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Photo Identifier
1985/01.0405.03.15.01
Creation Date
1920
Description and Location
ca. 1920’s
Marshall College professor, Curtis Baxter, on gangplank (white straw hat) of the steamboat General Wood, ca. 1920’s.
The General Wood was a wooden-hull, sternwheel, packet steamboat built in 1913.
Ran from Pittsburgh to Cincinnati in the 1920’s and early 1930’s.
Sank in the ice in 1936.
Transportation Category
River (ferryboats, steamboats, towboats, wharves)
Media Format
photographic print
Keywords
steamboats, Ohio River, General Wood, Curtis Baxter
