
Steamboats Last Chance & Little Maud at Running Water, Sept 1898
Source: SD State Archives
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Henry J. King Collection
The framed images were donated in 1961 by Mr. and Mrs. Blakely King in memory of Mr. King’s grandfather Captain Henry J. King, a Missouri River boatman during the early days of Chamberlain.
- The collection consists of photographs and postcards that were held in two separate frames at the Brule County Courthouse.
- Most of the images are of steamboats and the freighting industry along the Missouri River during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
- H2008-077 & H2009-040
150 photographs need to be digitized and cataloged. . . . . . . . . . goal $2025
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