Showing posts with label steamboat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label steamboat. Show all posts

Saturday, February 22, 2025

Photo of a Steamboat Named Yellowstone Possibly Photographed on the Missouri River Near Sioux City, Iowa (1860's)

View of a steamboat named Yellowstone possibly photographed on the Missouri River near Sioux City, Iowa, c. 1865-1870. Taken by photographer Byron H. Gurnsey and originally published as a stereoview. Other stereoviews in the Library of Congress' collection by Gurnsey with the same mount were taken in and around Fort Berthold in Dakota Territory.

Source: Library of Congress.

Sunday, December 14, 2014

Time-Lapse Daguerreotype Views of a Steamer Named Sagamore Docked on the San Joaquin River in Stockton, California (1850)


Time-lapse daguerreotype views of the steamer Sagamore docked on the San Joaquin River in Stockton, California, c. 1850. By William Herman Rulofson. At least two dozen people died on the Sagamore after its boilers exploded and it sank in San Francisco on November 21, 1850.

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