Posts Tagged ‘boarding pass’

Packet Memorabilia

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

My collection of boarding passes and advertisements for the Poe and Georgetown steamboats lacks richness and volume.  The sad number is  doleful four.  The scanned images of these mementos have been loaded on the page entitled Steamboat Memorabilia

 

One recently acquired boarding pass for cabin passage on the steamer Yorktown was dated 1868 for passage from St Louis to Ft Benton;  a boarding pass for the steamer Mollie Ebert after the packet was sold by Capt George W Ebert is circa 1874; a boarding pass for the Pittsburgh and Cincinnati Packet Line dated 1900 was signed on the reverse by T Poe (Theodore Cochran Poe of Georgetown, PA who managed a wharf boat in Pittsburgh); and one advertisement for the Pittsburgh and Cincinnati Packet Line was dated 1896 based on the packets listed in the pool of steamers.

Have a look.  Steamboat Memorabilia.

Nancy Poe Ebert Journal

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

The journal written by Nancy Poe Ebert covers 57 days of the trip of the str Mollie Ebert from St Louis to Ft Benton in the Montana Territory in 1869.  Full of buckle and swash to spare, it was a pure adventure.  The duration of a round trip that year was about 100 days.  She wrote daily suggesting that other segments of the journal have been lost.   

Nancy Ann (Poe) Ebert ca 1890 (Anna L and John F Nash Collection)

Nancy Ann (Poe) Ebert ca 1890 (Anna L and John F Nash Collection)

So here is a writer, my great great grandmother, who wrote in her journal every day, who lost half of her output.  How could this have happened?  Considering everything since, recessions and booms, births and deaths, great loves and great losses, the loss of my double great grandmother’s writing is a minor thing.  But for me it is a major thing.   I keep thinking about it.      

The two segments of the journal transcribed to date are NPE Journal Segment 1 and NPE Journal Segment 2.