, Savannah. Lines: Great Southern Freight Line. Fleet: H. Livingston.
Fleet: Moneka.
Serving New York. Fleet: Columbia.
Serving New York, London. Fleet: Minnehaha, Menominee, Minnetonka, minneapolis, Mesaba, Manitou.
Serving New York, West Indies, Spanish Main. Fleet: Adirondack, Alene, Athos, Alvo, Ailsa, Andes, Alps, Alvena, Atlas, Claribel, Arden, Arran.
Operated under International Navigation Company. Materials include bills of lading, informational booklets, menus, passenger lists, advertisements, time schedule, price list,
Duel branded. Operated under the International Navigation Company. Three promotional booklets, plus advertisements and passenger list.
Import/export records, bills of lading.
Serving New York, Glasgow, Londonderry, Mediterranean, India. Fleet: Astoria, Anchoria, Furnesia, Ethiopia, Columbia, Elysia. Time table, guide, passenger list.
Operated under Erie and Western Transportation Company. Serving Buffalo. Fleet: Juanita, Tionesta. Primarily handwritten correspondence, some bills of lading.
Color map of Austria-Hungary with additional line information on verso.
Serving Philadelphia, Chester. Lines: Daily Freight Line. Fleet: Chester.
Lines: York River Line.
Serving Baltimore, Norfolk. Lines: Old Bay Line "The Boat that Welcomes Children". Fleet: State of Maryland, State of Virginia.
Serving Ft. Monroe, Norfolk, Atlanta, Macon, Athens, Georgia, Florida, Weldon, Wilmington, Charleston, Richmond, Newport News, 'all points South'.
Serving Belfast, Liverpool, London.
Serving Yonkers, New York.
Serving Norway, Newcastle, Stavanger, Bergen, Trondhjem, North Cape, Land of the Midnight Sun, Spitzbergen.
Serving Philadelphia.
Serving Lloyd Landing, Ulster County.
Lines: Winsor's Line.
Lines: Norwich Line to New York.
Serving Penobscot River Landing, Southwest Harbor, Bar Harbor.
Affiliated with the Nantasket Beach Railroad Company.
Serving Boston, Philadelphia, Providence. Lines: Windsor's Line, Boston Line.
Lines: Quick Despatch Line (Q.D. Line).
Serving New York, Boston. Lines: Propeller Line.
Serving Albany, Troy.
Serving New York, Bridgeport.
Serving London, Liverpool, New York.
Serving Cork Harbor, Liverpool, New York, Boston, Halifax.
Serving London, South Africa, Johannesburg. Lines: British and Colonial Line.
Lines: Ericsson Line.
Serving Hartford, New York. All freight transportation receipts are from Belknap and Hamersley.
Name variant: Bush's Philadelphia and Wilmington Steam Freight and Express Line. Lines: Daily Steam Freight Line, Express Line.
Serving Boston, Maine, San Francisco, California.
Serving Liverpool, Calcutta.
Serving Boston, Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland, St. Pierre, Halifax, Charlottetown. Lines: Plant Line. Fleet: Olivette, Halifax.
Serving Canada, British West Indies, Boston, Bermuda, Halifax, Saint John. Fleet: Lady Somers, Lady Rodney, Lady Nelson, Lady Hawkins, Lady Drake.
Serving Pacific, Mediterranean, North America, Europe, Asia, Australasia, Honolulu, Japan, China, Philippines, Vancouver, Victoria. Fleet: Empress of Scotland, Empress of France, Empress of Canada, Empress of Asia, Empress of Canada, Empress of Russia, Empress of Japan, Empress of Asia. Routes: White Empress to the Orient.
Serving Australia, Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands, Suva, Fiji, Tasmania, New Zealand, Vancouver, Liverpool. Lines: Canadian-Australian Line. Fleet: Arawa, Warrimoo, Empress of Britain, Empress of Irelandn Lake Champlain, Lake Manitoba, Montrose. Royal Mail steamships.
Serving St. Lawrence, Quebec, Montreal. Fleet: Quebec, Tadoussac.
Serving Maine.
Serving New York, Catskill. Operating under Catskill and New York Steamboat Company Limited and New York Hudson Steamboat Company.
Fleet: B.B. Odell.
Fleet: Vermont, Adriondack, United States, Oakes Ames.
Serving Burlington, Vermont, Lake George, New York, Montreal. Fleet: Mochican, Ticonderoga, Vermont, Chateaugay, Williams, Mariquita, Horicon.
Serving Jamestown, New York, Chautauqua Lake. Lines: Red Stack Line. Fleet: City of New York, City of Cincinnati, City of Buffalo, City of Erie, City of Chicago, City of Cleveland, City of Pittsburg, City of Jamestown, City of Rochester, City of Mayville.
Serving St. Louis. Fleet: Cherokee.
Serving Baltimore.
Serving Baltimore, New York, Wheeling, Ohio, Mississippi, Washington, Alexandria, Fredericksburgh. Line: New York, Baltimore and Wheeling Line.
Lines: Union Line. Fleet: Lamokin, Ino.K. Ide, Pilot Boy.
Serving Baltimore. Fleet: Corsica, Emma A. Ford, B.S. Ford.
Serving Cincinnati, Maysville. Fleet: Wildwood.
Serving Calcutta, London.
Serving Cleveland, Buffalo. Divisions: Buffalo, Toledo. Fleet: City of Buffalo, State of Ohio, State of New York, Seeandbee. Booklet,
Serving San Francisco. Fleet: Dreadnought.
Serving New York, Boston, Providence, Fall River, Worchester, Long Island Sound, New England. Lines: Colonial Line. Fleet: Concord, Lexington.
Serving Seattle, Tacoma, Puget Sound, Washington, Portland, Oregon. Fleet: Flyer.
Serving Albany, Boston.
Serving Seattle, Orient, Africa, Australia.
Serving New York, Providence. Lines: Daily Line. Fleet: Ospray, Albatross.
Serving Philadelphia, Albany, Troy. Lines: Steam Propeller Line.
Serving St. Louis, Alton, Terre Haute, Richmond, Mississippi River, Memphis.
