U.S. History: Steamboats, Ferries, Steam (19th c US)
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| Author | Title | Edition | Format | Price | Puborg |
| Steamboat Photographs | various | Html Graphic | Free | WashStU | |
| [Collins line of steamers] | 1851-52 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich | |
| Allen, Theodore F | Iron hulls for western river steamboats ... | 1873 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| Anon | A Full & particular account of...the loss of the Steamboat Lexington, in Long-Island | Graphic | Free | CornellU | |
| Bourne, John, (C. E.) | A catechism of the steam engine in its various applications to mines, mills, steam navigation, railways, & agr | 1868 NY | Graphic PDF | Free | MichStUnv |
| Bourne, John, (C. E.) | A catechism of the steam engine:...its operation...its structure, its application to mines, mills, steam navig | 1854 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| Bowen, Eli, b. 1824 | Rambles in the path of the steam-horse. Scenery, resources...from Baltimore to Harper's Ferry, Cumberland, Whe | 1855 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| Boynton, H. | History of steam on the Erie canal. Appeal, extension of Act of April 1871 | 1873 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| Buckman, David Lear | Old Steamboat Days on the Hudson River | 1907 NY | Html | Free | HudsonRivMus |
| Choules, John Overton, 1801-1856 (Rev) | The cruise of the steam yacht North Star; Mr. Vanderbilt's party to England, Russia, Denmark, France, Spain, I | 1854 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| Cleveland, Ohio. Steam Navigation/Wester | Proceed. of a mtg, & report of citizens of Cleveland: Steamboat disasters on the western lakes | 1850 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| Clyde Steamship Co. Passenger Dept | Into tropical Florida | 1890 | Graphic PDF | Free | UFlorida |
| Codman, John, 1814-1900 | A letter to John Lynch, US Senate, advocating the purchase of iron ships & steamers in Scotland | 1869 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| Comfort, D. J. | Ribbon of water & steamboats north: meeting place of many waters: pt 2 in a history of Fort McMurray1870-98 [s | 1974 | Graphic | Free | UCalgary |
| Cronise, Titus Fey | The natural wealth of California. History, geography, topography, scenery; climate; agriculture & commercial p | 1868 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| Cudahy, Brian J | Over & Back: The History of Ferryboats in New York Harbor | 1990 | Questia | subs | FordhamUPr |
| de Garay, Blasco | 1543: Steamship | 1543 | Html | Free | URochester |
| Dickinson, Henry Winram | Robert Fulton, Engineer & Artist [illus.] (Steam Engines) | 1913 | Html | Free | URochester |
| Disturnell, John, 1801-1877. comp | Tourist's guide to the upper Mississippi River: RR & steamboat routes from Chicago, Milwaukee, & Dubuque [illu | 1866 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| Dunlap, Thomas (comp. & ed) | Wiley's American iron...Bessemer & crucible works, wheel & car, locomotive, steam engine, machine, iron bridge | 1874 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| French, Justus Clement] | Trip of the steamer Oceanus to Ft Sumter & Charleston; re-raising the flag over ruins of Ft Sumter, April 1865 | 1865 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| Haliburton, Thomas Chandler | The Letter-Bag of the Great Western, Or, Life in a Steamer | 1840 | Graphic | Free | ECO |
| Harrison, Joseph, Jr. 1810-74 | Harrison boiler. Safe. On the steam-boiler. Read, Franklin Inst. Phila., 1867 [illus.] | 1871] | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| Hart, William Henry, 1829-1888 | Diaries, 1852-1888 (vol 2) [gold mining; ret to NY by steamer, hijacked; life in Ill.] | 200-? | Graphic Html | Free | BYU [LC] |
| Haupt, Herman | Consideration of the plans proposed for the improvement of the Ohio River [plans, steamboat navigation, costs, | 1855 | Graphic Html | Free | KentuckyDLib |
| Hodge, William | Papers Concerning Early Navigation on the Great Lakes: 1. Recollections of Capt. David Wilkeson. 2: Pioneer La | 1883 | Graphic or PDF | Free | |
| Holley, Alexander Lyman, 1832-82 | American & European railway practice:...generation of steam...& in permanent way...[77 illus.; map] | 1867 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| Isherwood, Benjamin Franklin, 1822-1915 | Engineering...for steam machinery;...steamships, propelling instruments, condensers, boilers, etc. [illus.] 2v | 1858-59 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| Isherwood, Benjamin Franklin, 1822-1915 | Experimental researches in steam engineering v1 [illus.] | 1863-65 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| Isherwood, Benjamin Franklin, 1822-1915 | Experimental researches in steam engineering v2 [illus.] | 1863-65 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| Kell, John McIntosh, 1823-1900 | Recollections of a Naval Life, Including the Cruises of the Confederate States Steamers 'Sumter' & 'Alabama' | 1900 | Html | Free | DocAmerSouth |
| Kennedy, John | The History of Steam Navigation | 1903 Livrpl | Graphic or PDF | Free | |
| King, William Henry, d. 1859 | Lessons & practical notes on steam, the steam engine, propellers, etc., etc., for young engineers | 1873 19ed | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| King, William Henry, d. 1859 | Lessons & practical notes on steam, the steam engine, propellers, etc., etc., for young engineers | 1870 13ed | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| King, William Henry, d. 1859 | Lessons & practical notes on steam, the steam engine, propellers, etc., etc., for young engineers | 1870 13ed | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| Knights Templar (Masonic order) Reed Com | Grand excursion to New Orleans, Knights templar, Dayton, Ohio, on the steamer Thomas Sherlock | 1875 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| Lardner, Dionysius, 1793-1859 | The steam engine explained & illusd;...its invention & improvement; applications to navigation, railways [ill | 1856 6ed Am | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| Latham, Milton Slocumb, 1827-82 | Speech, Pacific RR, Senate 1862. w/debate on the steamship line from Calif.