Steamboat Documents, Page 4 D.S. BARMORE & SON STEAMBOAT BUILDERS Printer's proof D.S. BARMORE & SON (David S. Barmore and his son Edmond H. Barmore) STEAMBOAT BUILDERS (Circa 1881 to 1886) JEFFERSONVILLE, INDIANA Specimen from the Falls city Lithograph & Job Printing Company, 241 Third Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky Printer's proof for the logo to be printed on company business envelopes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond_H._Barmore Brief history of the Barmores, Father & Son - Steamboat Builders at Jeffersonville, Kentucky: Edmond Herbert Barmore (February 5, 1860 - November 26, 1931) was an American football player and businessman. He was born in Jeffersonville, Indiana, on the banks of the Ohio River, in 1860. He was the son of Captain David S. Barmore (1832-1905) and Mary E. (Cash) Barmore. His father was one of the leading builders of steamboats used along the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. Edmond attended public schools in Indiana and Michigan, and enrolled in the Literary Department at the University of Michigan in October 1878. In the spring of 1879, a group of students formed the university's first college football team. Barmore played at the halfback position on the 1879 Michigan Wolverines football team and participated in the first Michigan football team, a victory over Racine College played at White Stockings Park in Chicago. After leaving Michigan, Barmore joined his father in the boat-building business at Jeffersonville, Indiana, on the opposite shore of the Ohio River from Louisville, Kentucky. He and his father built all manner of riverboats, from small tugboats to large and powerful three and four-decked steamboats of modern commerce that pled the Ohio and Mississippi between Pittsburgh, St. Louis and New Orleans, carrying each its hundreds of passengers and thousands of tons of freight. From 1881 to 1886, Barmore and his father did business under the name D. S. Barmore and Son. In 1886, Barmore and his father sold their business in Jeffersonville, and Edmond Barmore moved to Los Angeles, California. Attached scan combining half the cover with rates from inside on an early brochure for the RIVER LINES running the DELTA KING and DELTA QUEEN between San Francisco and Sacramento on the Sacramento River. This dates from 1939 per promotion within the brochure for the Golden Gate International Exposition "A Pageant of the Pacific" which a World's Fair held at San Franciso from February to December 1939. Also attached an enhanced photo of the DELTA QUEEN promoting the "Delta Route" inside the brochure. This is an envelope carried aboard Belle Lee. Photo Courtesy of Murphy Library at the University of Wisconsin - La Crosse Steamboat Collection Photographs To see more steamboat envelopes, click here. With the exception of images credited to public institutions, everything on this page is from a private collection. With the exception of images credited to public institutions, everything on this page is from a private collection. Please contact Steamboats.com for permission for commercial use.* All captions provided by Dave Thomson, Steamboats.com primary contributor and historian.