William Larimer Jones Towboat

1870/1954

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William Larimer Jones Towboat
  • Title
  • William Larimer Jones Towboat
  • Creator
  • Altwater & Brothers Photographers
  • Identifier
  • MSP33.B012.F04.I07
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP33.B012.F04.I07
  • Description
  • Caption on the back of the photograph reads, “The Wm. Larimer Jones, one of the most recent additions to the fleet of towboats operated by the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation is equipped with a water tube boiler of rated 700 H.P. capacity served by a locomotive type stoker.” The towboat was built in 1930 at the Howard Yard in Jeffersonville, Indiana, for the Vesta Coal Company, a subsidiary of the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation. It was dismantled and sold for scrap in the summer of 1953.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • William Larimer Jones (Towboat)
    Towboats.
    Barges.
    Bridges.
  • 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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