Steamboat W.H. Flint towing coal barges near Pittsburgh – Antique Print
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A window into the past: Steamboat W.H. Flint towing coal barges near Pittsburgh, preserved in this historic image. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Steamboat W.H. Flint towing coal barges near Pittsburgh
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The steamboat W.H. Flint pushed and towed strings of coal barges along the rivers around Pittsburgh, a trade that made the city one of the busiest river ports in the country. Mines in the surrounding hills sent enormous quantities of coal down the Ohio and Mississippi, and steam towboats like this one were the workhorses of that traffic until diesel towboats took over in the twentieth century. Heavily loaded barges ride low in the water, a reminder of how much fuel the city's mills and factories consumed.
| Original scan | 7,479 × 4,314 px · prints to 25 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 17700u |
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