Stored in a Cape Girardeau chicken house for about half a century, the 6-foot-long wooden model of a side-wheeler steamboat was in ruin when Jo Renfrow started looking for a new home for the creation.

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IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. It represents a very historic boiler ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - An Illinois teacher who spent two years creating a replica of an 1865 steamboat is donating the 14-foot model to a historical group in eastern Arkansas. Gene Salecker of River ...

This intricate model of the steamboat G.W. Hill commemorates La Crosse’s river history in a big way. The model is 10 feet long, 3 feet tall, 2 feet wide, and was constructed more than 60 years ago by ...

Burl Cain, warden of Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, spoke to the Monroe Rotary Club Thursday and presented a model steamboat to the Cooley House. The Cooley House was designed for G.B. Cooley ...

William R. Sharpe, Alfred Thomas and Richard Holcomb proposed running a steamboat on the Delaware River from Port Jervis, N.Y., to Belvidere. It would carry passengers and produce to various docks ...