RARE Letterhead D Lyon Skiff Company - Leavenworth Indiana 1918 Boat letter

Description: RARE Original Advertising Letterhead D. Lyon Skiff Company "Those good skiffs" Leavenworth, IN 1918 For offer, a very nice old Advertising piece of ephemera! Fresh from an old prominent estate. Never offered on the market until now. Vintage, Old, Original - NOT a Reproduction - Guaranteed !! Great piece of history. The earliest Skiff company in this town. Daniel Lyon. Very nice graphics. Autograph letters signed. In good very good condition. As shown in photos. Fold marks. NOTE: Will be sent folded, as found for ease in shipping. Please see photos and scans for all details and condition. If you collect 19th century Americana advertisement ad history, American printing history, art, etc. this is a nice one for your paper or ephemera collection. Genealogy research importance as well. Combine shipping on multiple bid wins! 3330 Inscription. Click to hear the inscription. This town of Leavenworth was mainly known for two things, skiffs and buttons. In 1814, Zebulon Leavenworth laid out the town here because of the large fresh water spring at the base of the hill. Two years later, Daniel Lyon had set up a boat building industry, first constructing flatboats, and then specializing in wooden rowing skiffs. Later there were three successful skiff companies in the Leavenworth area: D. Allen Company, the Starr Skiff Works, and the D. Lyon Skiff Company. D. Lyon's skiffs were known for their quality, from Pittsburgh to the Gulf of Mexico. They were used extensively by the Corps of Engineers in their dam operations. The Lyon's family company thrived until the 1937 flood. Aluminum and fiberglass made wooden boats virtually obsolete by the 1950s. Leavenworth is a town in Jennings Township, Crawford County, Indiana, along the Ohio River. The 2010 US Census recorded a population of 238 persons.[4] Leavenworth was laid out in 1818 in a horseshoe shaped bend of the Ohio River, directly under a large bluff called Mt. Eden. The bluff forms part of the Indiana Ridge and faces directly across the river toward Kentucky. "Old Leavenworth" (the original town, now practically abandoned) was almost completely wiped out by the huge 1937 Ohio River flood, as it was built directly on the floodplain. The town was founded by Zebulon Leavenworth and his brother Seth, natives of Connecticut. In 1824, a wood yard was established in the town to provide fuel to steamboats, and David Lyon had a boatbuilding industry here in 1830. The Whitcomb brickyard was also a flourishing industry. Horseshoe Bend in Ohio River, visible from Leavenworth The Crisis, Crawford County’s first newspaper, was begun in Leavenworth in 1839. In 1835, Zebulon started a stage line from Leavenworth to the new state capitol in Indianapolis, a route intended primarily for students going to the new State College in Bloomington (later Indiana University) and for boatmen returning from downriver. Riverboat men returning from New Orleans were thought to be carriers of the yellow fever and cholera epidemics that often devastated the Ohio Valley frontier. Seth Leavenworth advocated the construction of a marine hospital for the purpose of quarantine and medical treatment, which he hoped to build somewhere near the town of Leavenworth. The bill he put before the Indiana legislature was never enacted.[5] In 1843, Leavenworth supplanted Fredonia as the county seat. Leavenworth remained the county seat until 1896, when the county records were stolen by a mob in a notorious armed “courthouse war" against the town of English. Seth Leavenworth eventually left Indiana and moved to Missouri, where he died in 1854. His son Zebulon, named after the boy's uncle in Indiana, became a famous riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River and was a friend of Mark Twain before Twain became a writer. Together, they piloted the steamboat Nebraska past Memphis at the outbreak of the Civil War, receiving gunshots across their bow as a warning to halt. A skiff is any of a variety of essentially unrelated styles of small boats, usually propelled by sails or oars. Traditionally, these are coastal craft or river craft used for work, leisure, as a utility craft, and for fishing, and have a one-person or small crew. Sailing skiffs have developed into high performance competitive classes. Many of today's skiff classes are based in Australia and New Zealand in the form of 12 ft (3.66 m), 13 ft (3.96 m), 16 ft (4.88 m) and 18 ft (5.49 m) skiffs. The 29er, 49er, SKUD and Musto Skiff are all considered to have developed from the skiff concept, all of which are sailed internationally. The term skiff is also used for a racing shell called single scull for competitive rowing. Etymology The word is related to ship and has a complicated etymology: "skiff" comes from the Middle English skif, which derives from the Old French esquif, which in turn derives from the Old Italian schifo, which is itself of Germanic origin (German Schiff). "Ship" comes from the Old English "scip", which has the same Germanic predecessor.