Pipe Loaded on Barges

1870/1954

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Pipe Loaded on Barges
  • Title
  • Pipe Loaded on Barges
  • Creator
  • Altwater & Brothers Photographers
  • Identifier
  • MSP33.B012.F05.I02
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP33.B012.F05.I02
  • Description
  • Caption on the back of the photograph reads, “A tow of pipe, loaded at the Aliquippa works of the Jones & Laughlin steel corporation, and destined for the company’s warehouse at Memphis for distribution to the Oil fields of the West and Southwest. This tow was one sent out many years ago before the pioneers of river transportation for steel products had installed modern barges for down river work.” Steel tubes consisted of a large segment of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation’s river steel delivery system, which was initiated in 1921.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation.Aliquippa Works.
    Barges.
    Pipe, steel.
    Monongahela River (W. Va. and Pa.)
  • 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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