Denver Steamboat Ferry

Photograph

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St. Joseph Museums

95.1H.458 Denver Steamboat at St. Joe Landing, PX Rider: Copyright: 95.1H.458 Denver Steamboat at St. Joe Landing, PX Rider
95.1H.458 Denver Steamboat at St. Joe Landing, PX Rider

Copyright: 95.1H.458 Denver Steamboat at St. Joe Landing, PX Rider

Name/Title

Denver Steamboat Ferry

Entry/Object ID

P1995.1H.458

Description

Steamboat Denver Used by Pony Express to Cross Missouri River Photo, c. 1860. Copy of photo of steamboat docked along riverbank. "Denver" prominently displayed on top deck, where people are standing by rail. Other passengers aforedeck. St. Joseph Bus Co. 'taxi' waiting alongside vessel. Captain of boat was Capt. Flemming. Also copy of illustration of Pony Express Rider by French Artist; stagecoach plowing through snow, and driver trying to see through snow. Caption "At St. Joseph the mails from the East were ferried across the Missouri to Elwood, Kansas, aboard the steamer 'Denver' and thereafter went forward in the mochilas of the Pony Express, shown below in the version of an imaginative French artist. Mails for the Rocky Mountain regions were sometimes stalled for weeks at a time (bottom) crossing the Great Plains in dead of winter." Original digital scan located on History CD 05.

Made/Created

Date made

1860

Place

City

St. Joseph

State/Province

Missouri

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Print, Photographic

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Photograph

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Pony express

Search Terms

Denver Steamboat Ferry on Missouri River, Pony Express Rider

Relationships

Related Entries

Notes

P1997.01P.01362, P9999.446.11128