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Down the Lower Mississippi

A side wheel ship tows flatbarges
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Description: Drawing, Pen and Ink on Paper; by Thomas Hart Benton; 1943; Framed Dimensions 23H X 27W
Accession #: 88-159-BG as a Gift of Abbott Laboratories
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Men aboard a Navy LST watch as an old side wheeler tows flatbarges up the Mississippi during the LST's voyage down to New Orleans from the shipyard.

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