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Photo Identifier

1978.01.0236.01.04.03

Creation Date

1900

Description and Location

ca. 1900

Steamboat Betsy Ann, a sternwheel, iron hull, packet boat, built Dubuque, Iowa, 1899.

Ran Pittsburgh to Portsmouth, Ohio, and Pittsburgh to Cincinnati.

Dismantled in 1940.

Fred Way wrote a book about her, titled: “The Log of the Betsy Ann.”

Transportation Category

River (ferryboats, steamboats, towboats, wharfboats)

Media Format

Photographic print copy

Keywords

steamboats, Betsy Ann, Ohio River, Fred Way, “Log of the Betsy Ann”

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