Steamboat Empire City [graphic]. [186-?]

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Steamboat Empire City [graphic]. [186-?]

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The steamboat Empire City loaded with goods. A sign on the front reads, "For St. Louis." According to information found on the Internet at http://members.tripod.com/%7EWrite4801/riverboats/e-2.html the Empire City was a "sternwheel, a wooden hull packet. Size: 150' X 34.5' X 5.6', 260 tons., launched: 1854, California, Pa., Destroyed: 1866, Jan. 12, St. Louis, lost in ice., Area: 1854- outbreak of war, Pittsburgh-St. Louis, 1862-65, in U.S. service as transport., Owners: 1854, James Vandergrift, Isaac Hamilton, C. P. Caughey, Samuel Barr, Jr., and William H. Stackhouse of Pittsburgh and David G. Mulford, New York., 186? Sold to Capt Jacob Hazlep, St. Louis, Captains: 1854, P.S. Mulford, Later on Pittsburgh-St. Louis run, Ben Way, Master; 1862-65, Jacob Hazlep, master." According to STEAMBOATS AND FERRIES ON WHITE RIVER: A HERITAGE REVISITED, by Duane Huddleston, Sammie Rose and Pat Wood (Conway, Ark.: UCA Press; 1995), "Empire City [was] one of a fleet of steamers that transported supplies to Union troops stationed on White River during the Civil War."

1 negative : b&w 10 x 13 cm. (4 x 5 in.)

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Gillet, Orville, 1832-1914.

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The Arkansas History Commission was created by the General Assembly in 1905. Inspired and guided during its early years by John Hugh Reynolds, the commission is the official archives of the state, responsible for collecting and preserving the source materials of the history of Arkansas. From the description of Arkansas History Commission records, 1905-1984 [microform]. (Arkansas History Commission). WorldCat record id: 244818119 ...