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Photo Identifier

1983.0236.13.60.02

Creation Date

1905

Description and Location

ca. 1905

Steam towboat Sprague, a sternwheel towboat built Dubuque, Iowa, 1902.

Ran coal barges on Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.

Put on display in Vicksburg in 1948.

Loaned to Pittsburgh 1959.

Burned 1974.

Transportation Category

River (ferryboats, steamboats, towboats, wharfboats)

Media Format

Photographic print copy

Keywords

steamboats, Sprague, towboats, Ohio River, Mississippi River

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