tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82986941267798898782024-03-04T21:00:51.941-08:00Steamboat Arabia: A Historian’s BlogThru the Steamboat Arabia's Eye's, see the bigger picture of the 1850s.Steamboat Arabia Museum: Exploring thru Ephemerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02385028860639883330noreply@blogger.comBlogger128125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8298694126779889878.post-26744848824564302862013-05-29T14:05:00.000-07:002013-05-29T14:05:13.137-07:00Seeking Information From Fellow Bloggers- Boot Makers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;">
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Archives, Libraries, historical societies and other people have helped me to get a handle understanding the Arabia Steamboat Museum's collection.</h2>
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I just snapped this photo of the reading room at the <i><b>American Antiquarian Society</b></i> in Worcester Massachusetts where I have been talking with staff about the <i><b>Steamboat Arabia</b>.</i> And just like you, they are amazed at the collection in Kansas City and research has only scratched the surface what lessons this vast collection of artifacts taken from one sunken steamboat called Arabia can tell.</div>
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As you can see- lots is going on. There's a man on the left who is reading vintage newspapers in bound volume, others are reading books and making entries in their computers. And I hope to dive in with the rest of them to follow the paper about the world of the 1850s.</div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Can anyone identify the tools in this ambrotype?</span></b></div>
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I titled this posting as "Seeking Information from Fellow Bloggers." When you see this title, it means I need your insight so do email me your guesses, web links or other info.<br />
Thank you for your help,<br />
Elizabeth</div>
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Steamboat Arabia Museum: Exploring thru Ephemerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02385028860639883330noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8298694126779889878.post-23659123964994613802013-04-26T20:44:00.000-07:002013-04-26T20:44:00.378-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Bjri08yvNXo/TFehro4XAxI/AAAAAAAAA9w/wN1ivc3W1Oo/s400/NEBRASKA+BILL+RICHARDSON+01.jpg" width="347" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: #990000; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">I’ve discovered bloggers who never visited the Steamboat Arabia Museum or even heard about the sidewheeler are following my blog. They know the steamboat sank, September 5</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; line-height: 19px;"><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">th</span></span></sup></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> but not much more</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Per Wikipedia- </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Kansas–Nebraska Act</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> of </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1854" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="1854"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">1854</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> created the territories of </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_Territory" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Kansas Territory"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Kansas</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebraska_Territory" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Nebraska Territory"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Nebraska</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">, opened new lands, repealed the</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri_Compromise" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Missouri Compromise"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Missouri Compromise</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> of 1820, and allowed settlers in those territories to determine if they would allow slavery within their boundaries. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas%E2%80%93Nebraska_Act#Introduction_of_the_Nebraska_bill"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">(READ MORE)</span></a></b></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">I’ve discovered bloggers who never visited the Steamboat Arabia Museum or even heard about the sidewheeler are following my blog. They know the steamboat sank, September 5</span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">th</span></span></sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> but not much more. </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">One hot day in the early 1990s, Greg Hawley sent me a letter with this newspaper announcement from The Daily Missouri Democrat, dated September 11, 1856. This consignee list opened a doorway and helped me eventually solve the mystery what Arabia’s last trip to the upper Missouri River was about.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">ARABIA- The Officers of this boat which was lost in the Missouri last Friday, arrived yesterday on the Tatum. From them we learned that the sinking was a very sudden affair. The snag struck her forward of the boilers, pierced its way into the center of a lot of freight and lifted the deck several inches above its proper level. As soon as the boat was brought again under control, she was headed for the bank, but sank when she was about the distance of her own length from it. Two minutes only, elapsed from the striking until she sunk. Of course the alarm and confusion which always attend the like sudden disasters, prevailed here, but the fears of the passengers were allayed by the presence of mind displayed by her officers. We are glad to know that the only life lost on this unfortunate occasion was that of a mule, which would have been saved, but for own obstinacy.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Is it really a matter to be wondered at, how quickly boats which sink in the Missouri, disappear as a general thing. When the men left this boat on Sunday morning, the water had reached her hurricane deck, on the starboard side, and it is supposed she will now be entirely out of sight. The river is not rising, but the boat is sinking in the sand. The Arabia was insured for 10,500. We are indebted to Mr. James Spencer, one of the clerks, for the following statement of their freight and its destination:</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">“Since reporting on yesterday the sinking of the Steamer Arabia in the Missouri River, we have learned some particulars touching insurance upon her hull and cargo. Our information is only partial and does not include the amounts of policies existing in the St Joseph Insurance Company, and in other offices in towns in that region. The following amounts are set down to offices in this city.</span></span></div>
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Steamboat Arabia Museum: Exploring thru Ephemerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02385028860639883330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8298694126779889878.post-79961721794956048082013-04-26T20:36:00.000-07:002013-04-26T20:36:21.711-07:00Growing up in the 1850s- an analysis of a tintype 03<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Welcome back to my blog. The image above is not a tintype, but a miniature of Henry Chouteau (painting on ivory) in a daguerreotype case from the St. Louis Photographic Gallery for Thomas Easterly.<br />
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I bet your perplexed why I am using the example above to make a point about the tintype of the child holding the flint lock rifle.<br />
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Often, there is question if the image was later put into a photographic case and that is why my tintype and clothing expert have different dates when this child was photographed. If you recall in my last 2 blogs, my tintype expert based her analysis on the mat was patented in 1861 and my clothing expert said the style was a passing fad in 1851-1854.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><b>I am revisiting this topic again after receiving another email from Joan, who wrote,</b></span><br />
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I couldn't believe that this was painted in France....I mean traveling to France was a very big trip and dangerous too...However, I brought this minature to a reliable source to Robin Jaffee Frank who wrote a book on minatures, </div>
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I took these photographs in the lab while Robin Jaffe Frank took a closer look under the microscope. She concluded that the quality of painting was excellent, but as a representative of Yale, she could not verify if the painter was the Millet who was famous for the paintings in France but gave me the name of an expert who could. </div>