Serving New York, Trieste, Naples, Marseilles. Fleet: Vulcania, Saturnia.
Serving Elizabeth, New Jersey, Staten Island Sound, Hellgate, Newark, Hackensack River. Fleet: Erie, Mabel.
Serving New York, Rochester.
Serving Norfolk, Portsmouth, New York.
Brochure for Alaska Service with deck diagram.
Serving Philadelphia, Richmond, Norfolk, City Point, Virginia, and many others. This multigenerational outfit operated both independently and under larger ownership structures. Some of the lines and name varients include, but are not limited to: Wm. P. Clyde and Company, Clyde Steamship Company, Philadelphia, Richmond and Norfolk Steamship Company, Clyde's Philadelphia and New England Steamship Line, Clyde Steam Lines, Clyde's Iron Line Steamers, Clyde's Coastwise and West India Steam Lines, Clyde's Iron Steamships Philadelphia and Providence Steamship Line, Philadelphia and New York Steam Navigation Company, Delaware and Raritan Canal Line, Philadelphia and Charleston Steamship Line, Express Steamboat Company, New Express Line, Philadelphia, Richmond and Norfolk Steamship Company.
Serving New York, Philadelphia. Lines: Express Steamboat Company, Philadelphia and New York Express Steamboat Company; Philadelphia, Richmond, Norfolk Steamship Line.
Lines: Philadelphia and New York Steam Navigation Company, Delaware and Raritan Canal Line.
Serving Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, Arkansas. Lines: Clyde Steamship Company.
Name variant: Cie. Generale Transatlantique. Serving New York, Havre, London, Algeria, Mediterranean, Marseilles, France, England, Morocco, Tunis, Spain, Italy, North African Coast. Fleet: La Savoie, La Bretagne, La Lorraine, La Champagne, Champlain, Labrador, Lafayette, Normandie, La Gascogne, La Touranine, L'Aquitaine, Paris, La Provence, Espagne,Ile de France. Line: French Line, Coastwise Lines. Includes menus, tourism brochures, pictorial cards, passenger lists.
Serving Hartford, New York.
Seven pieces of correspondence.
Cunard has a long, well-documented but complex history that researchers should explore independently.
A few time-line points: was established in 1840 as the British and North American Royal Mail Steam-Packet Company. In 1879, re-organized as the Cunard Steamship Company Ltd. In 1934, merged with chief rival White Star Line to form Cunard-White Star Line. In 1949, reverted to the name Cunard Line.
Multiple name variants exist and locations world-wide were served. Early fleets included wooden hulls and paddle wheels. Fleets were numerous, renamings were common, and select ships were pressed into service in war-time eras. Some of the more well-known ships include the Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mary 2, Queen Victoria, Caronia, Mauretania, Lusitania.
Travel, ship, and freight guides. Includes also two copies of
Includes the
Bill of lading, two pieces of correspondence.
Contains information specific to the following ships: Luciana, Aquitania, Campania, Franconia, Mauretana, Caronia. Includes the
The Cunard branded White Star Line history dates to 1845. It has operated Royal and United States Mail Steamers at various points. The line has been through many mergers and transitions with multiple name varients. Circa 1870, it was absorbed by the formation of the Oceanic Steam Navigation Company, which began operation in 1871, with the fleet of Oceanic (I), Atlantic, Baltic, Republic, Celtic, and Adriatic. Later, in 1902, the White Star Line was acquired by the International Mercantile Marine Company (IMM) and transitioned again 1927, when it was purchased by the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (RMSPC). That ownership was short-lived when in 1932 Royal Mail Lines Limited took over the ships of RMSPC. Finally, in 1934, the merger between White Star and Cunard resulted in the Cunard-White Star Limited, which reverted to the name Cunard in 1949.
White Star was known for its naming convention of ending in -ic such as: Britannic (I), Germanic, Teutonic, Majestic (I), Oceanic (II), Cedric, Olympic, Titanic, and Britannic (II), Majestic, Homeric, Oceanic (III), Britannic (III), Georgic.
Materials include keepsakes, menus, passenger lists, general information, newsletter, and luggage tag.
See also
The Queen Mary sailed under this brand during its Cunard White Star Limited era. Materials include a promotional calendar, correspondence, postcards, and a visitor's pass.
Serving Eagle Bridge.
Serving Albany.
Name variant: Detroit and Buffalo Steamboat Company. Lines: Detroit and Buffalo Line, Cleveland and Toledo Line, Coast Line to Mackinac, Lakes Line.
Serving Hamburg, South Africa, Bremerhaven, Antwerp, Las Palmas, Rotterdam, Lissabon, Tanger, South Hampton, Marseille, Neapel, Tenerife.
Serving California, Havana, Panama Canal, New York, San Francisco.
Serving New York, Halifax, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. Fleet: Prince George, Prince Arthur. Routes: Evangeline Route.
Broadside poster announcing the commissioning of the
Promotional brochure for the July 2-September 2, 1932 Mediterranean cruise on the
Serving Bath, Boothbay. Fleet: Sasanoa, Samoset, Laurena.
Serving New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Albany, Troy, New Haven, Bridgeport.
Serving Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, St. Louis, Quincy, Keokuk, Cleveland. Lines: Empire Line.
Fleet: Francis Skiddy (in service 1852-1864), Commodore.
Serving Albany. Fleet: E. Corning.
Operated multiple lines: International Line, Metropolitan Steamship Line, Maine Steamship Line, Eastern Steamship Lines, Boston and Yarmouth Line, Old Dominion Line with additional subsidiaries such as United States Shipping Company, Boston and Bangor Steamship Company, International Steamship Company, and Portland Steam Packet Company.
In 1901, the Eastern Steamship Company was established by consolidating the Boston and Bangor Steamship Company, the Portland Steam Packet Company, and the International Steamship Company, established in 1859.
In 1902 acquired two overnight steamboat lines on the Hudson River, the People's Line and the Citizens' Line, which it operated under the Hudson Navigation Company, known collectively as the Hudson River Night Line.
In 1906, acquired control of the Metropolitan Steamship Company.
