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| Title | Morning Star |
| Date Original | 1901-1922 |
| Description | Photographic postcard of the Morning Star, a side wheel, wood hull packet steamboat built at Jeffersonville, Maryland in 1901. Captain Walter Blair purchased it in April 1910 and increased the length. He sold it in 1918 to Coney Island Co., Cincinnati, Ohio where it burned November 4, 1922. Caption on the front: The Morning Star. Davenport Iowa. 111. |
| Location Depicted | Davenport, Scott County, Iowa |
| Subject | Steamboats
Riverboats
Side wheelers
Morning Star (Steamboat)
Blair, Walter
Mississippi River
Davenport (Iowa)
Photographic postcards
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| Notes | Details about the steamboat were taken from "Way's Packet Directory, 1848-1983" compiled by Frederick Way Jr., and published by Ohio University, 1983, page 332. |
| Ordering Information | Please contact Davenport Public Library at (563) 326-7902 or specialcollections@davenportlibrary.com. |
| Image Number | VM89-002091 |
| Repository | Richardson-Sloane Special Collections Center, Davenport Public Library, 321 Main Street, Davenport, Iowa 52801 |
| Repository Collection | Davenport Chamber of Commerce Photograph Collection |
| Object Description | 1 postcard : col. ; 4 x 6 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Digital image captured using a Microtek ScanMaker 9600XL with transparent media adapter. TIFF file created from a photographic postcard scanned at 24-bit true color RGB 1200ppi. |
| Date Digital | 2003-03-14 |
| Publisher | Norton's Photo Cedar Rapids |
| File Name | dplVM89-002091 |
| CD Volume Name | DPLVolume3 |
| Original Database | This record is from the Upper Mississippi Valley Digital Image Archive, http://www.umvphotoarchive.org, a collaborative project of cultural heritage organizations in the Iowa-Illinois Mississippi River region. |
