Among them: a look at archiplelago life and traditions, 10 A.M. May 11 from Pier 15; royal palaces and parks, 9 A.M. May 18 from City Hall; and routes of turn-of-the-century steamships through Lake Malaren, 10 A.M. May 25 from City Hall.
Transshipment, which had previously been Gibraltar's principal economic mainstay, was largely replaced by the much less lucrative work of servicing visiting steamships through coaling, victualling and ferrying of goods.
Pennsylvanian was one of the first two steamships to travel eastbound through the canal when it opened in August 1914.
Before highways and before railroads, America conducted her commerce via steamship over water through a system of rivers, canals, and lakes.
It was liberated in a fashion: of more than a dozen steamship lines steaming through the Sound from New York to New England ports, the Joy Line was the only one not controlled by J. P. Morgan through his New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad.
In The Atlantic, Drew Ramsey and Tyler Graham explain the rise of vegetable oils: Before highways and before railroads, America conducted her commerce via steamship over water through a system of rivers, canals, and lakes.
"Through steamship historical societies, we were able to determine that the Madagascar had changed names, and was actually the Kenosha -- a 243-foot wood-hulled freighter built in 1894.
But as his great-grandson, I was drawn to the experience of Fayard as a foreigner in an exotic land, a young man from Burgundy who had traveled wide-eyed by steamship from Marseille through the Suez Canal, to Colombo, Singapore and finally to his posting in Indochina.
In addition to the famous, there were cards of everything and anything that might feed the collecting mania: butterflies and moths; old roses; dandies through history; castles of Britain; rulers of the Balkans; railway trains and steamships.
These historical geographies of colonial shipping are considered through the examination of voyage narratives by passengers who travelled aboard the steamships of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, on the distinct geography of transit that became known as the 'overland route'.
By 1880, over 1.5 million tons of goods were passing through Singapore each year, with around 80% of the cargo transported by steamships.
