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[Yacht Rainbow, St. Clair Flats, Mich.] – Antique Print

[Yacht Rainbow, St. Clair Flats, Mich.], [between 1907 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Yacht Rainbow, St. Clair Flats, Mich.], [between 1907 and 1915]. 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Yacht Rainbow, St. Clair Flats, Mich.]. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Yacht Rainbow, St. Clair Flats, Mich.]

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The steam yacht *Rainbow*, shown at the St. Clair Flats in Michigan, is one of the private pleasure craft that were a familiar sight on the waterways linking Detroit with Lake Huron in the years before World War I. The Flats, a broad marshy delta where the St. Clair River enters Lake St. Clair, was a popular destination for wealthy boat owners and sportsmen from Detroit. The image is a glass dry plate negative made by the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm known for its early twentieth-century views of American towns, rivers and resorts.

Created / published[between 1907 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. 524-T" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 043851. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsRainbow (Steam yacht) Steam yachts.United States--Michigan--Saint Clair Flats.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 791 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-70610

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