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Passenger steamship collection - To Calais

Passenger steamship collection - To Calais

An etching of the packet boat. Companion to "From the West Indies." (Cohn 1140) Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Map of the United States, the British provinces, Mexico, &c : showing the routes of the U.S. Mail steam packets to California, and a plan of the gold region

Map of the United States, the British provinces, Mexico, &c : showing ...

Public domain image of the vintage map from Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library is a special... More

Transfer steamer Maryland, on the beach at Vineyard Haven. Driven ashore by the storm of Tuesday, April 4th

Transfer steamer Maryland, on the beach at Vineyard Haven. Driven asho...

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

The great pictorial romance of the age, or, steam ship commodores & United States mail contractors

The great pictorial romance of the age, or, steam ship commodores & Un...

American political cartoon about the awarding of United States mail contracts. Print shows steamships (two shaped like rocking horses) and a balloon labeled "California mail balloon via Nicaragua," with discuss... More

Steamer Wallamet - Daguerreotype, Public domain

Steamer Wallamet - Daguerreotype, Public domain

Copy photograph of daguerreotype shows the sidewheel steamboat Wallamet ca. 1854.

Express--the mail boat between Washington and the army hd.qts. City Pt.
Quartermasters Tugboat Sykes, carrying mail off Mobile

Quartermasters Tugboat Sykes, carrying mail off Mobile

Longboat meeting mail steamer. Title inscribed below image. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.51) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Riverfront south of Bass River Bridge

Riverfront south of Bass River Bridge

Picryl description: Public domain image of a boat in a harbor, water, fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions. Yarmouth is located in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States, on Cape Cod, ... More

Packet "David K. Aki" - Public domain image of a steam ship or boat

Packet "David K. Aki" - Public domain image of a steam ship or boat

Public domain image of a sailing ship, caravel, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description Yarmouth is located in Barnstable Cou... More

View of Bass River with bridge with packets David K. Akin and Anna Louise

View of Bass River with bridge with packets David K. Akin and Anna Lou...

Public domain image of a historic view of Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description Yarmouth is located in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States, on Ca... More

U.S. mail steamer "Clara", Charlotte Harbor

U.S. mail steamer "Clara", Charlotte Harbor

Public domain image of a sailing ship, caravel, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Bombay. Harbour with arriving mail view, photochrome print postcard.

Bombay. Harbour with arriving mail view, photochrome print postcard.

Title in Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905: "India. Bombay. Harbor with Mail Boat Arriving". Print no. "20042. P.Z." Purchase; Marc Walter; ... More

Packet ship David K. Akin picking up passengers at the dock on Bass River

Packet ship David K. Akin picking up passengers at the dock on Bass Ri...

Public domain image of a sailing ship, caravel, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description Yarmouth is located in Barnstable Cou... More

[U.S. marine postal service, Detroit River, approaching freighter]

[U.S. marine postal service, Detroit River, approaching freighter]

Public domain photograph of a steamboat ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Packets Anna Louise and David Akin

Packets Anna Louise and David Akin

Picryl description: Public domain image of a fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions. Yarmouth is located in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States, on Cape Cod, and was first settled in ... More

Packet "David K. Akin" on Bass River

Packet "David K. Akin" on Bass River

Yarmouth is located in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States, on Cape Cod, and was first settled in the 1600s. The area has a rich history and maritime heritage. It was a major shipbuilding, whaling, ... More

U.S. marine postal service, Detroit River, approaching freighter

U.S. marine postal service, Detroit River, approaching freighter

Part of title from jacket. No Detroit Publishing Co. number. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Steamer Illinois - Public domain image of steamship

Steamer Illinois - Public domain image of steamship

Photograph of print of side wheeler built 1851. "G 8778" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 022679. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Steamer Illinois - Public domain image of steamship

Steamer Illinois - Public domain image of steamship

Public domain photograph - historical image of Illinois, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bass River Packet Landing, South Yarmouth, Mass.

Bass River Packet Landing, South Yarmouth, Mass.

Yarmouth is located in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States, on Cape Cod, and was first settled in the 1600s. The area has a rich history and maritime heritage. It was a major shipbuilding, whaling, ... More

U.S. Marine Postal Service, Detroit River, Str. Bielman

U.S. Marine Postal Service, Detroit River, Str. Bielman

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship, navy, harbor, maritime photograph, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

U.S. Marine Postal Service, Detroit River, Str. Bielman

U.S. Marine Postal Service, Detroit River, Str. Bielman

Negative broken left side and upper right and taped to second sheet of glass. "6005" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 022658. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

The packet Lottie Beard is shown at its waterfront berth between trips to St. Helena and other points

The packet Lottie Beard is shown at its waterfront berth between trips...

