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Towboats and Barges

1870/1954

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Towboats and Barges
  • Title
  • Towboats and Barges
  • Identifier
  • MSP33.B007.F13.I12
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP33.B007.F13.I12
  • Description
  • Barges loaded with coal and the towboats (left to right) “Sailor,” “Warren Elsey” and “Aliquippa.” Under normal operating conditions at the Jones & Laughlin steel works and coke ovens, approximately 20,000 tons of coal were consumed each working day which, required a fleet of a dozen towboats and several hundred 1,000-ton steel barges that transported coal on the Monongahela River from the Vesta Coal Company mines to the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation’s Pittsburgh and Aliquippa Works.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Sailor (Towboat)
    Warren Elsey (Towboat)
    Aliquippa (Towboat)
    Towboats.
  • Source
  • Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation Collection Photographs, 1864-1953, MSP 33, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation 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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