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Trestle Dock on Monongahela River

1888-09-22

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Trestle Dock on Monongahela River
  • Title
  • Trestle Dock on Monongahela River
  • Creator
  • Frederick T. Gretton
  • Identifier
  • MSP328.B001.F17.I02
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP328.B001.F17.I02
  • Description
  • Caption on the back of the photograph reads, “Taken from about 23rd Street looking up river to Jones and Laughlins. J & L building M.C. railroad extension showing trestle work in river. J & L filling in river with ashes from mill. Floating on moveable dry dock repairing boats. All boats were made of wood. Old Wharton Mill above dock.” Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation was located on the South Side of the Monongahela River.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation.
    Monongahela River (W. Va. And Pa.)
    Docks--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
  • Source
  • Frederick T. Gretton Photographs, 1857-1953, MSP 328, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Frederick T. Gretton Photographs
  • Rights Information
  • No Copyright - United States. The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information.
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