Cover and interior page for Roustabout Songs: A Collection of Ohio River Valley Songs by Mary Wheeler and William J. Reddick. The interior page Interior page from the Roustabout Songs sheet music booklet shows some of the African American river workers and musicians connected to the songs.
The Towhead Island harbor area transitioned over this approximate forty-year period from a combination of industrial and residential use to one of residential and pleasure craft.
Print featuring boats along the Ohio River in Cincinnati in 1800. Illustration from an July 14, 1888 issue of Frank Leslie's Illustrirte Beitung (in German)