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Unlike the tintype, the miniature of Henry Chouteau had the note (ephemeral piece) that allowed me to research the image. I have found support verifying Fanny's trip to Paris, but in 1857 not 1855. Without the note, this would have been just another nice looking miniature of average looking man and thrown away years ago. </div>
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It was my lucky day to find this 1850s trade card at the 33rd Ephemera Society's Conference. And <span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>yes</b></span>, this is the company that manufactured the same rubber shoes in the Arabia Steamboat Museum. One Trade Card can tell a big story.<br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">The Manufacturer was Ford & Co. in New Brunswick who made the shoes with Goodyear's patent- The Agent was Breeden & Brother in New York City who wholesaled the shoes- and which St Louis store sold them to the Arabia's consignee is still an unsolved mystery.</span></i><br />
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Photo courtesy: Greg Hawley's book, <i>Treasure in a Cornfield.</i><br />
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For those fascinated by Arabia Steamboat Museum's rubber over shoe display, you may want to make another trip after reading my blog. There were many companies making Rubber Over Shoes, and not all used Goodyear's formula.</div>
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<a href="http://www.google.com/patents/US3633?printsec=abstract#v=onepage&q&f=false">Charles Goodyear's Patent 3633</a> for Improvement in India Rubber- Interesting reading so hit the link.</div>
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Before buying the card, I googled on my I-Phone Breeden & Brother ensuring they were at the same address and yes, they were manufacturing their shoes in Scotland. That's pretty exciting!<br />
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Notice- Buyers of FORD & CO's celebrated Metallic Rubber OVER SHOES, are informed that the recent fire at their warehouse did not destroy the buildings containing the machinery; the detention therefore will be but three or four weeks, when all will be rebuilt and in full operation.<br />
We soliett an examination from the trade of the stock now in the store, amounting to over 200,000 pairs comprising all the various styles. Dealers may rely on having their orders promptly filled as usual.<br />
Breeden & Brother Sole Agents<br />
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Christoper Meyer, Henry Lee Norris and John Ross Ford, all American citizens, formed the<a href="http://www.nbrinklies.com/thestart1856-1890.html"> North British Rubber of Scotland.</a> The machinery for the rubber over shoes was shipped to Glasgow in October 1855 and manufacturing began in Edinburgh by 1856.</div>
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Anna F. Macomber from New Bedford, Massachusetts rests an ear of corn on the table and pretends to eat a pickle. Daguerreotype: circa late 1850s - early 1860s from Collection the of Elizabeth B. Isenburg</div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">The glass jars of pickles in the Arabia Steamboat Museum are something to see. It was a miracle they survived and visiting the museum, you can find out why.</span></div>
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Greg Hawley's book, <i><b>Treasures in a Corn Field</b></i>, describes the wonderful ephemeral treasure, </div>
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The recipe calls for fine loaf sugar. Unlike today, when we buy granulated sugar, people then bought their sugar in cones or loafs. The recipe says to use fine loaf sugar, here's a refined white cone made of dark molasses (raw sugar cane).<br />
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I found another free google book <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=5SAzAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA360&lpg=PA360&dq=%22loaf+sugar%22+1856&source=bl&ots=YzN1fIZCgv&sig=WoJoMLhi1wb_wCWgh78XKwEiPEg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=dsTHUPCcJqvV0gGZ0oH4DA&ved=0CDwQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22loaf%20sugar%22%201856&f=false">The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science 1919</a> and although this book comments on the sugar industry in England factories in 1854, I learned sugar was made either from sugar cane or beetroot (better known as Sugar Beets that contain a large amount of sucrose). Many thanks to Wikipedia, I can show a stretch of the sugar beet and the sugar loaf.<br />
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I was happy to find out a little more about <i>Wells, Provost & Co.</i> too.<br />
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The California Digital Newspaper Collection has online newspapers dating as early as 1846 to present and in the edition <a href="http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cdnc/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DAC18550525.2.16&cl=CL2.1855.05&srpos=0&dliv=none&st=1&e=-------en-logical-20--1-----all---">Daily Alta California, Volume 6, Number 132, 25 May 1855 — COMMERCIAL. [ARTICLE]</a> reports that this firm is importing goods into San Franciso before the Arabia sank.<br />
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: 'Helvetica neue', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">"At private sale we report the following: 400 dozen assorted Pic Fruits, 100 cs hf gallon Brandy Peaches, 396 ct hf gallon Pickles, all on private terms; and at auction the following lots of fresh goods, packed by Wells, Provost &. Co."</span></blockquote>
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Then on a free ebook from Google called <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=il3zAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA27&lpg=PA27&dq=%22Wells,+Provost+%26+Co.%22&source=bl&ots=_AWWw3Utnf&sig=xsD1q3770JHK_S1W4p9sKpvs1VU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=RN_HUOHhEYvU0gHA-YDACg&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22Wells%2C%20Provost%20%26%20Co.%22&f=false">The Seal of Safety: Year Book of the Max Ams Machine Co. published 1915 By Max Ams Machine Company</a>, where I read their<br />
<span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">Business was so good that </span><i style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;">Wells, Provost & Co</i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">. sent their product in kegs and barrels in 1858 and bottled there. By 1860, they opened their own cannery since the fruit trees were old enough to bear fruit (The Seal of Safety page 27).</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">Who would ever believe this glass jar holds so much history- So next time you're having a sandwich, you have lots to say to your friend about that pickle laying on your plate.</span><br />
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Above: Levee in St. Louis 1857 Ballou Pictorial Drawing Companion<br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">The List of boats destroyed on the Mississippi River and its tributaries: From May 1, 1861, to the surrender of General Kirby Smith's army, and the cessation of hostilities, June 2, 1865.</span></b><br />
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Above Civil War Hospital Steamboat on the Mississippi<br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Hello and Welcome to my blog.</span> Since so many Civil War Reinactors visit the Arabia Steamboat Museum, I questioned: <i><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">What if the Steamboat Arabia didn't hit the snag in 1856; what would have her life have been? </span></b></i><br />
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It's a game or scholarly curiosity Civil Round Tables play. They ask questions....what if this & what if that...So, this blog goes out to the <a href="http://users.erols.com/kennrice/cwrtdc.htm"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Civil War Round table of the District of Columbia who will be visiting Vicksburg in April 2013. </b></span></a><br />
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So, let me expand the question today asking;<br />
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<b><span style="color: #cc0000;">"If Steamboat Arabia was docked in St. Louis during the Union occupation, what might happen</span><span style="color: #cc0000;">?"</span><span style="color: red;"> </span></b></blockquote>
I'd love to be a fly on the wall to hear that conversation.<br />
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When the steamer sank she was last owned by two forwarding and receiving commission merchants who remained in St. Louis, and, like all merchants, their shipping business catered to the U.S. military (sending similar goods found in the Arabia Steamboat Museum).<br />
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Just look what I found- <span style="color: #cc0000;">(click on the image to see the full image)</span><br />
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This chart says it all and is a newly acquired pamphlet in my collection titled: REPORTS to the WAR DEPARTMENT by BREV. MAJ GEN. LEWIS B. PARSONS, CHIEF of RAIL AND RIVER TRANSPORTATION. St. Louis, Mo. George Knapp & Co., Printers and Binders 1867.<br />
