The Waterways Journal and Associated Research Materials
Item
Title
The Waterways Journal and Associated Research Materials
Description
The St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri - St. Louis will digitize materials from the Waterways Journal Collection at the Herman T. Pott National Inland Waterways Library. The full collection comprises 219 linear feet of research documents accumulated by the editors of the Waterways Journal, the leading trade journal in the United States for inland waterway industries such as shipping and barge operators. The main achievement of this project will be digitizing the full run of the Waterways Journal from 1892 to today. Scanning will be done from original prints with microfilm backups for missing issues. From the larger research collection assembled by the editors of the journal over the past century, rare and related objects will be scanned as copyright allows.
Abstract
The Waterway Journal is a weekly news magazine published in St. Louis covering the industries, history, and culture of American waterways. Today it is the leading trade journal for the barge and towing industry. It has been in print continuously since 1892 and traces its founding back to 1887. The larger archival collection generated by more than a century of editors such as Captain Donald T. Wright contains research materials, notes, clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, and publications related to biographies, boats, channels, locks and dams, ports and terminals, railroads, freight, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and other river related topics.
Program
Date
Temporal Coverage
1892 - 2015
Spatial Coverage
The journal and the larger collection have a particularly strong focus on the Eastern United States and its major rivers such as the Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, and Hudson. The Intercoastal Waterway and Western rivers such as the Columbia and Sacramento are covered as well as intermittent international topics.
Extent
22.6 Serials
Identifier
Primary Contact
Mr. Sean Visintainer
Request
$149,035