![]() Keith Johnson, a photography instructor, has bequeathed to us prints from his rare, antique glass plate negatives. He has identified this one as a photo of the City of Peoria. According to Fred Way's steamboat guide, there were two boats named City of Peoria. The first one was built in Peoria, Illinois in 1872; weighed 4.33 tons. In 1874, owned by Jacob Schafer, registered at St. Louis. Still documented 1876. The second was a sternwheeler, built in Jeffersonville, Indiana, by Howard, 1892. It was 130 x 26 x 4.5. Engines, 13's - 6ft. Three boilers, 34" by 20 ft. Owned by Capt. Sol York, in Peoria-Henry trade. Later owned by G.M. Sivley and others. Ran New Orleans-Bayou Teche November 1910, Capt. Warren Kounz, pilot. Capt. W.L. Berry, Paducha, bought her at a U.S. marshal sale fall 1913. Burned at Cairo, Illinois, Sept 7, 1914. The machinery was taken to Paducha and put on towboat White Spot built there that fall. ![]() Another print from Keith's glass plate negatives, this one of a man standing on the boat. ![]() |