Gateway Party Liner

1964

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Gateway Party Liner
  • Title
  • Gateway Party Liner
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B020.F08.I02
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B020.F08.I02
  • Description
  • The Gateway Party Liner (pictured here) was the first passenger barge pushed by a towboat. The junction between the two vessels was hidden by false side wheels. In 1955, John E. Connelly was the treasurer of ALCOSAN, the Allegheny County Sanitary Authority. One of this agency’s missions was the vitalization of the Pittsburgh rivers, which had become dirty and neglected in the preceding years. Connelly, who also realized the potential of the rivers, felt that an excursion boat was needed to show them off. His nephew, who he had enlisted to find a craft, located the boat, “Bridget Anne” in Erie. In the Spring of 1958, this vessel, christened the "Gateway Clipper" inaugurated pleasure cruises on the city’s rivers. Today, the Gateway Clipper Fleet offers several sightseeing, dinner, and specialized cruises each day on Pittsburgh’s rivers.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Gateway Party Liner (Ship)
    Barges--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Downtown (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Gateway Center (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Point State Park (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Monongahela River (W. Va. and Pa.)
  • 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
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