America

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Title: America
Creator(s): Hartford, John
Content Type: picture
Subject(s): America (Steamboat)
Steamboats
Packets
Description: The America was built at Jeffersonville, Indiana, in 1898 for Captain L. V. Cooley. She was 200 x 38 x 6.5 feet. The America ran out of New Orleans in the cotton trades and was the last surviving sternwheel cotton packet when dismantled.
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Classification: p29-ovr-4-0076-1
Owner: Herman T. Pott National Inland Waterways Library