Clipping from the Columbus, GA "Industrial Index" on June 27, 1956 showing the "Rebecca Everingham" steamboat, which burned at the Fitzgerald Landing on April 3, 1884
The caption under the picture reads: "Fine and flossy were many of the steamboats that plied the Chattahoochee River through the long decades when boating was a large and important industry in this section. This is a picture of the "new and elegant Steamer Rebecca Everingham of the Centra...
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Photographs Clipping from the Columbus, GA "Industrial Index" on June 27, 1956 showing the "Rebecca Everingham" steamboat, which burned at the Fitzgerald Landing on April 3, 1884 |
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The caption under the picture reads: "Fine and flossy were many of the steamboats that plied the Chattahoochee River through the long decades when boating was a large and important industry in this section. This is a picture of the "new and elegant Steamer Rebecca Everingham of the Central LIne of Steamers at Columbus, GA. Samuel J. Whiteside, General Agent; Geo. B. Whiteside, Secretary and Treasurer. The legend accompanying this gallant photograph: "Built at Columbus, Ga., 1880. Plies Chattahoochee, Flint and Apalachicola Rivers. Length 192 feet. Beam 28 feet. Bepth of hold, 5 fett, 3 inches. 28 State Rooms." The Rebecca Everingham burned at Fitzgerald Landing April 3, 1884, in one of the worst tragedies in the history of Chattahoochee River steamboating. Eight lives were lost." |
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Clipping from the Columbus, GA "Industrial Index" on June 27, 1956 showing the "Rebecca Everingham" steamboat, which burned at the Fitzgerald Landing on April 3, 1884SteamboatsChattahoochee RiverThe caption under the picture reads: "Fine and flossy were many of the steamboats that plied the Chattahoochee River through the long decades when boating was a large and important industry in this section. This is a picture of the "new and elegant Steamer Rebecca Everingham of the Central LIne of Steamers at Columbus, GA. Samuel J. Whiteside, General Agent; Geo. B. Whiteside, Secretary and Treasurer. The legend accompanying this gallant photograph: "Built at Columbus, Ga., 1880. Plies Chattahoochee, Flint and Apalachicola Rivers. Length 192 feet. Beam 28 feet. Bepth of hold, 5 fett, 3 inches. 28 State Rooms." The Rebecca Everingham burned at Fitzgerald Landing April 3, 1884, in one of the worst tragedies in the history of Chattahoochee River steamboating. Eight lives were lost."Industrial Index, Columbus, GAStill Imageprints (visual works)ee989af4-3bda-44d3-8ffa-6d28962231c7https://digitalcollections.samford.edu/documents/detail/24836https://images.quartexcollections.com/samford/thumbnails/preview/ee989af4-3bda-44d3-8ffa-6d28962231c7od-000753William H. Brantley CollectionEnglishThis digital image is the property of the Samford University Library and is intended for non-commercial use. Users of the image are asked to acknowledge the Special Collection, Samford University Library. For information about obtaining high-resolution copies of this or other images in this collection, please contact the Special Collection department at Samford University. (mailto:scdept@samford.edu) |
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Clipping from the Columbus, GA "Industrial Index" on June 27, 1956 showing the "Rebecca Everingham" steamboat, which burned at the Fitzgerald Landing on April 3, 1884 |
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Clipping from the Columbus, GA "Industrial Index" on June 27, 1956 showing the "Rebecca Everingham" steamboat, which burned at the Fitzgerald Landing on April 3, 1884 |
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Steamboats Chattahoochee River |
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