-China 1862 | 1862 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| Latrobe, John Hazlehurst Boneval, 1803-9 | A lost chapter in the history of the steamboat... | 1871 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| Latrobe, John Hazlehurst Boneval, 1803-9 | The first steamboat voyage on the western waters | 1871 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| Law, George | US mail steam-ships. Facts respectfully submitted to the Congress of the U.S. | 1850?] | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| Lloyd, James T | Lloyd's steamboat directory, & disasters on the western waters;...lives of Fitch & Fulton, [100 illus; map] | 1856 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| Macfarlane, Robert, 1815-83 | History of propellers & steam navigation, with biographical sketches of the early inventors [illus.] | 1851 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| Main, Thomas, 1818-85 | The marine steam-engine [illus.] | 1865 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| McCulloh, Richard Sears | Treatise on the mechanical theory of heat & its applications to the steam-engine, etc. [diags.] | 1876 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| McKay, Hugh | Steam on the canals; report made to Hon. Peter Cooper | 1875 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| Moore, Alan William | The Isle of Man Steam Packet Co., Limited, 1830-1904 | 1904 | Html | Free | USurrey |
| Mueller, Edward A. | St. Johns River [Florida] steamboats | 1986 | Graphic PDF | Free | UFlorida |
| Mueller, Edward A. | Steamboating on the St. Johns [Florida]: Travel accounts & various steamboat materials | 1980 | Graphic PDF | Free | UFlorida |
| Muirhead, James Patrick, 1813-1898 | The life of James Watt, w/selections from his correspondence | 1859 | Graphic | Free | UMichigan |
| Munsell [Publishing Co] | Munsell's Guide to the Hudson River by Railroad & Steamboat | Graphic | Free | CornellU | |
| Neil, Henry | Wreck & Sinking of the Titanic: The ocean's greatest disaster: A graphic & thrilling account of the sinking of | c1912 NY | Graphic PDF | Free | Harvard |
| Newark Plank Road & Ferry Co. (defendant | C. Milnor vs Newark Plank Road & Ferry co. & als. Wm Shardlow vs the same. Final hearing [illus.] | 1856 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| NY Chamber of Commerce | Meml. of the C of C, NY, to Senate & House, US; Comm. on ocean steam-navigation [tables] | 1864 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| NY Mail Steamship Co. | Memorial of the NY Mail steamship Co., to Senate & House (US) on ocean steam navigation [fold map] | 1864 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| NY Steam Cable Towing Co. | New York Steam Cable Towing Co. Capital stock, $500,000. 1st mortgage sinking fund.. | 1873 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| NY Steam Cable Towing Co. | Prospectus. | 1872 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| NY Steam Cable Towing Co. | The Belgian system, cable towing,...the use of steam on the canals & cheap transportation | 1875 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| Nystrom, John William, 1824-85 | New treatise on steam engineering, physical properties of permanent gases, & of vapor | 1876 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| Palmer, Mary A Witherell | The Wreck of the Walk-in-the-Water, Pioneer Steamboat on the Western lakes...last trip, 1821 | Graphic | Free | CornellU | |
| Parker, Foxhall Alexander, 1821-79 | Fleet Tactics Under Steam | 1870 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| Parker, Richard Green, 1798-1869 | A school compendium of natural & experimental philosophy. W/desc. of steam & engines [illus.] | 1850 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| Peacock, Richard Atkinson | On steam, The motive power in earthquakes & volcanoes, & cavities in the earth's crust [tables; diags] | 1866 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| Peacock, Richard Atkinson | Saturated Steam the Motive Power in Volcanoes and Earthquakes: Great Importance of Electricity | 1882 | Graphic Html | Free | OxfordU |
| Pirsson, Joseph P | Address to the govt of the US upon the merits of Pirsson's patent steam condenser | 1850 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| Porter, Charles Talbot, 1826-1910 | A treatise on the Richards steam-engine indicator, with directions for its use [illus.] | 1869 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| Portwine, Edward | The Steam Engine, from the Earliest to the Present Time. Atmospheric railways--the Electric Printing Telegraph | 1847 2dLond | Graphic or PDF | Free | |
| Robinson, James R | Explosions of steam boilers | 1870 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| Roper, Stephen | A catechism of high pressure or non-condensing steam engines [illus.] | 1874 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| Rumsey, James, 1743?-1792 | The application of steam...to propel boats against rapid currents; raising water for grist-mills, saw-mills [i | 1850-51 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| Rusling, James Fowler, 1834-1918 | The Great West & Pacific; 15,000 miles by stage, horseback, railroad, & steamer; Indians, Mormons, miners & Me | 1877 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| Seward, William Henry, 1801-72 | The steam engine. Argument, Circuit Court, Cooperstown, NY, 1853. cases in equity | 1853 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 | Lives of Boulton & Watt. History of the invention...of the steam engine [illus.] | 1865 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| Smyth, G. Hutchinson 1837- | The life of Henry Bradley Plant: Founder & president of the Plant system of railroads & steamships & also of t | 1898 | Graphic PDF | Free | UFlorida |
| Stevens, Francis B | The First Steam Screw Propeller Boats to Navigate the Waters of Any Country [steam engines] | 1893 | Html | Free | URochester |
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