| Author | Lloyd, James T.
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| Title | Lloyd's steamboat directory, and disasters on the western waters, containting the history of the first application of steam, as a motive power; the lives of John Fitch and Robert Fulton. History of the early steamboat navigation on western waters. Full accounts of all the steamboat disaster. A complete list of steamboats and all other vessels now afloat on the western rivers and lakes, maps of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Lists of plantations on the Mississippi river. One hundred engravings and forty six maps. By James T. Lloyd.
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| Published | Philadelphia; Cincinnati, J.T. Lloyd [1856]
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| Description | iv, 223 p. illus. (incl. maps) 23 cm.
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| Subjects | Fitch, John, 1743-1798.
Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815.
Mississippi River -- Description and travel.
Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel.
Ohio imprints -- 1856
Ohio River -- Description and travel.
Ohio River -- Navigation.
Railroads -- United States -- History.
Steam-navigation -- Mississippi River Valley.
Steamboat disasters.
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| | WRHS Research Library: F 25 NB L793L Vault
mq116821: Rare book room, LC class, restricted access [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
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