Packet ship Lottie Beard docked in New Bedford, with boy (Edward W. Baylies) standing in foreground. The ship traveled between "St. Helena and other points where it contracted New Bedford whalers and furnished ... More

P.M.S.S. & Co.'s Steamship Japan - In the California Dry Dock, Hunter's Point.

P.M.S.S. & Co.'s Steamship Japan - In the California Dry Dock, Hunter'...

California Stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who a... More

Pacific Mail Steamship Japan in the Cal. Dry Dock at Hunter's Point, San Francisco.

Pacific Mail Steamship Japan in the Cal. Dry Dock at Hunter's Point, S...

Picryl description: Public domain image related to an industrial revolution, industry history, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Transfer steamer Maryland, on the beach at Vineyard Haven. Driven ashore by the storm of Tuesday, April 4th

Transfer steamer Maryland, on the beach at Vineyard Haven. Driven asho...

reverse side of stereoscopic card Public domain scan of manuscript related to Massachusetts, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Pacific Mail Steamship Japan in the Cal. Dry Dock at Hunter's Point, San Francisco.

Pacific Mail Steamship Japan in the Cal. Dry Dock at Hunter's Point, S...

California Stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who a... More

Transfer steamer Maryland, on the beach at Vineyard Haven. Driven ashore by the storm of Tuesday, April 4th

Transfer steamer Maryland, on the beach at Vineyard Haven. Driven asho...

Local Accession Number: 06_11_001151.Title: Transfer steamer Maryland, on the beach at Vineyard Haven. Driven ashore by the storm of Tuesday, April 4th.Statement of responsibility: Photographed and published by... More

Mariposa Leaves Auckland Harbour

Mariposa Leaves Auckland Harbour

Mail steamer Mariposa leaving Auckland harbour, Auckland in 1880s. A paddle steamer, possibly a ferry to/from Devonport, crossing in the foreground. Extended information on origin webpage reads: Schell, Frede... More

Puget Sound Mail and Freight Steamships (1904) (ADVERT 181)

Puget Sound Mail and Freight Steamships (1904) (ADVERT 181)

The Puget Sound Navigation Company was organized in 1898. Nicknamed the Black Ball Line, it gained control of all Puget Sound ferry service in 1935. Geographic coverage: United States--Washington (State)--Seatt... More

Luggage en route from hotel to mail steamer, MON 1909

Luggage en route from hotel to mail steamer, MON 1909

"Luggage en route from hotel to mail steamer" in Madeira: Old and New

Arrival of Mail Steamer off Apolla Bunder (5711506894)

Arrival of Mail Steamer off Apolla Bunder (5711506894)

Artist: Bourne and Shepherd Artist Bio: Indian photography studio, established 1866 Creation Date: c. 1870s Process: albumen print Credit Line: Gift of the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection Accession Nu... More

Steamer CORWIN off Nome, Alaska showing dogsled teams on ice hauling freight from ship, 1907 (AL+CA 1035)

Steamer CORWIN off Nome, Alaska showing dogsled teams on ice hauling f...

Caption on image: Dog team Hauling Freight from Steamer Corwin, Five miles out at Sea, Nome, Alaska. Printed on verso of image, l to r: No. 90589. Publ. by Portland Post Card Co., Portland, Ore. and Seattle, W... More

Austrian mail steamer Pelikan moored at anchor - 1891

Austrian mail steamer Pelikan moored at anchor - 1891

Austrian Post Steamer Pelican moored in the bay of Trieste (see old lighthouse Lanterna) at anchor - 1891 Deutsch: Österreichische Postdampfer Pelikan in der Bucht von Triest (siehe alter Leuchtturm Lanterna)... More

Men trying to free US Revenue Cutter BEAR and US Revenue Marine Steamer CORWIN from sea ice, Nome, Alaska, June 2, 1914 (AL+CA 5749)

Men trying to free US Revenue Cutter BEAR and US Revenue Marine Steame...

