house, a pilothouse and bridge, two masts, and one 

 stack. 



Model may be on a scale of % inch to the foot 

 making the measurements about 261 feet 10 inches 

 overall, 33 feet 4 inches beam and 23 feet 4 inches 

 depth. 



Given by U. S. Post Oflice Department. 



SIDE-WHEEL MISSISSIPPI RIVER STEAMER, 1871 

 Rigged Model, usnm 308426 



James Howard 



The flat-bottomed, side-wheel Mississippi River 

 steamer James Howard, was huilt at Jeffersonville, 

 Indiana, by the Howard Shipyards and Dock Com- 

 pany in 1871 for the St. Louis-New Orleans run. She 

 was intended to carry both freight and passengers as a 

 river packet and was the largest vessel of her type 

 when built. 



The model represents a wooden Mississippi Ri\er 

 steam packet having side paddle wheels and a straight 

 keel, slight sheer, curved upright stem, upright post 

 with round fantail counter, wide guards extending 

 out to outer face of wheelboxes, a sharp and long 

 entrance, and a short easy run. 



The wheels are about one-third the hull length from 

 the stern, and there is a two-deck house with a pilot's 

 wheelhouse on its roof ai^aft the twin stacks set abreast 

 one another. There is a short forward deck, and the 

 guards are carried fair from the bow to the fantail rim. 



The vessel was 330 feet long, 56 feet beam over the 

 guards, 10 feet depth, and had two engines with pis- 



RiGGED Model (USNM 308426) of the Mississippi 

 River packet steamer James Howard, built at Jeffer- 

 sonville, Indiana, 1871, for the St. Louis to New 

 Orleans run. (Smithsonian photo jog^g-b.) 



tons 34 inches in diameter by 10 feet stroke, 7 loco- 

 motive-type boilers 42 inches in diameter and 32 feet 

 long; the sidewheels were each 32 feet in diameter and 

 15 feet wide at the blades. Scale of the model is ^g 

 inch to the foot. 



Given by Howard Shipyards and Dock Company, 

 Jeffersonville, Indiana. 



SIDE-WHEEL OHIO RIVER STEAMER, 1892 

 Rigged Model, usnm 160323 



Grej Eagle 



The side-wheel wooden packet steamer Gxy Eagles 

 represented by this model, was built at Jeffersonville, 

 Indiana, in 1892 as a river packet and she ran for 

 some years on the Ohio River, between Louisville and 



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Ohio River Mail and Passenger Packet Grey Eagle, built at Jeffersonville, Indiana, in 1892, and employed 

 in the mail run between Louisville and Henderson. Rigged model LISNM 160323. (Smithsonian photo 23168.) 



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