The Captain and the Crew - 4 minutes
Learn more about the people who operated the steamboat as this segment takes you up to the pilothouse, down into the boiler room, and places in between.

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The Floating Theater - 6 minutes
During the Steamboat Era floating theaters - barges pulled by steam vessels - roamed U.S. waterways. First-hand accounts talk about just such a boat, The James Adams Floating Theater, and what its arrival meant to rural youngsters starved for entertainment. Edna Ferber based her novel, Showboat, on this particular floating theater.

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