Caption on photo: Revenue Cutter Bear and Str. Corwin in the ice. Nome, Alaska. PH Coll 495.551 Subjects (LCTGM): Marine accidents--Alaska; ; Mail steamers--Alaska;; Government vessels--Alaska; ; Ice--Alaska S... More

Packet and smaller vessels, circa 1890-1900 (AL+CA 4202)

Packet and smaller vessels, circa 1890-1900 (AL+CA 4202)

PH Coll 514.27 Subjects (LCTGM): Mail steamers--Alaska; Paddleboats--Alaska; Stern wheelers--Alaska Subjects (LCSH): Packets--Alaska

SS CORWIN in the Arctic ice pack, Alaska, 1910 (AL+CA 8186)

SS CORWIN in the Arctic ice pack, Alaska, 1910 (AL+CA 8186)

PH Coll 328.283f Subjects (LCTGM): Mail steamers--Alaska;; Government vessels--Alaska; Subjects (LCSH): Corwin (Ship);; Revenue cutters--Alaska;; Sea ice

SS CORWIN in the ice near Nome, Alaska, June 1908 (AL+CA 5876)

SS CORWIN in the ice near Nome, Alaska, June 1908 (AL+CA 5876)

Caption on image: S.S. Corwin in the ice - June 1908! Nome Alaska. Watson. PH Coll 413.Album 12.47b Subjects (LCTGM): Marine accidents--Alaska;; Mail steamers--Alaska; ; Government vessels--Alaska;; Sailors--... More

SS CORWIN arriving in Nome, Alaska, May 24, 1915 (AL+CA 8185)

SS CORWIN arriving in Nome, Alaska, May 24, 1915 (AL+CA 8185)

Caption on photo: Arrival First Steamer, Season 1915. PH Coll 328.283g Subjects (LCTGM): Mail steamers--Alaska--Nome;; Government vessels--Alaska--Nome Subjects (LCSH): Corwin (Ship);; Revenue cutters--Alaska--Nome

United States Revenue Cutter BEAR and the SS CORWIN in background, caught in the ice, near Nome, Alaska, between 1902 and 1914 (AL+CA 1021)

United States Revenue Cutter BEAR and the SS CORWIN in background, cau...

Caption on image: Caught in the Ice. Copyright by Lomen Bros., Nome PH Coll 328.283e The BEAR patrolled the North Pacific and the Bering Sea in 1896 with the other revenue cutters, after which she was assigned... More

United States Revenue Cutter BEAR arriving in Nome, Alaska with the city's first water-borne mail of the year, 1914 (AL+CA 8183)

United States Revenue Cutter BEAR arriving in Nome, Alaska with the ci...

PH Coll 328.283d Subjects (LCTGM): Mail steamers--Alaska; ; Government vessels--Alaska;; Postal service--Alaska;; Sea ice--Alaska Subjects (LCSH): Bear (Revenue cutter);; Revenue cutters--Alaska--Nome

United States Revenue Cutter Service Ship BEAR, between 1890 and 1900 (AL+CA 4225)

United States Revenue Cutter Service Ship BEAR, between 1890 and 1900 ...

Written on negative sleeve: U.S. Cutter Bear was on Alaska run for several years. Between 1886 and 1926 the USRCS Bear worked as a rescue ship along the Pacific Coast and primarily in Alaska. In 1931 it was so... More

USRC CORWIN in Sitka Bay, Alaska, between 1886 and 1890 (AL+CA 6055)

USRC CORWIN in Sitka Bay, Alaska, between 1886 and 1890 (AL+CA 6055)

De Groff 100 PH Coll 317.20 Subjects (LCTGM): Mail steamers--Alaska;; Government vessels--Alaska Subjects (LCSH): Corwin (Ship); Revenue cutters--Alaska; Sitka Sound (Alaska)

U.S.M. steam ship Baltic. Collins line builders, hull by Brown & Bell N.Y. engines by Allaire Works N.Y.

U.S.M. steam ship Baltic. Collins line builders, hull by Brown & Bell ...

Print shows a port side view of the U.S. Mail Steam Ship Baltic at sea.

U.S.M. steam ship Baltic. Collins line builders, hull by Brown & Bell N.Y. engines by Allaire Works N.Y.

U.S.M. steam ship Baltic. Collins line builders, hull by Brown & Bell ...

Print shows a port side view of the U.S. Mail Steam Ship Baltic at sea.

Danl Webster army mail boat on James river

Danl Webster army mail boat on James river

Stern view of steamboat. Title inscribed below image. On verso there are scratched-out pencil sketches of two males probably soldiers. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.337) Forms part of: Morgan collec... More

Danl Webster army mail boat on James river

Danl Webster army mail boat on James river

Stern view of steamboat. Title inscribed below image. On verso there are scratched-out pencil sketches of two males probably soldiers. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.337) Forms part of: Morgan collec... More

Map of the United States and Mexico - Public domain map

Map of the United States and Mexico - Public domain map

Public domain image of the vintage map from NYPL Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division is one of the wo... More

The gold and coal fields of Alaska : together with the principal steamer routes and trails

The gold and coal fields of Alaska : together with the principal steam...

