Monongahela_River_Scene_Pittsburgh_PA_1857.jpg


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English: A river scene: Monongahela River, Pittsburgh, Pennsyvania. Shows steam ship "General Knox", wharf operations, a steel superstructure bridge, and numerous smoke stacks.


Note from another newspaper: Departure of the Steamer General Knox. New York Times, August 28, 1854, Page 1
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Source Appeared in the Feb 21, 1857 edition of Ballou's Pictorial
Author Mr. Kilburn and "Tarbell" (possibly Edmund N. Tarbell)

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21 February 1857 Gregorian