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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Indiana
    sub title: the history and archaeology of an early Great Lakes propeller
  name:
    name part: Robinson, David Stewart.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 1999
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    form: remote
    extent: xix, 323 leaves : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm.
  abstract: The early Great Lakes propeller Indiana was built as a combination passenger- and freight- carrying steam vessel in 1848 at Vermilion, Ohio by itinerant Lake Erie shipbuilder Joseph M. Keating. Over the span of its ten-year career, the vessel served the interests of its owners and several different shipping and railroad lines transporting passengers and a wide variety of cargoes before sinking on the evening of 6 June 1858 with a load of iron-ore ''down-bound'' for Cleveland. Indiana holds an important place in the history of steamboat technology as the best-preserved extant example of an early propeller-driven Great Lakes vessel. Built seven years after the first propeller-schooners appeared on the lakes, at a time when scientific principals were being applied for the first time in ship design and screw propulsion was proving itself to be an efficient, reliable, and economical mode of transporting freight, Indiana represents a ''second generation'' of early Great Lakes propellers that were larger, faster, and better equipped than their predecessors to serve the burgeoning Great Lakes freight and passenger trades of the late 1840s and the 1850s. Although virtually undocumented elsewhere, the transition between the transient propeller-schooner of the early 1840s and the standardized propeller liner of the middle 1850s is clearly evident in Indiana's archaeological remains. This thesis presents the results of a multi-year archival and archaeological study of Indiana's operational history and wreck site. Narrative descriptions of Vermilion, Indiana's builder and owners, its ports of call, routes travelled, sinking, and salvage are provided in the introductory chapters (Chapters I and II). Chapter III presents an account of the archival and archaeological research that was conducted in the preparation of this thesis and includes a description of Indiana's wreck site. The main body of this thesis (Chapter IV) contains a detailed description of Indiana's hull construction…
  note: by David Stewart Robinson.
  note: Vita.
  note: "Major subject: Anthropology".
  note: Also available online.
  note: Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics.
  note: M.A. Texas A&M University 1999.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 285-294).
  subject:
    topic: Major anthropology
  identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1999-THESIS-R6345
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      url: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1999-THESIS-R6345
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 000201
    record change date: 20151021163324.0
    record identifier: in00001520043