Series I. Files, 1818-1949, inclusive

1) Includes many postcards, including many duplicates, generally undated. 2) Includes tickets and other stubs, 1860s-1940s. Most of the tickets and passes are undated, but a few indicate they are from the 1860s; many are single tickets or sheets stamped "sample" and are dated from the 1930s-1940s. There are a variety of tickets, including those for on/off on various stops, meal tickets, luggage tags, etc. 3) Includes index cards noting the reading material available on board, and a Hudson River Day Line Library rubber stamp (1920s?).

Includes a set of 12 envelopes of publicity material as originally donated, chronologically arranged from 1937-1948. Another 10 folders includes compiled materials dating from the 1890s to the 1940s, with most dating from the 1910s. Includes posters/placards of schedules (1910s); some menus, including one for a dinner to Mrs. Wilton Merle-Smith on the Washington Irving (1913); sheet music for "On the Hudson River (Day Line Moonlight Sail)" (1948); two punch-out paper models of the Hendrick Hudson (unassembled, in original envelope for mailing); and the advertisement from Indian Point Corporation (formerly Hudson River Day Line) for the liquidation auction of six properties (1949). Some material is not specifically that of the Day Line, though it relates to their business; most notable of these is a plan of the floors of the Hotel Champlain at Bluff Point, Lake Champlain (undated).

Includes 24 annual guides from the Mary Powell, 1888-1913 (missing 1891, 1895, 1903, 1904); a 1918 memorial book; passes for years 1886-1914 (some gaps); bill of sale for the Mary Powell to Alfred Van Sanvoort and J. McB. Davidson (1869); and the capital stock ownership register for the Mary Powell Steamship Company (1899-1902).

Includes a broad range of printed material, including timetables, schedules, guide maps, trip descriptions, tourist maps (including an 1850 map), souvenir booklets, commemorative booklets, some Day Line Magazines (1910s), and a copy of the Day Line Rules & Regulations for its employees (1927). Includes materials specifically about the river trips, but also related places, such as Bear Mountain State Park.

Includes an orderly set of original files of printed publicity material, in chronological order circa 1918-1940s

Includes correspondence of Eben Olcott, among other documents. Some specific subjects include the replica Clermont (specifications, the record of its voyage, and bill of sale to the Day Line (1909); and materials concerning planning for the Hudson Tri-Centennial Memorial Bridge (also referred to as the Hendrick Hudson Bridge) over the Harlem Ship Canal at Spuyten Duyvil.

Item found in stacks, 2022. Unframed by conservator Alan Balicki and added to collection by archivist Larry Weimer, September 2022.

Includes various documents not necessarily related to the Day Line:

* Letters (1818-1860s), including two from Euphemia Knox (Eben Olcott's mother), and perhaps two to her including one from Jacob Van Vechten concerning the Civil War (1864);

* special order (1864) from George Monroe of the 22nd Kentucky Volunteers;

* invoice related to improving Hudson River navigation at New Baltimore (1867);

* various invitations, including some specifically to Eben Olcott (1925-1926);

* deed of sale of New York property from Euphemia M. Olcott to Eben Olcott (1889);

* Alfred Van Santvoord memorial book from United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Company (1901);

* signed petition to the U.S. Congress for a Highlands of the Hudson River National Park (undated);

* a typed manuscript "A Tete-a-Tete Driving Trip," written by Kate H. Huntington and describing her travels in the Berkshires (1906);

* annotated programme of the Ecumenical Conference on Foreign Mission (1900), with newspaper accounts (in poor condition);

* Official's ribbon for the Indian Point Outboard Motorboat Regatta (1935);

* 5 photographs (George Washington Blauvelt; Timothy H. Roberts of Flatbush; Pilgrim Mother statue; and two of the damaged depot of the Peoples Line of the Hudson Navigation Company (1913);

* an insurer's report on the sinking of the steamship Washington Irving (1926);

* and documents concerning a dispute between the Harlem Company and the New York and Harlem Railroad Company (1898).

Specific years in the file are: 1879-1890, 1927, 1930, 1932-1948. Other years are not here. Also two blank, small ledger booklets.

Charter of the Peoples Line/New Jersey Steamboat Company (1854); several bills of sale for vessels, including barges, River Queen, Seneca, New York, and several bought from the special master for the Central Hudson Steamboat Company (1929); and charter party agreement for the River Queen (1888).

