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Title: Pittsburgh Harbor in 1904.
Date: 1904
Description: Boats and coal at Pittsburgh. Steamers include the Tom Dodsworth, Ed Roberts, Josh Cook, Pacific No. 2, Jim Wood, Iron Age.

Title: I. C. Woodward
Description: This was the first Monongahela River packet to have a texas; she came out new in July, 1898. Built at Brownsville, Pennsylvania and was 164 x 42 x 5. She had 50 cabin staterooms and additional space in her texas for passengers. She ran regularly on the Monongahela River. In September, 1902 she ran into the tow of the Twilight at 11:00 P.M. one night and sank about 1000 feet above Redstone Creek

Title: MONTANA
Date: 1879
Description: Photograph of the steamer MONTANA. "Carried 1000 tons Pittsburgh to St. Louis on maiden trip. Could have easily carried 500 tons more. Greats carrier on shallow water." "Built at California, Pennsylvania in 1879 of finest Pennsylvania oak. Some of the fine boards were 60 feet long. She was extreme shallow draft - 7" forward - 11" amid ship and 14" on the stern when light. On her maiden trip

Title: Boaz
Description: Towboat BOAZ leaving Pittsburgh Harbor.

Title: A Reply to Mr A. Campbell's M. Harbinger, Extra, On Remission of Sins, Etc.
Date: 1831-04
Description: A public discussion of the importance of physical religious practices such as baptism.

Title: Alicia
Description: Sternwheeler Alicia on river.

Title: Aliquippa
Description: Aliquippa arriving at port. Crew are visible on deck and in pilot house.

Title: IDA REES, WESTERN and E.H. DURFEE
Description: The sternwheeler E.H. Durfee, for example, made regular trips between Pittsburgh and Fort Benton, Montana, between 1872 and 1876, a voyage comparable to going from New York to Copenhagen or from Japan to Honolulu, Fort Benton being 3,495 miles from Pittsburgh.

Title: B+O-486
Date: 1940-06-08, 1940-06-08
Description: Looking east from east end of Glenwood yard - showing connection to Monongahela River Bridge - 6/8/40

Title: B+O-358

Title: B+O-357

Title: B+O-55
Date: 1936-01-18, 1936-01-18
Description: West Pittsburgh, Pa.

Title: B+O-56
Date: 1936-01-18, 1936-01-18
Description: West Pittsburgh, Pa.

Title: B+O-121
Date: 1934-06, 1934-06
Description: Pittsburgh North Side Crossing, Allegheny River

Title: B+O-118
Date: 1934-06, 1934-06
Description: Along the Allegheny River - Pittsburgh North Side

Title: AC&F Lot 248 Photograph 001
Date: 1926-07-19

Title: P-103 Morse, William H. California Gold Rush Correspondence
Date: 1849-04-04
Description: This letter was written in 1849 by a forty-niner in St. Louis, one William H. Morse, to a friend back home in New England. He’s been in St. Louis for three weeks, the last stop on the frontier, as he prepares to embark on a journey westward on the overland trail, making his way to California in search of gold. He describes his 35 day trip thus far, from an unnamed town in the northeast, south

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