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Dravo Corporation Towboat

1950/1955

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Dravo Corporation Towboat
  • Title
  • Dravo Corporation Towboat
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B021.F22.I04
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B021.F22.I04
  • Description
  • With the completion of the canals on the Ohio River in 1929, new barge lines sprang up and began to move cargo between Pittsburgh and other inland cities. That same year, Dravo Corporation bought an interest in the Union Barge Lines consisting of four sternwheel towboats and 27 barges. By the late 1950s Union Barge Lines owned and operated ten diesel towboats, such as the one seen in the photograph, and more than 300 barges. Tonnage on the Pittsburgh rivers totaled almost 55 million tons during the mid 1950s.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Dravo Corporation.
    Towboats.
    Barges.
  • 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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