In 1907, the Consolidated Steamship Company emerged as a holding company for the Eastern Steamship Company, Metropolitan Steamship Company, Clyde Steamship Company, and Mallory Steamship Company. It also acquired control of the New York and Cuba Mail Steamship Company and the New York and Porto Rico [sic] Steamship Company.
In 1911, Metropolitan Steamship Company and Maine Steamship Company consolidated with the Eastern Steamship Company to form Eastern Steamship Corporation. It went into receivership in 1914 and emerged in 1917 as Eastern Steamship Lines.
Additional materials may be foldered in one or more of the lines listed above.
Serving Mediterranean, New York.
Serving Boston, New York, Newport, Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia. Fleet: Bay State, Empire State, Bristol. Includes illustrated booklet
Serving Puget Sound Navy Yard and Battleships. Fleet: H.B. Kennedy, Athlon, Tourist, Inland Flyer.
In Finnish.
Serving Trenton Basin.
Serving Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Canada, Montreal, Halifax, St. John's, Bermuda, South America, Brazil, United Kingdom, London, Manchester, West Indies. Lines: Cairn Thompson Line, Furness Bermuda Line, Furness Lines, Furness Prince Line, Manchester Lines Limited, Prince Line, Red Cross Line, West Indies Service and Trinidad Line.
Broadside for a traveling variety show on October 29th (no year listed), including an illustrated promotional section for Alaskan cruises on the
Brochure for the
Serving New Orleans, Savannah, Georgia. Lines: Atlantic and Mississippi Steamship Line, Empire Line for Savannah. Fleet: San Salvador.
Serving Havre, New York. Fleet: Pereire.
Serving Boston.
Serving New York, Buffalo.
Serving Seattle, Japan, Yokohama, Kobe, Nagasaki, China, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Manila.
Serving Boston and New York. Fleet: Rhode Island "Queen of the Sound".
Serving Wilmington, Halifax, Charleston, Washington, Richmond, Petersburg, Weldon.
Serving Cincinnati, Mississippi, New Orleans. Fleet: Greenwood, Tom Greene.
Serving Liverpool, New York.
Serving New York, Caribbean, South America, Puerto Rico, La Guaira, Netherland West Indies, Aruba, Curacao, Puerto Colombia, Cartagena, Panama Canal Zone. Menus and passenger list from 1962 sailing. 7 issues (undated) of shipboard publication
Fleet: Wm. F. Burden, C. Van Cott.
Serving 365 Island, Casco Bay, Portland, Bailey's Island, Orr's Island, South Freeport, Mare Point, Great Chebeague Island, Long Island, Cliff Island, Bibber's Island, Littlejohn's Island, Cousins Island.
Serving New York, Hartford.
Serving Hartford, Philadelphia, Delaware, and Raritan Canal.
Serving Melville Garden, Downer Landing, Boston, India Wharf, Pemberton, Hull, Strawberry Hill, Nantasket Beach, Point Allerton, Kemberma, Surfside, Ocean House. Fleet: Gov. Andrew, Gen. Lincoln.
Serving New York, River Plate, Cuba. Offices in Buenos Aires, Monevideo, London, and Liverpool. Lines: Houston Line of Steamers.
Founded by Alfred Van Santvoord. Fleet: Chauncey Vibbard, Daniel Drew, Albany, Hendrick Hudson, Robert Fulton, Washington Irving, Alexander Hamilton, and Peter Stuyvesant.
Includes 17 form letters regarding annual exchange passes, plus one additional letter and a postcard featuring steamer "Robert Fulton".
Name variant: Hamberg American Packet Company. Serving New York, Hamburg, Plymouth, Bonlogne, Cherbourg, Southampton. Fleet: Deutschland, Auguste Victoria, Furt Bismark, Columbia, Moltke, Bluecher, Patricia, Pennsylvania, Pretoria, Graf Waldersee, Palatia, Phoenicia.
Postcards, passenger lists, passenger memoir
Booklets with information on specific destinations: Atlantic crossings; winter cruises to the orient and summer cruises to North Cape and Spits Bergen; Famous Seaside Resorts of Europe; the Mediterranean and the Orient; West Indies, Panama Canal, South America; first class booklet, second class booklet (in German). Plus two issues of the Gazette: 1904 February Vol. II, No. 5; 1912 July Vol. XXIII, No. 4.
Magazine advertisements, price lists, brochures, sailing schedules.
Broadside for African Service.
In 1873 an earlier company, Plate, Reuchlin & Cowas was reestablished as Nederlandsch Amerikaansche Stoomvaart Maatschappij (Netherlands-American Steam-Navigation Company), (NASM), also known as the Holland America Line.
All passenger ship names end in ...dam. Some ship name examples: Amsterdam, Eurodam, Maasdam, Koningsdam, Nieuw Amsterdam, Noordam (which sent a message regarding ice to the Titanic, via relay through the Caronia), Oosterdam, Prinsendam, Rotterdam, Veendam, Volendam, Westerdam, Zaandam, Zuiderdam, Ryndam, Potsdam, Statendam, Spaarndam,Obdam.
Materials include an advertisement with color map of European routes on verso, Rhineroute, in Dutch.
Lithograph of First and Second Class plans.
Passenger lists, luggage labels, postcards, numerous menus from various sailings, pocket style cruise program.
Price lists, brochures, route detail with several enroute tourism booklets, the
Serving New York, Albany, Troy, Rockland-Bar Harbor, Maine. Lines: Hudson River Night Lines, People's Line (also known as the Albany Division with name variants: People's Line Steamers, New Jersey Steamboat Company, Peoples Line, Peoples Line Steamers on the Hudson River, Peoples Evening Line Steamers), Murray's Line (also known as the Barge Division), and Citizen's Line (also known as the Troy Line/Division). Fleet: Princeton, Greenport, Berkshire, C.W. Morse (later renamed Fort Orange), Adriondack, Drew, Dean Richmond, Trojan, Rensselaer, St. John, J.T. Morse. Primarily correspondence.
Mississippi cruise brochure and other travel promotional material.
1883 June schedule, in Italian.
Fleet Belgenland. Lines: Panama Pacific Line.
