COLLECTION NAME:
Mary Wheeler Collection
Record
Filename:
MW.B4.F20.022(i).tif
Identifier:
MW.B4.F20.022(i)
Title:
Sw. New South
Subject:
Rivers
Subject:
Steamboats
Subject:
River industry
Description:
A photograph of the starboard side of the side wheeler NEW SOUTH (Way# 4189). According to Way's Packet Director, 1848-1983, the NEW SOUTH, a side wheel packet boat with a wooden hull (247 x 42.6 x 7), was built in 1887 by Howard Ship Yard in Jeffersonville, IN. Built for Shelby and Perkins of Henderson, KY, the NEW SOUTH ran in the Evansville-St. Louis, Louisville-Cincinnati, and Cincinnati-Memphis trades. She ran a number of trips to Mardi Gras before being dismantled around 1905 in Madison, IN. The back of this photograph reads in unknown handwriting, "The New South, ready to take on a cargo of hogsheads of tobacco."
Publisher:
McCracken County Public Library
Contributor:
Wheeler, Mary (1892-1979)
Date:
Circa 1935
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Image/TIFF
Language:
English
Coverage:
Lower Ohio River Valley
Rights:
Permission must be obtained from the McCracken County Public Library, Local and Family History Department
Citation:
Ancestry Library Edition. ProQuest, n.d. Web. Caron's Directory of the City of Paducah, KY. Louisville, KY: Caron Directory Company Inc., 1908-1959. Print. "Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records." Web. 2014. "Paducahky.gov." Oak Grove Cemetery. City of Paducah. Web. 2014. Way, Frederick, Jr. Way�s Packet Directory, 1848-1983. Athens, OH: Sons and Daughters of Pioneer Rivermen, 1983. Print. Way, Frederick, and Joseph W. Rutter. Way's Steam Towboat Directory. Athens: Ohio UP, 1990. Print. Wheeler, Mary. Steamboatin� Days: Folk Songs of the River Packet Era. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1944. Print. 1860-1940 U.S. Census, population schedule, digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com)
