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Title: Senator Cordill
Description: SENATOR CORDILL at Reedsville, Ohio. Independent Packet Line. Built at Jeffersonville, Indiana for Natchez and Vicksburg trade. Operated on Upper Ohio in later years of career. Came out in May, 1902 - Dismantled in 1939.

Title: City of New Orleans
Description: Interior of the City of New Orleans. Built for the Anchor Line. Later sold and rebuilt as the City of Pittsburg for the Ohio River.

Title: Stacker Lee, Lee Line Packet - St. Louis to Memphis
Description: The Stacker Lee was built at Jeffersonville, Indiana in 1902. Her dimensions were:- 225.5 x 45.5 x 6.6 feet; tonnage, 710. She had four boilers (six flues each)40 inches in diameter and 22 feet long. Her engines were of two cylinders, each 18 inches in diameter with a nine-foot stroke. She was owned by the Lee Line of Memphis, Tennessee and ran the St. Louis-Memphis trade. On November 19, 1907

Title: Alton
Description: The Alton was built in 1906 at Jeffersonville, Indiana. Her dimensions were:- 241.1 x 38 x 7.3 feet. Tonnage 800, gross and net. She had 1350 horse power. She was owned by the Eagle Packet Company of St. Louis and was one of their finest packets. One mark of distinction was an hexagonal shaped pilot house. At 1:45 A.M., on January 28, 1918, while laid up in the winter fleet on the Tennessee River

Title: City of New Orleans
Description: The City of New Orleans was built in 1881 at Jeffersonville, Indiana for the Anchor Line. Her dimensions were:- 290 x 48 x 8.5 feet; 1586 tons. Captain A. S. Lightner was her master. In 1889 she was sold to Ohio River parties, taken to Marietta, Ohio under her own steam and dismantled. Then she was rebuilt and renamed the City of Pittsburgh. Her new dimensions then were:- 292.7 x 48.8 x 7.0 feet

Title: New Orleans and Vicksburg Packet Co. Boat
Date: 1934
Description: At Natchez 1934. Dick Lemen photograph.

Title: Nashville
Description: The Nashville was built at Jeffersonville, Indiana in 1910. Her dimensions were:- 155 x 34 x 4.0 feet. Tonnage: gross, 251; net, 116 tons. She had 200 horse power. She ran in the Paducah and Nashville trade but finally dropped out in June of 1918 on account of scarcity of labor and high price of coal. The Nashville was the first packet to pass through the new lock in the Louisville Canal; May

Title: Evansville
Date: 1930
Description: Evansville and Bowling Green Packet. At Rochester, Kentucky, 1930.

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

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