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And read; <i><span style="color: #cc0000;">"The amount of transportation furnished at St. Louis, Mo. during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1863, as per Report of Capt. Charles Parsons, A. Q. M. in charge of transportation at that post." </span></i>The chart shows a comparison between trains and steamboats and steamboats transported more provisions and a third less troops than trains.<br />
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My own Great-grand father John Westly Duncan rode the side wheeler Sam Gaty north after the <b><span style="color: blue;">B</span></b><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Shiloh"><span style="color: blue;"><b>attle of Shiloh.</b></span></a> </span>(April 6-7 1862). On his Iowa's unit trip back down the river, he had seen enough and was listed as AWOL in St. Louis. Thank heavens he did because many in his unit died from smallpox shortly after and I wouldn't be here. (This reports listed the Sam Gaty was lost to a snag in September 1863 at Island No. 62 near Vicksburg).<br />
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What would Steamboat Arabia's role had been (if she hasn't sunk) during the Civil War?<br />
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<span style="color: red;">Which side would she be on- Union or Confederate?<br />
Would she be transporting government troops, be a hospital or still in private hands?<br />
Would she be burned to avoid being captured, sunk by enemy fire, commandeered by officers or would have survived the war?</span></blockquote>
I'd approach this, "What if," by finding a good source and I found one.<br />
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Above- <b style="color: blue;"><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=itItAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA30&lpg=PA30&dq=Major+General+Lewis+B.+Parsons&source=bl&ots=HKpixCb_Va&sig=nPjPB-2v_fGUg7NWGKKSFwLPYjM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=7G0jT6aqGIrV0QGxmd2KCQ&ved=0CDMQ6AEwBDgK#v=onepage&q=Major%20General%20Lewis%20B.%20Parsons&f=false">In Memoriam- General Lewis Baldwin Parsons</a> </b>(he oversaw the western transportation in St. Louis during the Civil War.) His memoriam gives many details about St. Louis during the Civil War. <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Google Books has a copy on line (click on the cited book above & scroll up to page 1).</b></span> Parsons had an interesting life, he lived near St. Louis where he was a lawyer and married there.<br />
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It is such a good pamphlet and when I read down the <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">List of Boats Destroyed on the Mississippi River and its' Tributaries</span>, I saw many steamboats that plyed the inland waterways with the Steamboat Arabia.<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>Grey Eagle- May 9, 1861- Where: Rock Island Illinois- Collision with a bridge- Value $35,000- owned Galena, Ill.<br />New Era- June 22, 1861- Where: St. Louis- Burned accidentally- Value $6,500- owned St. Louis<br />Messenger- Dec 7, 1861- Where: 8 Miles below Rochester Ohio- Striking snag- Value $25,000- Cincinnati Ohio<br />Imperial, Hiawatha, Post Boy, Jesse K Bell- September 14, 1863- Where: St. Louis Levee- These boats were burned by Frazier and his accomplices, acting under instructions from rebel government.</i></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In conclusion, I think Steamboat Arabia would have burned by the rebels. With that in mind, isn't it nice she hit the sang and sank so the merchandise ended up being artifacts in the Arabia Steamboat Museum.</span><br />
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<b>My next blog will post the List of Boats Destroyed on the Mississippi River and its' Tributaries from <i style="color: #cc0000;"> </i>Capt. Charles Parsons, A. Q. M. Report. I had to be extra gentle with this because I didn't want to break the spine.</b>Steamboat Arabia Museum: Exploring thru Ephemerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02385028860639883330noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8298694126779889878.post-66917789871221021522012-01-21T09:38:00.000-08:002013-04-26T20:20:39.465-07:00Providence Savings Bank ledger 1853-1864<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Welcome back to my blog. January seems to be the month I am renewing my energy to get cracking on my book. My blog today reminds us to be good stewards and pay off your credit cards- The depression is not (completely) over.<br />
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If you've been following my blog, I promised to write an article about my daguerreotype of Mary Ella Jenks with her Izannah Walker doll and came across some interesting information that can be, somewhat, indirectly related to the Steamboat Arabia. It's a ledger for the Providence Saving Bank in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.<br />
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Arabia sank prior to the depression (Panic of 1857) when many banks failed. A majority of her cargo was purchased on credit. Like many, storekeepers and wholesalers some could not pay off their bills and had a difficult time getting new stock.<br />
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Providence, Rhode Island was an industrial area manufacturing tools and textiles (and The Arabia Steamboat Museum has a great deal of tools and textiles). In fact, the earliest mills in Providence are still standing. The Jencks History Center and the Slater Mill has been restored. If you've ever been in a operating mill, the noise is deafening (must see/hear LOL). <a href="http://www.slatermill.org/museum/themuseum"><span style="color: blue;">Per the Slater Museum's web site:</span></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: red;">Today, Slater Mill is a museum complex that includes the Old Slater Mill, built in 1793 and restored to its c. 1835 appearance; the Wilkinson Mill, built in 1810; the Sylvanus Brown House, built in 1758; archival materials, collections of hand-operated and powered machinery, a 120 seat theatre, 2 gift shops, a gallery and a recreational park. Highlights of the site include a short film bringing to life the industrial history of the Blackstone River Valley, demonstrations of flax processing, cotton spinning, and weaving in an 18th century artisan's home, exhibitions of 19th and 20th century machinery, and an operating 16,000 pound water wheel. Interpretive programs examine the transition from home manufacture to factory production and the role of water and steam power in the industrial revolution.</span></b></span></blockquote>
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If you recall, last year the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=381431351278&set=a.381431321278.163432.245114431278&type=1&theater"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Arabia Steamboat Museum's Facebook posted the bolt of fabric and the paper label for a fabric Mill in New York from their collection.</b></span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Paging through the ledger I found a statement showed the bank's deposits between July 1856- Jan 1857 dropped by $80,000 less than prior six months. </span></span><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">The spread sheet continues to show a low</span><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> deposits until 1859.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">This would have been the time when the storekeepers debts were due for 1856. The ledger reveals, if manufacturers and wholesalers could hold out, they would be able to recover. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Three years later, the real impact hit this bank and they depleted their dividend reserves to $2.41 in order to not scare their investors. That's $1,724.32</span></span><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> to keep a public face they weren't affected. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">In December of 1857, President Buchanan revealed his new strategy of “reform not relief,” which focused on the idea that “the government sympathized but could do nothing to alleviate the suffering individuals.”</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-President_James_Buchanan_11-0" style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1857#cite_note-President_James_Buchanan-11" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[12]</a></sup><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"> To avoid further financial panics, President Buchanan encouraged the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;" title="United States Congress">United States Congress</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"> to pass a law to provide an immediate forfeit of a bank charter in the event that the bank suspended specie payments. He also asked state banks to keep one dollar in specie for every three issued as paper and discouraged federal or state bonds to be used as security on a bank note to avoid future inflation.