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First All River Shipment

1928

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First All River Shipment
  • Title
  • First All River Shipment
  • Identifier
  • MSP33.B013.F01.I01
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP33.B013.F01.I01
  • Description
  • Caption on the back of the photograph reads, “First waterways shipment of steel products from Pgh into the Northwest leaving the Aliquippa works of the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation in October, 1928. Arrival of this shipment in Minneapolis was made the occasion for a civic demonstration, participated in by city officials, business associations and the public. Experiment of delivering several hundreds of tons of steel products to a customer in Minneapolis, the Hall Hardware Company, was made by J&L to demonstrate that the inland waterways are available into the Northwest as well as into the Southwest. The movement was handled in a J&L tow to Cairo, and then north on the upper Mississippi by the Inland Waterways Service.”
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Barges.
    Inland Water Transportation.
    Shipping--Ohio River.
  • 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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