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[Stern Wheeler H.A. Harvey Jr.]

Description: Photo of the Stern Wheeler H.A. Harvey Jr. This boat set a speed record of four days for completing the trip from Magnolia in southern Anderson County to Galveston, while fully loaded with cotton and other freight. In the picture, the steamboat is shown tied up at the Commerce Street landing in Dallas. After plying the Trinity River for several years, it was sold and sailed to Louisiana in 1898 when Trinity River navigation died out.
Date: 1880~
Partner: Anderson County Historical Commission

[Steamboat Pearl Plant]

Description: Photograph of steamboat "Pearl Plant" near Front at Third Street. There are many people on the decks on the boat. The steamboat has two large smoke stacks. There is a man smoking a pipe on the bottom left of the photograph.
Date: [1880..1889]
Partner: Heritage House Museum

[Photograph of Borealis Rex Steamboat]

Description: Photograph of the Borealis Rex, a paddlewheel steamboat, anchored at a dock. The steamboat was constructed in 1888 and navigated routes between Lake Charles and Cameron, Louisiana until it was retired in 1930 and anchored at Lake Charles.
Date: [1888..1930]
Creator: Fisher, Larry Jene
Partner: Lamar University

Glass Slide of Men Fishing in the Lake of Tiberius

Description: A glass slide showing a photograph of five men pulling in fishing nets from a boat on the Lake of Tiberius (also known as the Sea of Galilee, Kinnereth, and Lake of Gennesaret) in Israel. The photograph is numbered No. 365, and was likely taken by a member of the American Colony, in Jerusalem.
Date: [1882..1929]
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library
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