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-President_James_Buchanan_11-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1857#cite_note-President_James_Buchanan-11" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[12]</a></sup><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"> Additionally, the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariff_of_1857" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;" title="Tariff of 1857">Tariff of 1857</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"> was enacted. It was enacted as a revision of the </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariff_of_1846" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;" title="Tariff of 1846">Tariff of 1846</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">, which had, been “slowly destroying…thousand[s] of industrial enterprises.”</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-A_New_Tariff_12-0" style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1857#cite_note-A_New_Tariff-12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[13]</a></sup><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"> The Tariff of 1857 lowered the tax on the items from the </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariff_of_1846" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;" title="Tariff of 1846">Tariff of 1846</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">, yet the tax was still in “favor [of] the American industry” to help improve the economy.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Justice_of_Shattered_Dreams_4-13" style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1857#cite_note-Justice_of_Shattered_Dreams-4" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[5]</a></sup> <br />
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Steamboat Arabia Museum: Exploring thru Ephemerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02385028860639883330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8298694126779889878.post-12424564227443976582012-01-09T11:51:00.000-08:002012-01-09T22:07:02.014-08:00My Road Map for 2012...2013...2014....2015<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-326Z0MGWZEs/TwsJCB01GlI/AAAAAAAABsM/JlPb3MyMly0/s1600/Council+Bluffs+Stereoview+Welcome+sign+Main+Street+003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="388" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-326Z0MGWZEs/TwsJCB01GlI/AAAAAAAABsM/JlPb3MyMly0/s400/Council+Bluffs+Stereoview+Welcome+sign+Main+Street+003.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
Above: Council Bluffs, Iowa stereoview, street scene shows an arch, two welcome signs and a hanging boot sign (on left blocking the welcome sign).<br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Welcome to 2012. This year will marks:</span><br />
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If you haven't checked out Arabia Steamboat Museum's facebook page- <a href="http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150442069206279.364814.245114431278&type=1">More boots have been cleaned and perserved </a> and only 24,000 more to go! I take my hat off to the staff and their great patience and care they take ensuring these artifacts will be around for the future generations.<br />
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Last year, I completed my book proposal, and now, I will begin writing up the draft. Ellen Dunlap, who is President of the American Antiquarian Society, has generously offered to meet to discuss my proposal and it greatly pleases me that so many people have helped me along the way.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: red;">The Arabia Steamboat Museum: Exploring American Businessmen through Ephemera</span></b> </div><blockquote class="tr_bq">The Arabia Steamboat Museum exhibits the best and largest random sample of pre–Civil War Americana in existence, all of it from the Arabia, a commercial side-wheeler, that operated on the inland waterways for three years and sank in the Missouri River in 1856. Since the opening of the museum in 1991, over two million people have visited it. These include tourists, historians, academics, collectors, school children, Civil War reenactors, and archaeologists.</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">The museum exhibits include: </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">• Most of the two hundred tons of 1856 merchandise found in the steamboat’s hull, arranged according to the type of ware, for example, hardware, clothing, dishes, and boots</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">• Parts of the steamboat, i.e.,for example, hull, boiler, stacks, and a reproduction working paddle wheel</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">• A video about the personal experiences of those who discovered and excavated the steamboat </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">The museum does an excellent job telling the story of the excavation by twentieth century treasure hunters and scratches the surface of the boat’s context and historical importance. This might be enough for casual visitors, but a growing majority wants to know more. They see this collection as a unique gateway into America’s past, and as mysterious as King Tut’s tomb. John Falk’s book The Museum Experience points out, “Visitors go to an aquarium expecting to see live fish in tanks and read information about them”; ergo, visitors go to a nineteenth-century steamboat museum expecting to see the steamboat’s artifacts and gain an understanding about the businessmen who were involved. The proposed book, The Arabia Steamboat Museum: Exploring American Businessmen through Ephemera, will document the stories hidden within this collection and satisfy those who hunger for the deeper history. </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">My personal experience with the collection began in 1992, when, on my first visit to the museum, I saw a wooden crate of shoes and after reading the names and towns that were painted on the side of the crate I wanted to know who these merchants were. As I looked at other artifacts, I began to ask a wider scope of questions:<br />
• Who were the businessmen who consigned all these goods?<br />
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The curator at that time was Greg Hawley. We discussed a joint project and agreed that I should begin researching Arabia’s deeper stories, even if finding any paper trail would be difficult. However despite this obstacle, I accepted the challenge to answer my own questions and chose to see Arabia as a stage and focus on the businessmen who owned her, worked aboard her, consigned their goods to her, contracted with her proprietors and agents, and walked her decks, or waved to her from the shore. </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">I found that commercial boats, like Arabia, worked on a packet line with a hierarchy consisting of a managing office, captains, clerks. In Arabia’s case, she was part of three lines, the first packet line shipped the U.S. mail, then second, the U.S. military’s troops and their provisions and last for St. Louis steamboat commission firms. This went on for three years until she sank near Parkville, Missouri September 5, 1856, with undelivered freight for sixteen landings extending over six hundred miles along the Missouri River. These lost crates resulted in fifty-one stores in Nebraska Territory, Missouri, and Iowa being deprived of their merchandise for the winter of 1856. It took a week for the St. Louis wholesalers to learn in the Daily Missouri Democrat that the freight they sold lay at the bottom of the Missouri River. </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">The majority of the cargo represented the lifeblood for two new towns in Nebraska Territory, that were Florence and St. John’s City, and the rest was for other businessmen who tried to make a living while serving a variety of consumers. It was these businessmen that I wanted to know more about and in that way, I felt they held the key to understanding what this cargo was all about. These men, either aboard the boat or waiting in their towns, were real people, representing all economic levels and business strategies. I would find, some of these men became witnesses to the repercussions of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 when the territories of Kansas and Nebraska were in the initial stage of organization, a few cut out a decent living, others became the casualties of the depression known as the Panic of 1857 and several participated in the Civil War. </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">At the end of my twenty years of research, I had answered my questions and I learned the essential truth, what these mid-nineteenth century businessmen were striving to accomplish with the merchandise that now makes up the artifacts in the Arabia Steamboat Museum and how much shipping was affected by current events, much like today. Moreover, I was able to generalize their experiences to the general population of 1850s businesses. Last, I learned the foundations of credit reporting history and how these indicators for a good credit report still apply today. They were much like people in the twenty-first century, just trying to make a living during the hectic times, when changing markets, land speculation and borrowing on credit ruined many.</blockquote>Steamboat Arabia Museum: Exploring thru Ephemerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02385028860639883330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8298694126779889878.post-36216225981107121162011-12-04T22:19:00.000-08:002013-04-26T20:21:26.861-07:00More on Izannah Walker Doll<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Welcome back to my blog....</span>As you can see by the image above, I am still hypnotized by the little girl above holding her Izannah Walker doll. I bought this image last May at Brimfield Antique Show near Sturbridge Village Massachusetts and posted it <a href="http://steamboatarabiamuseum.blogspot.com/2011/08/izannah-walkers-doll.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><b>several blogs ago</b></span></a>. The image needed conservation and if you remember I promised to do just that. It looks great doesn't it? <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Click the image to see an enlargement.</span><br />
