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Title
City
of
Louisville
Steamboat
Photograph
Subject
Transportation
Steamboats
Boats
Place
Cincinnati (Ohio)
Hamilton County (Ohio)
Description
This
9.24
x
6.52-inch
(23.46
x
16.56
cm)
photograph
of the
side-wheel
packet
City
of
Louisville
was
taken
at
Cincinnati
by
local
black
photographer
Richard
L
.
Hunster
. The
John
A.
Roebling
Suspension
Bridge
,
which
shows
at the
right
, was
being
remodeled
at the
time
. The
City
of
Louisville
was
built
in
1894
at
Jeffersonville
,
Indiana
by the
Louisville
and
Cincinnati
Packet
Co
. In
1894
she
made
a
record
run
from
Louisville
to
Cincinnati
in
9
hours
and
42
minutes
,
which
is
a
speed
record
that has
never
been
equaled
.
Two
years
later
, she
made
another
record
run
when
she
traveled
from
Cincinnati
to
Louisville
in
5
hours
and
58
minutes
. The
City
of
Louisville
was
crushed
by
ice
at
Cincinnati
in
1918
. As
steamboats
replaced
flatboats
and
keelboats
as the
major
mode
of
river
transportation
,
travel
along
the
Ohio
River
became
faster
and
easier
. By the
middle
of the
nineteenth
century
,
more
than
3,000
steamboats
arrived
each
year
at the
port
of
Cincinnati
. The
city's
prominent
location
along
the
river
contributed
to its
rapid
growth
, and by
1850
Cincinnati
became
the
sixth
largest
city
in the
country
. The
development
of
railroads
slowly
led
to the
decline
of
steamboats
. They
continued
to
operate
on the
Ohio
River
, but their
numbers
dwindled
. This
photograph
is
only
a
sample
of the
approximately
8,000
images
collected
by
Captain
Frederick
Way
,
Jr
. of
scenes
along
the
Ohio
and
Mississippi
River
system
.
Creator
Hunster, Richard L., 1862-1928
Way Collection of Photographs
Date of Original
1896
Source
Audiovisual material
Submitting Institution
Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County
Rights
For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at
http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html;
Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to
http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type
StillImage
File Name
Om250_742172_018.tif
Image Height
2611
Image Width
3699
File Size
1394.514 KB
Format
picture
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