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[Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., whaleback steamer in We[i]tzel Lock] – Historic Print

[Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., whaleback steamer in We[i]tzel Lock], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., whaleback steamer in We[i]tzel Lock], [between 1900 and 1910]. Historic photograph from the Steamboats 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 the left edge of this view is the whaleback steamer *Mariska* of Duluth, shown in the Weitzel Lock at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. Whalebacks were a distinctive Great Lakes design, with rounded, cigar-shaped hulls that shed heavy seas, and they were built to haul iron ore and grain through the St. Marys River locks. The Weitzel Lock, completed in 1881 and named for Army engineer Godfrey Weitzel, was one of the busiest passages on the lakes, so the photograph captures a working waterway from the early 1900s. The Detroit Publishing Company made the negative, which was later donated to the State Historical Society of Colorado.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 4566 on negative. Boat at left: Mariska of Duluth. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 036261. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsMariska (Whaleback) Whalebacks. Locks (Hydraulic engineering)United States--Michigan--Sault Sainte Marie.United States--Michigan--Sault Sainte Marie Canal.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 784 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-67813

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