A remarkable broadside advertising the following: Cincinnati & New Orleans Packet. / For Cairo, Evansville, Louisville and Cincinnati! / The Large and Elegant Passenger Steamer / Thos. Sherlock, with H.U. Hart, Master and M.L. Virden, Clerk, featuring a detailed illustration of the Thomas Sherlock, published by Journal Co., Steamboat and Railroad Printers and Binders, Evansville, IN. This broadside was actually used, indicated by place and date of embarkation written in blue pencil. 20 x 27.5 in. (sight), housed in period frame, 25.25 x 33 in. The Thomas Sherlock was a side-wheel packet steamer with a wood hull built in Cincinnati, OH in 1873 for Henry U. Hart, the captain mentioned on the broadside, as well as Henry A. Jones, Thomas Sherlock, James Mack, and Charles G. Pearce. The steamer ran from Cincinnati to New Orleans, and back. In February of 1891, the Sherlock was loaded out at Cincinnati and bound down river for New Orleans when she collided with a pier of the C. & O. bridge and was wrecked [Way, 1983, 451-452]. Condition: Typical wear along folds in broadside; light water stain in lower right corner.
A remarkable broadside advertising the following: Cincinnati & New Orleans Packet. / For Cairo, Evansville, Louisville and Cincinnati! / The Large and Elegant Passenger Steamer / Thos. Sherlock, with H.U. Hart, Master and M.L. Virden, Clerk, featuring a detailed illustration of the Thomas Sherlock, published by Journal Co., Steamboat and Railroad Printers and Binders, Evansville, IN. This broadside was actually used, indicated by place and date of embarkation written in blue pencil. 20 x 27.5 in. (sight), housed in period frame, 25.25 x 33 in. The Thomas Sherlock was a side-wheel packet steamer with a wood hull built in Cincinnati, OH in 1873 for Henry U. Hart, the captain mentioned on the broadside, as well as Henry A. Jones, Thomas Sherlock, James Mack, and Charles G. Pearce. The steamer ran from Cincinnati to New Orleans, and back. In February of 1891, the Sherlock was loaded out at Cincinnati and bound down river for New Orleans when she collided with a pier of the C. & O. bridge and was wrecked [Way, 1983, 451-452]. Condition: Typical wear along folds in broadside; light water stain in lower right corner.
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