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Title: Evansville
Date: 1930
Description: In Green River Lock 1930. Evansville and Bowling Green packet. The Evansville was built in 1880 at Cincinnati, Ohio for the Evansville and Green River trade. She was 120.2 x 30 x 5.2 feet; 144 tons. Indicated horse power 391. While lying at the wharf at Calhoun, Kentucky on Green River, June 6, 1882, she collapsed a flue killing three people. The Evansville was famed for her mocking bird whistle

Title: Golden Eagle and Gordon C. Greene
Description: Photograph of the steamer GOLDEN EAGLE.

Title: Gordon C. Greene
Description: Photograph of the steamer GORDON C. GREENE at a levee. Levee and automobiles in the foreground.

Title: Delta Queen
Description: Photograph of the steamboat DELTA QUEEN's piston rod extended (10 feet).

Title: HERMANN
Description: Str. Hermann. Photo.

Title: LIEUT LEWIS
Description: Photograph of the LIEUT LEWIS.

Title: Gasconade, Missouri
Description: Gasconade, Missouri. Riverfront with steamboats.

Title: Island Queen
Description: This boat was active until she burned on November 4, 1922, at Cincinnati in the great fire which also destroyed the Morning Star, Tacoma and the first Chris Greene. To replace her the steel steamer Louisville, then under construction at Midland, Pennsylvania, for Commodore John W. Hubbard, was bought and completed as the present Island Queen.

Title: Cotton Blossom, Cotton Blossom and other boats
Date: 1911

Title: Admiral First Deck
Description: p11-3-1-40-13

Title: Visitors come aboard
Date: 1972-07
Description: A group of visitors board a boat.

Title: Finally secure at Kampsville
Date: 1972-07
Description: Delta Queen seen on the shore of Kampsville.

Title: Admiral Boarding/Disembarking
Date: 1963-08
Description: p11-3-1-40-5

Title: Chesapeake
Description: Photograph of U.S. Mail Packet CHESAPEAKE.

Title: Capitol - 2nd deck
Date: 1920
Description: Streckfus Steamer "Capitol De Luxe Rainbow Ball Room.

Title: City of Baton Rouge
Description: The City of Baton Rouge, another Anchor Liner, was built at Jeffersonville, Indiana in 1881. Captain Horace Bixby was her master. She was nearly lost on her maiden trip when she stuck on the Louisville falls and stayed there for three weeks. She sank at Hermitage, Louisiana, at 3:00 PM, December 12, 1890 on the same snag in the same spot that sank the Paris C. Brown the year prior or in early

Title: Louisville
Description: The Louisville was built in 1864 at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her dimensions were:- 125 x 23.3 x 3.6 feet; displacement 192 tons. She was a rafter owned by Durant and Wheeler of Stillwater, Minnesota during the seventies. Captain R. J. Wheeler was her master. The Louisville was subsequently owned by Knapp, Stout and Company of Dubuque, Iowa and St. Louis, Missouri. J. H. Wooders and later, Andrew

Title: MISSOURI
Date: 1908
Description: Photographic post card of the MISSOURI addressed to Miss Helen Pallis in 1908. "I make a big bluff. Walter & I traveled as far as the river but it seems as though we can't go any further. Still in town & will not cause you to go to the post office Sunday. George W. H. to Miss Helen Pallis."

Title: DECATUR No. 1
Description: DECATUR NO 1 and tow of 50 pontoons-leaving Decatur for Louisville KY-1930s-first tow on Tenn. R. in yrs. and shipping. Capt. John L Buchamon.

Title: Sam Craig
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Description: The Sam Craig is a steel hull, sternwheel towboat. She was built at Midland, Pennsylvania in 1929 by the Midland Barge Company. Her dimensions are: - 151 x 34.7 x 6 feet. She has 4 return flue boilers. Her compound, condensing engines, 15's by 30's with a 7-foot stroke, produce 750 horse power. Her paddle wheel is 19 feet 4 inches in diameter, 23 feet long, working 13 buckets of 40-inch dip. The

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