DescriptionSketches by Patrick Labadie, curator of the Keewatin, to illustrate his talk on "Recollections of the Steamboat Era" July 9, 1971 Title page and 12 drawings of steamships executed with pencil and markers on drawing paper. Butler Family settles Saugatuck site 1829 Steamer Albert, 1843, surveyed Kalamazoo River for earliest charts, 1845 Lady Elgin, 1851, Sunk in 1860, 300 lives Huron of 1852, Goodrich Chicago-Holland passenger steamer FB Stockbridge of 1874, lumber schooner Lumber hooker Kalamazoo 1880 Crawford line steamer, Tennessee, 1888, Chicago to Saugatuck line Saugatuck excursion boat Cuckoo Eastland, 1903, South Haven line, Capsized at Chicago in 1915; 835 drowned Theodore Roosevelt, Saugatuck-Michigan City express steamship Steamer City of Saugatuck, Graham & Morton line Tug Chambers Brothers, rescues crew of steamer Wisconsin, Nov. 29, 1929