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04/07/2020 12:27 pm
Lloyd's steamboat directory, and disasters on the western waters
by Lloyd, James T. [from old catalog]
Publication date 1856Topics Fitch, John, 1743-1798. [from old catalog], Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815. [from old catalog], Steamboat disasters, Steam-navigation, RailroadsPublisher Cincinnati, Ohio, J. T. Lloyd & co.; Chicago, Ill., D. B. Cooke & co.Collection library_of_congress; americanaDigitizing sponsor Sloan FoundationContributor The Library of CongressLanguage English
06/07/2020 10:19 pm
Several years ago (1979) Lloyd's Directory was republished by the now defunct Young and Klein Printing Co. of Cincinnati. Luckily, I have a copy of that in my library. Captain Fred Way, Jr. editor of the S&D Reflector at the time it was republished wrote a review of the Directory in the Reflector. He reported that Lloyd's was viewed by rivermen at the time it was published (1856) as being a tool of the railroads to scare business away from the river.