Serving Halifax, Yarmouth, Digby, Annapolis, Boston, Portland, St. John, Calais, Charlottetown, Maritime Provinces. Nova Scotia Excursion Route. Direct Route. Evangeline Route. Eastern Sea Coast Route. Brochures, illustrated book on sea coast resorts, schedules and price lists.
Serving Bar Harbor, Maine. Fleet: Golden Rod. Correspondence (13 pieces). 1898/99 Financial Statement.
Established 1850. Royal and United States Mail Steamers. Name variants: Inman Steamship Company Limited. Inman Royal Mail Steam Ship Company, International Steamship Company. Serving New York. Fleet: City of Chicago, City of Richmond, City of Montreal, City of Berlin, City of Chester, City of Paris, City of Rome, City of New York. Lines: Anchor Line (US Mail Steamers).
Serving New York, Providence, Boston.
Serving Boston, Maine, Augusta, Popham Beach, Bath, Richmond, Gardiner, Hallowell, Boothbay.
Serving Philadelphia. Stock certificate issued 1845.
Serving Bath, Maine. Fleet: Knickerbocker, Adelia, Resolute, Popham, City of Lynn, American Union, S.J. Macy, Yosemite (excursion barge).
Serving Lake Michigan, Lake Superior, Duluth, Milwalkee, Chicago, Sault Ste. Marie, Mackinac. Lines: Lake Superior Line.
Established 1878. Fleet: Nyack.
Serving Lago di Como, Italy.
Serving Memphis, Helena, Friarspoint, Osceola, Caruthersville, Tiptonville, New Madrid, Hickman, Cairo, Cape Girardeau, St. Louis, Paducah, Henderon, Evansville, Owensboro, Louisville, Cincinnati. Fleet (no exhaustive): Georgia Lee, James Lee, Peters Lee, Rees Lee, Robt. E. Lee, Sadie Lee, Stackler Lee, Ferd Herold, Sun.
Serving Boston, Liverpool. Fleet: Lancastrian, Devonian, Winifredian, Canadian, Bohemian, Cestrian, Philadelphian.
Serving Galveston.
Serving Leinster, Ulster, Connaught, Muster.
Serving New York, London.
Serving New York, Long Branch Ocean Pier. Fleet: Plymouth Rock, City of Richmond.
United States Mail Steamers. Name variants: Luckenbach Shipping Company, Luckenbach Gulf Steamship Company Incorporated, Luckenbach Steamship Company Incorporated. Serving the Gulf Intercoastal, Houston, Mobile, New Orleans, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland, Portland, Seattle, Tacoma, New York, Philadelphia, Boston, North Atlantic.
Name variants: Lorillard Steamship Company. Serving Philadelphia, New York.
Serving Scotland, Glasgow, Highlands, Oban, Inverness. Royal Route. Fleet: Columba (RMS), Iona (RMS).
Serving Portland, New York.
US Mail Ship. Serving New York, Savannah, Montgomery, Mobile, Memphis, New Orleans, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida. Routes: Savannah Route. Fleet: Augusta, Alabama, Florida, Start of the South.
Serving New York, Maine, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward's Island, Cape Boston. Stock offering.
Serving Chicago.
Serving New York.
Shipboard newsletter,
Serving Philadelphia, Fleet: City of Chester, Twilight.
Serving Baltimore, Boston, Norfolk, Newport News, Providence, Savannah, Philadelphia. "Queen of the Sea" Routes.
Serving New York, Philadelphia.
Serving Boston, New York. Line: Stonington Line. Fleet: Plymouth Rock, Commodore.
Serving Trenton, Philadelphia, New York. Lines: Trenton and Philadelphia Propeller Line.
Two B&W photographs of the dance floor and stage of the Americana. Fleet: Americana.
Passenger handbook. In French and English.
Serving New York, Boston. Fleet: H.F. Dimock, Herman Winter, Jas. S. Whitney, H.M. Whitney, Glaucus, Neptune.
Serving Heysham, Douglas, Manxland, Belfast, Isle of Man, Douglas. Fleet: Manxman.
Fleet: Time and Tide.
Serving Philadelphia, Liverpool, Halifax. Lines: Dominion Line.
Serving New York, London, Liverpool, Queenstown. Fleet: Assyrian Monarch, Lydian Monarch, Saxon Monarch, Grecian Monarch, Persian Monarch, Danish Monarch, Egyptian Monarch, Norman Monarch, Celtic Monarch.
Serving Pictou, Montreal.
Serving New York, South American (east coast). Fleet: Argentina, Uruguay.
Booklet,
Serving Lake Winnipesaukee, Long Island, Wolfeboro, Alton Bay, Centre Harbor, Weirs. Fleet: Mt. Washington.
Serving Rotterdam, London. Lines: Batavier Line. Fleet: Batavier II, III, IV, and V.
Mr. & Mrs. Ben A. Peterson wedding supper menu. Fleet: Southern Cross.
Serving Pittsburg, Wheeling, Marietta, Zanesville. Fleet: Lorena.
Serving New York, Portland.
Name variants: New York and Texas Steamship Company, Mallory Steamship Company.
Serving New York, Albany, Troy. Lines: Manhattan Line, Empire Barge Line. 1911 postcard announcing resignation of Vice President/Director Mr. James W. Fleming, replaced by Louis W. Emerson.
Promotional advertisement.
Serving Camden, Belfast, and North Land. Lines: Metropolitan Steamship Line, Metropolitan Line of Steamers. Fleet: Ashland, Jersey Blue, City of Bath, Mary Sanford, Salvor, Relief, Miami, Monticello, Fairbanks, Nereus (formerly owned by Merchants' Steamship Company), Glaucus (formerly owned by Merchants' Steamship Company), Neptune (formerly owned by Merchants' Steamship Company), General Whitney, H.F. Dimock, Herman Winter, H.M. Whitney, Boston, New York, George Washington, Robert E. Lee, Saint John, Acadia.
Serving Philadelphia, New York, New Orleans. Lines: Morgan's Line Steamships.
Serving New York.
Serving Boston, Hull, Downer Landing, Nantasket, Hingham.
