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Title: Dick Fowler Bill of Lading
Date: 1898-04-19
Description: Bill of lading from the M. Michael & Bro. Co. of Paducah, Kentucky, for 1 box saddlery, 3 sacks collars, 1 bundle hames, and 1 package whips. Delivery by the M. Michael & Bro. Co., wholesale harness and saddlery, buggies, carts, etc. to St. Francis, Arkansas. July 19th, 1898.

Title: Tennessee Bill of Lading
Date: 1898-09-16
Description: Bill of lading for shipment on the steamboat Tennessee for delivery of goods to Jim White at Clifton, Tennessee. Goods were transported from Paducah, Kentucky, September 16, 1898. M. Michael & Bro. Co., wholesale harness and sadlery, buggies, carts, etc.

Title: Capitol
Date: 1939
Description: Excursion steamer CAPITOL drydocked at Paducah, Kentucky.

Title: Capitol
Date: 1939-10-04
Description: Excursion steamer CAPITOL drydocked at Paducah, Kentucky.

Title: Awaiting Repairs
Date: 1941-09-19
Description: and used her as a tourist boat. She sank below Grand Tower, Illinois, on May 19, 1947. A. I. Baker: Origin rather indefinite but she was an old time small towboat rebuilt and renamed the repeatedly until she became the A. I. Baker in 1923. She was long owned and operated by the Ayer and Lord Tie Co. of Paducah, Ky. She was dismantled in 1943 by her then owners, the Lea River Lines. Iren Chotin: A

Title: Thomas Sherlock Bill of Lading
Date: 1874-03-01
Description: Receipt of goods from commisions agent Jos. Macheca & Co. for delivery from Cincinnati, Ohio to Paducah, Kentucky aboard the steamer Thomas Sherlock, 1874.

Title: Steamboats on Marine Ways, Paducah, Kentucky
Description: Kentucky - James Moren - General John Coffee - Paducah - George Cowling - W. J. Jackson, Magazine clipping on back about Ayer & Lord Marine Ways in Paducah, Ky - a boat and barge construction and repair facility.

Title: The Waterways Journal, Volume 22, Number 18
Date: 1909-07-31,
Description: Vol. XXII, No. 18. The Problem of Transportation. Big Peoria Regatta. Paducah Dry Docks Sold.

Title: Capitol Sternwheel
Date: 1929-11-14
Description: Str. Capitol Paducah Ky Nov. 14-29 new Wheel Port Side

Title: Capitol, Wheel Rebuilding
Date: 1929-10-07
Description: New wheel shaft for Str. Capitol being put in place

Title: The Waterways Journal, Volume 39, Number 28
Date: 1926-10-09
Description: Vol. XXXIX, No. 27. Includes the program for the Ohio Valley Improvement Association's 32nd Annual Convention in Paducah, Kentucky, which took place on October 11 and 12, 1926.

Title: The Waterways Journal, Volume 39, Number 27
Date: 1926-10-02
Description: Vol. XXXIX, No. 27. Announces meeting of the Ohio Valley Improvement Association in Paducah, Kentucky on October 11 and 12 of 1926. Retrospective account of the river career of Commodore F. A. Laidley, the former president of the Louisville & Cincinnati Packet Company.

Title: Homer Smith
Description: Sternwheeler excursion packet Homer Smith boarding passengers at Paducah.

Title: Capitol
Date: 1939
Description: Excursion steamer CAPITOL drydocked at Paducah, Kentucky.

Title: Buckeye State Bill of Lading
Date: 1898
Description: Bill of lading for shipment on the steamboat Buckeye State, for delivery of 1 box of saddlery. Goods were transported from Paducah, Kentucky to Wrightsville, Missouri, 1898. M. Michael & Bro. Co., wholesale harness and sadlery, buggies, carts, etc.

Title: Jo Horton Fall
Description: The Jo Horton Fall was built in 1913 at Jeffersonville, Indiana and was 158 feet in length, 28 feet beam, and 4 feet depth of hold. She ran in the Ryman Line on the Cumberland River, and made frequent trips to Burnside, Kentucky. Later operated by H. G. Hill, Esq. of Nashville, Tennessee and sold about 1932 to Captain Peters Lee of Memphis and converted into an excursion boat called Valley Queen

Title: Ayer and Lord Marine Ways
Description: Ayer and Lord Marine Ways at Paducah, Kentucky, have specialized in the building and repairing of all types of river craft for more than twenty years. Twelve cradles are available; length of space is about 800 feet. As many as seven boats have been on the ways at one time. Boats up to 1200 tons weight can be accomdated. The woodworking ship including equipment for fabrication of all parts needed

Title: Saint Paul
Date: 1940-03
Description: Excursion steamer ST. PAUL laid up for repairs at Paducah, Ky. Aft end of boat shortened for handling in upper Mississippi River.

Title: Capitol, Wheel Rebuilding
Date: 1929-10-07
Description: Unloading and rolling the wheelshaft to Str. Capitol

Title: Letter from Captain Enos B. Moore to His Brother About the Cost of Boat Repairs 1858
Date: 1858-07-6
Description: approximately 42 inches. The prospect for business looked gloomy. When the boat was complete, she would have cost about sixty-one thousand, which was a good deal of money. Moore writes that he put in $16,852 and Duvall $11,208. He offered his brother William a share in the cost of the boat.

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