Public domain image of the vintage map from NYPL Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division is one of the wo... More

P.M.S.S. & Co.'s Steamship Japan - In the California Dry Dock, Hunter's Point.

P.M.S.S. & Co.'s Steamship Japan - In the California Dry Dock, Hunter'...

California Stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who a... More

Pacific Mail Steamship Japan in the Cal. Dry Dock at Hunter's Point, San Francisco.

Pacific Mail Steamship Japan in the Cal. Dry Dock at Hunter's Point, S...

Picryl description: Public domain image related to an industrial revolution, industry history, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Pacific Mail Steamship Japan in the Cal. Dry Dock at Hunter's Point, San Francisco.

Pacific Mail Steamship Japan in the Cal. Dry Dock at Hunter's Point, S...

California Stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who a... More

Baltischer Lloyd - dampfschifssabrt nach Stettin via Havre & Copenhagen

Baltischer Lloyd - dampfschifssabrt nach Stettin via Havre & Copenhage...

Broadside announcing departure of Baltischer LLoyd's iron steamship "Ernst Moritz Arndt" under the command of Captain F. Dreyer, which will sail on Saturday, 29 March 1873 at 2 P.M., from Pier 13 North River. ... More

Baltischer Lloyd - dampfschifssabrt nach Stettin via Havre & Copenhagen

Baltischer Lloyd - dampfschifssabrt nach Stettin via Havre & Copenhage...

Broadside announcing departure of Baltischer LLoyd's iron steamship "Ernst Moritz Arndt" under the command of Captain F. Dreyer, which will sail on Saturday, 29 March 1873 at 2 P.M., from Pier 13 North River. ... More

Baltischer Lloyd - dampfschifssabrt nach Stettin via Havre & Copenhagen

Baltischer Lloyd - dampfschifssabrt nach Stettin via Havre & Copenhage...

Broadside announcing departure of Baltischer LLoyd's iron steamship "Ernst Moritz Arndt" under the command of Captain F. Dreyer, which will sail on Saturday, 29 March 1873 at 2 P.M., from Pier 13 North River. ... More

Baltischer Lloyd - dampfschifssabrt nach Stettin via Havre & Copenhagen

Baltischer Lloyd - dampfschifssabrt nach Stettin via Havre & Copenhage...

Broadside announcing departure of Baltischer LLoyd's iron steamship "Ernst Moritz Arndt" under the command of Captain F. Dreyer, which will sail on Saturday, 29 March 1873 at 2 P.M., from Pier 13 North River. ... More

Coaling the Pacific Mail S.S. "Siberia" at the fortified naval station of Nagasaki, Japan

Coaling the Pacific Mail S.S. "Siberia" at the fortified naval station...

Photographs shows young men and women on barges and scaffolding along side the ship, in a bucket brigade, passing coal from the barge by the bucket up the side of the ship during reloading in Nagasaki, Japan. H... More

Coaling the Pacific Mail S.S. "Siberia" at the fortified naval station of Nagasaki, Japan

Coaling the Pacific Mail S.S. "Siberia" at the fortified naval station...

Photographs shows young men and women on barges and scaffolding along side the ship, in a bucket brigade, passing coal from the barge by the bucket up the side of the ship during reloading in Nagasaki, Japan. H... More

[Scenes associated with Dutch Gap Canal]

[Scenes associated with Dutch Gap Canal]

Nine vignetted scenes surround central image of soldiers moving earth. Title devised. Inscribed within images, from top left to bottom right: obstructions; Nigger huts James river; Deep bottom James river; mail... More

[Scenes associated with Dutch Gap Canal]

[Scenes associated with Dutch Gap Canal]

Nine vignetted scenes surround central image of soldiers moving earth. Title devised. Inscribed within images, from top left to bottom right: obstructions; Nigger huts James river; Deep bottom James river; mail... More

View of the U.S. mail steamship company's premises, Aspinwall, N.G. / Parsons lith.

View of the U.S. mail steamship company's premises, Aspinwall, N.G. / ...

Inscribed in pencil on verso: A460216. Forms part of: Popular graphic art print filing series (Library of Congress).

View of the U.S. mail steamship company's premises, Aspinwall, N.G. / Parsons lith.

View of the U.S. mail steamship company's premises, Aspinwall, N.G. / ...

Inscribed in pencil on verso: A460216. Forms part of: Popular graphic art print filing series (Library of Congress).