Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation Tugboat

1950/1955

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Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation Tugboat
  • Title
  • Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation Tugboat
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B021.F22.I01
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B021.F22.I01
  • Description
  • Two paddlewheel tugboats before smoke control and the introduction of the electric diesel. The boat on the left, the "William Larimer Jones," was built for the Vesta Coal Company at the Howard yard in Jeffersonville, Indiana, in the spring of 1930. It was a duplicate of the boat, "Titan," built by the same company. The "Homestead" shown in the photograph on the right was built in 1919 in Pittsburgh for Carnegie Steel Company at the James Rees and Sons Company shops along the Allegheny River. It was the last boat built and launched into the Allegheny River from the Rees shops.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Homestead (Tugboat)
    Vesta Coal Company.
    James Rees and Sons Company (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    William Larimer Jones (Tugboat)
    Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation.
    Air Pollution.
    Barges.
  • Source
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs, 1892-1981, MSP 285, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs
  • Rights Information
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