Title	"Kentucky"
Subject	Steamboats; Riverboats; Madison, Indiana; Ohio River; "Kentucky"; Rivers
Description	If the "Delta Queen" was the swan of the Ohio, then the "Kentucky" was the Little Mud Hen. According to Way's Packet Directory, "the cabin was shifted out of plumb and leaned in a uniform stagger creating an optical illusion seen nowhere else except in a Fun House. She was slow, sloppy and if her smokestacks ever stood straight I never heard of it." It further states, "In several of the after rooms it was possible to look from a berth to the floor and see machinery working in the engine room below." Her one redeeming quality was that she made money and she made it consistently. When her parent company went out of business, the Greene Line took her over and quietly "chloroformed" her. The "Kentucky" was built at Madison, Indiana, in 1907.
Creator	Harry Lemen, photographer
Contributors	Jefferson County Historical Society; Madison-Jefferson County Public Library
Date	Photograph taken May 26, 1927
Type	Photograph
Format	Original: tif, scanned at 1200dpi with a MicroTek ScanMaker 9800XL. Online: jpg, saved at 72dpi.; Scan of 3x5 photograph
Identifier	MJCPLriver5021-strkentucky"
Source	Way's Packet Directory 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.