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So, just before I sent it up to Canada to Mike Robinson (<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #ededed; color: #555555; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">centurydarkroom@sympatico.ca)</span>, I ordered a couple of doll books and learned a bunch about the back ground about early dolls. You know it's funny how something can stir your curiosity to the point you surf the web, buy a book or email several historical doll makers, just like I did. Dixie from the blog <b style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.izannahwalkerchronicles.com/2011/12/elizabeth-isenburgs-daguerrotype-girl.html">Izannah Walker Chronicles</a> </b>and Gail Wilson were so willing to share information and I certainly appreciate hearing about how passionate they are about their field.<br />
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I have high hopes to have a copy of this first generation Izannah Walker doll made to keep with the daguerreotype. There is something better about seeing the object in 3-D rather than seeing a photograph. That's why it is so great to go to the Arabia Museum....but you already know that.<br />
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So, again I am side tracked from my Steamboat Arabia project while writing up an article for the Daguerreian Society's Newsletter. It might seem like this scenic path keeps me from my project, but, in reality anything I learn adds to understanding the 1850s better- Yes-- even dolls.<br />
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OK, I hear you, what did I learn this time? My list could be very long....but I was reminded that nothing I think is cast in stone and I need to be open to new information. Let me cite one example. I posted in my previous blog,<br />
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I really thought I would never find any solid documentation who this little girl was, but I did. I decided to open up the back of the frame and check if anything was written on the back. To my delight I saw a name. Mary Ella Jenks. Ancestory.com helped me find that she was born in 1850 in Pawtucket, Rhode Island (aka. Central Falls) in the same town the doll maker, Ms. Izannah Walker lived. Mary died in 1923 and I can only assume the image was kept in the family until recently when the dealer attended an antique show in Providence, Rhode Island.<br />
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Books mentioned that Ms. Walker was close friends with the Jenks family who were the original founders to Pawtucket Rhode Island. Also, there is mention that Ms. Walker gave dolls to Martha Wheaton Chase (another doll maker, cousin to Mary and born 1851) and other children in town. Then there is a reference to a a memoir by Mary's father I haven't read yet and I might be able to get a copy from the Providence Historical Society.<br />
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Obviously, Mary inserted her name in the frame when she was 49 on the card stock dated 1899. I had this documentation turned facing outward and covered with a piece of glass. Mike found the second name identification for Mrs. N. Howard Easton (aks Mary Ella Jenks). Lastly, I had a tag taped on the frame that says, Collection of Elizabeth B. Isenburg and conservation by Mike Robinson 2011 because we are part of history too.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">While driving there the highway crosses the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erie_Canal"><b>Erie Canal</b></a> and I always wish I had worked in time to stop and get a closer look. There are many canals, not just the Erie Canal. Whether privately funded or supported by government grants or loans, these helped our country expand at a faster rate. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">These waterways were very important in transporting large quantities of goods and navigate around dangerous waters and elevate boats up hill, such as the one the Steamboat Arabia used which ran from Portland to Cincinnati around the Ohio River's falls. Arabia was a small enough to squeeze into the small locks which many side wheelers could not. The image below is from Erie Canal Wikipedia and shows a man opening a lock.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The above ambrotype in my collection shows a lesser known canal in Upper State New York. As you can see by the photo above, it had a boat supply store for groceries, dry goods and other needed items much like the stores along the St. Louis Levee. The canal boat in the image was pulled by mules and it must have been a sight to see Arabia waiting for its turn to go into the lock surrounded by these boats. You have to wonder if the noise from the stacks made the mules nervous.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Let's hope that I manage my time better and work in a extra few hours next time I head up that direction. I do have an open invite at the Strong Museum to see the Izannah Walker doll in their collection so I would like to find the time.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">In the meantime, I have to get back to working on my book. Thank you for all the emails and encouragement that the Arabia is an important story and you believe there is a sufficeint audience out there. I do too!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">I am never dishearted because it is very common to go thru lots of editors before one is willing to accept a proposal. If this was easy everyone would be doing a book. Since I blogged I received a wonderful letter from Wes Cowan who wrote:</span><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">Elizabeth, I would be remiss if I did not also thank YOU for your hospitality and your willingness to share with me your book proposal. The work you have done on the consignors to the Arabia is first rate! I marvel at how you came upon the credit records. What a gold mine of information. I urge you not to abandon your project, but complete the manuscript, find a good editor, and then resubmit it to the XXXXXX Press. It will make an invaluable contribution to the history of commerce on the Middle Missouri River, and provide the real "window" into the degree to which the emerging communities on the Plains were dependant upon merchants from the East.</span></blockquote>Also, I received a upbeat email from Ellen Dunlap who is the President of the American Antiquarian Society. I sent her my book proposal with all the images I send the University Press and she wrote:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">I have some ideas that I want to pursue and will get back to you just as soon as I can. The story is a fascinating one and I’ve loved every minute I’ve been able to spend with your write-up and the photos.</span></blockquote>So, let me work on time management and make some more progress on my manuscript.Steamboat Arabia Museum: Exploring thru Ephemerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02385028860639883330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8298694126779889878.post-22629031949476514052011-09-28T14:23:00.000-07:002013-04-26T20:22:55.175-07:00Making Progress With Baby Steps<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Sorry to have taken so long to update you on what's been happening. First off, I am holding off on discussing the Frozen Charlotte doll because I will be visiting the Strong Museum later this fall and since they have such a good toy collection, I am sure I'll learn much more and then I'll report back to you.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Secondly, as I mentioned last summer we have lots of company coming through and the most recent guest has been Wes Cowen who is on the PBS program called the <b style="color: #0b5394;"><a href="http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/about/">History Detectives</a>. </b>This program is in its 10th year! Although I have known Wes for many years, I didn't know that he had a PhD in <span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">Anthropology.</span></span><br />
