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Collection: E - E Collection
Folder: 0000.000
Item: 0081-00001
Title: Steamers Weston and Deapolis at the steamboat landing, Bismarck (N.D.)
Date: 1908-1909
Creator: Boyce, Aaron E.,--1852-1912
Summary: Steamers Weston and Deapolis at the Bismarck landing. Planks are laid from the Weston to the shore to walk on, the boat has freight aboard, and men seem to be posing for the camera. Four men are on the boat, and two are standing on the plank. Men are standing on the ground, one is well dressed in a suit and hat. The Missouri River train bridge is in the background.||The Weston, a sternwheel packet with a wood hull, was built in Running Water, S.D., in 1901. She was originally named Little Maud. Owned by the Benton Packet Co. While the Weston was bound from Bismarck to Fort Yates, N.D., on Sept. 7, 1909, she was snagged and lost.The Deapolis, built in Bismarck in 1908, was a Benton Packet Company boat. I. P. Baker owned the Benton Packet Company, which was headquartered in Bismarck. The Deapolis was equipped with a gasoline motor. In 1920, she was sold to the Red Trail Ferry Co. She was destroyed by ice and dismantled in 1923.
Red ID: PH_I_88733 Image ID: 52408 Image Notes: E0081-00001

Collection: E Digitized Images from Collection
Title: E Collection
Date: 1863-2009

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