Specifications: 1) hull of an iron side-wheeled steamer (Albany), 1879; 2) hull, carpenter and joiner work for side wheel steamboat for Albany Day Line (i.e., Robert Fulton), 1908; 3) hull, carpenter work & boiler for paddle wheel steamboat, 1911; 4) paddle wheel steamers, 1922 and 1925 (steel); 5) electric lighting, plumbing, heating, ventilation for Washington Irving; and 6) steel freight steamer (1922). Certificates of inspection (1930s-1940s): Alexander Hamilton, Robert Fulton, Peter Stuyvesant, Hendrick Hudson, Chauncey M. Depew, De Witt Clinton, and various barges. Certificate of enrollment for Hendrick Hudson (1906).

These files are largely unarranged documents regarding various transactions. Bulk is from 1850s-1890s. There are many invoices, receipts/vouchers (earliest is 1834), journal/ledger sheets, expense lists (including repairs and alterations, such as for the Albany, Armenia, and Cayuga), unpaid bills (e.g. Cayuga), and other detailed financial data often relating to specific ships. A few financial documents reference the Swiftsure Line. There are some letters and specifications related to ship alterations, such as proposals from the North River Iron Works. A folder of documents relates to an inquiry of Eben Olcott regarding light draft steamboats, with correspondence, a blueprint, 5 photographs from Yarrow & Co of London, etc. There are also some indentures and insurance policies (Clermont, Mary Powell and Armenia) in these files, and a record of insurance policies (1864). Some material relates to other companies, including financial data for the Delaware & Otsego Railroad Company (1892) and the Ulster & Delaware Railroad (1893). There are sheets of blank towing receipts for Van Santvoord's Line, the Hudson River Steamboat Co., and a generic form. The small volumes include steamship transactions of the 1860s-1870s; steamer New York inventories (1894) and repairs and furnishings; and William Mackay's New York inventory for 1868-69.

Includes unpaid bills lists from 1850s-1860s; a classification of expenses for the SS Chauncey Vibbard, 1867; letterpress copybook of General Ticket Agent C.R. van Benthuysen, 1883-1887; adoption notice re: the Mary Powell (1915); tariff/fare rates (passengers, charters, etc.) for circa 1923-1948; and some clippings (1940).

Statistical reports of numbers of passengers by pick-up points/ports and date

Orderly files of printed material with annual fares.

Includes unorganized, folded newspapers in fragile condition. Advance arrangements for use of these materials must be made with the curator of manuscripts.

See note for box 10.

This box includes an inventory prepared in 1919 of the waybills from the 1860s-1908 preserved by the Day Line, now found in this box and the next (boxes 12 and 13). The note indicates that all other waybills were destroyed in 1919, which would account for the gap in the collection of waybills between 1908 and 1916. According to that list this box holds waybills from the following steamboats: Daniel Drew (1863-1880), Armenia (1863-1878), Chauncey Vibbard(1864-1886), Albany(1880-1899), and New York (1887-1899).

See the note for box 12. According to the referenced inventory, this box holds waybills from the following steamboats: Albany (1900-1908), New York (1900-1908), Mary Powell (1903-1908), and Hendrick Hudson 1906-1908).

Contents all relate to the addition of the De Witt Clinton (ex-Nopatin, ex-Manhattan) to the line. Topics include purchase of the ship from the Navy, furnishings (includes fabric samples), trial run, inspection, research for publicity and other purposes, etc.

Includes several files on the construction, furnishing (including fabric samples), inspection, etc., of the ship.

About 60 folders labeled with a name of a steamship line (some railroad companies), generally each with a single sheet of paper listing the ships of that company with basic descriptive details of each ship. Appears to be basic information for competitive comparison purposes. The companies generally appear to be from New York State and New England.

A set of 29 reports for years 1914-1942.

Entire box includes legal documents, financial records, correspondence, and other documents concerning the Catskill Mountain Railway, the Catskill & Tannerville Railway, the Otis Elevating Railway, and the Otis Railway Company. The papers are mostly unorganized and loose.

3 boxes of steward accounts (provisions, supplies for ships); vouchers; cancelled checks; towing records; some correspondence. The documents are tri-folded with related documents bundled together. Many are brittle with water damage. Because of their condition, special arrangements must be made in advance of their use with the curator of manuscripts.

See note for box 41

See note for box 41

Missing 1892