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Title
"
Queen
City
"
Subject
Steamboats
;
Mail
steamers
; "
Queen
City
";
Excursion
boats
;
Riverboats
;
Steamboat
accidents
Description
The "
Queen
City
" was
built
at
Cincinnati
Marine
Railways
for the
Pittsburg
and
Cincinnati
Packet
Line
.
Coming
back
from a
Mardi
Gras
trip
she
sank
at the
Falls
of the
Ohio
on
February
17
,
1914
. She
laid
up
in the
Kanawha
River
at
Point
Pleasant
until
1916
when
she
went
to
Louisville
and
ran
excursions
. She was
idled
again
until
the
Louisville
and
Cincinnati
Packet
Company
acquired
her and had her
towed
to
Mound
City
,
Illinois
where
she was
given
a
new
hull
. She
make
several
Mardi
Gras
runs
in the
1920s
and in
1929
was
transferred
to the
Ohio
River
Transportation
Company
. She
became
a
wharf
boat
at
Pittsburg
in
1933
. She
sank
in
January
of
1940
and her
remains
were
burned
the
following
February
. Her
roof
bell
is
now
on the
Delta
Queen
.
Creator
Harry Lemen, photographer
Contributors
Madison-Jefferson County Public Library; Jefferson County Historical Society
Date
Photograph taken 1920s
Type
Photograph
Format
Original: tif, scanned at 1200dpi with a MicroTek ScanMaker 9800XL. Online: jpg, saved at 72dpi.; Scan from black and white photograph.
Identifier
"MJCPLriver5106-queencity"
Source
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.
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