Serving New York, Queenstown, Liverpool. Fleet: America, Erin, Spain.
Booklets featuring the Columbo and the Avgvstvs [Augustus]. Lines: Italian Line. Fleet: Avgvstvs [Augustus], Columbo.
Serving Providence, New York, Boston. See
Serving Boston, Savannah, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Missouri, Cuba. Fleet: Gate City, City of Macon, City of Savannah.
Serving New York, New Haven. Fleet: C.H. Northam, Continental, Elm City.
Serving New York, New Haven.
Serving Albany, New York.
Serving Albany, Boston.
Serving Norwich, New London, Watch Hill, Block Island. Fleet: Block Island.
Serving New Orleans, Monroe, Trenton, Camden, Arkansas, Saline River, Bayous D'Arbone and Bartholomew, Tensas, Bayou Macon, Boeuf River. Fleet: Frank Pargoud, Vicksburg.
Fleet: Norfolk, Spy.
Fleet: Erastus Corning, Western World.
Serving New York, Albany, Troy. Lines: New Hudson Line.
Serving Chesapeake, Delaware Canal, Delaware, Raritan Canal. Lines: Inland Propeller Line.
Serving Norwich, Worcester, New York, Boston, Lowell, Nashua, New London.
Serving New York, Charleston. Lines: Great Southern Freight Line. Fleet: City of Atlanta, Manhattan, Charleston.
Serving New York, Cuba, Bahamas, Vera Cruz. Lines: Ward Line. Circa 1915 operated under the Atlantic, Gulf, and West Indies Steamship Lines.
Fleet: Cahawba, DeSoto.
Serving Boston, Trenton, New York.
Lines: Porto Rico Line [sic], Santo Domingo Line. Fleet: Borinquen, Coamo, San Jacinto, Puerto Rico, Ponce.
Fleet: Alabama.
Serving Newcastle-on-Tyne, Land of the Midnight Sun, North Cape, Bergen, Norway. Fleet: Warrimoo, Miowera.
Serving Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Toronto. Line: Niagara River Line.
Fleet: Rip Van Winkle.
Serving Washington DC, Ft. Monroe, Norfolk, Portsmouth. . Lines: Historic Line. Fleet: Midland, Southland, Northland, Newport News, Washington, Norfolk. Special route for the Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition (April 26 to November 30, 1907)
Fleet: Raleigh, Chrystenah, Adelphi, Alexis and Nyack and Tarrytown Ferry.
Serving Duluth, Buffalo, Great Lakes, Mackinac Island, Detroit, Cleveland, Boston, New York. Fleet: North West, North Island.
Serving Cleveland.
Serving Lake Champlain, Deleware and Raritan Canada Canal, Hudson River, St. Lawrence River, New York, Philadelphia, Albany, Troy, Whitehall, Montreal, Ottawa.
A song, dedicated to the Directors of the Company of Proprietors of the Norwich and Lowestoft Navigation, by one of the Board [J.W.], to the tune of
Serving Worcester, Oxford, Webster, Dayville, Danielson, Plainfield, New York. Lines: Norwich Line.
Serving New York, Norwich.
Serving New York, Boston, Vermont, White Mountain Tours, Rangley Lake Tours, Mount Desert Tours, Maine, Rhode Island, New Hampshire. Fleet: City of Worcester.
Predecessor was the New England Navigation Company. Serving New Haven, New York City, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island. Primary Line: Fall River Line. Other Lines: Norwich Line, Providence Line, New Haven Line, New London-Block Island Line, New Bedford Line, Bridgeport Line.
Fleet: Mohegan, Massachusetts, Providence, Narragansett.
Serving Haverstraw, Newburgh. Fleet: Emeline.
Name variant: North German Lloyd, Bremen. Serving New York, Bremen, Plymouth, Southampton, London, Cherbourg, Paris). Fleet: Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, Kronprinz Wilhelm, Kaiserin Maria Theresa, Bremen, Frederick der Grosse, Koenigin, Luise, Grosser Kurfuerst, Barbarossa.
2 issues: 1912 May, Vol. XXXIII, No. 5; 1912 June, Vol. XXXIII, No. 6.
Postcards, ship map, souvenier book, concert program.
One regulation book in German.
Advertising, Price Lists, and Cruise Promotion.
Four pieces of correspondence, two envelopes, one import/export document.
Illustrated book.
Affiliated with Pacific Mail Steam Ship Company, and Toyo Kisen Kaisha (Oriental Steamship Company). Serving London, New York, San Francisco, Honolulu, Yokohama, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Amoy, Nagasaki, Kobe, Yokohama Fleet: Oceanic, Gaelic, Belgic.
Serving Philadelphia, Savannah, Georgia, Florida, Miami, Key West, Havana, New York, Boston, Alabama, Cuba. Fleet: City of Atlanta, City of Columbus, Kansas City, City of Augusta, City of Birmingham, Nacoochee, City of Macon, City of Memphis, Chattahoochee, Tallahassee, City of Memphis, City of Savannah. Lines: Florida Dispatch Line. .
Serving San Francisco, Honolulu, Auckland, Apia, Sydney, Australia, New Zealand, Islands of the Pacific, Tahiti.
Serving Richmond, Norfolk, Fort Monroe, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Washington. Fleet: M. Martin, Thos. Collyer.
Serving Boston, New York, Long Island Sound. Fleet: Empire State, Bay State, Metropolis. Lines: Bay State Line, Fall River Line.
Serving New York, Old Point Comfort, Norfolk, Newport News, Richmond, Virginia, North Carolina, James River, Petersburg. Fleet: Princess Anne, Jamestown, Monroe, Jefferson, Hamilton, Pocahontas, Hampton Roads. Lines: Old Dominion Line; Virginia Tennessee and Georgia Line.
Serving Albany, New York. Fleet: Cayauga, Alida, Ontario, Oswego, Anna, Mercury.
Serving New York, Oswego, western states, Canada.
Serving Louisville, Kentucky.
Name variant: Orient Company. Serving Mediterranean, Levant, London, England, Gibralter, Naples, Port Said, Suez, Colombo, Albany, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Australia. Fleet: Austral, Chimborazo, Cuzco, Garonne, Iberia, Liguria, Lustiania, Orient, Orizaba, Ormuz, Oroya. Lines: Orient Line.
