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Title

Steamboat Joe Fowler

Creator

Marshall University

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Photo Identifier

1978.01.0236.01.13.01

Creation Date

1900

Description and Location

ca. 1900

Steamboat Joe Fowler.

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