Boats

Scope and Contents This collection includes a photocopy of an April 2, 1963 letter sent by Librarian John L. Lochhead of the Mariners Museum (Newport News, Virginia) to Robert D. Starrett, Supervisor of State Memorials, Indiana Division of State Parks. The letter was in response to Starrett's interest in a design for a canal boat and mentions that the museum could reproduce for him the plans for a canal boat believed to have been used on an Ohio canal that were printed in George W. Rogers's ...

Scope and Contents This collection contains correspondence and documents ranging from 1863 to 1870 related to claims submitted to the United States government regarding the seizure of the steamer Allen Collier at Evansville, Indiana and its impressed service September 7-17, 1863 during the U.S. Civil War. Documents include the steamer’s enrollment form, license, inspectors' certificate, and receipt given at Louisville, Kentucky; correspondence and documents of E. R. (Edson R.)...