Pilot Wheel from the Sternwheel Ferry <I>Kiwanis</I>, 1923
date: label: date made
content: 1923
notes: label: Description
content: The 140’-long sternwheel ferry <I>Kiwanis</I> was built at Dubuque, Iowa in 1923. Owned by the Cairo City Ferry Company, the <I>Kiwanis</I> operated locally between Dubuque and Birds Point, Mo. until a bridge across the Mississippi River at that location put the line out of business. Across from Cairo, Ill., Birds Point had been a major river and railroad crossroads for cotton in the 19th century.
label: Description
content: The <I>Kiwanis</I> was bought by Cincinnati’s Greene Line Steamers in 1930 and operated as a cargo freighter transporting agricultural and manufactured products up and down the Ohio River between Cincinnati and Huntington, W. Va. from 1933 to 1943. In 1936, it was rebuilt and renamed <I>Evergreene</I>.
label: Description
content: The <I>Evergreene</I> was sold in 1943 to Cincinnati riverboat captain John Beatty. In 1948 it was bought by the Merchant Paving Company and became a sand dredge. It later sank near Louisville, Ky. and was dismantled.
label: Description
content: This wheel is from the <I>Kiwanis’</I>s original CCFC service as a Mississippi River ferry. Standing high above the vessel’s deck, the river pilot steered by standing to one side of the wheel or the other.
topic: label: related event
content: The Emergence of Modern America
label: related event
content: The Great Depression and World War II
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content: Work and Industry: Maritime
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content: On the Water exhibit
label: Exhibition
content: On the Water
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: National Museum of American History. On the Water exhibition website
label: Related Web Publication
content: http://americanhistory.si.edu/onthewater
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: National Museum of Transport through John P. Roberts, M.D., Secretary
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TR.336870
label: accession number
content: 1979.0314
label: catalog number
content: TR*336870
objectType: label: Object Name
content: steering wheel
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 109 in; x 276.86 cm