Work boats
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Guide-boats; Barges; Buyboats; Canal-boats; Dredges; Ferries; Fireboats; Fishing boats; Flatboats; Floating cranes; Inland waterway vessels; Moliceiros; Offshore support vessels; Pilot boats; Pointer boats; Rabelos; Saveiros; Search and rescue boats; Towboats; Tugboats; York boats.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
P.A. Karthaus & Co. receipt book
Collection
Accession: 2670
Abstract:
Peter Arnold Karthaus (1765-1840) established a mercantile business in Baltimore trading with Germany, Holland, France, and the Caribbean. The receipt book was kept by a member of P.A. Karthaus & Company at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and mostly deals with payments to individuals, pilots, and other laborers, engaged in Karthaus's arking business, typically wages, meals, boarding costs, and transportation back upstream.
Dates:
1827-1832
