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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. -
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. -
Ohio River Ferry, at Carrollton, Kentucky
Postcard image of an Ohio River Ferry at Carrollton, KY. -
Watts Boat Rentals, Head of Twelve Mile Island, Ohio River, 1900
Photograph of Watts Boat Rentals along the Ohio River, 8 July 1900 -
Jack and Andy Skiff Rentals, Foot of Shelby Street, Louisville
Photograph of Jack and Andy Skiff Rentals near Shelby Street in Louisville, KY. -
French’s New Sensation Floating Theatre
Advertising circular for a vaudeville shows on an unknown boat, 1925. -
Show Boat Majestic Advertising Circular, 1940
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. -
Bryant’s Show Boat, 1928
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. -
Landmark at the Levee – Jeffersonville Ferry
Print titled Landmark at the Levee – Jeffersonville Ferry by Alexander J. Van Leshout (1868-1930). -
Unloading Sand Scows , ca. 1920s
Print titled Unloading Sand Scows by Alexander J. Van Leshout (1868-1930). Van Leshout documented a wide variety of city scenes in Odd Corners in Louisville. Among them were those representing the river front, an area where many a shantyboater found employment.