Steamships
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Information related to steamships and steamboats and their operation and manufacture in Greene County.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
F. Van Loon Ryder Memorial Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2025-0002
The Samuel Van Aken Collection
Collection — Box MSS Box 220
Identifier: MSS 2021.0026
Scope and Contents
Collection comprises a selection of steamboat articles written by Sam Van Aken of Athens during World War Two, as well as other miscellaneous writings of his and materials related to his life and career. Also included in the collection are a handful of Van Aken's articles which were transcribed and mailed by Clarice Weeks Millspaugh of Catskill, NY to Forrest Van Loon Ryder upon his request while incarcerated at the South Carolina State Pennitentiary in Columbia, SC. Mrs. Millspaugh also mailed...