The Fred Lambert Collection consists primarily of notebooks containing information on families and local history of Cabell and Wayne Counties, West Virginia. Included are cemetery readings, copies of deeds, wills, indentures, newspaper articles, research notes and notes of interviews conducted by Mr. Lambert of Cabell County residents. Material on Lincoln, Logan, Mason, Kanawha, and Boone Counties is also included.
A full index and guide to the Fred B. Lambert Collection can be found on our guides to collections page.
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The digitized items here do not represent the entirety of the Fred B. Lambert Papers, 1809-1964. To view what other materials are in this collection but not yet digitized and available online, search the guide to the Fred B. Lambert Papers, 1809-1964.
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Steam towboat Beulah Brown near Paintsville, Ky., 1900,
Steam towboat Beulah Brown near Paintsville, Ky., 1900, image in black and white. Date is approximate. Back reads: Beulah Brown, taken near Paintsville [Ky] on Levisa Fork.
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Steam towboat Defender pushing coal barges, ca. 1900
Steam towboat Defender pushing coal barges, ca. 1900, image in black and white. Date is approximate. Back reads: Defender
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Steam towboat E. R. Andrews, ca. 1900,
Steam towboat E. R. Andrews, ca. 1900, image in black and white. Date is approximate. Back reads: E. R. Andrews
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Steam towboat General Wood
Steam towboat General Wood, image in black and white. Date is approximate. Back rfeads: General Wood
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Steam towboat Helen E., ca. 1915,
Steam towboat Helen E., ca. 1915, image in black and white. Date is approximate. Back rfeads: Helen E. (later converted to a towboat and renamed the Clairmont)
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Steam towboat Iron Age, lowering its stacks, ca. 1909
Steam towboat Iron Age, lowering its stacks, ca. 1909 , image in black and white. Date is approximate. Back reads: (note from Fred Way to Earl Cooper, xmas 1952) (Steam boats had to drop their tall smokestacks to go under some low bridges.) Built at Freedom, Pa., 1880. Dismangled 1909.
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Steam towboat "J.B. Lewis"
Steam towboat "J.B. Lewis",17.5x12.5cm Date is approximate. a sternwheel steam towboat built Elizabeth, Pa., 1900. Towed Kanawha River coal to Cincinnati. Lost in a storm on the Atchafalaya River, 1926.
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Steam towboat Liberty , ca. 1912
Steam towboat Liberty , ca. 1912 , image in black and white. Date is approximate. Several boats with this name running at the same time. This one is most likely the one built 1912 at Clarington, Ohio..Served both as a packet boat and a towboat. Ran to Charleston and Parkersburg. Dismantled 1938.
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Steam towboat Liberty , ca. 1912
Steam towboat Liberty , ca. 1912 , image in black and white. Date is approximate. Several boats with this name. This one is most likely the one built 1912 at Clarington, Ohio..Served both as a packet boat and a towboat. Ran to Charleston and Parkersburg. Dismantled 1938.
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Steam towboat Lucille Nowland, ca. 1900
Steam towboat Lucille Nowland, ca. 1900 , image in black and white. Date is approximate. Back reads: Lucille Nowland (probably docked at Cincinatti)
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Steam towboat Monie Bauer, ca. 1900
Steam towboat Monie Bauer, mounted on cardboard, ca. 1900, image in black and white. Date is approximate. Back reads: Monie Bauer
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Steam towboat Oakland, ca. 1900
Steam towboat Oakland, ca. 1900 , image in black and white. Back reads: Oakland (sign on boat says it was out of Pittsburgh)
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Steam towboat Otto Marmet, ca. 1910
Steam towboat Otto Marmet, ca. 1910, image in black and white. Date is approximate. Back reads: Otto marmet (based out of Cincinnatti, Oh)
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Steam towboat pushing log raft on Tug River, ca. 1900
Steam towboat pushing log raft on Tug River, ca. 1900 , image in black and white. Date is approximate. Back reads: Thealka?
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Steam Towboat Raymond Horner, ca. 1917.
Steam Towboat Raymond Horner, ca. 1917, image in black and white. Date is approximate. Back rfeads: Raymond Horner
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Steam towboat "Sea Lion"
Steam towboat "Sea Lion",18x12.7cm built Wheeling, W.Va., 1880. Towed logs on Big Sandy River 1890's. Owned by Capt. Ellis Mace 1906-1917. Burned at Boone's Ferry, Ky., 1919.
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Steam towboat "Sprague"
Steam towboat "Sprague",17.5x10cm Date is approximate. Sternwheel towboat built Dubuque, Ia., 1902. Ran coal barges on Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. Put on display in Vicksburg in 1948. Loaned to Pittsburgh 1959. Burned 1974.
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Steam towboat Telephone, ca. 1900
Karl Kemp
Steam towboat Telephone, ca. 1900, image in black and white.. Date is estimated to be circa 1900. Back reads: Telephone, with stamp of Karl Kemp, photographer, Ironton, Ohio (This is probably the boat built Knoxville 1894, and ran until 1908.)
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Steam towboat Victor, pushing barges on the Ohio River
Steam towboat Victor, pushing barges on the Ohio River, image in black and white. Date is approximate.
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Steam towboat Victor, pushing barges on the Ohio River
Steam towboat Victor, pushing barges on the Ohio River, image in black and white. Date is approximate.
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Steam towboat Vixen, ca. 1900
Steam towboat Vixen, ca. 1900 , image in black and white. Date is approximate. Back reads: Vixen
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Steam towboat Vixen, ca. 1940
Steam towboat Vixen, ca. 1940 image in black and white. Date is approximate. Back reads: Vixen
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Steam towboat Winifrede, ca. 1905
Steam towboat Winifrede, ca. 1905, image in black and white. mounted on cardboard Back reads: Winifrede (notice the W between the smokestacks) (Built Marietta, OH., 1903, sank in 1920, rebuilt as the C. F. Colbert.)
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Sternwheel towboat Arthur Hider, ca. 1940
Sternwheel towboat Arthur Hider, ca. 1940 , image in black and white. Date is approximate. Back reads: Arthur Hider
