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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: Celebration at Opening of Davis Island Dam
Date: 1885-10-07
Description: Crowd lined up to view opening of dam. Steamboats underway in the background, including the steamers GENEVA and ONWARD. Oct. 7, 1885. #455.

Title: Helen E.
Description: The Helen E. was originally built as a single decker at Point Pleasant, West Virginia in 1913. Her dimensions were:- 105 by 19.7 by 2.8 feet; 33 tons. In January, 1918, she distinguished herself by running away from Point Pleasant in an ice gorge and was not captured until she reached Madison, Indiana, 292 miles below. She ran all bridge piers, passes at the dams, etc., with nobody aboard and

Title: Ohio River Shipyard
Date: 1942-02-05
Description: February 5, 1942. From bottom left: Gulf Barge OSAGE; USCGC AZALEA; NUGENT Sandi Gravel Dredge; USCG Quarter Boat #12; mv BETTY GARDNER; mv JANE RHEA; mv ANKER L. CHRISTY; Str. KENOVA.

Title: Joseph B. Williams
Date: 1905-08
Description: On August 10, 1905, while enroute up the Ohio River, she struck a snag at Sister's Island, below Golconda and near Bay City, Illinois and tore a hole 40 feet long in her hull, causing the boat to sink in shallow water. Three towboats went to the rescue of the wreck - the Fulton, Ranger and Wash Honshell - assisted in raising the Williams. She was then placed on the ways for repairs; damage

Title: Alice Brown
Description: Empty coal tow. Upbound, Ohio River.

Title: Burning of steamers on the Ohio River at Cincinnati, May 12, 1869.
Date: 1869-05-29
Description: We illustrate on page 349 the disastrous conflagration which took place on the Ohio River, at Cincinnati, on the morning of May 12. A little before two o'clock a fire broke out in the Clifton, caused, it is supposed, by the upsetting of a lamp. Five steamers were lying in close proximity, and above these six others. In less than half an hour the six steamers below were destroyed, nearly all of

Title: Chartered Dredge Tender L. A. Fulton at Mustapha Island
Date: 1886-10-23
Description: The Little Andy Fulton of Louisville, KY., at midstream near Mustapha Island in the Ohio River.

Title: Ohio River, Ice Gorged at Mouth of Little Blue River.
Date: 1893-02-02
Description: #1021, Feb. 2, 1893. OHIO RIVER, Ice Gorged at Mouth of Little Blue River. 673 miles from Pittsburg.
Man standing behind part of ice flow.

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: Celebration at Opening of Davis Island Dam
Date: 1885-10-07
Description: Crowd gathered to view the opening of the Davis Island Dam. Many steamboats are lined up in the background.

Title: Vim
Description: The Vim was originally built as the Hattie Brown, a single deck sternwheeler at Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania in 1895. Her dimensions were:- 125 x 22.6 x 4.3 feet. She was built for J. W. Rice of Zanesville, Ohio and her engines came from the Lizzie Cassel. They were 12's with a 4-foot stroke. She ran various short trades on the Ohio River. The Hattie Brown was rebuilt at Jeffersonville, Indiana in

Title: Queen City
Description: down the Ohio somewhere between Pittsburgh and Cincinnati. They seem to be saying "Wish you were here." Too late: too late. But not too late for Grace and me to wish you and yours a Happy Voyage through 1961. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. The Ways.

Title: Ohio River Front in 1940, Cairo Waterfront in 1940
Date: 1940
Description: assembly of the state, March4, 1819, and named for William W. Alexander who lived at America. He was a practicing physician, a politician and public man. He was a member of the legislature in 1882 and 1840 and Speaker of the House in 1822 and 1824. The area of Alexander county is 220 square miles. Cairo yesterday was \"a town set down in a low, flat plain and surrounded by high levees from which one

Title: JOHN B. SMITH
Date: 1939
Description: 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.

Title: Virginia Stranded in Pomeroy Bend
Date: 1910
Description: The Virginia operated in the Pittsburgh-Cincinnatti trade along with the Keystone State, the Iron Queen, the Scotia, the Carrollton, the Hudson and the Queen City. She was owned by the Pittsburgh and Cincinnatti Packet Company. Her career seemed to have been a hectic one. In 1910 high water from the Kanawha River left her stranded up in a field a hundred yards from the river, high and dry in

Title: Virginia Sunk at Wellsville, Ohio
Description: Virginia steamboat sunk

Title: Cincinnati
Description: Photograph of the Cincinnati steamboat docked along the Cincinnati levee, crica 1925. The Central Bridge, or Cincinnati and Newport Bridge, stands in the background along with a view of the Cincinnati cityscape.

Title: Ohio River, Dredging at Mill Creek Bar
Date: 1893-06-29
Description: #1063, June 29, 1893. OHIO RIVER, Dredging at Mill Creek Bar. 140 miles from Pittsburg.
Dredges OHIO and OSWEGO at work in the river.

Title: Jim Wood
Date: 1917
Description: The Jim Wood sagging at Dam No. 33 on the Ohio River.

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