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[River packet Jas. T. Staples, Mobile, Alabama] – Antique Wall Art

[River packet Jas. T. Staples, Mobile, Alabama], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
[River packet Jas. T. Staples, Mobile, Alabama], [between 1900 and 1915]. Historic photograph from the Mobile 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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[River packet Jas. T. Staples, Mobile, Alabama] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[River packet Jas. T. Staples, Mobile, Alabama]

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The stern-wheel river packet *Jas. T. Staples* is the subject of this 8 by 10 inch glass negative, made at Mobile, Alabama, where the Mobile, Tombigbee and Alabama rivers meet before reaching the bay. Packets like this one carried freight and passengers along the rivers of the Gulf region in the early 1900s, when rail lines were still expanding and waterways remained essential for moving cotton, lumber and goods. The negative belongs to the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm that photographed American towns, rivers and transportation between about 1890 and 1915, so the plate captures the working waterfront of that era.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 7070" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 039543. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsJas. T. Staples (Stern wheeler) Stern wheelers.United States--Alabama--Mobile.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-69200

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