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Barge carrying oil storage tanks.  Man standing in between the tanks.

1. Oil Transport Barge

Top photograph, men making bend in pipeline.  Bottom photograph, 'The Hope Navy' transporting oil tanks.

2. Making Fire Bends and 'The Hope Navy'

View of Dickinson Salt Works from opposite bank of Kanawha River. Made about 1910. This is the only picture in existance showing salt loaded on barge for ferrying across river where it was loaded on C&O Railroad. The New York Central Railroad had served the plant for years before this picture was taken, but due to higher freight rates by the NYC, it was still possible to ship by C&O to some points at a saving.

3. Dickinson Salt Works as Seen from the Opposite Bank of the Kanawha River

4. Coal Loading Facility Along River; Steamboat Traveling in Background

Coal on a barge outside of Granville, 1943.

5. Coal on Barge at Granville, W. Va.

Coal on barge outside of Granville, W. Va.

6. 9000 Tons of Coal on a Barge at Granville, W. Va.

Barges waiting turns on the locks on the Ohio River. Coal barges are filled with 24,000 tons of coal.

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

Coal barges being pushed on unknown river and unfilled barges just off shore.

8. Coal Barges on the River

A Tow of Coal for the Jones and Laughlin Aliquippa Works locking through a dam in the Ohio River. There are 6000 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.

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

Coal barges being loaded in Star City.

10. Loading Coal Barges at Star City

Two towboats carrying coal on a scenic Appalachian river.

11. Aerial View of Two Towboats with Coal Barges on an Appalachian River

Pittsburgh Coal Co. towboat with a load of coal outside of an unknown city. Reorder No. from Judge is 31540-1.

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

Multiple barges loaded with coal at Star City, W. Va.

13. Loading Coal Barges at Star City

14. Towboats and Coal Barges on an Appalachian River

Coal barge on river being filled during a Consolidation Coal Co. Inspection trip.

15. Coal Barge Being Loaded, Coal City Tow Boat on the River in Background.

16. J.D. Ayres Barge, Island Creek Coal Company

17. Building of a Barge, Island Creek Coal Company

Starting work on the center pier of river plant.

18. River Plant, Island Creek Coal Company

19. View of Mathies Barge

20. View of Barge

21. View of Coal Barges, Island Creek Coal Company, W. Va.

22. Steamboats and Coal Barges

The Kelly Derrick Barge built by Charles Ward Engineering Works in Charleston, West Virginia.

23. Kelly Derrick Barge

Barges for the United States engineers in Florence, Alabama. Built by Charles Ward Engineering Works in Charleston, West Virginia.

24. Barges For United States Engineers