Weighting anchor

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Weighting anchor

Date8/15/1982

Names

Calleja, Frank (photographer)

Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

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Picture

Notes

Original Toronto Star caption: Weighting anchor: The Mark Twain Showboat; a renovated Mississippi riverboat used as a restaurant and entertainment centre; sets sail today for New York city; where Horst Herbstreit; of Mississippi Holding Ltd.; hopes the very good business will be even better. Employees learned only Tuesday their jobs were washed up.

Subject

Steam-navigation

Medium

Photographs

Language

ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives

CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive

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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)

Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0014328F

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