Title	"Water Queen" and "Grace Devers"
Subject	Showboats; Tugboats; Towboats; Swanson, Gloria; Stage Struck; Calliopes; "Grace Devers"; "Water Queen"
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.
Creator	Harry Lemen, photographer
Contributors	Madison-Jefferson County Public Library; Jefferson County Historical Society
Date	Photograph taken circa 1927
Type	Photograph
Format	Original: tif, scanned at 1200dpi with a MicroTek ScanMaker 9800XL. Online: jpg, saved at 72dpi.; Scan of 3x5 photograph
Identifier	"MJCPLriver5135-gracedevers"
Source	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
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.