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Photo of crowd on the steamboat "Eleanor and Polk Badget"
Photographic Print, 1897
Moving Ties
Courtney Ellis Steamboat Collection mss 48, efc
Item/Collection Note: The Eleanor and Polk Badget at Bowling Green in 1897. In addition to providing recreational activities, the steamboats were the major shippers for the innumerable railroad ties transported on the Green and Barren rivers.





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