Riverboat on the Monongahela River

1889

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Riverboat on the Monongahela River
  • Title
  • Riverboat on the Monongahela River
  • Creator
  • James Benney III
  • Identifier
  • PSS20.B001.F51.I01
  • Source Identifier
  • PSS20.B001.F51.I01
  • Description
  • Steamboats were essential to the river commerce of Pittsburgh as well as the Northeast and Midwest states and territories during the mid-nineteenth century prior to the domination of the railroads and freight barges. Steamboats on western waters in 1846 carried 10,126,160 tons of freight valued at about $433 million.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Steamboats--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Monongahela River (W. Va. And Pa.)
    Rivers--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
  • Source
  • James Benney (III) Photographs, 1888-1889, PSS 20, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • James Benney 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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