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Practitioners of social anthropology investigate, often through long-term, intensive<a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fieldwork" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Fieldwork">field studies</a> (including <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participant_observation" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Participant observation">participant observation</a> methods), the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_organization" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Social organization">social organization</a> of a particular person: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_(norm)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Convention (norm)">customs</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Economics">economic</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Politics">political</a> organization, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Law">law</a> and conflict resolution, patterns of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumption_(economics)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Consumption (economics)">consumption and exchange</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinship_and_descent" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Kinship and descent">kinship</a> and family structure, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociology_of_gender" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Sociology of gender">gender relations</a>, child rearing and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialization" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Socialization">socialization</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Religion">religion</a>, and so on."</span><br />
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The tack you take—moving from the artifacts outward to the businesses that never received the cargo—is certainly a distinctive one and has some educational value, but such a book would probably not appeal to a sufficient audience to justify the large expenditure for its production.</span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">I offered to cover the expense of the copy right for the images and other expenses, but it seems they needed grant money to cover their printing costs, which I was unaware they needed. So, now I do.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px;">I loved the feedback I received from the editor because it gave me a stamp of approval that my idea was ahead of the curve. It was a new idea of looking at the collection and that makes it priceless (if this was a Master Card commercial). I admit that University Presses are looking to sell their books as text books for college courses and he could not see a demand at the university level for a history class. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px;">So for the last few weeks, I have began to seek out publishers that print books for social anthropology courses and I think it wouldn't hurt to talk to a few college professors.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">Then again, maybe Jeanne was right that the book should be published under the Arabia Steamboat Museum's press because they could control reprints of the book when a university or other press may not reprint 2nd, 3rd and 4th editions.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Welcome back to my blog....</b></span>Since my last blog dealt with children's games, I thought I would show one of my Brimfield Antique Show's finds from last May.....The dealer who sold it to me asked if I was a doll collector. I am not, but I thought, "What an interesting image & wrote a check." While walking back to the car, my friend Barb Googled on her phone and I began to learn more about this <span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 15px;">Izannah Walker doll. Check out this web site <a href="http://www.izannahwalkerchronicles.com/p/original-antique-izannah-walker-dolls_04.html#uds-search-results" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">Izannah Walker Chronicles.</a><b style="color: blue;"> </b>Great site and you can learn how to make these dolls.</span><br />
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I wanted to know when was this doll manufactured and I found another site called<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><b> <a href="http://laurelleaf.com/Izannahhistory.htm">Laurel Leaf Dolls- History of the Izannah Walker</a> </b></span>that gave the doll's background.<br />
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Per Lolly Yocum's article, "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tech, 'Comic Sans MS';">Izannah F. Walker, one of America's earliest known female doll makers, was born in 1817 in Bristol, Rhode Island. On June 28, 1873, at the age of 56, Walker applied for a patent for "improvement in the manufacture of dolls." In her application Walker claimed "my doll is inexpensive, easily kept clean, and not apt to injure a young child which may fall upon it. It will preserve its appearance for a long time."1 As witnessed by the surviving examples of her work, we know that this is true. Izannah was granted a patent on November 4, 1873. However, it is known that she had been making dolls for quite some time before she applied for her patent. Research has uncovered a documented case of her making dolls as early as 1828:</span>"From Philomena Hart's Column in the Providence Bulletin.<br />
Mrs. N.M.R. (Norma H. Robertson, grand-niece of Miss Walker) wrote me a fascinating account of a doll which she thinks is the predecessor of the Chase doll of Pawtucket. It was made in Central Falls by Miss Izannah Walker.(1817-1888) She was the aunt of my correspondent who says of her, "Always inventive, she had created a stockinette doll as early as 1848 when my mother was a little child in New London, Conn. Family tradition tells of her struggle to perfect her work and of the long wrestling with one problem, how to obtain a resistant surface to the stockinette heads, arms, and legs, without cracking or peeling. With this problem on her mind, Aunt Izannah suddenly sat up in bed one night to hear a voice say "use paste (the article continues)." </blockquote>
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This doll was manufactured for years before a patent was issued....and is an example when a patent dates can mislead. Here's the <a href="http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=C9FUAAAAEBAJ&dq=Izannah+Walker">Izannah Walker Patent </a></div>
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Just who this little girl was....we will never know....and since the frame or mat did not have any identification marks, we don't know where this photograph was taken or who took it. It could be anywhere U.S.A. That's where ephemera can help to show how wide spread these dolls were sold.<br />
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I have to say there were no dolls found in Steamboat Arabia's hull except for one small frozen Charlotte and I will discuss this doll in my next blog. If children were on board, you'd find dolls and perhaps there was an <span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 15px;">Izannah Walker doll carried off the Arabia in a child's arms. (I promise to have this image restored)- The little girl is a cutie.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">It begins in infancy and follows thru school and yes...even to college.....don't you love these words ...disgrace, influence, ambition, poverty honesty and industry.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"> A native of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna,_Maine" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial;" title="Vienna, Maine">Vienna, Maine</a>, in his late teens Bradley chose to pursue the printing trade, including <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithography" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial;" title="Lithography">lithography</a>. In 1860, he set up the first color lithography shop in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield,_Massachusetts" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial;" title="Springfield, Massachusetts">Springfield, Massachusetts</a>. Eventually, Bradley moved forward with an idea he had for a board game which he called <i>The Checkered Game of Life</i>, an early version of what would later become <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_of_Life" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial;" title="The Game of Life">The Game of Life</a>.</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">And the last section shows the upper right hand corner is labeled <i style="font-weight: bold;">Happy Old Age 50.... </i>I never realized I would be considered a senior citizen back in the 1850s.....Here again there are words that remind me of the Franklin Maxim plates I have....bravery, ruin, cupid, speculation, idleness and success.</span><br />
