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The Delta Queen, a modern steamboat offering passenger cruises on the Mississippi...
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As farming in the Mississippi Valley increased, steamboats began carrying crops down...
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Steamers Robert E. Lee and the Natchez in the race from New Orleans...
BBC Hulton Picture Library
The interior of the J.M. White, a Mississippi steamboat.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
A replica of Robert Fulton's Clermont, the first commercially successful steamboat,...
George Grantham Bain Collection/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-DIG-ggbain-00005)
Illustration of an early version of John Fitch's steamboat.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The earliest model of John Fitch's steamboat, on the Delaware River at Philadelphia....
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (neg. no. LC-USZ62-1362)
Steamboat taking on wood on the banks of the Mississippi River, 1829.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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