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United States Life Saving Service, Station 10, member William Devan
Member of the United States Life Saving Service, Station No. 10, which used rowboats to reach the scenes of accidents. -
United States Life Saving Service, Station 10, member Edward Treager
Member of the United States Life Saving Service, Station No. 10, which used rowboats to reach the scenes of accidents. -
United States Life Saving Service, Station 10, member Henry Schuck
Member of the United States Life Saving Service, Station No. 10, which used rowboats to reach the scenes of accidents. -
United States Life Saving Service, Station 10, member William Drazel
Member of the United States Life Saving Service, Station No. 10, which used rowboats to reach the scenes of accidents. -
United States Life Saving Service, Station 10, member Edward Farrell
Member of the United States Life Saving Service, Station No. 10, which used rowboats to reach the scenes of accidents. -
United States Life Saving Service, Station 10, Boatman Comly/Connely(?)
Member of the United States Life Saving Service, Station No. 10, which used rowboats to reach the scenes of accidents. -
United States Life Saving Service, Station 10, member Henry Schuck
Member of the United States Life Saving Service, Station No. 10, which used rowboats to reach the scenes of accidents. -
Show Boat Majestic Advertising Circular, no date
Advertising circular for a Western Comedy on the Show Boat Majestic. -
Depiction of Cincinnati in the year 1800, printed 1880
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)Tags faw object -
Flat-Boat Life on the Ohio – Scene on a Boat at the Opening of Navigation
Print from Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper featuring a scene on a family boat at the opening of navigation. -
Emigrants Passing Down the Ohio, 1883
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. -
Pastime Boat Club Cruising Area, no date
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. -
Jeffersonville Motor Boat Club, July 1919
Image of the Jeffersonville Motor Boat Club from July 1919. -
River Outing, ca. 1910
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. -
The Boat Harbor at Tow Head Island, Louisville, Ky, 1938
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. -
View of Cairo, Junction of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, 1856
Engraving from Ballou’s Pictorial Drawing Room Companion of a scene from Cairo, Illinois. This scene encompasses almost every facet of working on the river. Shantyboats, steamboats, fishing boat, flatboats, and wharf boats all go about their business. But an upcoming mode of transportation and transport included in the image portends the decline of the steamboat – the railroad. -
The Valley View Ferry Julia, Kentucky River, 1959
Shantyboats were part of river life not only on major rivers like the Ohio but on their tributaries also, as depicted in this Hagerman etching. -
Ohio River Ferry, at Carrollton, Kentucky
Postcard image of an Ohio River Ferry at Carrollton, KY. -
Steamboat Office of Old Wharf Boat, The Levee, 1935
Drawing by Glen Tracy of the Steamboat Office Old Wharf Boat, The Levee -
Roustabout Songs: A Collection of Ohio River Valley Songs Booklet, 1939
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.