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</span>Steamboat Arabia Museum: Exploring thru Ephemerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02385028860639883330noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8298694126779889878.post-39670056521690273532011-08-03T09:35:00.000-07:002013-04-26T20:25:08.384-07:00Finally, My Book Proposal Has Been Mailed!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Welcome back to my blog</span></b>.....Today I mailed my book proposal to a university press. When I began this, there was snow on the ground and now its in the high 80s here in August.....Keep your fingers crossed for me.<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Ok, I hear ya....what is a book proposal?</span></b> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">It's a plan & an outline at the same time. The sections include: an overview, table of contents, book description, promotion, competing books, chapter outline and about the author. It took me years to get my arms around this subject and only 5 months to design a table of contents that is breaks my research in chronological bite size sections. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">As I wrote in my cover letter to the editor,<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"> "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px;">This exercise has provided me with a road map and I feel much more confident that I can accomplish the work ahead of me."</span></span></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">As I mentioned, I live on the Connecticut shoreline in a sleepy country town that is listed in the <a href="http://www.livingplaces.com/CT/New_London_County/Lyme_Town/Hadlyme_Ferry_Historic_District.html"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">National Registry</span></b></a> as:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">It hasn't changed very much in a hundred years, there is the small country post office that closes during lunch. Years ago this post office was part of the country store, very much like it was for many 1850s post offices. I recall telling Greg Hawley abt a land dispute case where the man who owned a dry goods store testified he delivered the mail. It was a sad story because Mr. Crocker had to read the letter to the literate man that his wife was not moving to the Nebraska Territory.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">It seems to be hash living anywhere in the 1850s. Here in southern Connecticut, which still is mostly wetlands and lots of mashes, people died then in great numbers from typhoid fever, cholera and the King's evil.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Cambria, serif;">This is my favorite postmaster who is keeping her fingers crossed for me that I will hear something soon. There are many uncontrolable factors that could reject my proposal....they may have already committed to other authors....they may have had funding cut back....but whatever happens, I will find some press that is interested in the Arabia Steamboat Museum</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Cambria, serif;">.</span><br />
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Steamboat Arabia Museum: Exploring thru Ephemerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02385028860639883330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8298694126779889878.post-33133367959707599652011-06-20T23:43:00.000-07:002013-04-26T20:26:00.037-07:00Many Thanks to the NARA's Legislative Archive<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The LOC [Library of Congress] has directed me to your office to obtain a copy or scan of a petition. Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, 1854-1855<br />
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"By Mr. Boyd: The petition of citizens of Paducah, Kentucky, that<br />
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I am researching the mail contract for Glover & Mather and I think this letter explains why their contract was cancelled.<br />
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Thanks to the American Memory project of the Library of Congress (<a __removedlink__1762400916__href="http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=8298694126779889878&postID=3313336795970759965" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.22em; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html</a> , pages 176-177 of the House Journal are online for January 12, 1855, and I could see the reference to the receipt of the petition and its referral to the Committee on Post Office and Post Roads.</div>
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Some decades ago after House records had come to the National Archives in 1946, archivists organized the mass of materials to make them accessible to researchers. As part of that organization, I looked under the category HR33A-G16.36 (Petitions from the 33rd Congress referred to the Committee on Post Office and Post Roads concerning "payment of indemnities for losses sustained in relation to contracts for the transportation of the mail, December 13, 1853 - February 21, 1855). Regretfully, the Paducah petition was not there, leading me to think that it is no longer extant.</div>
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However, in looking through the three folders in question, I located something else that may well address your concern: a petition of William R. Glover and T. W. Mather for relief in relation to a mail contract upon the Ohio and Mississippi rivers forwarded to the committee on July 26, 1854, by Representative Breckinridge.</div>
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It is 19 legal pages (plus information on the back of the 19th page). We can provide you with electrostatic copies of the Glover-Mather petition at 75 cents per page for what amounts to our minimum charge for mail orders.</div>
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Steamboat Arabia Museum: Exploring thru Ephemerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02385028860639883330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8298694126779889878.post-89774633880407392812011-06-16T16:47:00.000-07:002013-04-26T20:26:52.365-07:00How I am spending my summer (so far)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Steamboat Arabia Museum: Exploring thru Ephemerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02385028860639883330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8298694126779889878.post-75617047513384887332011-06-14T23:00:00.000-07:002013-04-26T20:27:07.872-07:00Doing Copy Work<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hello and welcome back to my blog...My book proposal is progressing and I was taking some photographs to include in my package.<br />
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These men are midshipmen ca. 1846-1850, taken at the United States Naval Academy, Ft. Severn, Annapolis, Maryland.<br />
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Steamboat Arabia Museum: Exploring thru Ephemerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02385028860639883330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8298694126779889878.post-18370983537445201962011-05-31T13:23:00.000-07:002011-06-01T09:12:13.030-07:00Ephemera Society's Video: What do I value?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wrvOEoyDuhY/TeVBs1oJZ_I/AAAAAAAABn8/r2b8kR2owng/s1600/Elizabeth+on+You+Tube+Ephemera+Society+video+2011+02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="305" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wrvOEoyDuhY/TeVBs1oJZ_I/AAAAAAAABn8/r2b8kR2owng/s400/Elizabeth+on+You+Tube+Ephemera+Society+video+2011+02.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;"><i>Welcome back to my blog.</i></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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Welcome back to my blog....Above you see, one of my editors, Craig who's reading my St. Louis Salesman's Journal and checking my work. I am lucky to have such a professional copyeditor who loves history. </div>
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My other life-line/mentor is Jeanne and she recently wrote another article for the Maine Antique Digest about the Exhibit at the Concord Museum. <a href="http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=2562">READ IT ONLINE</a></div>
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You might think it doesn't relate to the Steamboat Arabia,after all it is over 1,400 miles from Kansas.</div>
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The Concord Museum exhibits many artifacts and one is an 1859 pledge list to help John Brown who just four months later tried to capture the U. S. armory in Harper's Ferry. Of course, this is years after May 1856 when Lawrence Kansas was attached by pro-slavery men.</div>
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Steamboat Arabia Museum: Exploring thru Ephemerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02385028860639883330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8298694126779889878.post-87381730506929108872011-05-20T12:54:00.000-07:002013-04-26T20:28:16.924-07:00Back from Brimfield Antique Show 2011<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Welcome back to my blog...its good to be home. The weather was good and there was lots to see. Everyone needs a break away and the conversations I had with friends were priceless.<br />
