Image from my collection
The Boaz
suffers from some serious condition issues I'm planning on completing and posting a restored version here later.
After a couple of dozen cotton balls and some 91% isopropyl alcohol I managed to clean off what can only be described as smoke damage from the picture. It was important to get a high resolution scan before doing such a hands on cleaning incase the image was destroyed. Thankfully all turned out ok and it's as clean as it's going to get manually. my feeling on this group of pictures I acquired which this one is the first one of the group is that they were under a piece of glass on a desk it's about the only way to describe the soiling and light damage that's been done to them over the years. Some time in the future I hope to revisit this image and do some work digitally removing the water/coffee stains.
The Boaz was designed by James Elliott, a noted naval architect of the day.
Some other pictures and information about this boat:
Penny Postcard of the Sternwheeler Gleaner & Boaz Pittsburgh PA
Bow views of BOAZ (Way T0278) and CHARLEY JUTTE (T 0396) tied to the bank of the Ohio River at Howard Shipyard in Port Fulton (now Jeffersonville), Indiana. BOAZ, a stern wheel towboat with a wood hull (193 ft. x 44 ft. x 6.5 ft.), was built at Sewickly, Pennsylvania in 1882. She towed coal on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers between Pittsburgh and New Orleans until she was retired in 1916. CHARLEY JUTTE, a stern-wheel towboat with wood hull (150 ft. x 27 ft. x 4 ft.), was built at Howard in 1904. Owned by Jutte Coal Co., CHARLEY JUTTE operated on the upper Ohio and Monongahela Rivers towing coal to steel mills in Pittsburgh. She was sold in 1908, renamed CRUCIBLE (Way #T0528) in 1912, and retired in 1948.
http://digital.library.louisville.edu/collections/howard/
Bow and port side views of BOAZ (Way T0278) and CHARLEY JUTTE (T 0396) tied to the bank of the Ohio River at Howard Shipyard in Port Fulton (now Jeffersonville), Indiana. BOAZ, a stern wheel towboat with a wood hull (193 ft. x 44 ft. x 6.5 ft.), was built at Sewickly, Pennsylvania in 1882. She towed coal on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers between Pittsburgh and New Orleans until she was retired in 1916. CHARLEY JUTTE, a stern-wheel towboat with wood hull (150 ft. x 27 ft. x 4 ft.), was built at Howard in 1904. Owned by Jutte Coal Co., CHARLEY JUTTE operated on the upper Ohio and Monongahela Rivers towing coal to steel mills in Pittsburgh. She was sold in 1908, renamed CRUCIBLE (Way #T0528) in 1912, and retired in 1948.
http://digital.library.louisville.edu/collections/howard/
Sternwheel towboat BOAZ at Howard Shipyard in Port Fulton (now Jeffersonville), Indiana during the 1913 Ohio River flood.
http://digital.library.louisville.edu/collections/howard/
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