Transportation
Found in 58 Collections and/or Records:
Stagers and Mackey, Teamsters, Account Books
Accounts of a partnership of teamsters whose firm was headquartered in Morgantown. Accounts show supplies of food and materials such as lumber and stone hauled to construction sites throughout the region of Monongalia and Ohio counties.
Steamboats Records
Bills of lading and receipts for goods shipped on the C.W. Batchelor, Return, and Abner O'Neal.
Steamboats Records
The official logbook of a cargo vessel which traveled up and down the Ohio River between Marietta, Ohio and Ravenswood, W.Va. The log covers a three month period, October to December, 1883. The log records the stops that were made on each run, the kinds of items that were being transported, and to whom cargoes were delivered.
Steamboats Records
Receipts and bills of lading for merchandise shipped on the Batchelor, C.W. Anderson, Sallie J, Cooper, and the Sonoma. There are also freight bills from the New York, Lake Erie & Western Railroad Co., and the Ohio River Railroad Co.
Steamboats Records
Bills of lading from the Ohio River Transportation Company, Wheeling Wharf Boat Company, Parkersburg Rig & Reel Company, Shippers Packet Company Lines, and G. M. Beaver, steamboat agent and wharf boat proprietor, Sistersville. Also includes a promotional flyer to vote for Jeff Frame, Wharf Master, in a 1905 election.
Steamboats Records
Letters of a West Virginia River Captain to his daughter, 1877-1885; papers of Captain Edward B. Cooper, 1879-1891, Master of the Steamer Sonoma operating between Ravenswood and Parkersburg; bills of lading and miscellaneous papers, 1891-1930, 1955; log book of the Steamer Victor, 1932, operating out of Ashland, Kentucky for the Ashland Oil Company; and a log book of the Steamer Greenbrier, 1939, operating on the Ohio and Kanawha rivers.
Steamboats Records
Passenger books of the steamer "Sonoma," operating between Ravenswood and Parkersburg.