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Photo Identifier

1978.01.0236.01.13.04

Creation Date

1912

Description and Location

1912-1913

Steamboat Joe Fowler, at Wheeling, W.Va.

She was a sternwheel packet boat built at Jeffersonville, Indiana, 1888.

Received new boilers in 1914.

Converted to an excursion boat in 1917, and renamed the Crescent.

Transportation Category

River (ferryboats, steamboats, towboats, wharfboats)

Media Format

Photographic print copy

Keywords

steamboats, Joe Fowler, Crescent, Ohio River, Wheeling, W.Va.

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