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Steamboat Arabia Museum: Exploring thru Ephemerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02385028860639883330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8298694126779889878.post-41801469848532400552011-05-09T10:35:00.000-07:002013-04-26T20:28:36.845-07:00Continuing the discussion about Arabia's Red Flannel Shirt....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This article shows the same #2 shirt (middle) from the<b> Reed Brothers & Co. Clothiers and Importers of Dry Goods Catalogue</b> 1853....I'd love to have a copy of this entire catalogue!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thomas Shaw's article mentions that shirt were ornamented with crescents, stars trefoils, etc.. and cites Holcombe, <i><b>History of the First Regiment Minnesota Volunteers Infantry 1861-1864 </b></i>1987, pg 12. (So that is a start to understanding the meaning of this heart...but 1861 is 5 years later than 1856 so there is more work to do)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have a copy of the <i><b>Merchant's Memorandum Book, All Varieties of Goods Kept by Country Merchants,</b></i> 1853 by Luke Shortfield. This was a thick book<b> listing almost anything a country merchant needed to buy for his store </b>and it lists under<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"> Ready Made Clothing Red Flannel undershirts & overshirts</span></b>. This primary source makes me agree that Red was the most popular color.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I compared the Red Heart shirt from the Steamboat Arabia next to a close up of the young miner's shirt (which I added more red by increasing through the magic of photoshop). These two flannel shirts are similar sewing design with the same buttons.</span><br />
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">Red was a popular color for flannel shirts</span></span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've read the 1850 state census' and ready made clothing was often made by several factories, even ones that made only the button holes. So that might quiet the discussion why the buttons on these two shirts were sewn in different places. Remember thousands of these were needed so everyday clothing may not have been so carefully manufactured.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>I appreciate that Thomas Shaw were to the trouble to write up such a good article so others could begin to exam the most common apparel. And if I ever met him I'd thank him for the kind compliment he gave:</b></span><br />
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Thanks again to Jim for the article and I am packing to join a group of friends for the Brimfield Antique Show near Sturbridge Mass.....Hopefully to do a day at Sturbridge Village when hundred of kids are on there for a field trip.....It's just like what happens at the Arabia Steamboat Museum....and you have to start with the young to educate them so they gain an appreciation for our past and that way they will ensure our history is preserved.Steamboat Arabia Museum: Exploring thru Ephemerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02385028860639883330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8298694126779889878.post-14545020089311840212011-04-30T08:57:00.000-07:002011-05-01T09:50:42.569-07:00The Arabia Steamboat Museum's Facebook has awesome videos!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VmK2VYNWCSo/Tbwru52u8OI/AAAAAAAABmU/DVzaW004TaY/s1600/Red+shirt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="384" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VmK2VYNWCSo/Tbwru52u8OI/AAAAAAAABmU/DVzaW004TaY/s400/Red+shirt.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
Above: Red Heart Shirt from the Arabia Steamboat Museum<br />
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Welcome back to my blog.....Watch the<a href="http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1291310483337"> facebook video on Arabia Steamboat's Museum's Facebook page</a><br />
This is exciting and I wonder if anyone has any ephemera or early images of a man wearing this heart shirt?<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"><i>And what is the meaning of the red heart? </i></span><br />
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The museum suggests Red Shirts with the symbolic red heart ... The Border Ruffian's symbol of solidarity to the pro-slavery movement. Does any have any primary sources to verify this?<br />
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I've recently added this textile saleman cdv to my collection. Notice the sales tag attached to the coverlet or shaw on the lower right hand corner.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">UPDATE-</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">Many thanks to Jim Miller for his response to my question about Arabia Steamboat Museums Red Shirt. It led me to a wonderful site called the Midwest Open Air Museum Coordinating Council...I have going to spend time reading (just loved the blog and I could have helped the museum looking for an early sewing machine).</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Jim also has an interesting blog: <a href="http://www.jimsfortheloveofhistory.blogspot.com/"><b>http://www.jimsfortheloveofhistory.blogspot.com/</b></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;"></span></div><pre style="font-size: 9pt; font: normal normal normal 115%/normal monospace; line-height: 1.22em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><tt style="line-height: 1.22em;">Greetings Elizabeth,
Thank you very much for posting the picture of the "Heart Shirt"
from the Arabia Museum. I remember a similar one there years ago but
this one is different I believe. I thought you might be interested in
the following quote.
The information is from "The Magazine of the Midwest Open-Air
Musueums Coordinating Council", Fall 1995, Vol. XVI No.3. In an
article entitled "Overshirt Overview"by Thomas G.Shaw, he describes
what the volunteers of the First Regiment Minnesota Infantry wore in
Spring 1861.
The men were wearing woolen shirts of various colors, red
predominating, "....of the kind affected by steamboat men and men of
the frontiers.....some of them were fancifully ornamented with
crescents, stars, trefoils, etc." The quote is from Holcombe, History
of the First Regiment Minnesota Volunteer Infantry 1861-1864.
There could still be a border-ruffian connection but the passage
suggests that the shirts might have been quite common. I thought you
would be interested in the information since it refers to Steamboat
Men.
Yours,
Jim Miller
<a href="http://www.jimsfortheloveofhistory.blogspot.com/" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.22em; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">www.jimsfortheloveofhistory.blogspot.com</a></tt></pre><pre style="font-size: 9pt; font: normal normal normal 115%/normal monospace; line-height: 1.22em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></pre><blockquote>I asked Jim if there he could send me the complete article for my records? I am a <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><b>primary source lady</b></span> and always follow up on footnotes.</blockquote></div>Steamboat Arabia Museum: Exploring thru Ephemerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02385028860639883330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8298694126779889878.post-18856882873944498682011-04-12T10:41:00.000-07:002013-04-26T20:28:50.361-07:00Head to the Movie theater & see the Conspirator- starting April 15, 2011<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"The movie was inspired by telling a story that nobody knew about, tied to an event that everybody knows about," Redford explained at the screening.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I love Redford's comments, "I knew nothing about her," and this goes to show how important it is to tell our past's stories through the eye of those who witnessed it, rather than citing facts and dates. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">There has been a lot of talk that this is a must see & must be talked about film. I saw a private viewing of this last January at the American Historical Association Conference in Boston & blogged </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">I was surprised to read that Ford's Theater where Lincoln was shot is now part of the U. S. Park Service- which it should be.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">My blog stirred lots of attention, I received emails and one asking me to write a review for a University. I do wish time grew on trees but as you might be aware I am writing up my book proposal right now for a university press and it is going well.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Recently, my blog was mentioned in the Daguerreian Society's Newsletter and for their benefit let me post a stereoview of the hanging and the back of the card compliments of <a href="http://www.antiquephotographics.com/"><b>Jeff Kraus</b></a> who has this one for sale for $1600.</span></div>
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