Coal Barges in Cincinnati, Ohio   Save
Ohio Guide Photographs
Description: Reverse reads: "Class - Industry; Location - Cincinnati; Credit - Courtesy of Homer Jensen" Caption on a similar photograph reads: "Unloading coal barges, Cincinnati river front. From "They Built a City." Copyright released for this foto by the Cincinnati Post." The book referred to here is entitled "They Built a City: 150 Years of Industrial Cincinnati", written by the Cincinnati Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration in Ohio and published by the Cincinnati Post in 1938. From this work, "The use of towboats for handling river coal began in the Cincinnati area in January, 1907 when the Sprague took 60 coal boats and barges, carrying a load of 70 thousand tons, from Louisville to New Orleans. From this experiment came a vast river trade in coal. At Cincinnati this coal commerce has gone steadily upward; on several occasions the annual receipts have exceeded three million tons. In 1937 the city received 2, 606, 044 tons." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F10_015_1
Subjects: Coal--Transportation--Ohio; Barges; Ohio River
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)