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Metadata
Object Name |
Ticket, Transportation |
Catalog Number |
2018.fic.537 |
Description |
Cabin Passage ticket for the Steamer Northern Light. Hand written on ticket: Room "G", Trip "32" to "Brownsville." Signed by the clerk "Farley." Back side has distances between cites north of Dubuque. |
Search Terms |
Steamboats |
Subjects |
Transportation |
Notes |
The Northern Light was a packet boat built in 1857. It was partially owned by Hercules Dousman of Prairie du Chien. It sank in 1866 south of La Crosse at the head of Coon Slough, near Brownsville. |