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Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Maria Schwald, Diary Regarding Cruise Along the Ohio River, A&M 4359, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
Content Description
Typescript of a diary kept by Maria Schwald chronicling her cruise on the Ohio River aboard the steamboat Gordon C. Greene, including her visits to Huntington, Pittsburgh, and Cincinnati along the way. Schwald went on her trip in late July and travelled with "Two Pfisters, an Arnold, and two Schwalds", her relatives and close companions who were collectively nicknamed the "quintuplets". Typescript is bound with ribbon; a postcard depicting the Gordon C. Greene is pasted onto the second-to-last page.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
- Cincinnati (Ohio)
- Huntington.
- Ohio River
- Pittsburgh (Pa.)
- Steamboats
Significant Places Associated With the Collection
- Cincinnati (Ohio)
- Huntington.
- Ohio River
- Pittsburgh (Pa.)