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    SCOURGE/ LORD NELSON The merchant schooner Lord Nelson was among the first group of ships constructed for trade on Lake Ontario. Built in 1811 by the shipwright Asa Stanard at Niagara in Upper Canada

Harper's Weekly, 18 Feb 1893, 162, 164     The S. S. "CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS." MANY of the most interesting exhibits at the World's Fair will serve very useful purposes in assisting the fair to a successful consummation. Some of these, like the

   

   

   

   

    H.M.S. NEWASH and H.M.S. TECUMSETH drawn for the Evening Telegram by C. H. J. Snider

    James Leslie, 1854 Marysburgh, 1870 C. H. J. Snider from Capt. Byron Bongard's picture

   

   

    Not drawn from life, but rather "as described by Capt. Wm. McLain, who saw her and sailed in her time."

   

Harkness, Alfred S., Chronicle (Chicago, IL), 12 Dec 1897, p. 33    

    The woodcut appeared on the reverse of a pre-printed manifest form printed by Lazell & Francis of Buffalo, NY used in the summer of 1826

Lloyd, James T., Lloyd's Steamboat Directory and Disasters on the Western Waters... (1856), 1856, 121-26     Burning of the Erie. This magnificent steamer, Capt. Titus, commander, was destroyed by fire, on Lake Erie, on the 16th day of August, 1841, by which calamity more than one hundred and seventy-five p

Lloyd, James T., Lloyd's Steamboat Directory and Disasters on the Western Waters... (1856), 21 Nov 1847, 177-83     Burning of the Phoenix This terrible accident occurred about four o'clock on the morning of the 21st of November, 1847, on Lake Michigan, within seventeen miles of Sheboygan. The fire was first disco

Lloyd, James T., Lloyd's Steamboat Directory and Disasters on the Western Waters... (1856), 31 Jul 1850, 246-47     Explosion of the America This afflictive event took place on Lake Erie, July 31, 1850. The head of one of the starboard boilers blew off, turning the boiler deck upside down, raising the upper deck a