Sternwheel River Boats in Owensboro

The back of the card states exactly-

Very few people, living to-day, can remember the sternwheel river boats like these plying the Mississippi River. This view, made from a rare print shows three graceful "old ladies" up at the river front.
The boat on the right is the Eagle packet "Cape Girardeau" later sold to the Greene Line Steamers who renovated it for excursion traffic and in 1935, was renamed "Gordon C. Greene". The center ship is the "Tennessee Belle" and the sternwheeler on the left is the Eagle Packet "Piasa" named for the legendary bird of Illinois Indian tribe near Alton, Ill.