From the Collection

摘要

"YOU'LL NEVER RIDE THE NIGHT boat again," lamented George Hilton. "The last one has slipped the stern line and sailed into the night that has no dawning." LONG-TIME SSHSA member Hilton wrote those melancholy lines back in 1968 when he published his photo-filled book The Might Boat. From the 1840s into the 1960s, night boats provided overnight links between cities. So important were these ornate steamers to long-ago transportation networks that SSHSA was founded in 1935 by enthusiasts alarmed by their loss.