Photo dated 1880s (Johnson’s Steamboat Museum 22)

Docked at Dress Plaza; photo dated April 21, 1960 (Knecht 739)

Docked at Dress Plaza (Johnson’s Steamboat Museum 9)

View from the top level of the Pagoda in Sunset Park; photo dated June 14, 1999 (21PC 51)

Photo taken near the Water Works (Ohio River in background); dated April 12, 1921 (Knecht 3805)

Travelers resting at the Spottsville Locks on the Green River in Kentucky; c. early 1900s (Payne 7)

(Kaylor 50)

C. late 1800s to early 1900s (Kaylor 21)

At Dress Plaza; photo taken by Bill Adkins on April 21, 1974 (Knecht 942)

Girl Scouts from Henderson, Ky., waiting to board the boat; photo dated April 25, 1962 (Knecht 738)

Date unknown (Johnson’s Steamboat Museum 24)

“The Lantana” docked in Evansville on Christmas Day, 1958 (Knecht 736)

Mammoth Cave route; c. 1905 (Kaylor 55)

Dining cabin; early 1900s (Kaylor 36)

Built for the Evansville, Green & Barren River Navigation Co. in 1880; rebuilt in 1906 and renamed the (fourth) Evansville (Kaylor 35)

Photo dated 1921 (Knecht 773)

Docked at Dress Plaza; c. 1950s (Johnson’s Steamboat Museum 16)

Docked at Dress Plaza; c. 1950s (Johnson’s Steamboat Museum 17)

Docked at Dress Plaza (boat in background unidentified); c. 1950s (Johnson’s Steamboat Museum 18)

Photo dated December 1936 (Knecht 2163)

Compass point; photo dated 1937 (Knecht 3657)

Renovation of the plaza in the summer of 1936; Keller-Crescent Printing Company and the McCurdy Hotel are in the background (Knecht 182)

Under construction; photo dated September 10, 1936 (Knecht 730)

C. 1925 (Knecht 3742)

Group aboard the “Wanderer; c. 1915 (Knecht 3743)

C. 1920s (Knecht 405)

Passengers disembarking from the “Evansville;” early 1900s (Kaylor 37)

Construction of the original bridge; c. early 1900s (Knecht 374)

A turn-of-the-century peddler’s barge (Payne 5)

Towboat “Margie W.;” c. 1920 (Sabel 18)

The “Margie W.;” c. 1920s (Sabel 18)

The Captain Henry Dexter monument sits in water at the riverfront during the flood’s crest; photo dated January 20, 1913 (Knecht 2028)

Built in Ohio in 1895; by 1929, sailed the Green River for the Evansville & Bowling Green Packet Co. (Kaylor 42)

Construction of the first dam below the town; early 1900s (Knecht 2160)

Houseboats on the Ohio River near Pigeon Creek; photo dated April 30, 1957 (John Koch 197)

Two houseboats on the Ohio River shortly before they were evicted from the area; photo dated April 30, 1957 (John Koch 198)

Part of an ice gorge that extended 96.7 miles from Uniontown, KY, to Rockport, Indiana; photo dated 1936 (Payne 6)

Photo dated February 10, 1897 (Payne 11)

C. 1920s-1930s (Johnson’s Steamboat Museum 10)

Docked at Dress Plaza; c. 1940 (Kaylor 24)

Renamed the Avalon in 1948; c. 1930s (Kaylor 9)

Evansville-Paducah-Cairo route; c. early 1900s (Kaylor 13)

C. 1890 (Kaylor 7)

C. 1890 (Kaylor 23)

C. 1890 (Kaylor 6)

C. early 1900s (Johnson’s Steamboat Museum 2)

Docked at Dress Plaza in the 1930s; destroyed by an explosion in 1947 (Kaylor 29)

Evansville to Paducah packet; early 1900s (Knecht 833)

Docked at Henderson, KY; c. early 1900s (Kaylor 16)

Early 1900s (Riggs 3)