George Gordon Steamboat inspector's correspondence collection 1867-1874.

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George Gordon Steamboat inspector's correspondence collection 1867-1874.

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Nineteen letters written from December 4, 1867, to July 25, 1874, to George Gordon, a federal steamboat inspector in Galena Illinois. The letters were written by representatives of the U.S. Treasury Department, the U.S. Attorney's Office, the U.S. Local Inspectors of Steam-Vessels, and the St. Louis Custom House. Arranged in two distinct categories: expenditures and regulations, the material covers some of the duties of a federal steamboat inspector in the late 19th century. Also discussed is the government's involvement with steamboat travel and safety at a time when Mississippi River steamboats enjoyed wide, albeit waning, use.

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