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[Freighter Daniel J. Morrell under steam] – Antique Print

[Freighter Daniel J. Morrell under steam], [between 1900 and 1920] — historic photograph
[Freighter Daniel J. Morrell under steam], [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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[Freighter Daniel J. Morrell under steam] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Freighter Daniel J. Morrell under steam]

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The subject is the steel freighter *Daniel J. Morrell* under steam, a bulk carrier of the kind that hauled iron ore and coal across the Great Lakes in the early twentieth century. The glass negative, measuring 8 by 10 inches, dates from between 1900 and 1920 and comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, whose photographers documented railroads, waterways and towns across the country in those years. Ships like this one were central to the industrial economy that linked Lake Superior mines to Midwestern steel mills, so the picture records both a vessel and a working link in that supply chain.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. No Detroit Publishing Co. no. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 791 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-75168

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