Metropolitan Steamship Company receipt in the amount of $3.30 for freight shipped from New York to Boston onboard the Steamer Glaucus
Historic Note:
The Metropolitan Steamship Company operated from 1866 through 1911 and provided freight and passenger service between Boston and New York City. The company operated side-wheel steamships during the 1870s but soon progressed to steam turbine power plants. During the early 1900s the steamships Harvard and Yale were two of the fastest vessels under an American flag. After 1910 the Harvard and Yale were used along the Pacific coast to provide ferry service between San Francisco and Los Angeles. [De La Pedraja Tomán, René, A Historical Dictionary of the U.S. Merchant Marine and Shipping Industry: Since the Introduction of Steam. Greenwood Publishing Group, (1994).]
Collection
Historic Maritime Documents (18th - early 20th C) Collection