sentences:  The book was moderately successful, allowing Way to form the Steamboat Photo Company (SPC) in 1939.SPC gathered the largest collection of steamboat photos then known, and became the impetus for the publication of "Way’s Steamboat Directory" in 1944 and the formation of the Sons and Daughters of Pioneer Rivermen (SDPR), of which Way was a founding member and later a president.SDPR became the driving force behind the formation of the Ohio River Museum in Marietta, Ohio.