Loading copper on steamer, Houghton, Mich. – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Loading copper on steamer, Houghton, Mich., preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Loading copper on steamer, Houghton, Mich.
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Few places in the country were as tied to copper as Houghton, on Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula, where mines on the peninsula sent ore and refined metal to Lake Superior ports for shipment eastward. This 8 x 10 inch glass negative, made around 1905 by the Detroit Publishing Company, shows dockside work as copper was moved aboard a steamer. The company photographed American towns, industries and transportation routes for commercial sale, so the image records both the labor of the waterfront and the lake traffic that carried the region's copper to market.
| Created / published | c1905. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Corresponding glass transparency (with same series code) available on videodisc frame 1A-30394. 185-dup" on negative; "183" on transparency. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 018792. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Shipping. Copper industry. Ships.United States--Michigan--Houghton. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 800 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-62273 |
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