"Steamboat Betsy Ann" by Marshall University
 

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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

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Keywords

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

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