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Steam packet "Joe Fowler" on the shore of the Ohio River with passengers posing for their portrait.

1. Steamboat Joe Fowler, Ohio River

Steam packet "City of Wheeling" conveying church goers on a Sunday school excursion.  This picture shows the boat "docked" on the shore of the Ohio River at Narrow's Run.

2. Steamboat City of Wheeling on Ohio River

3. Steamboat and Barges on the Ohio River

4. Steamboat Jim Wood on Ohio River near Wheeling, W. Va.

View of the Sunshine Steamboat on the Ohio River.

5. Steamboat Sunshine on the Ohio River, W. Va.

Not to be used for commercial purposes before 1985/04/01.

6. Steamboat Kanawha on the Ohio River

Not to be used for commercial purposes before 1985/04/01.

7. Steamboat Queen City on the Ohio River

'Ike Bonham built Mason City, West Va, 1878, operated as a Packet in the Vicksburg Miss-Davis Bend, Big Black, Sunflower, and Yazoo River trades- Exploded, Bedfords Point (below Vicksburg)- March 13, 1886- "Watchman William St Andrews, and five roustabouts were killed- Capt McElroy, Master, engineer, Girard, fireman Jim Alexander and others were scalded and injured.  The Str 'L. D. Sargeant' brought the injured to Vicksburg- The wreck drifted on a sandbar and sank in shallow water-  The vessel was raised, rebuilt, appearance changed, and ran as an excursion boat, New Orleans to Grand Isle, La.

8. Steamboat Ike Bonham on the Ohio River

9. Steamboat Royal on the Ohio River

10. Steamboats on the Ohio River

Union Gunboats, such as the one in this photograph, patrolled the Ohio River during the Civil War.

11. Union Navy Gunboat on Ohio River

A view of the flood of 1907 at Bellaire, Ohio.  The increasing water is about to swallow the railway.

12. Kanawha River Packet on the Ohio River during the Flood of 1907