Guide to the Hendrickson-Howder Family Papers and Photographs 1900-c1960
1900-1960
Metadata Details
- Title
- Hendrickson-Howder family papers and photographs 1900-1960
- Creator
- Subject
- Howder family, Hendrickson family, River boats--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh, World War, 1939-1945--United States, Aids to navigation, Allegheny River (Pa. and N.Y.)--Navigation, Monongahela River (W. Va. And Pa.)--Navigation, Ohio River--Navigation
- Description
- The Hendrickson-Howder family papers and photographs consists of books, published reports, river navigation charts, photographs, and scrapbooks. The books and reports document the laws governing the waterways of the United States, the importance of them during World War II, the history of towboats, and the rules for inspecting steamboats. The navigation charts are for the Allegheny, Ohio, and Monongahela Rivers. They include radar maps and steering directions. The photographs are mainly undated and unidentified. They document both intact and sunken boats. Some of the photographs depict boats pushing barges or the interiors of boats. A few of the photographs show people working on the boats. The scrapbooks include national newspaper and magazine clippings that document Hollywood and the entertainment industry, riverboats, and the end of World War II. Box 1 includes navigation charts, photographs of boats, booklets of laws governing United States waterways, and scrapbooks with clippings about boats and river transportation. Box 2 includes World War II scrapbooks., Hendrickson-Howder Family papers and photographs, 1900-1960, MSS 0750, Thomas and Katherine Detre Library and Archives, Senator John Heinz History Center, Cataloging of this collection was funded by a Basic Processing grant from NHPRC., Sally Perzak Gift 2011 2011.0252, Members of several generations of both the Hendrickson and Howder families were riverboat captains who mainly piloted towboats. George W. Howder, who was born to John and Mary (Morris) Howder on December 28, 1845 in Fayette County, Pa., began working on riverboats when he was eighteen. Eventually, he became a pilot working for Joseph Walton & Company. Howder married Rachel Cooley, and they had four children: Ida May, Mary L., John W., and George L. John W. Howder also became a riverboat pilot who worked for the Hillman Transportation Company. His son, William M. Howder became a pilot, as well. Ida Howder married Samuel Wesley Hendrickson, who was also a riverboat captain. Their son, Averil Samuel Hendrickson, born in 1803, became the youngest riverboat pilot in the Pittsburgh area at the age of twenty-two. He died in 1952 on the steamboat Mathies., Gift of Sally Perzak, Processed MSS 0750 08/2012 K. Smith, Collection level finding aid available. Inventory created by staff in 2011.
- Publisher
- Contributor
- Hendrickson family., Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center (depositor)
- Date
- 1900-1960
- Type
- Collection, Text
- Format
- Identifier
- oclc: 808630302, pitt: US-QQS-mss750
- Source
- Language
- eng
- Relation
- http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=hswpead;cc=hswpead;rgn=main;view=text;didno=US-QQS-mss750, pdcp_noharvest
- Coverage
- Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, United States, Allegheny River (Pa. and N.Y.), Monongahela River (W. Va. And Pa.), Ohio River
- Rights
- Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use., http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/