Affiliated with Occidental and Oriental Steam Ship Company, and Pacific Mail Steam Ship Company. Serving America, Hawaiian Islands, India, Philippines, Japan, China.
Serving Ottawa, Prescott, Ogdensburg, L'Original.
Serving California, San Francisco, British Columbia, Washington, Alaska, Oregon, Mexico. Fleet: State of California.
Affiliated with Occidental and Oriental Steam Ship Company, and Toyo Kisen Kaisha (Oriental Steamship Company). Serving America, Manila, Honolulu, Russia, Japan, China, India, Syracuse, New York, California. Fleet: China.
Serving South America, New York, Valparaiso. Lines: Pacific Line. Passenger list for Essequibo 1921 February 26 New York to Valparaiso, Chile.
Small, handwritten note referencing this company only; no company issued documents.
Serving Cuba, Havana, Port Tampa, Key West, West Indies, Nassau, Miami. Lines: Key West Havana Line, Port Tampa Key West Havana Line. Fleet: Mascotte, Cuba, Northland, Governor Cobb.
Serving Bangor, Maine.
Serving Perth Amboy, New Jersey.
Serving Halifax, Bermuda, British West Indies, Turks Island, Jamaica, St. Thomas, St. Croix, St. Kitts, Antigua, Dominica, Martinique, St. Lucia, Barbados, Trinidad, Demerara. Royal Mail steamers.
Serving Portland, Boston, Mt. Desert, Maine. Lines: Inside Line between Boston and Mt. Desert.
Affiliated with Boston and Providence Railroad Company, Neptune Steamship Company, Neptune Line of Screw Steamers. Serving Providence, New York, Long Island Sound, Boston. Lines: Neptune Line, Propeller Line. Fleet: Electra, Galatea, Metis.
Serving New York, Providence, Boston. Lines: Providence Line, Stonington Line.
Lines: Regular Line.
Serving Delaware, Smyrna, Philadelphia, Rothwell's Landing. Fleet: John E. Tygert.
Serving Philadelphia, New York. Lines: Despatch Line, Hartford Line. Route: Delaware and Raritan Canal.
Serving Peekskill, New York. Fleet: Fannie Woodall, Peekskill.
Two passenger guide and regulation booklets, two price lists. Established 1822. Changed name to Peninsular Steam Navigation Company in 1837. Incorporated by Royal Charter in 1840, becoming the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company in conjunction of merging with the Transatlantic Steamship Company. In 1914 merged with the British India Steam Navigation Company. In 1918 purchased 51% of the Orient Steam Navigation Company. In 1961, P&O bought out Orient Lines and renamed its passenger operations to P&O-Orient Lines. Sometimes known as P&O Line.
Partial copy of People's Line Journal (1890 June). Name variants: People's Line Steamers, New Jersey Steamboat Company, Peoples Line, Peoples Line Steamers on the Hudson River, Peoples Evening Line Steamers. Operated for a period under the Hudson Navigation Company where it was also known as the Albany Division.
Serving Philadelphia, New York, Savannah, Wilmington, Charleston, New Orleans. Fleet: Pioneer, Tonawanda.
Serving Bermuda Islands, New York. Fleet: Bermuda, Canima.
Offering cruises to Winter Resorts in Southern Seas. Royal and US Mail contracts. Serving New York, Windward West India Islands, Bermuda, Montreal, Pictou, Nova Scotia. Fleet: Oceana (yacht). Lines: St. Lawrence Line, Bermuda Line, West Indies Line.
Serving Boston.
Serving Charleston, New York.
Serving Stonington, Boston, Providence, Taunton, New Bedford. Fleet: Plymouth Rock, C. Vanderbilt, Commodore, Eagle Wing.
Serving the Columbia River, Portland, Oregon.
Serving Boston, Philadelphia.
Includes brochure for affiliated hotels. Serving Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Toronto, Kingston, Montreal, Quebec, Murray Bay, Tadousac, Riviere du Loup, Ha!Ha!Bay, Chicoutinmi, Roberval, St. Lawrence, Lake St. John, Saquenay River. The company uses the slogan: "Niagara to the Sea". Lines: Toronto-Rochester-Montreal Line, Montreal-Quebec Line, Saguenay Line, Western Lines, Eastern Lines. Fleet: Kingston, Toronto, Rapids King, Rapids, Queen, Rapids Prince, Rochester, Montreal, Quebec, Murray Bay, Tadousac, Ste. Irenee.
Serving PIttsfield, Massachusetts.
Serving New Orleans. Fleet: R.W. Wilmot, W.G. Wilmot, Mongah, Maud Wilmot, Nellie Brown, Prentiss.
Serving Budapest, Hungry. Lines: Danube, Tisza, Drave, Save, Bosut, Bega Canal, Francis Canal, Francis Joseph Canal, Borcea.
Serving West Indies, Mexico, Central American, Panama, North and South Pacific, Japan, China, London, Southampton, Manchester, Brazil and River Plate, Plymouth, Cherbourg, New Zealand, Australia, New York, San Francisco, Europe, Argentina, Cuba.
