Steamboats

• Artists
• Entrepreneurs
• Philanthropists
• Steamboats

Marshall O. Roberts, Art Patron [published Oct. 25, 1885]

jpkntz June 23, 2024

      Walkin along Fifth avenue the other day I...

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• Artists
• Forgery
• Landmarks
• Steamboats

Old New York Painters in Clover(s) [published July 1, 1883]

jpkntz April 7, 2024

      I was passin’ down Fulton Street the other...

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• Eccentrics
• Entrepreneurs
• Royalty
• Sailing Ships
• Steamboats

Building and Welcoming Foreign Ships [published May 7, 1882]

jpkntz March 9, 2024

      New York ship-builders used to be so famous...

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• African-Americans
• Entrepreneurs
• Sailing Ships
• Steamboats

Notable Yachts of New York [published June 19, 1881]

jpkntz January 16, 2024

      Besides the yacht America, to which I have...

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• Actors
• Disasters
• Steamboats

Two Actors, Two Friends, Two Marine Disasters [published Nov. 18, 1883]

jpkntz January 1, 2024

      The other night, when the wind was whistlin’...

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• African-Americans
• Entrepreneurs
• Sailing Ships
• Steamboats

The Best Vanderbilt and Vanderbilt Bests [published Aug. 27, 1882]

jpkntz December 13, 2023

[Warning: The following column, published in 1882, contains an...

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• Inventors
• Steamboats
• Transportation

The Inland Navigation Dreams of Christopher Colles [published Dec. 17, 1882]

jpkntz October 17, 2023

      In the Episcopal buryin’ ground in Hudson street...

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• Disasters
• Long Island
• Steamboats

Captain Dustan At the End of His Rope [published Feb. 3, 1884]

jpkntz September 17, 2023

      The loss of the steamer City of Columbus...

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• Brooklyn
• Hotels
• Steamboats

Coney Island “Runners” and the Oceanic

jpkntz July 14, 2023

     I went down, along with thousands of my...

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