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River Car Ferry at Lock

1927

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River Car Ferry at Lock
  • Title
  • River Car Ferry at Lock
  • Identifier
  • MSP33.B013.F03.I03
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP33.B013.F03.I03
  • Description
  • A car ferry and loaded barges wait to pass through one of the many locks and dams along the Monongahela and Ohio Rivers near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Beginning in 1892 Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation used the canalized Monongahela River for transport of coal from its mines to its mills and established a complete transportation facility, consisting of steam towboats and a fleet of steel barges. In 1921 their use of company owned towboats and barges was extended to cover distribution of manufactured products into the South, West, and Southwest using the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. Jones & Laughlin’s traffic and transportation division at one time operated six river towboats and a great many barges of various types.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Towboats.
    Train ferries.
    Barges.
  • 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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