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[Freighter William P. Palmer] – Antique Wall Art

[Freighter William P. Palmer], [between 1900 and 1920] — historic photograph
[Freighter William P. Palmer], [between 1900 and 1920]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company collection.

(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 lake freighter called the William P. Palmer is the subject of this glass plate, which the record places, though only tentatively, at the Sault Sainte Marie canal in Michigan. The locks there lifted vessels between Lake Superior and the lower Great Lakes, making the canal one of the busiest passages for ore, grain and coal boats in the early twentieth century. The negative came from the Detroit Publishing Company, known for its travel views of the United States, and reached the Library of Congress through a 1949 gift to the State Historical Society of Colorado. Without a company catalog number, its exact date and vantage point remain uncertain.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Possibly at Sault Sainte Marie Canal, Michigan. No Detroit Publishing Co. no. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 796 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-75164

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