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Warren Elsey Tugboat on the Monongahela River

1952-02

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Warren Elsey Tugboat on the Monongahela River
  • Title
  • Warren Elsey Tugboat on the Monongahela River
  • Creator
  • Harold Corsini
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B021.F22.I02
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B021.F22.I02
  • Description
  • Caption on the back of the photograph reads, “Jones & Laughlin (before smoke control). W. P. Snyder, Jr. tugboat in the right background.” The tugboat, "Warren Elsey," was built in 1919 for the Vesta Coal Company at the Dravo marine ways in the back channel of Neville Island near Pittsburgh. Both the "Elsey" and the tugboat, "W. P. Snyder," are examples of stern wheel tugboats.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Warren Elsey (Tugboat)
    Vesta Coal Company.
    W. P. Snyder, Jr. (Tugboat)
    Jones &
    Laughlin Steel Corporation.
    Dravo Corporation.
    Monongahela River (W. Va. and Pa.)
    Air Pollution.
  • Source
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs, 1892-1981, MSP 285, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs
  • Rights Information
  • Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.
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