Fleet: Clyde, Tweed, Thames, Forth, Solway, Tay, Medina, Medway, Dee, RMS Trent, Teviot, Isis, City of Glasgow, Avon, Severn, Great Western, RMS Amazon, Oronico, Parana, Magdalena, Demerara, La Plata, RMS Atrato, Solent, Tamar, Tyne, Oneida, RMS Paramatta, Mersey, Shannon, Tasmanian, Seine, Eider, RMS Douro, Arno, RMS Rhone, Danube, Corsica, Neva, Nile, Elbe, Tiber, Ebro, Liffey, Moselle, Belize, Tagus, Boyne, Essequibo, Larne, Severn, Minho, Mondego, Dee, Guadiana, Para, Don, Medway, Solent, Tamar, Trent, Derwent, Humber, Avon, La Plata, Eden, Esk, Dart, RMS Atrato, RMS Magdalena, Thames, Nile, Danube, La Plata, Minho, Ebro, Severn, Tagus, Trent, Tyne, Eider, La Plata, Dee, Tamar, Teviot, Parana, Caroni, Conway, Pardo, Catalina, Potaro, RMS Aragon, Oruba, Orotava, Oroya, Arcadian, Marima, Manau, RMS Amazon, Segura, Sabor, RMS Araguaya, RMS Avon, Monmouthshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, RMS Asturias, Arzila, Agadir, Berbice, Balantia, Deseado, RMS Arlanza, Demerara, Desna, Alcala, RMS Andes, Radnorshire, Caribbean, Merionethshire, Cardiganshire, Cobequid, Caraquet, RMS Alcantara, Carnarvonshire, Drina, RMS Almanzora, Essequibo, RMS Ebro, Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire, Larne, Brecknockshire, Darro, Navasota, Sambre, Glamorganshire, Nagara, Segura, Somme, Severn, Radnorshire, Silarus, Siris, Narenta, Nictheroy, Orcana, Oruba, Natia, Nariva, Nebraska, Sarthe, Sabor, Montgomeryshire, Lochkatrine, Lochgoil, Culebra, Orca, Orduña, Orbita, Ohio, Lochmonar, RMS Asturias, RMS Alcantara.
Serving Amsterdam, New York, West Indies.
Fleet: Star, Sky, Sea.
Operated under International Navigation Company. Book,
Duel branding, operated under the International Mercantile Marine Company. Two copies of booklet (one is missing a cover),
Annual pass requests.
Serving Bar Harbor, Portland. Fleet: City of Richmond.
Serving Maine. Lines: Songo River Line.
Annual pass requests. Serving Watkins Glen and Niagara Falls.
Serving Philadelphia, Savannah.
Serving Havana, Cuba, New Orleans, Lousiana, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California. Lines: New Orleans Havana Line, New York and New Orleans, Atlantic Steamship Lines. Fleet: Contra Costa, Momus, Creole, Antilles, Proteus, Comus, Prince Arthur.
Fleet: Elaine, Hampstead.
Serving London, Dover. Fleet: Dover Castle.
Serving the Seguenay River, Quebec, Bay St. Paul, Eboulement, Murray Bay, Riviere du Loup, Tadousac, Ha!Ha! Bay, Chichoutimi. Fleet: Saguenay, St. Lawrence, Union.
Fleet: Pike.
Serving Hamburg. Fleet: Dora, Bald Eagle.
Serving New York, Europe, Scotland, England, Ireland. Fleet: State of Nevada.
Former names: Philadelphia Iron Steam Line, Philadelphia Steam Line.
Serving New York. Fleet: Thos. P. Way.
Fleet: Massachusetts.
Serving Stonington, Boston, New York, Providence, New York, Baltimore, Washington. Fleet: Stonington, Narragansett, Rhode Island. Inside Route.
Serving Boston, Strawberry Hill, Nantasket, Long Beach. Fleet: Wm. Harrison, Emeline.
Serving Philadelphia, San Francisco, New York.
Serving Baltic, Russia, Sweden, Denmark, Gotland, Finland, New York, Iceland, Midnight Sun, North Cape, Norway, the Fjords, Visby, Estonia, Gothenburg, Copenhagen, Moscow, Tallinn, Klaipeda, Leningrad, Helsingfors. Fleet: Gripholm, Kungsholm.
Serving Albany.
Name varients: Swiftsure Transportation Company, Philadelphia and New York Steam Transportation Company Swiftsure Line, Swiftsure Transportation Line Steam Tow-Boat Company, Despatch Line, Swiftsure (Winter) Transportation Line. Serving Philadelphia, New York, Delaware and Raritan Canal.
Serving New London, Connecticut. Fleet: T.W. Wellington, Gen. A. E. Burnside, Doct. S. N. Briggs.
Serving South Africa, Australia, London, Tenerife, Plymouth. Fleet: Aberdeen, Australasian, Damascus, Nineveh, Moravian, Salamis, Sophocles, Miltiades, Marathon. Lines: Aberdeen Line.
Brochure on new Pier 1, New York facility. Serving Venezuela, East Coast South America, Mediterranean, New York.
See Oriental Steamship Company. Affiliated with Occidental and Oriental Steam Ship Company, and Pacific Mail Steam Ship Company.
Serving New York.
Serving New York, Buffalo.
Serving Troy.
[Affiliation ambiguous.] Single piece of correspondence.
Serving South and East Africa. Royal Mail Service.
Serving New York, Philadelphia. Lines: Union Line.
Serving London, South African Gold Fields, Diamond Fields, Mashonaland, Cape of Good Hope, Natal, East Africa. Royal Mail steamers. Lines: Union Line.
Serving New York, Philadelphia, Trenton.
Fleet: Reliance, Resolute.
Used the slogan "Great White Fleet". Serving New York, Caribbean, Cuba, Jamaica, Panama Canal, Central America, South America. Fleet (names split with / indicates US Navy WWI and WWII commissions): Pastores, Tenadores, Admiral Dewey, Admiral Schley, Admiral Sampson, Admiral Farragut , Venus , San Jose, Limon, Esparta , Atenas, Tivives , Pastores / USS Pastores, Calamares / USS Calamares, Toloa , Ulua / USS Octans, San Benito / USS Taurus , Mayari, Choluteca , La Playa , La Marea / USS Darien , Telda, Iriona, Castilla , Tela , Aztec , Platano, Musa , Chiriqui / USS Tarazed , Jamaica / USS Ariel , Veraqua / USS Merak , Talamanca / USS Talamanca, Quiriqua / USS Mizar , USS Antigua , Oratava , Comayagua, Junior, Metapan, Yaque , Fra Berlanga , Manaqui.
Serving Australia, New Zealand, New York.
Serving New London, Palmer, Norwich, Worchester, Blakestone, Woonsocket, Dedham, Framingham, Boston, Lowell, Lawrence, Nashua, Concord. Routes: Great Northern, Eastern. Fleet: Commonwealth, Connecticut, Worcester.
Serving New York, Liverpool. Fleet: Atlantic, Baltic, Pacific, Artic, Adriatic.
