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Man in a Boat Hauling Nitroglycerin



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Title: Man in a Boat Hauling Nitroglycerin
Description: A man transports nitroglycerin in a boat which has a red danger flag at the bow (unseen against the dark background).
Image ID: 58993
Creation
Date: 		May 8, 1894 
Creator
Name: 		Thwaites, Reuben Gold
City, State: Shippingport, Pennsylvania
Collection
Name: 		Thwaites, Reuben Gold : Collection
Genre: Photographs
Additional
Information: 		As seen in the book "Pilgrims of the Ohio", the river journey and photographs of Reuben Gold Thwaites, 1894, edited by Robert Reid, Indiana University Press, 1992. Text republished from "Afloat on the Ohio" by Reuben Gold Thwaites, 1897.
Subjects: Hats
Dwellings
Petroleum chemicals industry
Men
Boats and boating
Rivers
Shorelines
 

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