Steamboat Sketches
Drawing
Sketches by Patrick Labadie, curator of the Keewatin, to illustrate his talk on "Recollections of the Steamboat Era" July 9, 1971
Title page and 12 drawings of steamships executed with pencil and markers on drawing paper.
Butler Family settles Saugatuck site 1829
Steamer Albert, 1843, surveyed Kalamazoo River for earliest charts, 1845
Lady Elgin, 1851, Sunk in 1860, 300 lives
Huron of 1852, Goodrich Chicago-Holland passenger steamer
FB Stockbridge of 1874, lumber schooner
Lumber hooker Kalamazoo 1880
Crawford line steamer, Tennessee, 1888, Chicago to Saugatuck line
Saugatuck excursion boat Cuckoo
Eastland, 1903, South Haven line, Capsized at Chicago in 1915; 835 drowned
Theodore Roosevelt, Saugatuck-Michigan City express steamship
Steamer City of Saugatuck, Graham & Morton line
Tug Chambers Brothers, rescues crew of steamer Wisconsin, Nov. 29, 1929
2021.88.42
Marker
12 in
18 in
Flat Files drawer 01 unframed art
Fair
Some discoloration around the edges and dried adhesive residue on backs.
Keewatin (ship)Labadie, C. Patrick
12/16/2021
12/16/2021