October 29, 1937. - Looking upstream from pilot house of Grafton. Graded bank and mattress weaving about station 219-00. Note curve on which Grafton entered below dike No.79.2L.
October 29, 1937. - Looking downstream from pilot house of Grafton, about station 223-00. Note face of cut standing practically vertical, also water and sand running out gut about where dragline is located
Towboats crowd each other along the Ohio, where modern river traffic surpasses anything in tonnage that was known in the days when steamboating was at its height.
Photo. Steamer, John B. Smith (formerly the U.S.E.D. Alabama, and Burke Line, Capitol) turning into the mouth of the Tennessee River, from the Ohio, 1939.