[1][2][3] By location United Kingdom Boulter's Lock, Sunday Afternoon by Edward John Gregory shows skiffs among other craft coming out of the lock The term has been used for a number of styles of craft round the United Kingdom, often small river and sea going craft. They varied from double ended rowing boats to small sailing boats. The poet John Milton refers to a "night foundered skiff" in Paradise Lost as early as 1670. There are references to skiffs involved in accidents on the River Thames as early as 1812,[4] and 1824 at Oxford.[5] In August 1815, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was taken on an expedition by skiff from Old Windsor to Lechlade by Charles Clairmont and Thomas Love Peacock.[6] He subsequently settled at Marlow, where he regularly rowed his skiff through the locks.[7] Shelley later drowned sailing in a skiff off the coast of Italy. A skiff was also mentioned in Sir Walter Scott's poem The Lady of the Lake. The Thames skiff became formalised as a specific design in the early part of the 19th century. It is a round-bottomed clinker-built rowing boat that is still very common on the River Thames and other rivers in England. Rowing skiffs became very popular in Victorian Britain, and a skiff journey up the River Thames is described in Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome.[8] These skiffs could carry a sail and could be used for camping. Although general usage has declined, skiffs are still used for leisure and racing. During the year, skiffing regattas are held in various riverside towns in England, the major event being the Skiff Championships Regatta at Henley. Akin to the skiff is the yoal or yole, which is a clinker-built boat used for fishing in the Orkney and Shetland Islands. The boat itself is a version of the Norwegian Oselvar which is similar to a skiff in appearance, while the word is cognate with "yawl". The French yole is a leisure craft similar to the Thames Skiff and is translated as "skiff", while the French skiff translates to a single scull. In Dutch and German, "Skiff" also means a single scull, while Czech skif refers to sculling boats in general. Regattas are also held across Northern Ireland, with one of the largest being held in Portadown, but smaller events take place throughout the year across County Down.[9][10][11] Americas Classic flat-bottom skiff in Maine In American usage, the term is used for small sea-going fishing boats. It is referred to historically in literature in Moby-Dick by Herman Melville[12] and The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway.[13] Boats powered by sails or by oars can be referred to as skiffs. One usage of the word refers to a typically small flat-bottomed open boat with a pointed bow and a flat stern originally developed as an inexpensive and easy-to-build boat for use by inshore fishermen. Originally designed to be powered by rowing, their form has evolved to be powered by outboard motors. The design is still in common use today for both work and pleasure craft. They can be made of wood or other materials. A similar style of craft in Central America and Mexico is generally called a panga. By use Piracy and smuggling Captured Somalian pirates with their skiff The term skiff has been applied to motorized boats of small size and construction used as sea-going vessels for piracy or drug smuggling.[14] Racing Modern 12ft Skiff at speed The skiff with a sail has developed into specific sailing boats bearing the name "skiff". In Sydney, the term was used for a number of racing classes (sizes from 6 ft to 23 ft have existed). These were originally heavily crewed and canvassed boats that were relatively short for the canvas and crew carried and were developed from working boats of the time. This style of boat is still active in the form of Historical 10 foot and 18 foot classes. The skiff classes developed to become much lighter and faster with relatively smaller (but still very large by any other standards) rigs and smaller crews. 12ft Skiff, 13 ft Skiff, 16ft Skiff, and 18ft Skiff classes are raced in that form. With two crew on the 12 and 13 footer and three on the 16 and 18 these are still heavily crewed boats for their size. Modern developments began with the introduction of carbon fibre reinforced composite hulls, allowing for a significant reduction in weight, and an increase in rigidity. Following this, the use of carbon in masts and rigging allowed for more sail area, and better gust response. Moulded sails are being tested in both 12 ft and 16 ft skiffs, with most modern Australian 18 ft Skiffs utilising the new technology. Because the modern 18s have such a high profile, the term skiff is widely used internationally to refer to other high-performance sailing dinghy classes, mostly featuring asymmetrical spinnaker and trapeze which have been strongly influenced by modern skiffs. Examples include: Cherub Skiff, International 14, 29er, and 49er. These boats tend to be less heavily crewed in relation to their length than the traditional Australian Skiff Classes. The term is even used for some single-handed boats like the Musto Skiff which are far removed from the heavily crewed original boats. The SKUD 18 is a two-person keelboat which claims strong influence from skiff development.[15] This made its debut in the 2008 Paralympic Games. In the International Moth class the term skiff is used to distinguish designs that have an essentially vertical bow from scow designs, which have a broadly horizontal bow.

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