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Cleveland Harbor, Ohio: West breakwater reconstruction – Vintage Print

Cleveland Harbor, Ohio: West breakwater reconstruction, [1904?] — historic photograph
Cleveland Harbor, Ohio: West breakwater reconstruction, [1904?]. 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Cleveland Harbor, Ohio: West breakwater reconstruction. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Cleveland Harbor, Ohio: West breakwater reconstruction

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Work on the west breakwater at Cleveland Harbor shows the federal effort to keep the Cuyahoga River's mouth navigable on the shore of Lake Erie. Breakwaters there were built as long barriers of timber cribs and stone that broke the force of waves and kept sand and silt from filling the channel. Storms regularly damaged such structures, so reconstruction was an ongoing task for the engineers responsible for the port. The record dates the print to about 1904, but that date comes from an unverified caption card, so it is best read as an estimate.

Created / published[1904?]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesThis record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Harbors; Construction; Divers.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,204 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-149590

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