Car Ferry

1927-07

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Car Ferry
  • Title
  • Car Ferry
  • Creator
  • Altwater & Brothers Photographers
  • Identifier
  • MSP33.B012.F02.I02
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP33.B012.F02.I02
  • Description
  • A Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation car ferry and steel barges at a river lock. The car ferry, with a capacity of eight railroad cars, was used to transport products between the Pittsburgh and Aliquippa plants. The “Sailor” towboat, owned and operated by the Vesta Coal Company, a subsidiary of the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation, is visible in the left background.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Sailor (Towboat)
    Barges--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Locks (Hydraulic engineering)
  • 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
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