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Title	"Water Queen" and "Grace Devers"
Description	The showboat, "Water Queen" was once host to, and co-star with, Gloria Swanson during the filming of 'Stage Struck'. The "Water Queen" looks like anything but a movie star while resting along side the levee at Madison, Indiana. She sank at her winter moorings in the mouth of the Kanawha River in West Virginia in 1939. Her calliope was rescued and, by a circuitous route, wound up in the "Delta Queen" in 1958. The "Grace Devers" is the tow for the "Water Queen". The "Grace Devers" was built from the "C. C. Bower" after the "Bower" was salvaged at Rampey's Landing, Kentucky. She made many trips to and from cities up and down the river, including Evansville, Paduca and Nashville. She started towing showboats in 1925. She acted as tow for the showboat "Cotton Blossom" for a time. Photograph taken circa 1927
Creator	Harry Lemen, photographer
Date	1927
Subject	Showboats; Tugboats; Towboats; Swanson, Gloria; Stage Struck; Calliopes; "Grace Devers"; "Water Queen"
Type	image; photograph
Format	Original: tif, scanned at 1200dpi with a MicroTek ScanMaker 9800XL. Online: jpg, saved at 72dpi.; Scan of 3x5 photograph
Rights	Permission to reproduce this image for other than personal use must be requested from the Director of the Madison-Jefferson County Public Library. Please contact at 420 W. Main St., Madison, IN 47250 (812) 265-2744.
Source	Madison-Jefferson County Public Library
Identifier	"MJCPLriver5135-gracedevers"
Notes	Metadata resources: Way's Steam Towboat Directory; Mathew T. Patton "Dycusburg History Overview" at www.dycusburg.com, www.foxtail.com; www.culture.org; MJCPL Historical Files; Harry Lemen Collection of the Madison-Jefferson County Public Library