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130. Flatboat and Keelboats

Description: The image shows a keelboat in the center, with passengers and four men rowing on the one. On the roof a man plays a fiddle and another steers the keelboat. It is not possible to see how many people are on the keelboat to the back and left side of the image. In the front left corner is the flatboat. There are four men on the roof, one steersman, two rowers, and a fourth man gesturing at the people on the keelboat. The flat boat is loaded at its front with kegs and boxes.
Origin: 1979
Created By: Day, Stephen
Contributor(s): Fordyce, Jerry
Source: http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16066coll24/id/1374
Collection: Clark County Visual History
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Subjects: Transportation
Keelboats
Flatboats
Clark County (Indiana) -- History
Indiana -- Transportation -- History

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