The following excerpt is from an article posted at the Tulane University website August 11, 2016.
The Louisiana Research Collection (LaRC) at Tulane University has made accessible to the public a new online guide to the Steamboat Image Collection.
The collection, made up of more than 60 linear feet, preserves thousands of images of riverboats including sternwheelers, sidewheelers, tugs, packets, showboats, and more.
“People from around the world can now search our online index to find out what images we preserve,” said Lee Miller, head of the LaRC.
Miller hopes to one day digitize the images so that they can be accessed remotely.
The images document all stages of the steamboats’ production —from construction to wreckage —providing a fascinating view of the country’s steamboat era in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
It is one of the larger collections of steamboat images in the world and was purchased for Tulane by the Joseph Merrick and Eugenie Penick Jones Foundation in 1966 from the estate of Capt. Donald T. Wright, editor and publisher of the Waterways Journal.
Thanks to ResearchBuzz for the heads-up.
