[Steamboats - Pennsylvania]

Steamboat Pilots' License Certificate [Pictorial Broadside Accomplished in Manuscript]

Pittsburgh, PA: O'Neill & Anderson, 1866. Very Good. Item #46661

Pittsburgh, PA: O'Neill & Anderson, 1866. Pictorial broadside (35.5x21.5cm) printed within decorative border, an illustration of a steamboat at the head of the sheet; blanks filled in in manuscript. Previous folds and wrinkling, some scattered soiling, else Very Good, complete and sound.

Rare example of a post-Civil War steamboat pilot's license, issued in Pittsburgh "In accordance with the Act of Congress, approved August 30, 1852." The document certifies for one year that Matthias Altman (1832-1898) could operate on the lines of the Ohio & Monongahela, "from Brownsville to Pittsburgh to Louisville, KY." The document is signed by two inspectors as well as Matthias Altman himself, on February 13, 1866. Altman was still an active steamboat operator out of Pittsburgh as of the 1880 census.

We find no similar such certificates catalogued separately in OCLC as of January, 2026.

Price: $750.00