Description: This photograph shows the "Tom Greene" sternwheeler on the Ohio River in southern Ohio. Steamboats revolutionized river travel during the first half of the nineteenth century. Although early Ohioans used the Ohio River to transport agricultural goods and manufactured products even prior to the invention of the steamboat, certainly their advent made travel easier. The steam engine meant that humans no longer had to power the boat themselves, and movement upstream became much easier. As a result of this new technology, river travel increased even more over time. Beginning in the 1850s, railroads provided competition for the Ohio River trade but never replaced it entirely. In the twentieth century, barges carrying coal and other materials replaced steamboats. Now steamboats are primarily a tourist attraction, carrying passengers on short trips along the river. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07964
Subjects: Steamboats; Ohio River; Entertainment; Summer
Places: Ohio
 

Description: This is a photo of two steamboats. They may be on the Ohio River, although it is unclear. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F01_045_001
Subjects: Steamboats; Ohio River
Places: Ohio
 

Description: First Fulton boat built in America, from "The American Pioneer," ca. 1800-1809. Robert Fulton (1765-1815) was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and was an accomplished artist. He moved on to designing ships for navies, including the British, French, and Americans, who found his submarine design very useful. He eventually settled on steamboats and designed the Clermont, the first commercially-viable steamboat (others had dreamed of it before, but his was the only design to be economical enough). He also constructed the first steamboat to travel on the Ohio River, known as the New Orleans. His work revolutionized water traffic, helping to move Ohioans from a subsistence to a commercial economy. "The American Pioneer" was described as "a monthly periodical devoted to the objects of the Logan Historical Society, or to collecting and publishing sketches relative to the early settlement and successive improvement of the country." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04040
Subjects: Steamboats; Ohio Economy--Transportation and Development; Rivers--Ohio
 

Description: Notes: Sinclair - Valentine Graunne(?) Green Black #03774-B. top photo: Cincinnati's public landing looking upstream. Notes: New England E. V. White 60# bottom photo: Wharf at Cincinnati (public landing) looking downstream with Roebling Suspension Bridge in the background. Cincinnati's Public Landing, located at the end of Broadway, is a granite slab extending down the bank. During the Riverboat Era Cincinnati was the largest city west of Pittsburgh. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B13F09_006_001
Subjects: Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Steamboats; Ohio River
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Lithograph illustration of Pittsburg Landing, the scene of the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee on January 19, 1862. The battle was named for the nearby Shiloh Methodist Church. This lithograph was created from an original sketch by Alfred E. Mathews of the 31st Regiment O.V.I., May 1862. Numerous steamboats can be seen along the shore, including the Silver Moon and the Glendale, and military tents can be seen in the distance. Mathews (1831-1874) was born in Bristol, England, but moved with his family to settle in Rochester, Ohio, when he was two years old. He was working as a schoolteacher in Alabama when the Civil War broke out, and returned north to enlist in the 1st Ohio Artillery in August 1861. He later joined the 31st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and fought in battles including Corinth, Stone River, Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge. During his three-year enlistment he drew numerous sketches of scenes he witnessed, which were made into lithographs and sold, including publication in Harper's Weekly. He moved west following the war and continued his work as an artist, until his sudden death at the age of 43. He is buried on his ranch near Longmount, Colorado. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08611
Subjects: Civil War 1861-1865; Shiloh, Battle of, Tenn., 1862; Battlefields; Steamboats; Military encampments
Places: Tennessee
 

Description: Dated ca. 1935-1940, this photograph shows cars being transported on the Ohio River on a Greene Line steamboat. Greene Line Steamboats was a steamboat line owned and operated by Captains Gordon and Mary Greene out of Cincinnati, Ohio. Gordon died in 1927, and Mary in 1944, which left the company to their two sons Christopher and Thomas. This photograph is one of the many visual materials collected for use in the Ohio Guide. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration by executive order to create jobs for the large numbers of unemployed laborers, as well as artists, musicians, actors, and writers. The Federal Arts Program, a sector of the Works Progress Administration, included the Federal Writers’ Project, one of the primary goals of which was to complete the America Guide series, a series of guidebooks for each state which included state history, art, architecture, music, literature, and points of interest to the major cities and tours throughout the state. Work on the Ohio Guide began in 1935 with the publication of several pamphlets and brochures. The Reorganization Act of 1939 consolidated the Works Progress Administration and other agencies into the Federal Works Administration, and the Federal Writers’ Project became the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio. The final product was published in 1940 and went through several editions. The Ohio Guide Collection consists of 4,769 photographs collected for use in Ohio Guide and other publications of the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio from 1935-1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F01_037_001
Subjects: Ohio River; Steamboats; Cars (Automobiles); Transportation--Ohio; Ohio River
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Riverboats" This is a photo of two riverboats on the Ohio River. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F01_047_001
Subjects: Steamboats; Ohio River
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Dated ca. 1935-1940, this photograph shows the Cary-Bird stern-wheel paddle boat in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Cary-Bird was a steam boat from Greene Line Steamboats, a steamboat line owned and operated by Captains Gordon and Mary Greene out of Cincinnati, Ohio. Gordon died in 1927, and Mary in 1944, which left the company to their two sons Christopher and Thomas. This photograph is one of the many visual materials collected for use in the Ohio Guide. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration by executive order to create jobs for the large numbers of unemployed laborers, as well as artists, musicians, actors, and writers. The Federal Arts Program, a sector of the Works Progress Administration, included the Federal Writers’ Project, one of the primary goals of which was to complete the America Guide series, a series of guidebooks for each state which included state history, art, architecture, music, literature, and points of interest to the major cities and tours throughout the state. Work on the Ohio Guide began in 1935 with the publication of several pamphlets and brochures. The Reorganization Act of 1939 consolidated the Works Progress Administration and other agencies into the Federal Works Administration, and the Federal Writers’ Project became the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio. The final product was published in 1940 and went through several editions. The Ohio Guide Collection consists of 4,769 photographs collected for use in Ohio Guide and other publications of the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio from 1935-1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F01_049_001
Subjects: Ohio River; Steamboats; Cars (Automobiles); Transportation--Ohio; Ohio River
Places: Ohio
 

Description: This appears to be a photo of an older photo. The side of the Steamboat Passenger Office reads, in part: "Cincinnati, Memphis, New Orleans" View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F12_018_001
Subjects: Steamboats; Ohio River
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Heading reads "Cincinnati Enquirer, Sesqui-Centential Edition, October 12, 1938" Caption reads "From Newport. Steam ferries still plied between Cincinnati, Covington, and Newport in 1849, before any bridges were built connecting the three cities." This photograph (ca. 1935-1943) is of an engraving in a newspaper of steamboats along the Ohio River. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F01_019
Subjects: Steamboats--Ohio River--History; Ferries; Cincinnati (Ohio)--History; Cincinnati (Ohio)--Newspapers; Cincinnati enquirer
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: This engraving shows an early type of steamboat that applies the basic principles of steam locomotion to water transportation. First developed and patented in the 1700s, steamboats were an important means of transportation in the United States during the 19th century, moving goods and people on rivers, lakes, and canals. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC181_01
Subjects: Steamboats; Ohio Economy--Transportation and Development; Rivers; Boats and boating;
 

Description: Owned by the Ohio River Company, the John J. Rowe was a stern wheeler that carried freight up and down the Ohio River. It was built in 1963 in Neville Island, Pennsylvania. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08026
Subjects: Steamboats; Ohio River; Ohio Economy--Transportation and Development
Places: Ohio River