The United States Shipping Board was created by the Shipping Act of 1916 for the establishment of a naval auxilary, naval reserve, and Merchant Marine. Booklet,
Passenger list for the 1929 May 3 sailing of the American Trader, Voyage 105/53, London/New York.
Invitation to the March 27 launching of the Strathnever at Arlington, Staten Island, New York.
USL functioned as the managing operators for the U.S. Shipping Board (circa 1923). Serving New York, Ireland, England, France, Germany. Fleet: President Monroe, President Adams, President Van Buren, President Polk, President Garfield, President Fillmore, President Harding, George Washington, President Roosevelt, Leviathan, America, United States.
Materials include: shipping routes brochures, price list. Rejection letter to nurse applicant (1926 March 23). Booklet,
Serving Richmond, Norfolk, Jamestown, Newport News, Old Point Comfort, Dutch Gap Canal. Fleet: Pocahontas (palace steamer).
Booklet containing Freight Tariff rates. Serving Rockland, Maine, North Haven, Stonington, Swan's Island, Vinal Haven.
Serving Havre, New York, Cowes, Southampton.
Serving Devil's Reach, Rocketts.
Lines: Ward Line.
Operated under the New York and Cuba Mail Steamship Company, along with the Alexandre Line, circa 1881. Operated under Consolidated Steamship Lines, 1907. Operated under Atlantic, Gulf & West Indies Lines (Agwilines), 1908. Changed name to Cuba Mail Line, circa 1935. Resume use of Ward Line under Atlantic, Gulf & West Indies Lines (Agwilines), 1947. Operated under the Stevenson Lines, circa 1955. Operated under the Ward-Garcia Line of Companñía Naviera García, circa late 1955. Fleet: Valencia (chartered from the Red D Line).
Fleet: Wallkill, Caledonia.
Lines: Western Express, Rail and Lake Line.
Serving New York, Queenstown, Liverpool. Fleet: Germanic, Celtic, Majestic, Oceanic, Cymric, Teutonic.
Serving Rockaway Beach, New York. Fleet: Grand Republic, Columbia, Americus.
Serving New York, Wilmington.
Serving Philadelphia, Providence, Ives' Wharf.
Includes booklet,
Promotional, freestanding calendar boxes with monthly cards. Operated under Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (1927-circa 1932).
Featuring an image of the ship carrying troops to the Great War.
Serving Yarmouth, Boston, Nova Scotia, Cape Brenton. Land of Evangeline Route. Fleet: Boston.
Serving Israel, Europe, Mediterranean, New York, Madeira, Gibralter, Malaga, Marseilles, Naples, Piraeus, Haifa. Lines: North Atlantic Line, Western Mediterranean Line, Adriatic Line. Fleet: Israel, Zion, Jerusalem, Moledat, Theodor Herzl, Shalom. Offering High Holiday cruise.
Contains small packets of receipts affixed together that represent more than one shipping line. Also contains one news clipping advertisement (circa 1833) that includes a listing of shipping transportation providers.
Includes an illustrated book on the Queen Elizabeth (1938).
Oversize N-Z
Contains business records such as receipts for ships chandlers, supplies, bills of lading, correspondence and a sheet of disbursements (1805, William and Mary). Marketing material includes sailing schedules, advertisements and brochures route and excursions, and sailmakers.
B&W and color. Illustrations, postcards, clipped art, and some original artwork depicting various ships and vessels.
Depicting a light house, caricatures of maritime personalities, wooden boat under construction, plus two booklets containing ships both steam and sail powered. Small albums, booklets.
Lithograph.
Poster advertisement for Peerless Rubber Manufacturing Company, featuring the steamship
B&W. Consisting of sail and steam vessels, including paddleboats.
One of battleship
Keepsake are shipboard issues documents retained by former passengers inclusive of memos, news letters, menus, passenger lists, entertainment program, and a luggage tag from various sailings.
Bound volume with handwritten entries for the ship
Patents, trademarks, product design/prospectus, some include drawings/schematics.
Contract for canal boat
Contracts, charters.
Handwritten report. Philadelphia.
Related or pertaining to: navigation laws, Merchant Marine extension, coast survey, ship building channel standards,
Related or pertaining to: England, Germany, International Congress of Navigation, Scotland, India, British Empire, Netherlands, France.
Related or pertaining to: pilotage for New Jersey, Ways and Means of Baltimore, revival of American shipping, Ways and Means, tonnage statements, Collins Steamers, decline of American shipping, memorial for Wilbur F. Cogswell USN, protection of commerce, sale of Navy vessels, memorial for John Ericsson, harbor improvement on Lake Superior, letter to Keepers of the Light Houses of the United States (1842), War Department surplus floating equipment catalogue, American marine insurance.
U.S. Army Corp of Engineers
Philadelphia.
All are single issues unless noted.
Excerpt, pp. 217-224.
International Steamship Company, published weekly.
Excerpt, pp. 95-96.
Excerpt, unpaginated.
Supplement, excerpt, pp.209-216, pp.249-256.
Excerpt, pp. 163-166.
Excerpt, pp. 75-76.
Two issues. Vol XXXVL No. 38 and No. 42.
Includes a New York Special Edition, Part 6 section on the Titanic (1912 April 28).
Contains color and B&W print and photographic images of sailing ships, sailors, and harbor scenes. A souvenier America's Cup booklet (1899). An Anderson Galleries catalogue of a 1992 auction of the William Bell Chambers R.N. Marine Collection. Additional material includes a brochure on the "Long-Arm" system for doors and hatches, a schematic of a boat and shoreline (possibly related to a shipwreck), and a 1795 Encyclopedia Britannica excerpt on ships masts.
Stern ship
Articles and publications on a variety of related topics.
Ship stack insignia chart. Published by Texaco Marine Lubricants.
Includes publications related to collections, exhibition of, and auctions of ship models and artwork, plus general images of maritime vessels and pictorial scenes. Note: singular images of specifically named ships may be filed in other portions of this subject category.
Information on cruise offerings combined with education programs. In French.
Note and want list received from W.P. Lillard (1954).