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The Monongahela taking on water

April 17, 1954

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The Monongahela taking on water
  • Title
  • The Monongahela taking on water
  • Date
  • April 17, 1954
  • Identifier
  • 20180205-hpichswp-0041
  • Source Identifier
  • PSS_35_B001_F001_I44
  • Description
  • The sternwheel towboat the Monongahela taking on water on the Monongahela River, near the Smithfield St. Bridge. According to an article in the April 19, 1954 edition of the Daily Republican newspaper of Monongahela, Pennsylvania, the boat had crashed into a barge that it had been pushing up the river. The compartment construction of the boat prevented it from sinking.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Steamboats--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Monongahela River (W. Va. and Pa.)
    Downtown (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Towboats--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
  • Source
  • Howard Etzel Photograph Collection, 1900-1980, PSS 0035, Detre Library and Archives, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Howard Etzel Photograph Collection
  • Rights Information
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