Steamer Avalon #2: Interview and Memoir
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: O-ST31.2
Scope and Contents
STEAMBOATS AND INLAND RIVERS
Johnny Lawhead, ferry operator, and Emory Edgington, captain, each discuss their riverboat experiences. Lawhead discusses his ferry operation between Coney Island (near Cincinnati) and Brent, Kentucky. Edgington recalls experiences with steamboats, towboats, coal hauling, and weather on Ohio rivers.
2 tapes, 14 pp.
Interviews by John Knoepfle, 1957
OPEN: released by John Knoepfle
Dates
- Other: Dummy Date
Creator
- Steamer Avalon (Person)
Extent
3.00 items
Language of Materials
English
Creator
- Steamer Avalon (Person)
- Knoepfle, John (Person)
- Title
- Archon Finding Aid Title
- Description rules
- Other Unmapped
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
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- Language of description note
- und
Repository Details
Part of the UIS Archives/Special Collections Repository
Contact:
Archives/Special Collections LIB 144
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Archives/Special Collections LIB 144
One University Plaza, MS BRK 140
Springfield IL 62703-5407 US
217-206-6520
archives@uis.libanswers.com