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Title: Towboats on the Ohio
Date: 1938
Description: 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.

Title: Asleep in the Deep South
Description: An African American cotton worker asleep in the shade by a pile of cotton.

Title: Fairplay
Description: A sternwheel steamboat with white trailing wake.

Title: A sternwheeler kicking water
Description: A sternwheeler kicking water from blade to blade which falls back upon her again.

Title: The Cabin in the Cotton
Description: African American cotton pickers working in a cotton field, wood house in the background.

Title: Shores along the Beautiful Ohio
Description: BEAUTIFUL OHIO (Song) Long, long ago, Someone I know Had a little red canoe In it room for only two Love found its start, Then in my heart And like a flower grew: CHORUS: Drifting with the current down a moonlit stream While above the Heavens in their glory gleam And the Stars on high Twinkle in the sky Seemimng in a paradise of love divine Dreaming of a pair of eyes that looked in mine Beautiful Ohio, in dreams again I see Visions of what used to be. Lyric by: Ballard Mcdonald Melody by: Mary Earl

Title: Heavy lock-arms move gates into place.
Description: Photograph of lock-arms.

Title: Towboat
Date: 1940
Description: Modern towboats are steamlined - 1940.

Title: Peace
Description: Motorship PEACE takes on a barge - Upper Ohio River. The Peace, a twin propellor, steel hull towboat was built at Neville Island, Pennsylvania, by the Dravo Corporation in 1934. Her dimensions are 153.8 x 34.1 x 7.9 feet. Her Winton Diesel engines total 750 horse power with Kort nozzles. She is a sister ship and a duplicate of the mv. Neville, both owned by the Union Barge Line Corporation of

Title: Memphis, Tennessee
Date: 1940
Description: Memphis Waterfront in 1940.

Title: Weighing In
Description: Photograph of African American cotton pickers circa 1940.

Title: U.S. Government Dredge
Date: 1938
Description: A U.S. Government dredge at work on a sandbar in the Mississippi River in 1938.

Title: M-306: Early Account of Pearl Harbor Bombing
Date: 1941-12-08
Description: This typescript is one of the first detailed accounts of the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. The account was written on December 8, 1941 by the Commanding Officer of the Naval Air Station, Kaneohe Bay to the Commandant of the Fourteenth Naval District, and then forwarded on to "All Stations, Ships, and Units Concerned with Aircraft" on December 16th.

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