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1. Steamboat Coal City Passes Coal Barges on an Unidentified River

IDNO:
001842
Title:
Steamboat Coal City Passes Coal Barges on an Unidentified River
Date:
ca. 1950
Humphrey Dock with coal barges in the water.

2. Humphrey Preparation Plant and Dock, Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company

IDNO:
001850
Title:
Humphrey Preparation Plant and Dock, Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company
Description:
Humphrey Dock with coal barges in the water.
This unusual picture taken by the United States Engineer Office, Pittsburgh, shows four big tows of coal waiting their turn at a lock chamber of the Ohio River. The fourth tow is discernible against the farther bank of the river. There are 24,000 tons of coal in the barges of these four tows.

3. Tows and Coal Barges Waiting Turns on the Locks on the Ohio River

IDNO:
001936
Title:
Tows and Coal Barges Waiting Turns on the Locks on the Ohio River
Description:
This unusual picture taken by the United States Engineer Office, Pittsburgh, shows four big tows of coal waiting their turn at a lock chamber of the Ohio River. The fourth tow is discernible against the farther bank of the river. There are 24,000 tons of coal in the barges of these four tows.
A tow of coal for the Aliquippa works locking through a dam in the Ohio river. There are 6,000 tons of coal in this one movement, or enough to fill 120 freight cars of 50 tons capacity each. The coal came down the Monongahela, which is canalized for a distance of about 70 miles above Pittsburgh and taps the richest bituminous coal district in the United States, where practically all the steel companies of the East have their coal mining operations and ship either by river or by rail.

4. Tow of Coal for the Jones and Laughlin Aliquippa Works Locking Through a Dam on the Ohio River

IDNO:
001937
Title:
Tow of Coal for the Jones and Laughlin Aliquippa Works Locking Through a Dam on the Ohio River
Description:
A tow of coal for the Aliquippa works locking through a dam in the Ohio river. There are 6,000 tons of coal in this one movement, or enough to fill 120 freight cars of 50 tons capacity each. The coal came down the Monongahela, which is canalized for a distance of about 70 miles above Pittsburgh and taps the richest bituminous coal district in the United States, where practically all the steel companies of the East have their coal mining operations and ship either by river or by rail.
Pittsburgh Coal Co. towboat with a load of coal outside of an unknown city.

5. Champion Coal, Pittsburgh Coal Company Towboat Pushing a Coal Barge

IDNO:
001949
Title:
Champion Coal, Pittsburgh Coal Company Towboat Pushing a Coal Barge
Description:
Pittsburgh Coal Co. towboat with a load of coal outside of an unknown city.
Pittsburgh Coal Co. towboat with a load of coal outside of an unknown city; R.J. Elinhart, Elizabeth, PA.

6. Champion Coal, Pittsburgh Coal Company Towboat Pushing a Coal Barge

IDNO:
001950
Title:
Champion Coal, Pittsburgh Coal Company Towboat Pushing a Coal Barge
Date:
ca. 1946
Description:
Pittsburgh Coal Co. towboat with a load of coal outside of an unknown city; R.J. Elinhart, Elizabeth, PA.
Hillman Barge and Construction Company. 175' x 26' x 11' all welded standard hopper barge. First of 30 for Pgh. Consol. Coal Co.

7. Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company Hopper Barge

IDNO:
001952
Title:
Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company Hopper Barge
Date:
1954/05/21
Description:
Hillman Barge and Construction Company. 175' x 26' x 11' all welded standard hopper barge. First of 30 for Pgh. Consol. Coal Co.
View of two men on steamboat with 'McClain Sand' boat on right.

8. Steamboat next to a McClain Sand Company Barge

IDNO:
016972
Title:
Steamboat next to a McClain Sand Company Barge
Description:
View of two men on steamboat with 'McClain Sand' boat on right.

9. Steamboat with Barges near a Bridge

IDNO:
017001
Title:
Steamboat with Barges near a Bridge

10. Steamboat Pushing Coal Barges

IDNO:
017151
Title:
Steamboat Pushing Coal Barges
Early library on the third floor of Martin Hall.

11. Library in Martin Hall, West Virginia University

IDNO:
018890
Title:
Library in Martin Hall, West Virginia University
Description:
Early library on the third floor of Martin Hall.

12. Entrance to Martin Hall, West Virginia University

IDNO:
018915
Title:
Entrance to Martin Hall, West Virginia University