NO BERTH CONSIDERED ENGAGED UNTIL THE PASSAGE MONEY IS PAID; AND IN NO CASE/ PASSAGE REGISTER, STEAMER VICTORIA. GENTLEMEN'S CABIN.
[Pittsburgh]: Johnston and Stockton, [c.1838-1855]. Folio broadside, 9 3/4" x 15". Printed using different sizes and styles of fonts, small vignette of a steamer ship within the caption title. Five columns with numbered state rooms listed down first column and columns for names, embarkation, destination, and remarks. Light dustsoiling, age toning, minor foxing and edgewear. Our research shows there was usually a second page for the women's' cabin which also had a partially printed year to be filled in. Else Very Good.
The steamer Victoria was built by William Knox at Harmar, Ohio, in 1838, for Mr. Hook of Mobile, Alabama. The Victoria was a "179-ton side-wheeler built in 1838; 3,000 bale capacity; it had fourteen staterooms in the gentlemen's cabin and eight berths in the ladies' cabin; it was in the Mobile-Columbus trade in the spring of 1839 and the spring of 1841; arrived in Columbus on 1/13/1841, after five days from Mobile; abandoned 1855." [Ward: THE TOMBIGBEE RIVER STEAMBOATS: ROLLODORES, DEAD HEADS AND SIDE-WHEELERS. Arcadia Publishing: 2010. Accessed at Googlebooks on 5/26/2017; Williams: HISTORY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY, OHIO... 1881. Page 378.]. Item #33219
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