Bathroom on River Towboat

1870/1954

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Bathroom on River Towboat
  • Title
  • Bathroom on River Towboat
  • Creator
  • Altwater & Brothers Photographers
  • Identifier
  • MSP33.B013.F04.I01
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP33.B013.F04.I01
  • Description
  • A bathroom onboard a river towboat during the first half of the twentieth century. Starting in the 1950s, diesel powered towboats contained space heating equipment and air conditioning. Officers onboard towboats had private rooms with beds, baths, showers, and all the luxuries associated with modern hotels including steam heat, electric light, and maid service.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Towboats--Interiors.
    Bathrooms.
  • 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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