Advertising circular for Bryant's Show Boat. One didn’t have to travel to New York to see quality Broadway entertainment! George M. Cohan’s “Broadway Jones” was coming to an Ohio River landing near you.
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)
Image from Walter Whipple Spooner's "The Back-woodsmen : or, Tales of the Borders; a Collection of Historical and Authentic Accounts of Early Adventure Among the Indians." Engraved image features emigrants on a boat passing along on the Ohio River.
Hand drawn map of the cruising area of the Pastime Boat Club. The club usually cruised upriver from its Louisville base. Over the years, due to riverfront industrial development, population shifts to eastern Jefferson County, and a need for a good location for its headquarters, the club focused its activities on a stretch of the Ohio from Louisville to Westport.
Image of a group of people standing on a boat. Group outings were common, not only among the various boat clubs, but also for families and friends that enjoyed boating on the Ohio and its tributaries. Note the African American couple in the middle of the group. It is not known whether they owned or operated the craft, or if they accompanied the group as servants.
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.
This “daring, thrilling and frank expose of the activities of the . . . Gestapo” promised to reveal facts that the government had not yet released, and the press had not reported, on the Nazi’s Gestapo – and one could also enjoy vaudeville acts.