Ohio River
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Photographs of Operations in Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York, and the Pacific Northwest
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4406
Scope and Contents
Photographs of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers field work from approximately 1914-1919, including predominantly candid, non-corporate images of engineers (including some group portraits) and infrastructure (such as dams and bridges). About half of the locations depicted include places in Pennsylvania and Ohio, many of which are on the Ohio River; other sites include New York and places in the Pacific Northwest. Specific localities include Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Marietta and New...
Dates:
ca. 1914-1919
William Starke Rosecrans (1818-1898) Correspondence
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1943
Overview
Correspondence of a Civil War general who had business interests in the Cannel Coal Company, Coal River Navigation Company, James River and Kanawha Company, and the Western Oil Company. Subjects include coal, oil, iron and steel; improvements on the Kanawha, Coal, and Ohio rivers; English investments in the Cannel Coal Company and the Winifrede Mining & Manufacturing Company; and timber prices. Civil War correspondence includes letters from Francis H. Pierpont and General Jacob D. Cox....
Dates:
1841-1879
Willis DeHass, Historian, Scrapbook regarding Ohio River Valley
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0685
Overview
A scrapbook of newspaper clippings, with manuscript notes, prepared by Willis DeHass, historian and author. The clips, mainly from Pittsburgh and Cincinnati papers, deal with the Monongahela and Ohio and other Ohio Valley rivers, steamboats, bridges, canals, dams, and levees. Mention is made of the Pittsburgh and Connellsville Railroad, 1868.
Dates:
circa 1868-1879
Woodbridge-Blennerhassett Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1459
Overview
Correspondence and financial records of the firm of Dudley Woodbridge and Company of Marietta, Ohio, pertaining to Woodbridge's partnership with Harman Blennerhassett. Subjects include early Ohio River trade, transportation, and markets; Blennerhassett's financial misfortunes; the Burr conspiracy; and family and social affairs. Included in the collection are extracts from the Silas Brown letters in the Library of Congress relating to the Burr Conspiracy; and an unpublished manuscript by...
Dates:
1797-1818, 1935
Wylie-Tomlinson Letter Collection regarding the Civil War and Other Topics
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4068
Scope and Contents
Correspondence of Will Tomlinson, a newspaper publisher in southern Ohio, his wife Eliza Wylie Tomlinson, and their children Sarah Isabella Tomlinson and William Byers Tomlinson, as well as other family members, friends, and colleagues.The letters range from 1834 through 1897, the bulk of which date from 1861-1863 and from 1876-1880. Prominent topics include the relationships and activities of the Wylie-Tomlinson family, life in Cincinnati and Ripley Ohio, journalism and...
Dates:
1834-1914