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[Departing steamers, Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Co. dock, Cleveland, Ohio] – Antique Print

[Departing steamers, Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Co. dock, Cleveland, Ohio], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Departing steamers, Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Co. dock, Cleveland, Ohio], [between 1900 and 1915]. Historic photograph from the Detroit 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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Step back in time with [Departing steamers, Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Co. dock, Cleveland, Ohio], a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Steamers lying at the Detroit and Cleveland Navigation Company dock give this view its particular focus, showing the passenger boats that linked Cleveland with Detroit across Lake Erie and beyond. The company ran large side-wheel and propeller steamers on overnight and day runs, and its Cleveland pier was a busy point of departure for travelers, freight and holiday excursions. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made this 8 x 10 inch glass negative between 1900 and 1915, worked to document American cities, rivers and waterfronts for commercial sale. Its scenes of working lake traffic are valued today for recording the steamboat era just before motor vehicles and rail reshaped Great Lakes travel.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 8371" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 500298. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsSteamboats. Piers & wharves.United States--Ohio--Cleveland.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 784 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-74697

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