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[Steamer City of Cleveland] – Historic Reproduction

[Steamer City of Cleveland], [1907] — historic photograph
[Steamer City of Cleveland], [1907]. Historic photograph from the Cleveland 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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Tied up at Wyandotte, Michigan, on the Detroit River, the steamer *City of Cleveland* is the focus of this 1907 glass-plate negative. Passenger steamers like her carried travelers and freight between Great Lakes ports in the early 1900s. The Detroit Publishing Company made thousands of views of American towns, rail lines and waterways, many for promotional use, and this one preserves a working waterfront at the height of lake steamboat travel. Rail and later automobile travel gradually reduced the role of such vessels, which makes the scene a useful record of how river towns depended on shipping.

Created / published[1907]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 043386. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsCity of Cleveland (Steamboat) Steamboats. Boat & ship industry.United States--Michigan--Wyandotte.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan800 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-70291

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